Esther Edelmann
Assistant professor
- Name
- Dr. E. Edelmann
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2415
- e.edelmann@hum.leidenuniv.nl
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.
More information about Esther Edelmann
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)
Assistant professor
- Faculty of Humanities
- Centre for the Arts in Society
- Literatuurwetenschap
- Edelmann E & Korsten F. W. (2024), A Politics of Shredding: The Far-Right’s Approach to Biodiversity and Environmental Disaster . In: Kreitler M. & Olson G. (Eds.), Diversity Issues in the USA – Transnational Perspectives on the 2024 Presidential Elections . Bielefeld : Transkript . 152-172.
- Edelmann E. (2024), Die Faschismus-Werkstatt: Exil als Inzenierung von Autorschaft im Werk Sebalds und Bolaños. In: Díaz Pérez O. C. & Renner R. G. (Eds.), Grenzfälle. Essays zur Gegenwärtigen Literatur . Tübingen : Stauffenburg .
- Edelmann E. (18 May 2022), Inverted worlds and belated baroques (Dissertatie. Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS), Faculty of Humanities, Leiden University). Supervisor(s) and Co-supervisor(s): Korsten F.W.A., Timmer N.
- Edelmann E. (2017), The Mis-Translations of Deconstructive "Reason" . In: Tomiche A. (Ed.), Le Comparatisme comme approche critique – Comparative Literature as a Critical Approach no. 4 . Paris : Garnier Classiques. 301-309.
- Edelmann E. (2014), Infierno vacío’ und ‘Krautsuppe ohne Kraut:’ Zur Poetik von Abwesenheit in Roberto Bolaños Estrella distante und Herta Müllers Atemschaukel. In: Díaz Pérez O., Gräfe F., Perez J. P. & Schmidt Welle F. (Eds.), Transformationen der Erinnerung und der Wirklichkeit in der Literatur no. 2. Tübingen : Stauffenburg .