PD Dr. Ivonne Al-Taie
Junior Fellow, October 2025 to September 2026
Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
- Since 2020 Academic Councilor (ret.) and Privatdozentin at the Institute for Modern German Literature and Media at Kiel University.
- 2023/24 Visiting Professor at the CEUS | Cluster for European Studies at Saarland University. Fellowships at Yale University/USA (2017/18), the Klassik Stiftung Weimar (2024) and the University of Bern/CH (2025).
- Doctorate in German Literature at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena in 2012 with a thesis on "Tropus und Erkenntnis. Sprach- und Bildtheorie der deutschen Frühromantik"
Fellow-Projekt: “Tent Word”. Situational Poetics of Contemporary Poetry in Late Modernity
Starting from the poetic conceptual image of the poem as a “tent” the project aims to develop a heuristic model, which understands poetics of contemporary poetry as situational, related to the experiential and perceptional perspectives of a subject and mediated through media. In this phenomenological approach the project is compatible with recent social theory, which by the concepts of the “hybrid subject” (Reckwitz) and “situational identity” (Rosa) provides the theoretical-methodological framework for the study. Hence, the project seeks to explore the potential of poetry’s non-narrative mode of representation in order to address the increasingly incoherent time structures and cultural codes of late modern societies, and which conceptualizations the poems develop that may contribute to a deeper understanding of ongoing cultural, social, ecological and political transformations.