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Dr. Carolin Amlinger is a Senior Research Assistant at the University of Basel's Department of Linguistics and Literature, specializing in empirical literary sociology and critical analysis of authoritarianism and post-factuality. Her research examines tensions between artistic singularity and market popularity, alongside contemporary societal paradoxes related to freedom and control.
Education:
- PhD in Literary Studies, TU Darmstadt (2020)
Research Interests: Focuses on intersections between literature and sociology, particularly how authoritarian ideologies manifest in contemporary writing, the role of autofiction in representing social facts, and attention economy dynamics within historical book markets. Investigates how late modernity creates bodily and ideological crises in conservative literary texts.
Recent Publications: Analyzes attention economy logics in 20th-century book markets (2024), critiques libertarian authoritarianism (2022), deconstructs masculinity in conservative literature (2022), and explores sociological dimensions of autofiction (2022). Her 2021 monograph on literary work sociology earned the TU Darmstadt Dissertation Prize.
Awards:
- Dissertation Prize of the Friends of TU Darmstadt (2022)
Projects: Previously contributed to the SNSF-funded "Half-truths: Truth, Fiction, and Conspiracy in the Post-Factual Age" project. Current research examines paradoxes of progress in contemporary freedom conflicts.
