Pavan Kumar Malreddy receives Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

The Feodor Lynen Fellowship enables scientists from various disciplines to carry out research projects abroad. Malreddy, who conducts research into English-language literary and cultural studies, is being funded as part of the program on the basis of his research project “The Right to Unbelong: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Contemporary Migrant Literary Cultures”.

He proposes understanding migration as a normative human condition – in contrast to current popular ideas. To this end, three strands of migrant literature since the turn of the millennium will be examined: (1) forced migration from post-conflict societies to the West, (2) internal displacement and economic migration in and from the Asian region, and (3) emerging fictions about climate migration.

Pavan Kumar Malreddy is part of the media working group of the ConTrust research project and teaches at the Institute for English and American Studies at Goethe University.