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Dr. Florian Wagner

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21335 Lüneburg, Universitätsallee 1, C1.118
Fon +49.4131.677-2630 (Sekr.), florian.wagner@leuphana.de
Research associate, Professur für Literaturwissenschaft und Kulturtheorie

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Vita

  • Research Assistant, Institute of History and Literary Cultures, Leuphana University of Lüneburg (since 09/2026)
  • Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Literature, Art, and Media Studies, University of Konstanz (2026)
  • Member of Staff, Service Centre InterNational Transfer, University of Würzburg (2023-2026)
  • Research Associate, Department of English and American Studies, University of Jena (2018-2023)

Research Interests

  • Planetary Literary and Cultural Studies
  • Environmental Humanities / Blue Humanities
  • Post- and Decolonial Studies
  • Indigenous Studies
  • Analog Game Studies 

Publications

Journal contributions

  1. ‘It’s Certainly not the Ocean’s Fault’: Oceanic and Aquatic Onto-Epistemologies in the Poetry of Kaie Kellough and Junie Désil
    Florian Wagner (Author) , 01.01.2026 , in: Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht, 25, 2 , p. 211-228

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research

  2. Neo-Cosmopolitan Tidalectics as Planetary Poetics in Kaie Kellough’s Magnetic Equator
    Florian Wagner (Author) , 01.01.2022 , in: Canada and Beyond: A Journal of Canadian Literary and Cultural Studies, 11 , p. 149-166

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

  3. Embracing the Loss of Nature: Searching for Responsibility in an Age of Crisis
    Florian Wagner (Author) , Jaime Hyatt (Author) , 01.01.2021 , in: Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies, 22, 1 , p. 1-7

    Research output: Journal contributions › Other (editorial matter etc.) › Research

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Contributions to collected editions/anthologies

  1. Planetary/Planetarity
    Florian Wagner (Author) , Dominik Steinhilber (Author) , 18.11.2025

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Chapter › Research › peer-review

  2. Towards the Reinhabitation of the Soil: On Becoming Earthbound in Gary Snyder’s Turtle Island
    Florian Wagner (Author) , 01.01.2019 , p. 83-96

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research

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Activities

  1. ‘A Pulmonary Commons Called Planet’: Foraging for a Planetary Multispecies Commons in Rita Wong’s forage
    Florian Wagner (Speaker)

    Activity: Conference Presentations › Research

  2. Tabletop Ecologies: Eco-Analog Play and Planetary Futurity
    Florian Wagner (Speaker)

    Activity: Guest lectures › Research

  3. Planetares Denken und Sozialer Wandel
    Florian Wagner (Speaker)

    Activity: Guest lectures › Education

  4. Oceanic Routes and Roots: Tidalectics, Archipelagic Thinking and the Materiality of Water in the Poetry of Kaie Kellough and Junie Désil
    Florian Wagner (Speaker)

    Activity: Guest lectures › Education

  5. Planetary Translations: The Politics and Poetics of (Mis-)Translation as Anti-Neocolonial Mode in Don Mee Choi’s DMZ Colony
    Florian Wagner (Speaker)

    Activity: Conference Presentations › Research

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Courses

Climate Fiction
Florian Wagner
Climate fiction, or “cli-fi,” a term coined by freelance reporter and climate activist Dan Bloom, is a growing genre that explores the cultural, social, and political contexts and consequences of climate change. In this seminar, we will examine the genre’s origins and key themes, discuss the challenges of representing climate change in fictional texts, and establish connections to current discussions in the environmental humanities and beyond, e.g., by taking a closer look at how contemporary narratives from the Majority World reimagine ecological crisis in relation to histories of (settler-)colonialism, extraction, and dispossession.
Texts to be purchased:
- Ballard, J.G. The Drowned World [1962]. Harper Perennial, 2010.
- Boyle, T.C. A Friend of the Earth. Penguin Books, 2000.
- Ghosh, Amitav. Gun Island. John Murray, 2019.
All other texts will be made available.
Next appointment:
Tuesday, 2026-10-13 at 10:15
Room: C 12.001 Seminarraum
Gothic and Horror Fiction: Reading the Uncanny
Florian Wagner
This course examines the longstanding fascination with the uncanny. Reading a broad range of Gothic and horror fiction from the eighteenth century to the present, we will explore how these texts generate a sense of unease and dread through atmosphere, affect, and narrative ambiguity, while at the same time producing a paradoxical sense of pleasure. We will discuss recurring motifs and formal strategies, as well as the ways Gothic and horror fiction are articulations of deeply rooted cultural anxieties, for instance, surrounding technology, ecology, the return of the repressed, etc.
Texts to be purchased:
Jackson, Shirley. The Haunting of Hill House [1959]. Penguin Classics, 2009.
Robinson, Eden. Monkey Beach. Vintage Canada Edition, 2001.
All other texts will be made available.
Next appointment:
Tuesday, 2026-10-13 at 18:15
Room: C 3.120 Seminarraum