My doctoral research examines how narratives transform encounters with unfamiliar worlds into credible knowledge. Through historically distant German accounts of Iran—from Adam Olearius to contemporary travel writing—I study how attention, selection, detail, and narrative structure shape what can become knowledge.
Doctoral Project
Detail als Struktur – Narrative Präzision und die Form der Iran-Erzählung im historischen Vergleich
Freie Universität Berlin · Byzantine Studies
The project brings Narrative Studies into dialogue with historical anthropology, communication, and the study of cross-cultural encounters.