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Instructors: Prof. Dr. Jutta Ernst
Event type:
Advanced seminar
Displayed in timetable as:
06.008.0508
Hours per week:
2
Credits:
6,0
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
- | 15
Priority scheme: Senatsrichtlinie
Contents:
In recent years, the scholarly attention to print culture, the history of the book, and digital humanities has created a new awareness of the importance of serialized media in American history and culture. Under the umbrella term “periodical studies,” scholars began to focus on newspapers, magazines, and journals circulating in the Atlantic World from the colonial period to the present. Meanwhile, periodical studies has turned into an autonomous field of research setting into dialogue literary and culture studies, material and visual studies as well as media and communication studies, with translation studies still largely ignored, but waiting to be included. As periodicals played a key role in addressing diverse audiences and their hunger for entertainment, news, and knowledge, periodical studies can build upon an expansive archive of serialized publications. Given the periodicals’ dense texture resulting from multiple authorships, editorial and layout strategies, print businesses, content, advertisement, distribution and subscription, etc., this graduate seminar will raise questions about how to decode and theorize periodicals. In addition, it will explore the textual communities evolving from periodicals, specific networks and forms of agency between consumers and producers. From a historical perspective (1800s to the present), we will also study different periodical genres in fields such as literature, religion, sports, politics, and popular culture to understand periodicals not as containers of messages but as mediators of social and cultural change. Finally, we will also explore recent transformations from off-line to online periodicals.
On Thursday, May 11, 2017 a day-long workshop on “Transnational Periodical Cultures” will be held on JGU’s Germersheim campus, attendance of which will be compulsory for students wishing to receive credit for this course.
Recommended reading list:
Required reading:
Periodical archives available online; further material will be posted on ILIAS at the beginning of the term.
Reading recommendations:
Sean Latham, Robert Scholes, “The Rise of Periodical Studies,” PMLA 121.2 (2006): 517-13.
John Fagg, Matthew Pethers, Robin Vandome, “Introduction: Networks and the Nineteenth-Century Periodical,” American Periodicals 23.2 (2013): 93-104.
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