Email: ffuchs@princeton.edu
Bluesky: @fuchsflrn.bsky.social
my book released in 2023:
Florian Fuchs, Civic Storytelling: The Rise of Short Forms and the Agency of Literature, 320 pages, Zone Books, New York
This book recalibrates literature’s political role for the 21st century by excavating the deep history of storytelling as a civic agency. From Aristotle to Arendt and from the novella to the video story, short narrative forms hence become tangible as active vectors that enable and radically modulate the ontology of human encounters.
Reviews:
1. Brian Dillon at 4 Columns, May 2023 // 2. Thomas Pavel at Critical Inquiry, October 2023 [Spring Issue 2024] // 3. Ian Ellison at Times Literary Supplement, December 2023 // 4. Bruce Krajewski at Modern Philology, Februrary 2024 // 5. Arthur W. Frank at Narrative Works, May 2024 // 6. Bryan Klausmeyer at German Quarterly, July 2024 // 7. Melissa Sheedy at Monatshefte, November 2024 // 8. Germanic Review, forthcoming
Since January 2024, I am a Permanent Research Scholar in the Faculty of the German Department at Princeton University.
My primary fields of research are comparative literature, media studies, art history, and environmental humanities. I work on material from the 16th to the 21st century.
I am a Corresponding Member of echo – Center for the Study of Rhetoric between Old and New Media at Freie Universität Berlin. At the FU, I am also a participant of the research group Obscured, Unrecognized, Forgotten. Negative Circulation in Literature.
Before joining the Princeton faculty, I was a Junior Fellow at the Dahlem Humanities Center in 2021-2022, an International Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) in Essen in 2022, and a Research Track Postdoc in the DFG-funded EXC 2020 “Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective” at Freie Universität Berlin 2022-2024, where I also taught at the Peter Szondi Institute for Comparative Literature. I also taught as a Lecturer at Yale 2017-2018 and at Princeton German and Comparative Literature 2018-2021.
I completed my PhD in 2017 at Yale with distinction and spent the year 2013-2014 with a Mellon Fellowship in the “Technologies of Knowledge” research group. Before starting at Yale, I was a visiting student at Stanford and the École Normale Supérieure Paris, and received a BA in Comparative Literature, Art History, and Cultural Analysis from the Europa Universität Viadrina in Frankfurt/Oder.
Published in 2023:
Below Genre: Short Forms and Their Affordances, edited and introduced by Christiane Frey, Florian Fuchs, David Martyn. Special issue of Colloquia Germanica – Internationale Zeitschrift für Germanistik, Band 56, Heft 2-3, 220 pages, Francke Verlag, Tübingen.
With contributions by Gabriel Trop, Florian Klinger, Jasper Schagerl, Florian Fuchs, David Martyn, Jan Mieszkowski, Erica Weitzman, Vanessa Barrera, Jodok Trösch, and Arne Höcker.
See full issue at Narr Digital
Published in 2020:
Hans Blumenberg, History, Metaphors, Fables. A Hans Blumenberg Reader, edited, translated, and with an introduction by Hannes Bajohr, Florian Fuchs, and Joe Paul Kroll, 624 pages, Cornell University Press.
Reviews: Bruce Krajeweski at Critical Inquiry; Robert Pippin at Philosophical Quarterly; Marina Marren at Phenomenological Reviews; Jake Fraser at Germanic Review; Audrey Borowski at Times Literary Supplement; Marcos Guntin at Contributions to the History of Concepts; Joseph Leo Koerner at Common Knowledge
We were interviewed by the Journal of the History of Ideas Blog (& Part II)