Marlon Lieber

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Marlon Lieber is a lecturer, writer, and postdoctoral researcher at Goethe-University Frankfurt, where he received a PhD in American Studies in 2018. Reading Race Relationally: Embodied Dispositions and Social Structures in Colson Whitehead’s Novels, his first book, has been published with transcript in 2023.

His current research project investigates how U.S. literature has articulated the ambiguities of planning reason from the early nineteenth century to the present and looks at the writings of Charles Brockden Brown, Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, Ursula K. Le Guin, Kim Stanley Robinson, and others.

Before (re)joining the Institute of English and American Studies at Goethe-University, Lieber taught at the English Seminar at Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel. Sometimes he teaches courses at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Universität St. Gallen.

He was a member of “The Failure of Knowledge / Knowledges of Failure,” a research network funded by the German Research Foundation, and remains part of the re:articulate editorial collective and the Arbeitskreis Ästhetik und Politik. His writings have appeared in academic journals such as Amerikastudien / American Studies, REAL – Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature, and Coils of the Serpent, but also in the more modest and becoming way of occasional contributions to magazines and other polite periodicals such as analyse & kritik, Geschichte der Gegenwart, or Tagebuch.

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