Marie-Theres Stickel

Promotion im Rahmen des DFG-geförderten Projekts "Ökonomischer Agnostizismus: Zweifel an monetärem Wissen in Literatur und Soziologie des 19. Jahrhunderts" (Prof. Dr. Kirsten von Hagen und Prof. Dr. Andreas Langenohl)

Aktuelles

• Podcast 'I Doubt It' des Projekts 'Ökonomischer Agnostizismus': Episode 2 – 'On the Concept of Imagination'. Hier reinhören.
• International Workshop: Reading between Ruptures - Literature and Reading Cultures in the 21st Century | December 3-4, 2025. 
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• »Gespräche Gießener Geisteswissenschaften: Literatur im Labor. Zur Zukunft von Lesekultur(en)«, Podiumsdiskussion am 22.1.2025, Margarete-Bieber-Saal, JLU Gießen [Gießener Anzeiger]

Forschungsschwerpunkte

• Literatur und Ökonomie (Schwerpunkt 19. Jhd.)
• Feministische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften / Gender und Queer Studies
• Leseforschung (Schwerpunkt 21. Jhd.; hybride Lesematerialitäten, Lesemodi und Lesepraktiken)

Mitgliedschaften

International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC), University of Giessen. Membership, since 2025
International PhD Programme Literary and Cultural Studies (IPP), University of Giessen. Membership, since 2025

European Society of Comparative Literature (ESCL)

Les amis de Daniel-Lesueur, Paris

“A ‘Reparative Rupture’ in 21st-Century Literary Reading Cultures: Martina Hefter’s Novel Hey guten Morgen, wie geht es dir? and its Book Prize.” Paper presented at the International Workshop “Reading between Ruptures: Literature and Reading Cultures in the 21st Century”, 3-4 December 2025, RCSC/GCSC, JLU Giessen, DE.

“What ‘Matters’ in ‘Laboratories of Literacies’: Reading Literary Works Between Page and Screen.” Paper presented at the International PhDnet Conference “Reading Well. Reading and Forms of the Good Life”, 10-12 September 2025, University of Bergamo, IT.

“‘Messieurs, je ne puis pas écrire autrement qu’une femme, puisque j’ai l’honneur d’être femme.' – Jenny P. d'Héricourt’s ‘Reparative’ Dialogic Act of Writing in La femme affranchie (1860).” Paper presented at the International IPP/GCSC Symposium “Acts of Writing: Cultural Practices, Knowledge Construction, Authorship”, 4-6 June 2025, IPP/GCSC, JLU Giessen, DE.

“‘Le salut social est à ce prix’: Daniel-Lesueur’s Female-Coded Doubt in Economic Knowledge at the 1900 Paris Universal Exposition.” Paper presented at the International Conference “Money Talks: Futures for the Economic Humanities”, 28-29 May 2025, University of Edinburgh, GB.

“‘Il faut travailler l’opinion’: Daniel-Lesueur’s (Writing) Work on an Economic Social Imaginary at the 1900 Paris Universal Exposition.” Paper presented at the International Workshop “Imagination”, 14-15 May 2025, DFG-funded project 'Economic Agnosticism', JLU Giessen, DE.

“Towards a Conceptualisation of a Female-Coded Economic Agnosticism.” Paper presented at the International Workshop “Speculation”, 11-12 December 2024, DFG-funded project 'Economic Agnosticism', JLU Giessen, DE.

“The Literary System: An Institutionalised Form of Speculative Literary Economic Gambling? On Adrienne Monnier’s Gazette des Amis des Livres.” Paper presented at the Congress of the European Society of Comparative Literature (ESCL) “Le jeu: Gambling, Gaming and Play in Literature”, 2-6 September 2024, Sorbonne Université, Paris, FR.

“Flora Tristan’s 19th-Century Manifesto Workers’ Union on the Good Life: The Workers’ Palace as Economic, Social(ist), and Feminist Utopia.” Paper presented at the International Conference “Forms of the Good Life in a Global Context: Hegemonic Cultural Models, Literary Form, and Counter-Narrative”, 12-13 June 2024, RCSC, JLU Giessen, DE.

Publikationen

“Podcast ‘I Doubt It’ - Episode 2: On the Concept of Imagination.” A podcast produced by the DFG-funded project 'Economic Agnosticism'. Co-Moderation with Felix Hempe. Co-Production and Editing with Felix Hempe, JLU Giessen 2026. 

“Podcast ‘I Doubt It’ - Episode 1: On the Concept of Speculation.” A podcast produced by the DFG-funded project 'Economic Agnosticism'. Co-Moderation with Felix Hempe. Co-Production and Editing with Felix Hempe and Robin Schmieder, JLU Giessen 2025. 

“How Publishing Houses Are Defying the Highly Digitalised Twenty-First Century: Strategies of Branding and Designing Classic Books Series”. In: Literature and Literary Studies in the Twenty-First Century: Cultural Concerns – Concepts – Case Studies, Ansgar Nünning, Vera Nünning, and Alexander Scherr (Eds.). Trier: WVT 2021. 261-277.

“Long May He (Not) Reign? Literary Depictions of a ‘Meddling’ Future Monarch: Prince Charles in Mike Bartlett’s Play King Charles III (2014) and in Catherine Mayer’s Biography Charles: The Heart of a King (2015)”. In: Realms of Royalty: New Directions in Researching Contemporary European Monarchies, Christina Jordan, and Imke Polland (Eds.). Bielefeld: transcript 2020. 149-168.