Kontakt
Amerika-Institut
Schellingstr. 3 VG
D-80799 München
Raum:
212
Telefon:
+49 (0)89 2180-2730
E-Mail:
F.Bommas@lmu.de
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Research Interests
- Contemporary Realism(s)
- Ecocriticism
- Literary Historicity and Historiography
- Nonhuman Agency and Relationality
- Resource Extraction and Displacement
Biography
Fritz Bommas studied English and American Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Augsburg, Germany. He completed his master’s degree with a thesis on scale, nonhuman agency, and networks in Richard Powers’s The Overstory and is currently working on a dissertation project that examines realist form within the context of the Capitalocene’s multiple (and simultaneous) crises.
Dissertation Project
“What’s Real in the Capitalocene: Realist Form, Crisis, and Consensus in Contemporary North American Novels” (Working Title)
Publications
Bommas, Fritz. “Chronicling the Capitalocene — History, Colonialism, and Capital in Annie Proulx’s Barkskins.” Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies, vol.24, no.1, Aug. 2023, pp. 41-57, doi:10.5283/copas.376