De Gruyter to publish “Poetry in the Digital Age” book series

25 January 2022

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In 2022, the PoetryDA research project is launching its new book series, which will be published by De Gruyter (Berlin/Boston). The series Poetry in the Digital Age will consolidate and present the project’s interdisciplinary research findings. It will run to approximately 22 volumes, comprising books in both German and English. All volumes will be available in both book format (hardcover) and as open access publications. The series will have an international Advisory Board, and all volumes will undergo peer review. The series editor will be the principal investigator Prof. Dr. Claudia Benthien, who received an Advanced Grant from the ERC (European Research Council) to fund the project’s research into poetry in the digital age.

 Alongside an estimated 15 book publications by researchers from the project, the series will also be open to other volumes on the research field, preferably monographs and books by scholars working in close collaboration with the PoetryDA team. Moreover, it will present the results of the three major conferences .Near the end of the project period, a comprehensive, interdisciplinary handbook on the topic, conceptualized and edited by the principal investigator and the three postdocs – Vadim Keylin, Wiebke Vorrath, and Henrik Wehmeier – will appear, containing articles by all of the Hamburg-based scholars, the project’s academic guests (research fellows and speakers from the conferences and the Poetry Debates series), and an international network of scholars.