Dr. Irene Albers

Biography

Irene Albers is a professor at the Peter Szondi Institute and the Department of Philosophy and Humanities at Freie Universität Berlin. She has a background in Romance studies, philosophy, and German studies, having studied in Tübingen, Tours, and Konstanz, where she obtained her M.A. in 1993 and her doctorate in 1999. Her dissertation explored literary and photographic narratives in the works of Émile Zola, Marcel Proust, and Claude Simon. Albers has worked as a research associate and lecturer at the University of Konstanz and has held various academic positions at Freie Universität Berlin since 2003. She has been actively involved in several research projects, including as a principal investigator in the Cluster of Excellence 'Languages of Emotion' and as a member of various academic associations. Her research interests focus on ethnoliterary modernity, literary primitivism, literary ethnography, and the relationship between literature and photography during the 19th and 20th centuries.

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