معرفی
Dr. Sara Bangert is an Assistant Professor (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin/Assistentin) at the German Department of the University of Tübingen, where she has been attached since 2013. Since June 2022 she also holds a 50 % research fellowship at the College of Fellows of the same university. Her work straddles German literature, cultural theory and comparative avant-garde studies.
Education
- Magister Artium, University of Tübingen, 2013 – summa cum laude (majors: Modern German Literature; Art History)
- PhD (Dr. phil.), University of Tübingen, 2020 – summa cum laude
Dissertation: Entgrenzte Ähnlichkeit im Milieu des Surrealismus
Research Interests
Bangert’s research centres on the epistemology and poetics of similarity as a key, yet contested, concept in modern aesthetics. Drawing on Surrealism, Romanticism and contemporary ecocriticism, she investigates how literature and visual culture articulate alternative epistemologies that resist identity-based thinking. Current focal areas include:
- Similarity as aesthetic and epistemological paradigm
- Idiorrhythmie as narrative concept
- Poetics of small forms and micro-narratives
- Ecocriticism, nature-culture interfaces, environmental humanities
- Refusal and non-work in literature and culture
- Walking, flânerie, and vagabondage as literary tropes
- European avant-gardes since 1900
Publications & Scholarly Contributions
She is author of the monograph Entgrenzte Ähnlichkeit im Milieu des Surrealismus (De Gruyter, 2023) and co-editor of the forthcoming volume Wie zusammen leben? Idiorrhythmie als narratives Konzept (De Gruyter, 2025). Her articles have appeared in leading journals and essay collections, addressing topics from surrealist metaphor to the politics of refusal in 1960s counter-culture.
Grants & Projects
- DFG-Graduate Scholarship, State of Baden-Württemberg (2015-2017)
- Coordinator, CIVIS Hub “Society, Culture, Heritage” (2021-2022, 50 %)
- Collaborator, DFG-Project “Cultural History of Theft” (2013-2015)
- Research Network “BTWH” (2009-2017)
Teaching & Academic Service
Bangert regularly teaches undergraduate and graduate seminars on avant-garde literature, ecocriticism, small forms, and the poetics of refusal. She has also co-organised several international conferences and lecture series, and serves as editorial assistant for the Tübingen Poetik-Dozentur book series.
