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Kyung-Ho Cha
Kyung-Ho Cha is a research associate at the Leibniz Centre for Literary and Cultural Research Berlin (ZfL) in Berlin, where he is a principal researcher in the CAPONEU team. His main research areas include literature and politics, literature and science, literature and media, and literature and (post)migration. His work focuses on the political novel from the 20th century to the present, 18th- and 19th-century German literature, literatures in (post)migration, the writings of Walter Benjamin, and literary theory. As a member of the Berlin team, he has co-organized book clubs, workshops, and a conference. He is also actively involved in collaborative publication projects and contributes to the group’s administrative work.
Affiliation
Leibniz Centre for Literary and Cultural Research Berlin (ZfL)
Books
Der gute Staatsbürger. Die politische Ethik der Literatur 1789–1848, Göttingen: Wallstein 2023.
Humanmimikry. Poetik der Evolution, München: Fink 2010.
Edited Books / Special Issues of Journals
Cha, Kyung-Ho; Eiden-Offe, Patrick; Horst, Johanna-Charlotte; Perica, Ivana; Peyroles, Aurore; Schaub, Christoph, eds.: What is the Political Novel? Defining the Genre (Open Research Europe), 2025)
Cha, Kyung-Ho; Perica, Ivana; Peyroles, Aurore; Schaub, Christoph (Eds.): European Centers and Peripheries in the Political Novel (Caponeu Working Papers), 2025.
Aura und Experiment. Naturwissenschaft und Technik bei Walter Benjamin, Wien 2017.
Menschenrechte erzählen. Menschenrecht und Menschenwürde in der Literatur. Mitteilungen des Deutschen Germanistenverbandes (4: 2016)
Der entstellte Blick. Anamorphosen in Kunst, Literatur und Philosophie, München 2008. [co-editor with Markus Rautzenberg]
Memberships and Honours
Rat für Migration
Contact
Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung
Pariser Straße 1
10719 Berlin
Germany
Email: k.cha54321@gmail.com
External links
https://www.zfl-berlin.org/people-detail/kyung-ho.cha.html
https://zfl-berlin.academia.edu/KyungHoCha
