Dr. Jasmin Köhler

Since 10/2024: Research Associate (Postdoc) in the Junior Research Group "Imagination as a Cultural Technique" at the Institute for Art and Cultural Studies, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Cluster of Excellence "Imaginamics. Practices and Dynamics of Social Imagining"

04/2024–09/2024: Gastdozentur in Modern German Literature at the Institute for German Literature, Humboldt University of Berlin

2018–2024: Dr. phil. in Modern German Literature at Humboldt University of Berlin within the PhD-Net "The Knowledge of Literature" with the dissertation project "Das Kannibalische. Eine Figur des Wissens vom Eigenen und Anderen um 1920" (summa cum laude)

10/2023–03/2024: Research Associate at the Institute for German Literature, Humboldt University of Berlin, at the Chair of Prof. Dr. Ulrike Vedder, Modern German Literature from the 18th Century to the Present / Theories and Methods of Gender Studies in Literary Studies

10/2021–09/2022: Lecturer at the Institute for German Literature, Humboldt University of Berlin

08/2019–02/2020: Visiting Scholar at the Department of German, University of California, Berkeley

04/2015–09/2016: Student Research Assistant at the Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research Berlin (ZfL) with Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Sigrid Weigel

2008–2017: Studies in Sociology, Gender Studies, and German Literature at Friedrich Schiller University Jena and Humboldt University of Berlin, 2013: Bachelor of Arts, 2017: Master of Arts

Cultural Literatury Studies

Environmental Humanities

Bodies in Literature

Gender Studies, Food Studies, Dis/ability Studies, Postcolonial Studies, History of Knowledge on Cannibalism

Taxonomic Literature, 18th century–present

Social Imagining and Classification

Since 2024: Member of the interdisciplinary Junior Research Group "Kulturtechnik Imagination" de, part of the Cluster of Excellence "Imaginamics. Practices and Dynamics of Social Imagining" de at Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena (Funding Phase I: 2026–2032)

Since 2019: Associate Member at the Center for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies (ZtG)External link at Humboldt-University Berlin

2018–2024: Member of the binational PhD-Net "Das Wissen der Literatur / The Knowledge of Literature" (HU Berlin, Cornell, UC Berkeley, Harvard, Yale, NYU, Princeton)

Seminar: "Thomas Mann. Short Texts" (Summer Semester 2024, Institute for German Literature, Humboldt University of Berlin)

Seminar: "Body Techniques in Science Fiction Literature: Reproduction and Dis/ability" (Summer Semester 2024, Institute for German Literature, Humboldt University of Berlin)

Seminar: "Zoopoetics, Text, and Taxonomy"External link (Winter Semester 2023/24, Institute for German Literature, Humboldt University of Berlin)

Seminar: "Cannibalism as Fiction: Narratives of Anthropophagy in Modernity" (Summer Semester 2022, Institute for German Literature, Humboldt University of Berlin)

Seminar: "Animals in Text: Introduction to Literary Animal Studies" (Winter Semester 2021/22, Institute for German Literature, Humboldt University of Berlin)

Figures, Types, and Images of the Social in the 19th and 20th Century: Practices of Social Imagining in the History of Knowledge and the Sciences, Interdisciplinary Workshop at the University of Erfurt, 20–21.11.2025 (Co-Organizer)

The Good Meal: Gender and Nutrition in Transdisciplinary PerspectiveExternal link, Interdisciplinary Conference at Humboldt University of Berlin, 11–12.11.2022 (Co-Organizer)

Diverse Families: Parenthood and Family beyond Heteronormativity and Gender BinaryExternal link, International Conference at Humboldt University of Berlin, 7–8.10.2021 (Co-Organizer)

Kadaver im Fluss. Idyllische Gewässererzählung bei Wilhelm Raabe und Thomas Mann → Conference of the International Raabe-Society "Wilhelm Raabes Erzählen: Inszenierung – Dialogizität – Perspektivierung" (13.–14.09.2025), Technical University of Braunschweig.

Georg Forsters literarische Foodscape des Südpazifiks. Zur Verflechtung von ökologischen und kolonialen Perspektiven auf die fremde Landschaft → Young Forum of the Society for Intercultural German Studies (GiG) "Verflechtungsgeschichten. Interkulturelle Ökologien der Literatur" (09.–10.10.2025), University of Flensburg. 

Starving Cook. Hunger, Malnutricion, Sickness, and Disgust aboard the "Resolution" → International Conference "Exploring Bodies and Corporeality in Travel Writing" (25.–26.11.2025), University of Koblenz.

Fehldiagnose und "blöder Blick" in Hedwig Dohms Künstlerinnennovelle "Agonie" → International Conference "Hedwig Dohm. Literatur – Theorie – Aktivismus am Fin de Siècle" (18.–20.12.2025), Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.

The Poetics of a "Dis/ability to See" in E.T.A. Hoffmannʼs "Des Vetters Eckfester" → Interdisciplinary Conference "Hoffmann 250: E.T.A. Hoffmann and Other Bodies" (16.–17.07.2026), University of Oxford.

Das Kannibalische. Eine liminale Alteritätsfigur um 1920 (= Studien zur Kulturpoetik, Bd. 30). Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2025. [OPEN ACCESS]External link

Wolkengedächtnis. Luke Howards Wolken-Taxonomie und ihr Nachleben. In: Variations 28 – Environment, Science, Memory, 2026. [peer reviewed] (in preparation)

Observing Nature from Oneʼs Bed. Chronic Illness in Elisabeth Tova Baileyʼs Autopathography "The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating". In: Jahrbuch für internationale Germanistik. Themenheft: Disability in 20th and 21st Century Literature, spring 2026. [double-blind peer reviewed] (in preparation)

Der Fall Fritz Haarmann. Vampirisches, Kannibalisches und Werwölfisches in der medialen Verhandlung 1924/25. In: Hans Brittnacher / Clemens Ruthner (Hg.): Vampire als Schwellen- und Krisenfiguren. Fallstudien zur deutschen Literatur und Kultur (= Identifizierungen / Identifications, Bd. 11). Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2026. (in preparation)

Imaginings of Pacific Foodscapes in Georg Forsterʼs "Voyage Round the World". In: Limbus – Australisches Jahrbuch für germanistische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft / Australian Yearbook of German Literary and Cultural Studies, Schwerpunkt: Pazifik-Imaginationen / Pacific Imaginings, 18 (2025), S. 123–143. [peer reviewed] (forthcoming)

Satire in Zeugenschaft der Märzkämpfe 1919 in Berlin-Lichtenberg. "Kannibalisches" von Linke Poot. In: Peter von Möllendorff / Daniel Wendt (Hg.): Aggressive Ästhetik – ästhetische Aggression: Probleme des Satirischen (spectrum Literaturwissenschaft / spectrum Literature). Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter 2025. (forthcoming)

Neomalthusianismus im Diskursroman der Weimarer Republik. Zu ungewollter Schwangerschaft in Irmgard Keuns "Gilgi, eine von uns". In: GENDER. Zeitschrift für Geschlecht, Kultur und Gesellschaft, Schwerpunkt: Antinatalismus und Selektion, 1 (2025). S. 27–41. [double-blind peer reviewed] [LINK]External link

Was dem "Hungerkünstler" fehlt. Franz Kafkas "[Menschenfresser]"-Fragment. In: Zeitschrift für Germanistik, Freies Heft, 35/1 (2025), S. 62–72. [LINK]External link

Bauschans Blutung. Tierische Pathografie in Thomas Manns "Herr und Hund". In: Thomas Mann Jahrbuch 2021, Bd. 34, Schwerpunkt: Thomas Mann und die Krisen der Moderne, hg. v. Katrin Bedenig / Hans Wißkirchen. Frankfurt/M.: Vittorio Klostermann 2021, S. 87–102. [peer reviewed] [PDF]pdf, 10 mb · de

Die schöne Leiche in Serie. Arthur Schnitzlers "Die Nächste" [1899]. In: Mitteilungen aus dem Brenner-Archiv, Universität Innsbruck, 40 (2021), S. 39–53. [peer reviewed] [LINK]External link

Nach dem Krieg. Kannibalische Literatur um 1920. In: LiB Blog, Literaturwissenschaft in Berlin, 30.07.2025. [LINK]External link

Unendlicher Wirrwarr. Taxonomischer Ordnungswahn in Oskar Panizzas "Aus dem Tagebuch eines Hundes". In: Reihe "Letzte Sätze" des Kulturwissenschaftlichen Instituts Essen, KWI-Blog, 24.02.2025. [LINK]External link

Review of: Samuel Frederick. The Redemption of Things: Collecting and Dispersal in German Realism and Modernism. Cornell University Press, 2021. In: The German Quarterly, 97.1, winter 2024, S. 121–124. [LINK]External link

Rezension zu: Jan Bürger, Petra Gehring (Hg.): Feminismus zwischen zwei Kriegen. Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte, Bd. 14, H. 4 (2020). In: Zeitschrift für Germanistik, 31/3 (2021), S. 617–620. [LINK]External link