Non-university cooperations

Berlin is one of the most productive and vibrant centers in Europe for literary studies and literature. The Graduate School takes advantage of the diverse offerings by giving its members access to joint events, external advisory opportunities and practice offers.

• Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

• Max Planck Institute for Human Development

• Literarisches Colloquium Berlin (LCB)

• Institute for Advanced Study (WiKo)

• Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung (ZfL)

• The Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW)

• Deutsches Literatur Archiv Marbach

Inner-university cooperations

The Graduate School cooperates closely with other programs in the humanities, cultural studies and social studies at both Freie Universität and Humboldt Universität whose students, doctoral candidates, and postdocs also work on projects in literary studies.

• Master’s program Applied Literary Studies

• Ph.D.-net Das Wissen der Literatur

• Doctoral program MOVES - Migration and Modernity: Historical and Cultural Challenges

• Doctoral program Latin American Studies: Between Spaces. Movements, Actors and Representations of Globalisation

• Graduate School of North American Studies

• Graduate School of East Asian Studies

• Berlin Graduate School of Ancient Studies

• Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies

Cooperation with third-party funded projects

• Early Modern European Drama and the Cultural Net: DramaNet

• Travelling Traditions / EUME: Europe in the Middle East / The Middle East in Europe – Forum Transregional Studies

• International Research Center Interweaving Performance Cultures

• Zukunftsphilologie - Revisiting the Canons of Textual Scholarship

Former cooperations

• TEEME (Teeme: Text and Event in Early Modern Europe; international doctoral programme in early modern studies funded by the European Union)

• North-South Literary and Cultural Interactions (trinational doctoral studies programme in cooperation with Kenyatta University (Kenya) and the University of Cape Town (South Africa) funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD))