Corinna Assmann

I am a postdoc at the English Department of Heidelberg University. My current project looks at identity and social positioning from a phenomenological perspective, bringing together cognitive narratology, feminist theory, and ecocritical approaches to investigate how (social and bodily) difference translates into experience and ways of being in the world. 

In my work, I am interested in the way literature – due to its interrelations with political and cultural discourses – allows a special insight into society, connecting the specific with the universal, the personal with the political, and the subjective with the aesthetic. I also deal with narrative more broadly, as an interdisciplinary concept and a powerful way of worldmaking that functions both at an individual and collective level. 

AGYA offers unique opportunities for me to combine my interdisciplinary interests with a transcultural perspective.

Academic career