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Dr. Pierre-Héli Monot

Principal Investigator, ERC Starting Grant “The Arts of Autonomy: Pamphleteering, Popular Philology, and the Public Sphere, 1988-2018”


Main Research Fields:

  • Aesthetics, Democracy, and Political Autonomy
  • Social Movements in the United States and Europe
  • Political Theory
  • Digital Humanities and Popular Literacy
  • History of Technology and Automation
  • German and American Romanticism, European and American Modernism
  • History of the University

CV:

  • 2023: Visiting Scholar, New York University (NYU), Department of Comparative Literature
  • Since 2021: Member of the Young Academy of Europe
  • Since 2020: Professor, Department of American Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
  • 2019 - 2020: Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy (Ethics and Aesthetics), University of Potsdam, Germany
  • 2019: Winner of an ERC Starting Grant for the project "The Arts of Autonomy: Pamphleteering, Popular Philology and the Public Sphere, 1988-2018"
  • 2016 - 2019: Postdoctoral Research Fellow of the German Research Foundation (“Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft”), Comparative Literature, Research Training Group “Literature and Globalization”, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
  • 2018 - 2019: King’s College London, Department of Comparative Literature, Visiting Research Fellow on a Fellowship from the Excellence Initiative of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
  • 2018 - 2019: Fellow of the Excellence Initiative of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
  • 2017: University of Oxford, Faculty of English, Visiting Scholar
  • Since 2016: Junior Member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature (“Junge Akademie”), Mainz, Germany
  • 2015/2016: Assistant Professor, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
  • 2014: Fulbright American Studies Institute, San Francisco State University
  • 2014: PhD, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
  • 2009 - 2013 Fellow of the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)
  • 2012 - 2013: Harvard University, Visiting Fellow, English Department
  • 2009: Brown University, Visiting Scholar, English Department, research advisor: Paul Armstrong
  • 2008: M.A., Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin


Selected and Recent Publications:

  • MONOT, Pierre-Héli, 2023: “Robopathen und Robopathinnen aller Länder… Wenn die KI die Drehbücher schreibt”, in: Merkur, Heft 891 (August 2023), 84-98.
  • MONOT, Pierre-Héli, 2023: “Poor, Nasty, Brutish, and Short: Contemporary Technological Pamphleteering, Popular Literacy, and the Politics of Literary Circulation”, in: Michael Gamper, Jutta Müller-Tamm, David Wachter, Jasmin Wrobel (eds.), The Value of Literary Circulation / Der Wert der literarischen Zirkulation, Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler, 173–185.
  • MONOT, Pierre-Héli, ed., 2023: “墨子: The Book of Mozi, Chapter 39: Against the Confucians (Fei Ru Xia)”, in: The Arts of Autonomy: A Living Anthology of Polemical Literature, ed. Pierre-Héli Monot, Munich: The Arts of Autonomy, 2023.
  • MONOT, Pierre-Héli, ed., 2023: “Collective: The Trail of Broken Treaties 20-Point Position Paper – An Indian Manifesto. A Commented Edition with Contextual Sources”, in: The Arts of Autonomy: A Living Anthology of Polemical Literature, ed. Pierre-Héli Monot, Munich: The Arts of Autonomy, 2023.
  • MONOT, Pierre-Héli, ed., 2022: “A Feminist Server 0.01: A Commented Bilingual Edition with Contextual Sources”, in: The Arts of Autonomy: A Living Anthology of Polemical Literature, ed. Pierre-Héli Monot, Munich: The Arts of Autonomy, 2022.
  • MONOT, Pierre-Héli, ed., 2022: “Émile Zola: J’accuse…!, A Commented Bilingual Edition, Including Contextual Sources and a Facsimile Copy of Émile Zola's Manuscript”, in: The Arts of Autonomy: A Living Anthology of Polemical Literature, ed. Pierre-Héli Monot, Munich: The Arts of Autonomy, 2022.
  • MONOT, Pierre-Héli, 2022: “Kill Lists: Ideas of Order in the Pamphlet”, Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen, Blog, Series “Die Macht der Listen” April 21, 2022.
  • MONOT, Pierre-Héli 2022: “On Neoclassicism: Theatrocracy, the 1%, and the Democratic Paradox, from Sophocles to Occupy Wall Street”, American Dramaturgies for the 21st Century, ed. Julie Vatain-Corfdir, Paris: Sorbonne University Press. 201-216.
  • MONOT, Pierre-Héli, 2021: “Maximalist Expectations in an Age of Anti-Populism”, in: Common Grounds? Transatlantic Perspectives on the State of American Democracy,ed. Cedric Essi, Heike Paul, Boris Vormann, Special Issue of Amerikastudien/American Studies. 215-221.
  • MONOT, Pierre-Héli, 2021 “On Volubility: Scholastic Commentary, Racial Capital and the Birth of the Modern Literary Field”, in: Postcolonial Interventions 4/1 (January 2021). Special Issue: Postcolonial Knowledges, ed. Kerstin Knopf.
  • MONOT, Pierre-Héli, 2021: “Is All Discourse Official? On the Poetics of Gifting and Gossiping”, in: Contagion and Conviction: Rumor and Gossip in American Culture, ed. Pierre-Héli Monot and Florian Zappe, Special Issue of the European Journal of American Studies, 15/4, 2020 (2021).
  • MONOT, Pierre-Héli, and Florian Zappe, 2021: “Contagion and Conviction: Rumor and Gossip in American Culture”, in: Contagion and Conviction: Rumor and Gossip in American Culture, ed. Pierre-Héli Monot and Florian Zappe, Special Issue of the European Journal of American Studies, 15/4, 2020 (2021).
  • MONOT, Pierre-Héli, 2020: “Können Maschinen frei sein? Grundzüge einer künstlichen Autonomie” in: Verheißungen der Autonomie, ed. Pierre-Héli Monot und Christina Globke, Schriftenreihe der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz. Vol. 5. Mainz. Stuttgart: Steiner, 2020. 11-24.
  • MONOT, Pierre-Héli, and Christina Globke, 2020: “Einführung”, in: Verheißungen der Autonomie, ed. Pierre-Héli Monot und Christina Globke, Schriftenreihe der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Vol. 5. Mainz. Stuttgart: Steiner, 2020. 5-9.
  • MONOT, Pierre-Héli, 2020: “Armut als Kapital”, in: Arbeit – Bewegung – Geschichte: Zeitschrift für historische Studien, 2020, vol. 2, special issue: “Arbeit und Literatur”, ed. David Bebnoswki, 123-133.
  • MONOT, Pierre-Héli, 2019: “Possibilities, Responsibilities: On Poetic Genres and Political Poiesis”, in: David Kerler, Timo Müller, eds.: Poem Unlimited: New Perspectives on Poetry and Genre, Anglia volume 63, Berlin: de Gruyter, 2019, 99-113.
  • MONOT, Pierre-Héli, 2019: “Die höflichen Radikalen: Vor 60 Jahren erschien Miles Davis’ grundstürzendes Album Kind of Blue”, Die Zeit, August 29, 2019, 46.
  • MONOT, Pierre-Héli, 2019: “ 仁“ in: Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, Brent Ryan Bellamy, Chantal Bilodeau, eds.: Loanwords to Live With: An Ecotopian Lexicon Against the Anthropocene, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019, 226-236.
  • MONOT, Pierre-Héli, 2019: “Poetik des Macronismus: Michel Houellebecqs Serotonin” [“The Poetics of Macronism: Michel Houellebecq’s Serotonin], Merkur (Blog), January 16, 2019.
  • MONOT, Pierre-Héli, 2018: “Antiacademism as Anticapitalism: The Rise of American Cultural Conservationism”, American Studies Journal, Vol. 65 (2018), Special Issue: Cultures of US-American Conservatism, ed. Andrew S. Gross and Susann Köhler, September 2018. 10.18422/65-06.
  • MONOT, Pierre-Héli, 2018: “La Lumière, la Vie, la Lettre et Le Pain: de l’Eucharistie à la Découverte de la Faim” [“Light, Life, Letter, and Loaf: From the Eucharist to the Discovery of Hunger”], in: Christophe Ippolito, ed.: La Littérature et la Vie, Collection Perspectives Comparatistes, vol. 351, Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2018, 51-67.
  • MONOT, Pierre-Héli, 2017: “The One, the Many and the Few: A Philological Problem and its Political Form”, in: SPELL, vol. 35, Special Issue: American Communities: Between the Popular and the Political, ed. Lukas Etter, Julia Straub, Tübingen: Narr, 2017, 85-103.

Selected and Recent Conference Papers:

  • 31.03.2023, Université Paris-Sorbonne, “Gray Material: Universalism, Particularism, and Their Literary Forms”, Conference: Crises of the Universal in Anglophone Literatures and Criticism
  • 17.03.2023, University of Chicago, “Political Hypocrisy: Surrealism and the Aesthetics of Moral Rectitude”, Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA)
  • 28.11.2022, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, “Selbstermächtigungen: Poesie und Politik des Pamphlets”, Guest Lecture with David Bebnowski, DFG Graduate School Kleine Formen
  • 11.11.2022, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland, “Weapons of Mass Persuasion: Post-Print Counternarratives and Wartime Historiography”, Conference: Writing Contemporary Wars and Contemporary Militaries: Film and Literature of Military Interventions from the Persian Gulf War to the Present
  • 09.07.2022, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstad, “The Public Sphere is Doing Great, Thank You: Arguments for the Revolutionary Content of Democratic Liberalism”, Conference: The Public Sphere in Agony – Re-Thinking the Dialogical, Performative Assembly, and Civic Culture
  • 01.04.2022, Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz, “Artificial Intelligence – Freedom – Artificial Freedom”, Symposium: Grenzen der Künste im Zeitalter der Digitalisierung
  • 19.11.2021, Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut, Essen, “Was heißt linksreaktionär? Ein Beispiel aus der jüngeren Literaturgeschichte”, Workshop: Ungleichheit (be)schreiben: Zum Verhältnis von soziologischer und literarischer Gegenwartsdiagnose
  • 13.11.2021, Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut, Essen, “Abschusslisten: Über ein Ordnungsprinzip polemischer Literatur”, Workshop: Die Macht der Listen, die Listen der Macht
  • 22.10.2021, Université Bordeaux-Montaigne, “Bombs and Canons: Theodore Kaczynski and the Polemical Tradition”, Conference: Écrivains Polémistes et Éssais Polémiques dans la Littérature Mondiale
  • 26.04.2021, Forum Arbeit – Bewegung – Geschichte, Round table with Patrick Eiden-Offe and Anke Stelling. Presentation of the Special Issue “Arbeit und Literatur” of the journal Arbeit – Bewegung – Geschichte
  • 08.04.2021, American Comparative Literature Association, “Arguments for a Practical Ontology of Aesthetics”, Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association
  • 05.01.2020, MLA Annual Convention 2020, Seattle, “The Nature of Interpretation and the Nature of the Real”, Panel: Nature and Reality in the German 19th Century
  • 28.11.2019, Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz, “Will Machines Ever Be Free?” International Symposium: Verheißungen der Autonomie [The Promises of Autonomy]
  • 17.06.2019, Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism at Birkbeck, University of London, “Philological Capitalism: From Cognitive Usury to Cognitive Profit”
  • 07.11.2018, King’s College London, “Automata and Autonomy: Is Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Émile a Turing Test?” Invited Paper, Research Seminar of the Department of Comparative Literature
  • 30.08.2018, Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin, “American Wanderlust: Alexander von Humboldt, Henry David Thoreau, and American Landscape Painting”, invited 120-minute presentation as part of the Wanderlust cycle, with Prof. Dr. Margit Kern and Dr. Amrei Buchholz, curated by Dr. Gabriel Montua, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
  • 13.4.2018, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, “The Overdetermination of Origins: Romantic Internationalism, Jewish Statelessness, and Interpretative Exile” Conference: Exiles, Émigrés and Expatriates in Romantic-Era Paris and London
  • 16.3.2018, Université Paris-Sorbonne, “Democratic Discourse Unstaged: Notes Towards the Definition of a Constructive Philology” Conference: American Dramaturgies
  • 12.8.2017, Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam, “Has Modernism Become Geopolitical?”Annual Conference of the MLA/Modernist Studies Association: Modernisms Today
  • 19.7.2017, Fudan University, Shanghai, China: “The Ligne Claire and its Discontents: Galileo Galilei, Yoshida Hiroshi, Carl Schmitt, Hergé”, Conference: Modernisms and Modernities East, West and South
  • 19.5.2017, University of Oxford, “The Poetics of Democratic Self-Limitation”, Conference: Special Relationships: Poetry Across the Atlantic
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