Florian Gödel

• Francophone and Italophone literatures of the 19th and 20th centuries
• Materiality and mediality of literature
  (especially its performative forms in print media)
• Satire and humour
  in newspapers and magazines
• Aesthetics of the mixture
  (miscellaneity, multilingualism)
• Sociology of literature
• Translation theory and criticism
• History of the discipline of Romance studies

Editorship

• Durdel, Patrick; Gödel, Florian; Lamp, Christian; Pfeifer, Lena; Schadewaldt, Annika M.; Thelen, Julius; Zobrist, Zoe (eds.)
  Literary theory after 2001, with a foreword by Marcel Lepper. Berlin: Matthes & Seitz, 2020.

Article

• [11] "Satirische Zeitschriften und Karikaturen im langen 19. Jahrhundert", in: Flucher, Elisabeth; Pieper, Vincenz; Wendt, Daniel (eds.), Handbuch Satire. Forms - Procedures - Discourses. 2026. (submitted)
• [10] "Poetica pittorica e autonomia delle arti: strategie iconotestuali nei primi periodici illustrati parigini per la costruzione di comunità artistiche", in: de Berti, Raffaele; Guidali, Fabio; Piazzoni, Irene (eds.), Testi, immagini, formati, strutture: i linguaggi del giornalismo tra Otto e Novecento. 2026. (typeset)
• [9] "Von Stechpalmen und Suchspielen. Zur satirischen Ästhetik im Feuilleton der Tageszeitung Le Siècle", in: von Möllendorff, Peter; Wendt, Daniel (eds.), Ästhetik des Satirischen. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2025 (typeset)
• [8] "Miszellanität und Verdacht - Rekonstruktion der Zeitungslektüre von Gérard de Nervals Les Faux Saulniers in Le National (24.10.1850)", in: Middelhoff, Frederike; Raisbeck, Joanna (eds.), Romantische Materialitäten. Heidelberg: Metzler, 2025 (typeset)
• [7] (with Florian Lisson) "Enjeux du journalisme contemporain...", in: Lüsebrink, Hans-Jürgen; Nagel, Anaïs (eds.), Les journalistes dans la presse en langues étrangères. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2025, pp. 349-356.
• [6] "Hospitalité humoristique: Les relations de Nerval avec la presse viennoise", in: Kekus, Filip; Wagneur, Jean-Didier (eds.), Œuvres journalistiques de Gérard de Nerval. Paris: Garnier, 2024, pp. 133-164.
• [5] "Schließungsversuche und Systemkritik...", in: Callsen, Berit; Simoni, Mariana; Wrobel, Jasmin (eds.), Transposition, Migration und Körper/Grenzen in der Romania. Heidelberg: Metzler, 2024, pp. 91-106.
• [4] "Das Gutachten als Refugium für literarische Autonomie?", in: Lokatis, Siegfried (ed.), Die Argusaugen der Zensur. Stuttgart: Hirsemann, 2021, pp. 452-460.
• [3] "The tragic hero of realism...", in: Germanica 59 (2016), pp. 161-170.
• [2] "A box whose contents are no longer accessible...", in: Germanica 59 (2016), pp. 99-114.
• [1] "An Introduction to Moritz Geiger's Psychological Contribution on Empathy", in: Dialogues in Philosophy, Mental and Neuro Sciences 8.1 (2015), pp. 16-18.

Translations

• (with Massimiliano Aragona)
  Moritz Geiger: "On the Essence and the Meaning of Empathy", in: Dialogues in Philosophy, Mental and Neuro Sciences 8 (2015), pp. 19-31 and 75-86.

Reviews

• [5] Sean Franzel, Writing Time. Studies in Serial Literature, 1780-1850. Ithaca/London: Cornell University Press, 2023, in: Zeitschrift für deutsche language and literature 144.4 (2025), pp. 615-618.
• [4] Ernst, Jutta; von Hoff, Dagmar; Scheiding, Oliver (eds.), Periodical Studies Today. Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2022, in: Journal of European Periodical Studies 8.2 (2023), pp. 71-74.
• [3] Preciado, Paul B., An Apartment on Uranus. Frankfurt a. M.: Suhrkamp, 2020, in: Nilpferdkönige (online), 18.09.2020.
• [2] Messling, Markus, Universality after Universalism. Berlin: Matthes & Seitz, 2019, in: Hippopotamus Kings (online), 02/07/2019.
• [1] Finkelstein, Frederika Amalia, Survival. Frankfurt a. M.: Suhrkamp, 2018, in: Nilpferdkönige (online), 08/02/2019.

Title of my dissertation:

Humoriste. On the performance and figure of Gérard de Nerval in Parisian periodicals 1850-1852

• Member of the German Romance Studies Association
• Member of the European Society for Periodical Research (ESPRit)
• Member of the working group for cultural studies journal research
• Editorial board member of the international open access journal JEPS - Journal of European Periodical Studies, responsible for reviews

Seminars

Basic Seminar French Literary Studies (Seminar)
Friday, 10:00-12:00 - Room VG 3.58
(Course no.: 36034)

Approches à l'histoire culturelle du rire et de l'autodérision (XIXe-XXIe siècle) (Proseminar)
French Literary Studies
Thursday, 08:30-10:00 - Room PT 2.0.7
(Course no.: 36062)