Benjamin D Schaper

Benjamin D. Schaper is an Independent Scholar, who has taught at the universities of Munich, Durham, and Oxford. A former Sylvia Nash Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Languages, Cultures, and Societies at the University of London, he has published widely on twentieth and twenty-first century Germanophone literature, film, and television. His recent publications include his monograph, Poetik und Politik der Lesbarkeit in der deutschen Literatur (2017), the special issue The Lonely Nerd (2022...See more

Benjamin D. Schaper is an Independent Scholar, who has taught at the universities of Munich, Durham, and Oxford. A former Sylvia Nash Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Languages, Cultures, and Societies at the University of London, he has published widely on twentieth and twenty-first century Germanophone literature, film, and television. His recent publications include his monograph, Poetik und Politik der Lesbarkeit in der deutschen Literatur (2017), the special issue The Lonely Nerd (2022), and the volume Entertaining German Culture: Contemporary Transnational Television and Film (2023). See less