#  The Art of Living Well with Worms: Transspecies Relationships in the Posthuman Novel 

 



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 **December 6, 2022** 

 12:00PM - 12:00PM EST 

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 **Plimpton Room, Barker Center 133**  



 

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 In her blog-novel *Ich in Gelb* (“Me in Yellow,” 2015), Olga Flor depicts an odd couple that becomes a hybrid creature, at once worm and woman. How, the novel prompts the reader to ask, might a new understanding of parasitic life-forms and their relation to human bodies help to further planetary wellbeing, particularly in an age of anthrogenic mass extinction? This gripping posthuman text, Nicole Sütterlin will argue, presents a world of radical makeovers in which bioscience, fashion, and the fantastic commingle to create new designs for living in an ever-surprising state of multispecies becoming.

 Nicole Sütterlin is associate professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. She is the author of *Poetik der Wunde: Zur Entdeckung des Traumas in der Literatur der Romantik* (“Poetics of the Wound: The Discovery of Trauma in German Romantic Literature,” 2019). Her current book project, titled *Bodies of the Posthuman Age*, investigates how contemporary German literature reconfigures what it means to be human in the 21st-century, at a time when the integrity of bodies, selves, and ecosystems is increasingly threatened by social, environmental, and algorithmic injustices.

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