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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | German Literary and Cultural Studies (Modern German Literature),General and Comparative Literature; Cultural Studies,Communication Sciences |
| Keywords | Book, Libraries and Archival Studies, Modern South Asia Studies, Modern German Literary and Cultural Studies, World Literary Studies, Migration and Refugee Studies |
Current contact address
| Country | Germany |
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| City | Marbach |
| Institution | Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Siegfried Lokatis | Institut für Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaft, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig |
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| Prof. Dr. Sandra Richter | Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach, Marbach |
| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/09/2011 |
Programme(s)
| 2011 | Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Experienced Researchers |
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| 2024 | Reimar Lüst Award Programme for International Scholarly and Cultural Exchange |
Nominator's project description
| Professor Mani is a leading theorist of literary cosmopolitanism and world literature in postcolonial Europe and an expert on print- and digital-cultural histories of books and libraries. His research considers historical and contemporary political realities of the world and centralizes migration as a central concept and critical practice. In Germany, he will conduct archival research for his project “Tales of Unsettlement: The Global Novel in the Age of Refugees”. |
Publications (partial selection)
| 2017 | Bala Venkat Mani: Recoding World Literature - Libraries, Print Culture, an Germany´s Pact with Books. Fordham University Press, 2017 |
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