Mercator-Fellow at the Research Training Group "The Romantic Model"

The Research Training Group "The Romantic Model" is creating a new foundation for interdisciplinary and international research into the reception of Romanticism in Europe and across the Atlantic. Specifically, we account for the visibility of the terms ‘Romanticism’ and ‘Romantic’ as well as the remarkable persistence of the ideas and practices associated with them by assuming that ‘model creation processes’ have taken place since the foundation of early Romanticism in Jena around 1800. These processes continue to enable the productive adoption of Romantic modes of interpreting phenomena, creating art, reflecting on the self and experiencing the world. Using current model theories, we are shedding new light on the reception and ‘model effect’ of Romanticism in various cultural and national contexts, and at the interfaces between different social and epistemic areas. Among other things, these model theories provide a methodological framework for innovatively linking research in the humanities and social sciences.
In this context, Claudia Stockinger is working on two research areas within the framework of the Mercator Fellowship: 1. models of Romanticism in contemporary German-language literature; 2. village history (Dorfgeschichte) avant la lettre? Studies on the village in Romanticism.