Avanessian, Armen

Armen Avanessian is a professor at the Peter Szondi Institute for Comparative Literature at the Free University Berlin, Germany. He has been a Visiting Fellow in the German Department at Columbia University (2011) and in the German Department at Yale University (2012). He is also editor of the book series SPEKULATIONEN (Merve Verlag Berlin) and Guest editor of the series "Theories for the 21st Century" for Spike Art Quarterly. In 2012 he founded a research platform on Speculative Poetics, including a series of events, translations and publications: www.spekulative-poetik.de.