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Dr. Olga Katharina Schwarz is a researcher at the Institut für Germanistik of Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf since 2023. Her academic journey includes affiliations with Ruhr-Universität Bochum (2019–2023), Freie Universität Berlin (2014–2019), and visiting positions at Princeton University (2012–2013), Peking University (2018), and Universität Wien (2017).
- Education: Magister Artium in German and French Philology (Universities of Hamburg, Montpellier, Paris [ENS], Berlin [FU, HU]); Promotion at Freie Universität Berlin (2019).
- Research Focus: Spans General Literary Studies, Aesthetics, Poetics, Intermediality, Lyric and Epic Genre Theory, and German-French Cultural Transfer. She is currently working on a Habilitation project on the narrative poem cycle and lyric cycles in European literature.
Her publications include a monograph on Rationalistische Sinnlichkeit (De Gruyter, 2022) and co-edited special issues like Lyrische Zyklen (Zeitschrift für Germanistik, 2025). She has organized international conferences, including the Tagung Der Sonettenkranz (2024) at Humboldt University Berlin, supported by the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung.
Scientific Awards:
- DFG Doctoral Scholarship (2011–2014)
- Global Young Faculty Fellowship (2021–2023)
- Thuringia Research Scholarship (2022–2023)
- Young Scientist Fellowship at Peking University (2018)
She has contributed to academic governance as a member of committees at Ruhr-Universität Bochum and Freie Universität Berlin. Her teaching includes courses on Enlightenment Literature, Narratology, and Intermediality, often with a focus on 19th-century German poetry and contemporary German literature.
