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  • Open Position: Job Opportunity

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    We’re delighted to advertise an opportunity to join the LitAttention team as a postdoctoral researcher! Join our ERC-funded research project LitAttention — What Short Fiction Knows About Attention and Attention Politics as a Postdoctoral Researcher (f/m/d) in Educational Psychology. Based at the University of Stuttgart and collaborating closely with the University of Tübingen and the Leibniz-Institut für…

  • Colloquium Guest Speaker: Yves Citton

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    Access the lecture here. Also accessible at this address: https://unistuttgart.webex.com/meet/hannah.armour For our Summer Semester LitAttention Colloquium, Yves Citton will be joining us on the 18th of June. See below for his bio and the abstract for his talk. From Narrative Attention to Anthropological Curiosity: Jan Potocki’s Manuscript found in Saragossa (1815) Bio Yves Citton is professor in Literature and…

  • Visiting Lecture from Prof. Dr. Kathy Conklin

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    On the 21st of May we had the pleasure of welcoming Prof. Dr. Kathy Conklin to kick off our Summer LitAttention Colloquium. Her talk, which focused on her experience eye-tracking with literary texts, opened up discussions on the benefits of interdisplinary research and the role played by language and syntax in attentive reading practices. We…

  • LitAttention Papers at “The Victorian Short Story: Influence, Innovation and Legacy”

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    At the Victorian Popular Fiction Association’s latest Online Study Day, Hannah Armour and Jan Angermeier presented papers on ‘Mind Wandering and Attention in Sheridan Le Fanu’s “The Watcher / Familiar”’ and ‘The Victorian Romance of Knowledge: Illustration and Visuality in the Sherlock Holmes Short Stories’, respectively. Hannah’s paper examined representations of the subjective and objective…

  • New LitAttention Researcher

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    We’re delighted to announce a new additon to the LitAttention team! Reem Chehab 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. A very warm welcome to LitAttention!

  • LitAttention Summer Colloquium

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    We’re excited to announce the incoming guest speakers for our LitAttention Summer Colloquium. On the 21st of May, Kathy Conklin, Professor of Psycholinguisitics in the School of English at the Univeristy of Nottingham, will give a talk on “Seeing literariness: Eye-tracking as a window into the reading of literary texts“. Yves Citton, Professor in Literature…

  • Upcoming Papers for ‘The Victorian Short Story’ VPFA Study Days (17-18.04.2026)

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    Two of our doctoral researchers, Hannah Armour and Jan Angermeier, will be presenting papers at the upcoming VPFA Study Day on ‘The Victorian Short Story: Influence Innovation and Legacy’. Hannah Armour will present her paper entitled ‘Mind-Wandering and Attention in J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s ‘The Watcher’ (1847/72): The Movement from Periodical to Collection’ on Friday…

  • DHd 2026 Conference Paper – Jan Angermeier

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    Jan Angermeier, one of our doctoral researchers, presented a paper entitled ‘Aufmerksamkeit in/und Literatur – Der Weg zur computergestützten Modellierung’ at the DHd 2026: Not Only Text, Not Only Data conference held at the University of Vienna from the 23rd to the 27th of February. See below for the abstract to his paper.

  • Eye-Tracking Study on Literary Reading

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    We’re looking for native English speakers to take part in an eye-tracking study on literary reading at Keplerstrasse 17, University of Stuttgart: €40 compensation! The study requires just an hour and a half of your time to read three short stories as your eye-movements are recorded through our eye tracker. See below for more details…

  • Sibylle Baumbach elected to the Academy of Sciences and Literature

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    The Academy of Sciences and Literature | Mainz has elected our project PI, Prof. Sibylle Baumbach as a full member in the Humanities and Social Sciences class. This recognizes Baumbach’s research in the field of English literature and culture.