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Anna-Maria Senuysal
PhD Candidate & Teaching Assistant
Department of Asian, East European and German Studies, University of Cincinnati, USA
University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Anna-Maria Senuysal is a sixth-year candidate in the dual PhD program at the Universities of Cincinnati and Duisburg-Essen. Her dissertation undertakes an anamnesis of Enlightenment thought in the 21st century. Alongside three non-human agents – mushrooms, stones and stars – it explores post-enlightenment, non-anthropocentric forms of ontology and epistemology in contemporary theory, art, and literature. Engaging the writings of Immanuel Kant, René Descartes, Karen Barad and Leo Bersani, her dissertation shows how fungi prompt relational onto-/epistemologies that defy the expectionalism of the human subject and the primacy of knowledge that was formulated during the age of enlightenment and that still greatly informs contemporary debates around the anthropocene.
Broader fields of interest that her work touches upon are late 18th and early 19th century German literature, drama theory, postcolonial theory and new materialism.
Field of research | Area of activity
German literature, environmental humanities, postcolonialism, new materialism
Keywords related to mycelial space
Fungal ontologies, agential realism, entanglement, relational ontology, subject-world dualism
Related projects
PhD project Von Pilzen, Steinen und Sternen. Post-Aufklärerische Ontologien und Epistemologien im 21. Jahrhundert (in progress, completion 2024)
Selected publications
The Theatre of Milo Rau: Aesthetics – Ethics – Politics, co-edited with Teresa Kovacs and Tanja Nusser, Stuttgart: Fink Verlag 2024 (forthcoming)
»Symbolic Practices in the Conflict Zone. Explorations of Eurocentric and Neocolonial Directions in Milo Rau’s Orestes in Mosul and The Congo Tribunal«, in: The Theatre of Milo Rau: Aesthetics – Ethics – Politics, eds. Teresa Kovacs, Tanja Nusser and Anna-Maria Senuysal, Stuttgart Fink Verlag 2024 (forthcoming)
»Counterarchives, Appropriation and the Disobedient Gaze: Archival Structures in Ursula Biemann’s Contained Mobility and Charles Heller’s & Lorenzo Pezzani’s Death by Rescue«, in: TRANSIT 13/2, University of Berkeley California 2022
»›In totaler Verrükung / constant zu werden‹. Verrückung als deterritorialisierende Textstrategie in Peter Weiss’ Hölderlin«, in: Textpraxis. Digitales Journal für Philologie. Graduate School Practices of Literature, 11/2022
»This is Africa – Agency, Representation and the Employment of Master Narratives in Edward Zwick’s Blood Diamond«, in: Andererseits. Yearbook of Transatlantic German Studies 7/8, 2019