Anna-Lena Eick

Anna-Lena Eick is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of General and Comparative Literature at Gutenberg Institute for World Literature and Written Media at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies from Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany. Her doctoral thesis engages with the co-evolution of visual media (such as photography and early film) and the critical re-orientation of postmodern historical novels from the 1960s onwards. A revised version, ‚Geschichte zerfällt in Bilder, nicht in Geschichten‘ – Visualität in der literarischen Geschichtsdarstellung, was published in 2024 with Brill in the Inter/Media series. Her current project examines the intersections of the (post-)digital mediascape and issues of belonging and identity. Further research interests include narratology, inter- and transmediality studies, as well as transcultural, exile and migration studies.