studied philosophy and political science in Vienna and Paris, and comparative literature in Bielefeld. He worked at the Peter Szondi institute of comparative literature at Berlin’s Free University. Avanessian was a visiting fellow of the German departments at Columbia University and Yale, and a visiting professor at art academies in Nuremberg, Vienna, Basel, Copenhagen, and California. He founded the research platform spekulative-poetik.de and is managing editor of Merve publishers.
Armen Avanessian
