Uni-Tübingen

Ina Berner

Research Associate

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Contact

Universität Tübingen
SFB 1391 „Andere Ästhetik“
Keplerstr. 17
D-72074 Tübingen

Room 13

+49 (0)7071 29-75107
ina.berner@uni-tuebingen.de

Short CV

Since 2025

Elected member of the board of the CRC 1391 “Different Aesthetics” (equal opportunities officer)

Since 2025

Research associate at CRC 1391 “Different Aesthetics” at the University of Tübingen

2023–2024

Coordinator of FOR 2828 De/Sacralisation of Texts at the University of Tübingen

2023

Master of Arts (M.A.) at the University of Tübingen (English Literatures and Cultures)

2022–2023

Fellow of the study collegiate ‘Spielarten des Unendlichen’ (Variations of Infinity/ the Infinite) at the Tübingen Forum for Science and Humanities

2022

1. Staatsexamen (1st State Exam) at the University of Tübingen and the University of Exeter, UK (English, Spanish)

Research

Research Project

Co-Creativity and Community: Pragmatic Genres in Early Modern England

This research initiative focuses on pragmatic texts such as Elizabeth Okeover's recipe book from the late 17th century. This manuscript, which includes medical and culinary recipes, was produced through contributions from multiple authors and reflects the collaborative practices of early modern knowledge creation. Such texts document co-creative processes and illustrate how communal authorship reveals the interactions between families, neighbours, and social networks.

This project investigates which co-creative processes can be observed in these genres, what distinctive characteristics they exhibit, and whether they contribute to the emergence or strengthening of communities. The aim is to systematically capture these dynamics. To achieve this, the investigation combines a heterological and an autological perspective: the heterological analysis focuses on the conditions of collaborative text production, such as workshops or familial networks, while the autological perspective examines the texts themselves as reflections and expressions of co-creativity.

Thus, this endeavour demonstrates how pragmatic texts reflect creativity as a process and contribute to the formation of community.

Research Focus

  • Manuscript Studies
  • Co-Creativity
  • Digital Literary Studies
  • Literature and Linguistics
  • Archival Studies

Publications

Rezension zu Barbara Denicolò: „Von Speis zu kochen“. Kochbücher und Rezeptsammlungen als diskursive Praktiken und Quellen für die Kulturgeschichte des Spätmittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit (Interdisziplinäre Beiträge zu Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit 14), Heidelberg 2025, 376 S. in: Literaturwissenschaftliches Jahrbuch 67 (2026) [von den Hgg. angenommen].

The Time of the Sovereign. Mapping Intersections of Political Theology and Politics of Nature with Schmitt, Taubes, Latour, and Descola, in: Transpositiones 3:1 (2024), S. 39–54. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14220/trns.2024.3.1.39. (mit Julian Klinner)

Talks

Dialogues, Lineages, and Specializations: Co-Creative Practices in Early Modern Recipe Books, Workshop: „Co-Creating Knowledge: Recipe Books and Community Formation in Early Modern England“, Universität Tübingen, 28.11.2025.

Simple Tools and Abstract Concepts: a Digital Approach to Annotating Co-Creativity, Emerging Digital Methodologies Conference, Cheng Kar Shun Digital Hub, Jesus College, University of Oxford, 18.11.2025. (zusammen mit Ina Berner)

Radolphus Ayres’ Cookery Book: Recipes, Communities, and Co-Creativity Across Four Centuries, Doktorandenkolloquium Mulhouse-Strasbourg-Tübingen, Université de Haute-Alsace, Mühlhausen, 20.06.2025.

From Canon to Fanon and Vice Versa: Diachronic Co-Creativity in Fanfiction, Workshop: „Lest Ihr noch oder schreibt Ihr schon? Fanfiction im Archiv“, Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach, 20.–21.03.2025. (zusammen mit ina Berner)

Zwischen Inklusion und Vereindeutigung - Unendlichkeit als epistemologisches Grundproblem, Abschlusstagung des Studienkollegs 2022/2023 „Spielarten des Unendlichen“, Tübinger Forum für Wissenschaftskulturen/ Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, 21.06.2023.

Conferences and Workshops

Workshop: Berner, I. / Zirker, A.: Co-Creating Knowledge: Recipe Books and Community Formation in Early Modern England, Universität Tübingen, 28.11.2025. Weitere Informationen zur Veranstaltung finden sich im Flyer.

Public Relations

Contributions to public relations are to be found on this page.

Classes

Networking in Early Modern England: From Common Households to the Elizabethan Court (Seminar, Mi 16–18). (zusammen mit Yves Herak)