Research Interests

Literature and science (popular science, science communication)

Critical posthumanism (esp. new materialism, OOO, and alien phenomenology)

Environmental humanities and ecological feelings

Affect theory and everyday aesthetics

Postcolonial studies and intersectionality

Current Research Projects

The Poetics of Relationality: Multisensory Attention and Mundane Materialities in Anglophone Literature from the Nineteenth Century to the Present (postdoc project)

Education

Dr. phil. in North American Studies, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (2023)

M.A. in North American Studies: Culture and Literature, FAU Erlangen–Nürnberg (2017)

Employment

April 2026 – present: Research associate at the chair of American Studies, Literary Studies, FAU Erlangen–Nürnberg

2019 – 2023: Research assistant and fellow at the Collaborative Research Center 1369 “Cultures of Vigilance,” LMU Munich

2018 – 2020: Lecturer at the Chair of American Studies, Literary Studies, FAU Erlangen–Nürnberg

Fellowships, Grants, Awards

2026 – EAAS Postgraduate Conference Grant

2024 – Travel grant, Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung

2024 – Conference attendance assistance offered by the Surveillance in the Majority World Network and funded by the Open Technology Fund to participate in the annual conference of the Surveillance Studies Network

2024 – Conference fee waiver to attend the International Conference of Three Societies on Literature and Science (BSLS, CoSciLit, SLSAeu)

2021 – First runner-up for the Best Conference Paper Award of the Margaret Atwood Society at the international conference Artpolitical – Margaret Atwood’s Aesthetics, University of Erfurt and Georg-August University of Göttingen, 14–16 October

2019 – Travel grant awarded by the conference organizers, funded by the Wellcome Trust, to attend the international symposium Global Genetic Fictions, University of Leeds, UK, 26–28 April

2019 – Travel grants from FAU’s Office for Gender and Diversity and the Dr. Alfred-Vinzl Foundation; Diversity fellowship from DGFA

2016 – Completion scholarship for international students

2016 – DAAD Prize for outstanding achievements of foreign students

Service to the Profession

• Peer reviewer for Palgrave Macmillan (since 2024)
• Member of the editorial team of Vigilanzkulturen (2020–2023)
• Co-organizer of the Masterclass Emotion and Capitalism with Eva Illouz, together with Sébastien Demichel, Poppy Tushingham, and Alena Zelenskaia, LMU Munich (2022)

Publications 

Authored Books

Filip, Loredana. Self-Help in the Digital Age: TED Talks, Speculative Fiction, and the Role of Reading. De Gruyter, 2024.

Journal Articles

Filip, Loredana. “Dust, Air, and Resistance: Multisensory Aesthetics Against Surveillance in Zia Haider Rahman’s In The Light of What We Know.” Surveillance & Society, vol. 24, no. 1–2, 2026, pp. 79–88.

Filip, Loredana. “Towards Multisensory Aesthetics: Mundane Materiality in Richard Powers’ Plowing the Dark and The Overstory.” AmLit, vol. 5, no. 2, Winter 2025, pp. 109–127.

Filip, Loredana. “Life beyond Humanity: Exploring the ‘Greater Good’ and Synesthetic Aesthetics in Octavia Butler and Ursula K. Le Guin.” Miranda, Winter 2025.

Filip, Loredana. “Multisensory Imagery and Post-Anthropocentrism in Margaret Atwood’s Old Babes in the Wood.” Margaret Atwood Studies, vol. 17, 2024, pp. 81–100.

Filip, Loredana. “Genetic Enhancement, TED Talks and the Sense of Wonder.” Medical Humanities, vol. 47, no. 2, 2021, pp. 210–218.

Filip, Loredana. “The Future of the Enhanced Self and Contemporary Science Fiction: TED Talks and Dave Eggers’ The Circle.” Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies (COPAS), vol. 20, no. 1, 2019, pp. 24–39.

Book Contributions

Filip, Loredana. “Ecological Affects in Literature: The Role of Aliveness in American Fiction.” Reconnections: The Humanities in a Time of Climate Change, edited by Thomas Mantzaris, Hellenic Association for American Studies Digital Publications, 2025, pp. 19–35.

Filip, Loredana. “Be-Longing in TED Talks on ‘What Is Home?’ and Contemporary Postcolonial Fiction.” Perspectives on Homelessness, edited by Anna Flügge and Giorgia Tommasi, Winter, 2022, pp. 273–299.

Filip, Loredana. “Vigilance to Wonder: Human Enhancement in TED Talks.” Transhumanism and Posthumanism in Twenty-First Century Narrative, edited by Sonia Baelo–Allué and Mónica Calvo-Pascual, Routledge, New York, 2021, pp. 71–84.

Courses

Introduction to Literary Theory (AS Literature)

Seminar on Linguistic Variety and Cultural Difference (KS)

Introduction into English and American Literary Periods (Lektüreseminar)

Tutorial class for international students (M.A. level)

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