Reading Reading: Regarding Illegibility in the age of AI' with Barbara Bausch (Freie Universität Berlin)

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Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Academics
Seminar
A person with short grayish-brown hair and fair skin is facing the camera with a neutral expression. They are wearing round, clear-framed glasses and red lipstick. Their jacket features a colorful floral tapestry pattern with a black collar. The background is plain and light-colored, keeping the focus on the individual.

Five College Seminar in Book History.


Barbara Bausch is a literary scholar at the Cluster of Excellence Temporal Communities. Doing Literature in a Global Perspective at Freie Universität Berlin. She is the author of Spielformen der Störung on forms of disruption in neo-avantgarde prose writing (2024) and co-editor of the 1927 cycle of poems Akrobat by Vítezslav Nezval (2021), as well as of the volume Standortbestimmungen, which examines strategies of self-positioning in contemporary political writing (2025). 

Her current project investigates reading as an aesthetic practice both theoretically and by means of exploratory collaborative formats. The first results can be explored in the volume Illegibilities Reflecting Reading (2025).

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