Trash

Author Biographies

• Tobias Schädel, GCSC - Justus Liebig University Giessen

  Tobias Schädel is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Sociology (Justus Liebig University Giessen) and a member of the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC). His PhD dissertation, supervised by Prof. Dr. Jörn Ahrens (JLU) and Prof. Dr. Heike Delitz (University of Regensburg) puts forward a theory-driven analysis of the contemporary ‘post-truth’ moment of Western democratic societies through the historical study of truth (meta)narratives and the central imaginaries that underpin the notion of ‘modern society.’ His most recent publications include articles such as “Nostalgia and the Loss of Truth: Sketches Towards a Hauntology of the ‘Post-Truth’ Condition” (2024) and “Krise als Konstruktion. Zur Dynamik staatlichen Handelns in der Moderne” in the volume Der Staat in der Krise, edited by Joris Steg (2024, Nomos).

• Juliane Saupe, GCSC - Justus Liebig University Giessen

  Juliane Saupe is a PhD candidate at the International Centre for the Study of Culture, Giessen, Germany, a member of the International PhD Programme Literary and Cultural Studies, Giessen, and a university lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria. Her academic interests are mainly orbiting around North American and European art and culture since the 1940s, as well as feminist and queer theory within art history, visual culture and popular culture. Her doctoral research focuses on how sexual desire is narrated through the displays and mediating texts of museums of modern and contemporary art. She has published in volumes such as Curating as Feminist Organizing, edited by Elke Krasny and Lara Perry (Routledge, 2023) and presented in contexts such as the Bibliothèque Kandinsky Summer University, Centre Pompidou Paris (2023) and Exhibitionism. Sexuality at the Museum, Miami (2021).

• Marco Presago, GCSC - Justus Liebig University Giessen

  Marco Presago is a PhD candidate in the International PhD Programme in Literary and Cultural Studies (IPP) at the Graduate Center for the Study of Culture (GCSC) and a research assistant at the Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany. His current research explores debate and controversy as spaces for negotiating literary value(s) in the context of Anglophone literary prizes, with a particular focus on the Booker Prize and its history.