Irene Albers

Irene Albers is Professor for General and Comparative Literature and Romance Philology at the Freie Universität Berlin. The focus of her research is the relationship between literature and photography, the embodiment of the emotions in Romanic novels, and the relationship between literature and Ethnology among surrealist circles and the Collège des Sociologie, in particular Michel Leiris. Editor of among other works, the German translation of Collège de sociologie 1937–1939 (2012, with Stephan Moebius) and the volume Animismus—Revisionen der Moderne (Animism—Revisions of Modernity, 2012, with Anselm Franke), in 2018 she will publish Der diskrete Charme der Anthropologie—Michel Leiris’ ethnologische Poetik about the ethnological gaze of Michel Leiris.

As of May 2018