This international knowledge exchange workshop – generously funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG) – will bring together researchers working on literary agents from across Europe and North America. Co-organized by the University of Münster (Professor Corinna Norrick-Rühl), University of Aix-en-Provence (Professor Cécile Cottenet) and University of Pavia (Dr. Anna Ferrando) and hosted by the DLA Marbach, the event is open to the public. Two events will be of special public interest: a book talk by Professor Laura McGrath, who has just published Middlemen. Literary Agents and the Making of American Fiction with Princeton University Press, and a behind-the-scenes conversation with one of Germany’s leading literary agents, Karin Graf (Agentur Graf & Graf, Berlin).
Other discussants and presenters include Professors Daniela La Penna and Nicola Wilson (University of Reading), Professor Alexander Nebrig (University of Düsseldorf), and Professor Laurence Cossu-Beaumont (University Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris), who has coined the term “agent studies” to circumscribe this burgeoning interdisciplinary field of interest.