Esther Edelmann is a University Lecturer in modern and contemporary literature. Her teaching and research activities focus on the intersections between literature and law, literature and political economy, and culture and environmental humanities. She teaches in literature programs, International Studies, and the minor, "Questions of Justice in Law, Literature and the Arts" in The Hague and Leiden.

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Fields of interest

• Baroque and Neo-Baroque Studies
• Critique of Political Economy & Ecology
• Environmental Humanities
• German Idealism
• German and Latin American Modern and Contemporary
• Literature and Philosophy
• Literature and Law
• Postcolonial Studies

Research

Esther Edelmann is an interdisciplinary scholar exploring the intersections of law and literature, political economy, and ecology. Her research focuses on how literary tropes and aesthetic elements give tangible form to abstract social, economic, and ecological processes that often elude immediate perception due to their intangible or ephemeral nature, yet directly shape our social reality—such as economic and ecological crises, political shifts, and issues of law and justice. Her current work examines the affective-aesthetic dimensions underpinning the far right's stance on international climate policies.

Teaching

Film and Literary Studies (BA)
International Studies (BA)
Literary Studies (MA)
Literary Studies (research) (MA)
Literature in Society. Europe and Beyond (MA)

Publications