Tatjana Kühnast M.A.

10/2025–present Mentor at the Faculty of Language, Literature and Cultural Studies for the Center for Higher Education Didactics (ZHW)
10/2025–present Doctoral Scholarship from the German Academic Scholarship Foundation and Research Associate at the Chair of Modern German Literature 1 within the Marianne Plehn Program
10/2024–09/2025 Staff member in Department II/6 – Central Committees, Elections and Regensburg University Foundation, and three teaching assignments at the Chair of Modern German Literature 1
10/2023–09/2024 Substitute Research Associate at the Chair of Modern German Literature 1
09/2023 Master of Arts German Philology
05/2023-10/2023 Research Assistant, Bavarian Academy of Science, Commission for Name Research, Munich
03/2023 Research stay at MIT Boston within the framework of the ComPunc project of Prof. Dr. Paul Rössler
10/2022-10/2023 Research Assistant, Modern German Literature (Prof. Dr. Jürgen Daiber), University of Regensburg
06/2022-08/2022 Internship at Penguin Random House, Special Business, Munich
05/2021 Bachelor of Arts German Philology, Media Studies, FKN

• Card game umFREIb on the leaflets of the White Rose as part of the winning university competition 2024 [in print].
• Names in places of remembrance. Possibilities and limits of recording personal names in epitaphs [in print] - together with Albrecht Greule.
• "When such a wave of awakening goes through the country." Metaphorical countering of National Socialist ideology in the leaflets of the resistance group The White Rose. In: ForAP 7 (2024). S. 151-170.
• Biblical 'Rapture'. Paraphrases of mystical experiences from the discourse field 'Bible' in Robert Musil's estate during his lifetime. In: Active Word 2 (2024). Pp. 173-198 - together with Daiber, Jürgen.
• Eidrateshusa. Etterzhausen or Adertshausen?, in: Verhandlungen des Historischen Vereins für Oberpfalz und Regensburg 163 (2023). Pp. 9-20 - together with Wolfgang Janka.
• Unterirading (Walba): Name origin and settlement history aspects, in: Verhandlungen des Historischen Vereins für Oberpfalz und Regensburg 162 (2022). Pp. 21-32 - together with Wolfgang Janka.

Main research interests:
- Literature and psychology
- Memory culture and historical narration
- Digital Humanities
- Literature and linguistics
- Literary history: mainly 19th and early 20th century
- Author-specific: especially Robert Musil, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Rainer Maria Rilke

Winter Semester 2026/27
Introductory Seminar: Text Analysis
Advanced Seminar: Between Pen and Scalpel: Georg Büchner as a Writer avant la lettre
Practical Seminar: Insights into Publishing Practice with the Organisation of Readings
Mentoring programme with Linda Puppe from the Centre for Higher Education Pedagogy for new lecturers in language, literature and cultural studies
Teacher training at the White Rose Foundation in Munich: “Shaping a culture of remembrance through play: The White Rose in the classroom”
ZHW courses: Between the seminar room and Instagram: Social media in higher education (September and December 2026)

Summer Semester 2026
Advanced seminar: 19th-century fairy tales

Winter Term 2025/26
Advanced seminar: Prose and plays of Naturalism (including school visits)
Mentoring programme with Thomas Neger from the Centre for Higher Education Pedagogy for new lecturers in language, literature and cultural studies

Summer Semester 2025
Advanced Seminar: In Search of a Compass – The Reception of Cult Books at the Turn of the Century

Winter Semester 2024/25
Introductory seminar: Text analysis
Advanced seminar: The Literary Journey of the White Rose (including a poster exhibition and school visits)

Summer Semester 2024
2 Introductory seminars: Text Analysis
Advanced seminar: Aesthetics of the Psyche – A linguistic and literary analysis of psychological states in works from the 18th to the 21st centuries

Winter Semester 2023/24
2 introductory seminars: Text analysis
Tutorial: Tutorial accompanying the lecture ‘Literary Anxiety’