PhD candidate
christoph.wunsch@polight.uni-halle.de
Studied German Philology and Philosophy at the Technical University Dresden and the University of Leipzig (teaching degree: 1. Staatsexamen)
Research interests:
Essayism and epistolary culture, literature and philosophy as epistemic forms of representation, literary and cultural theory as well as German-language literature of the period around 1800 and the 20th century
Publications:
– Vom intriganten Umgang mit der Wachsamkeit. Zur stillen Gefahr in Friedrich Schillers Der Geisterseher. Aus den Memoires des Grafen von O**. In: Id., Lucas Prieske, Erika Meibauer and Pauline Schubert: Stille Gefahr. Zur literarischen Inszenierung verborgener Bedrohungen. Hannover: Wehrhahn Verlag 2026 (= Kleine Reihe des Sonderforschungsbereichs 1369 Vigilanzkulturen, Vol. 7), pp. 23-64, https://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/135085/
– Conference report: Briefkulturen – Perspektiven ihrer Erforschung, in: H-Soz-Kult, 13.09.2025, https://www.hsozkult.de/conferencereport/id/fdkn-157159
Project: Epistolary Essayism: Rhetoric – Critique – Politics