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.
See Table of Contents
Reviews:
Brian Dillon at 4 Columns, May 2023
Thomas Pavel at Critical Inquiry, October 2023 [Spring Issue 2024]
Ian Ellison at Times Literary Supplement, December 2023
Bruce Krajewski at Modern Philology, February 2024
Arthur W. Frank at Narrative Works, May 2024
Bryan Klausmeyer at German Quarterly, July 2024
Pauline Souleau at Forum for Modern Language Studies, October 2024
Melissa Sheedy at Monatshefte, November 2024
Samuel Frederick at Germanic Review, December 2024
Ross Etherton at German Studies Review, February 2025
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 the history of ideas. I work on material from the 16th to the 21st century.
Current collaborative research projects:
I am a Principal Investigator of the project “Socionarratology – Mapping a Field between Sociology and Literary Studies,” which has received a grant from Princeton University and the Humboldt University Berlin and will run from 2025-26.
I am a Corresponding Member of echo – Center for the Study of Rhetoric between Old and New Media at Freie Universität Berlin.
At the Freie Universität Berlin, 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. After my receiving my PhD, I 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 (2010-11) and the École Normale Supérieure Paris (2008-09), and received a BA in Comparative Literature, Art History, and Cultural Analysis from the Europa Universität Viadrina in Frankfurt/Oder (2006-2010).
Published in 2024:
Circulation: A Curated Collection, edited by Florian Fuchs, Michael Gamper, Jasmin Wrobel. Special Issue of Articulations – Peer Reviewed Journal of Temporal Communities, March 2024.
With contributions by Douglas Pompeu, Larissa de Assumpção, Yuji Nawata, Tatsuo Terada, Tomomi Yoshino, Anna Luhn, Susanne Strätling, Bart Soethaert, Raphaëlle Efoui-Delplanque, Sophus Helle, Nicolas Longinotti, Chiara Liso.
See full issue at Articulations.
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 JSTOR.
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)