Marcel Knöchelmann is a social theorist exploring the intersections of authorship, literature, and culture. His research examines how texts—both literary and academic—function as media of reflection for normative and symbolic orders. Currently a postdoctoral researcher at Yale University, funded by the DFG’s Walter Benjamin Programme, he is working on two projects: one uses Tomas Tranströmer’s poetry to explore aesthetic articulations of meaningful and resonant relations to the world.; the other develops a comparative perspective on civil sphere theory and deliberative democracy, with a special focus on processes of meaning-making. Marcel received his PhD from University College London in 2021 with a cultural sociology of authorship and publishing in the humanities. He is a trained bookseller. (Postdoctoral Fellow - March, 2024 to March, 2026).
