A very warm welcome to our new researcher, Reem Chebab, who will be joining us as a PhD student!
Her thesis examines how microfiction across print and digital media affords attentional engagement under contemporary conditions of digital circulation.
Mark your calendars, we have an attentive summer semester ahead! 🔆
We're delighted to be hosting three guest speakers - Kathy Conklin, Yves Citton and Marion Thain - for our LitAttention Summer Colloquium!
We're still looking for native English speaking participants for our eye-tracking study! 👁️
Find out how to get involved below.
⏳ Only 14 days of testing left!
Sign up for a slot today, support science, and receive €40 for your participation.
We’re looking for native speakers of #English who meet the study requirements. The task is simple:
📖 read a few short texts
⏱ takes about 1.5 hours
That’s it! @unistuttgart.bsky.social
Was bedeutet #Literaturtheorie heute? / What does #literarytheory mean today? How is it practiced in different academic traditions? Submit your papers (in English or German) to the Journal of Literary Theory by 25 March 2026. We look forward to your contributions! #JLT jltonline.de/cfp/2025/CfP...
On the 8th of January, we look forward to hosting Prof. Dr. Alice Bennett for a lecture entitled 'Watching the Watchmen: On Literary Vigilance' for our final session of the LitAttention Colloqium.
📍17.24
⏰ 11:30am - 1:00pm
“Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring out the false, ring in the true.” Happy new year, everyone. May 2026 bring you happiness, health, cherished moments, pleasant surprises, and wonderful memories!
We're looking forward to welcoming Prof. Dr. Carolin Duttlinger from the University of Oxford to give a lecture entitled: 'Spaces of Immersion: Franz Kafka's Poetics of Attention'
🗓️ Thursday the 18th of December at 11:30am
📍Room 17.24
Calling all native English speakers in Stuttgart! We're currently looking for participants to take part in an eye-tracking experiment, investigating how people process literary stories during reading. 👀
Check out the details below. 👇
Catherine Emmott @uofglasgow.bsky.social is coming to @unistuttgart.bsky.social to talk about #attention control and cognitive misdirection in detective fiction. Join us on Thursday in the #LitAttention Colloquium! @litattention.bsky.social #CogLit #CogHumanities
We're delighted to announce our upcoming LitAttention Colloquium with some fantastic guests -- always at 11:30-13:00 in room 17.24.
We start next week on Thursday the 6th with Dr. Catherine Emmott, giving a lecture on "Attention Control in Detective Fiction".
❗Attention❗We're an ERC funded project at @unistuttgart.bsky.social interested in percisely that: attention. After all, literature knows a lot about attention – how it is gained and retained, how it is mastered and manipulated.
Do we have your attention? Keep up with our research here!