Max Jokschus
Research Fellow transSCAPE
Max Jokschus
Faculty of Humanities (FHW)
Institut III - transSCAPE Project
Institut III - transSCAPE Project
Research Campus STIMULATE, Otto-Hahn-Straße 2,
D-39106 Magdeburg,
Building 82, Room 166
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Vita
| since February 2025 | Research Felllow for Urban Cultural and Literary Studies at the transSACPE Project, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg |
| 2019 - 2024 | Research Fellow and Lecturer at the Department of English Studies, Leipzig University |
| 2013 - 2019 | Degree in higher teaching in English and German, Leipzig University |
Research Interests
- (Horror) Film Studies, esp. Folk Horror
- Weird Fiction
- Critical Internet Studies
- Comic Book Studies
- Material Game Studies
- Urban Cultural Studies
Projects
- Dissertation: "Devils in the Data: The (Post-)Internet in the Contemporary Horror Film" (submitted)
Articles
- "Folk Bubbles: The Regime of Post-Truth in American Folk Horror." American Folk Horrors, edited by Dawn Keetley, University of Wales Press. (in Erscheinung)
- "More than Child’s Play: Children’s Culture, Possessed Dolls and Surveillance Capitalism." Phantastik für Kinder – Kinder in der Phantastik: Symposium 2024 in Malberg, edited by Kristin Aubel, Maria Fleischhack, Marion Gymnich, Carsten Kullmann, and Aylin Dilek Walder, Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen. Inklings: Jahrbuch für Literatur und Ästhetik 42. (in Erscheinung)
- "Somewhere, in Hell: Narrative Topography and Artistic Voice in Mike Mignola’s Hellboy in Hell." Religion, Glaube und Fantastik / Religion, Faith and the Fantastic: Symposium 2022 in Bochum, edited by Maria Fleischhack, Patrick Schmitz, and Carsten Kullmann, Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen, 2024, pp. 156-67. Inklings: Jahrbuch für Literatur und Ästhetik 40. DOI: https://doi.org/10.32784/libaac-3054
- "From the Fibres, from the Forums, from the Fringe–Folk Horror from the Deep, Dark Web." The Routledge Companion to Folk Horror, edited by Robert Edgar and Wayne Johnson, Routledge, 2023, pp. 342-52.
- "Melodies of Madness: Music as Weird Mediation in H.P. Lovecraft’s 'The Music of Erich Zann'." Die Phantastik und die Musik / Music and the Fantastic, edited b Maria Fleischhack, Patrick Schmitz and Christine Vogt-William, Peter Lang, 2021, pp. 95-110. Inklings: Jahrbuch für Literatur und Ästhetik 39.
Talks
- "Laughing as the Wicker Men Burn: Generic Instability and Carnivalesque Transgression in Folk Horror." Folk Horror in the 21st Century. Falmouth University, Falmouth, United Kingdom. 6 September 2019.
- “From the Fibres, from the Forums, from the Fringe: Internet Horror and Folk 2.0 in the Desktop Film.” Dark Economies. Falmouth University, Falmouth, United Kingdom. 22 July 2021.
- “From the Fibres, from the Forums, from the Fringe: Internet Horror und Folk 2.0.” Folk Horror als Gegenstand und Herausforderung der Kulturwissenschaften. Zürich University, Zürich, Switzerland. 5 November 2021.
- “Devils in the Data: The Internet in the Contemporary Horror Film.” Regional Network for (Post)Doctoral Students in English Literary and Cultural Studies. Martin-Luther-University Halle Wittenberg, Halle, Germany. 5 May 2023.
- "More than Child’s Play: Children’s Culture, Possessed Dolls and Surveillance Capitalism." Children in Fantasy - Fantasy for Children. Malberg Castle, Malberg, Germany. 4 May 2024.
