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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
Wiss. Mitarbeiter*in, Professur für Literaturwissenschaft und Kulturtheorie

Werdegang

  • Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Institut für Geschichtswissenschaft und Literarische Kulturen, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg (seit 09/2026)
  • Lehrbeauftragter, Fachbereich Literatur, Kunst- und Medienwissenschaften, Universität Konstanz (2026)
  • Projektmitarbeiter, Service Centre InterNational Transfer, Universität Würzburg (2023-2026)
  • Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Jena (2018-2023)

Forschungsgebiete

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

Publikationen

Beiträge in Zeitschriften

  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 (Autor*in) , 01.01.2026 , in: Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht, 25, 2 , S. 211-228

    Publikation: Beiträge in Zeitschriften › Zeitschriftenaufsätze › Forschung

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

    Publikation: Beiträge in Zeitschriften › Zeitschriftenaufsätze › Forschung › begutachtet

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

    Publikation: Beiträge in Zeitschriften › Andere (Vorworte. Editoral u.ä.) › Forschung

Beiträge in Sammelwerken

  1. Planetary/Planetarity
    Florian Wagner (Autor*in) , Dominik Steinhilber (Autor*in) , 18.11.2025

    Publikation: Beiträge in Sammelwerken › Kapitel › Forschung › begutachtet

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

    Publikation: Beiträge in Sammelwerken › Aufsätze in Sammelwerken › Forschung

Lehrveranstaltungen

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.
Nächster Termin:
Dienstag, 13.10.2026 um 10:15 Uhr
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.
Nächster Termin:
Dienstag, 13.10.2026 um 18:15 Uhr