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Biografische Angaben
Johannes Voelz is the spokesperson of the interdisciplinary PhD program „Aesthetics of Democracy,“ funded by the German Research Foundation (Research Training Group 3113), which will sponsor up to 36 PhD candidates over the course of the next nine years. He also serves on the Board of Directors of Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften Bad Homburg, Frankfurt’s Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, where he launched and co-directs the research focus „Democratic Vistas: Reflections on the Atlantic World“ (with Gunther Hellmann). He is co-editor of /WestEnd: Neue Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung/, the journal of Frankfurt’s Institute for Social Research.
Professor Voelz received his dissertation from the John F. Kennedy-Institute of North American Studies of the Free University Berlin and his habilitation from Goethe-University Frankfurt. He was awarded a Heisenberg Professorship by the German Research Foundation in Over the course of his career, he has spent five years of research in the U.S., at Harvard University, the University of California, Berkeley, and Stanford University. In the summer term 2026, he is Harris Distinguished Visiting Professor at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire (USA).
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Publikationen
2026- Disinhibited Informalization: Talk Radio, Bro Podcasts and the Aesthetics of Populism
- Compromise and Surrender, with Kenneth Burke and Winfried Fluck: On ‚Literature as Symbolic Action
Voelz, Johannes. 2026. „Democracy.“ The New Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson. Ed. Michael Jonik. New York: Cambridge University Press. 156-174.
Voelz, Johannes, Till van Rahden, eds. 2024. Horizonte der Demokratie: Offene Lebensformen nach Walt Whitman. Bielefeld: Transcript.
Voelz, Johannes. 2022. “Histories of the Unsayable: Reinhart Koselleck’s Aesthetic Anthropology.“ American Literary History 34.2: 1456–1476.
Voelz, Johannes. 2022. “Reading Populism with Bourdieu and Elias.” Reading the Social in American Studies. Ed. Astrid Franke, Stefanie Müller, Katja Sarkowsky. New York: Palgrave. 233-258.
Voelz, Johannes (with Tom Freischläger). 2019. “Toward an Aesthetics of Populism, Part II: The Aesthetics of Polarization.” Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature (REAL) 35. 261–286.
Voelz, Johannes. 2018. “Toward an Aesthetics of Populism, Part I: The Populist Space of Appearance.” Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature (REAL) 34: 203–228.
Voelz, Johannes. 2018. The Poetics of Insecurity: American Fiction and the Uses of Threat. New York: Cambridge University Press.