Felix Schmidt
- Name
- Felix Schmidt
- felix.schmidt@hu-berlin.de
- Institution
- Humboldt-Universität → Präsidium → Sprach- und literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät → Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik → Englische Kulturwissenschaft und Kulturgeschichte
- Visiting address
- Dorotheenstraße 28 , Room 4.17
- Mailing address
- Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin
Felix Schmidt is a Research Associate at the Department for English and American Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin as well as a PhD student at the Department for German Literature at HU. Felix joined the department in May 2023 after studying English, German, German as a Foreign Language and Education at the Universities of Greifswald and Lancaster (UK) and earning a 1. Staatsexamen in early 2023.
Felix is part of the research project "Queer Theory in Transit: Reception, Translation, and Production of Queer Theory in Polish and German Contexts" (QueerIt), funded by DFG and NCN. Within QueeIt, Felix is researching the reception of Queer Temporality Studies in German contexts as well as the reception of Queer Theory in German university contexts and curricula.
Besides working at the Department for English and American Studies, Felix is also pursuing a PhD in contemporary German Literature and is currently working on a thesis concerning utopianism in the Anthropocene.
Research interests:
- Queer Theory, especially Queer Temporality Studies
- Traveling Theory
- Utopianism
- Anthropocene Literary Studies
- Contemporary German Literature
- German Literature of the Weimar Republic