Academic Forms

An Interview with Tim Lanzendörfer and Pierre-Héli Monot

Authors

  • Roslyn Joy Irving Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
  • Tim Lanzendörfer Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
  • Pierre-Héli Monot Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18422/77-2547

Keywords:

essay, monograph, humanities

Abstract

In this interview, Tim Lanzendörfer and Pierre-Héli Monot of the Academic Forms working group discuss the state of the art, and the future, of academic work and life.

Author Biographies

Roslyn Joy Irving, Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

Roslyn Joy Irving is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Mainz. Her research interests include eighteenth-century poetry and prose, the Gothic, form, and prospect (the view from a height). Her publications can be found in ANQ, Archiv, the Nordic Journal of English Studies, and the Routledge Introduction to Poetic Forms. She is co-editor, with Patrick Gill, of an upcoming volume The Laureates: Poetry and Public Office (1668-2029), with Liverpool University Press, and with Rachael Sumner, of a Routledge volume, Transnational Postcolonial Studies in the Twenty-First Century: Infrastructures, Literatures, Applications. Her monograph, Ann Radcliffe’s Gothic Method is under contract with Edinburgh University Press.

Tim Lanzendörfer, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt

Tim Lanzendörfer is Heisenberg Fellow in Literary Theory, Literary Studies, and Literary Studies Educaton at Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany. He is the author of three monographs including Utopian Pasts and Futures in the Contemporary American Novel (Edinburgh, 2023). He is the principle investigator of the DFGfunded research project “Spiel|Erleben” and the co-convenor, with Fabio Akçelrud Durão, of the Academic Forms network that organizes this conference.

Pierre-Héli Monot, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Pierre-Héli Monot is professor of Transnational American Studies (Political Theory, Aesthetics and Public Humanities) at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany. He is the principal investigator of the European Research Council project "The Arts of Autonomy: Pamphleteering, Popular Philology, and the Public Sphere, 1988–2018". He has held visiting fellowships at Brown, Harvard, King's College London, NYU, and the London School of Economics. His most recent publications include a monograph on bourgeois radicalism ("Hundert Jahre Zärtlichkeit: Surrealismus, Bürgertum, Revolution", Matthes & Seitz Berlin 2024), a monograph on polemical literature ("Print, Polemic, and the Infrastructure of Political Agency", Cambridge University Press 2025), and several essays on the class politics of digital automation ("Robopathen und Robopathinnen aller Länder..." Merkur 2024).

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Published

2025-10-15

How to Cite

Irving, R. J., T. Lanzendörfer, and P.-H. Monot. “Academic Forms: An Interview With Tim Lanzendörfer and Pierre-Héli Monot”. New American Studies Journal: A Forum, vol. 77, Oct. 2025, https://doi.org/10.18422/77-2547.

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Vol. 77 (2025): Aesthetics

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