Biographical note

Nicolas Pethes is Professor of German Literature at the University of Cologne, Germany. He wrote a doctoral thesis on Walter Benjamin’s theory of memory (1999) and co-edited the interdisciplinary lexicon Gedächtnis und Erinnerung (2001), which brought together all relevant disciplines from the natural sciences and the humanities. He has also published four monographs in German, including Zöglinge der Natur [Students of Nature. Human Experiments in Eighteenth Century Literature] (2007) and Literarische Fallgeschichten [Literary Case Histories: The Poetics of Epistemic Writing] (2016), as well as a number of edited volumes and articles on the relationship between literature and science, literature and media, popular culture, and literary theory.