Publications: 

1. Adeogun AO, Babalola AS, Oyale OO, Oyeniyi T, Omotayo A, Izekor RT, et al. (2025). Spatial distribution and geospatial modeling of potential spread of secondary malaria vectors species in Nigeria using recently collected empirical data. PLoS ONE 20(4): e0320531. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0320531
2. Aiki, I.P., Akogwu, S. A., Shindi, H. A.and Aati, R. (2024). Harnessing the Untapped Potential of Termite Mound Soil for the Improvement of the Growth of Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor [L.] Moench).  40 (1): 1-12. DOI. 10.36108/NJE/4202/04.0160.
3. Aiki Istifanus, Abdelmutalab G. A. Azrag., Christian Pirk and Abdullahi Yusuf (2023) Predicting the habitat suitability and distribution of three species of mound building termites in Nigeria using bioclimatic and vegetation variables. Diversity, 15 (2), 157; https://doi.org/10.3390/d15020157
4. Aiki, I.P., Yusuf, A.A. & Pirk, C.W.W. (2021). Refuge in architecture: mounds and diversity of termite species from a Sahel and Sudan savannah. Int J Trop Insect Sci 41, 1365–1371. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42690-020-00330-5
5. Aiki, I., Pirk, C. & Yusuf, A. (2019). Thermal regulatory mechanisms of termites from two different savannah ecosystems. Journal of Thermal Biology, 85, 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtherbio.2019.102418

About: He obtained his PhD from the University of Pretoria (UP), South Africa, in 2021, with a thesis titled "Diversity, Nesting Behaviour, Thermoregulation and Cephalic Secretions of Termites from a Nigerian Savannah.” His doctoral research resulted in several publications in peer-reviewed journals, including “Refuge in Architecture: Mounds and Diversity of Termite Species from a Sahel and Sudan Savannah” and “Predicting the Habitat Suitability and Distribution of Three Species of Mound-Building Termites in Nigeria Using Bioclimatic and Vegetation Variables,” among others.

His research focuses on the ecology of social insects, particularly mound-building termites. He investigates how termite mound architecture, nest-site selection, and thermoregulatory mechanisms contribute to colony stability and survival under varying environmental conditions. His work also explores local adaptation in termites and employs habitat suitability modelling to predict the impacts of climate change on termite distribution and persistence. In addition, he studies ant behaviour, cognition, and their ecological roles within terrestrial ecosystems. Through these research interests, he aims to advance understanding of how social insects both influence and respond to environmental change, thereby contributing to biodiversity conservation and ecosystem management.

Currently, he teaches the course “Termites in African Ecosystems and Cultures” at the Faculty of Science, Institute of Evolution and Ecology (EvE), Comparative Zoology. Alongside his teaching responsibilities, and research, he is also actively engaged in reviewing scholarly articles in the fields of termite biology, taxonomy, ecology, and social insect research for some peer review journals.

Publications: 

1. [Forthcoming] Anstatt, A., ‘Cunigunde of Luxembourg’, in M. M. Sauer and J. C. Bledsoe (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Medieval European Women and Christianity
2. Anstatt, A., ‘Delphine of Glandèves / Countess Delphine de Puimichel’, in M. M. Sauer, D. Watt, and L. H. McAvoy (eds), The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Medieval Women’s Writing in the Global Middle Ages (Cham, 2025). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76219-3_266-1
3. Anstatt, A., ‘Zwischen Politik und Glauben: Das heilige Kaiserpaar‘, in K. Knebel, C. von Heßberg, and A. Schönfeld (eds), Vor 1000 Jahren: Leben am Hof von Kunigunde und Heinrich II. (Regensburg, 2024), pp. 106-113
4. Anstatt, A., ‘Empress and Virgin: St Cunigunde and Female Sainthood in the Early Thirteenth Century’, in German History 41 (2023), pp. 153-169. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ghad023

Research Project: “Natural Purposiveness in Islamic Thought: Mullā Ṣadrā on Nature’s Agency”

This project explores how an Islamic vision of a conscious, purpose-driven natural world is articulated in the Islamic philosophical tradition. It focuses in particular on an interpretation of Mullā Ṣadrā (d. 1640), whose philosophical system elaborates on rethinking nature as a purposive, intelligent order in which all beings participate actively in their own movement toward perfection. The guiding question is: How does Ṣadrā explain a philosophical system which allows us to imagine nature not as a passive arena for human action, but as a living, dynamic whole, animated by inner awareness and directed toward its own ends? And what ethical implications for our understanding of the human–nature relationship might this reconfiguration carry, especially when contrasted with more anthropocentric models rooted in Islamic theology?

Publications: 

Monograph 

Azadani, Z. (2023) Āzādī va roḫdād dar andīše-ye Heidegger [Martin Heidegger on Freedom and Event]. Tehran: Nashr-e Ney.

Articles 

1. Azadani, Z. (2025) “Seeking a Middle Path: A Journey Through Islamic Philosophical and Theological Perspectives on Human Agency”. In Reittier oder Schiedsrichter? Die »Willensfreiheit« im interdisziplinären Gespräch. Edited by Athina Lexutt and Volkmar Ortmann. Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt GmbH.

2. Azadani, Z. (2025) “An early attempt at a theological justification of the modern concepts of freedom and justice: Tanbīh al-umma wa tanzīh al-milla”. In Mobilität des Denkens. Eine Festschrift für Ulrich Rudolph. Edited by Urs Gösken, Patric Schaerer, Roman Seidel, James Weaver, Thomas Würtz. Brill. 

3. Azadani, Z. (2024) “Delegation of Authority to Human Being: A Late Safavid Theologian’s Account on the Legislative Meaning of Tafwīḍ”. In Der Islam, vol. 101, no. 2, pp. 469-487. 

4. Azadani, Z. (2023) “Divine Causality and Human Free Will: Ṭūsī’s Solution and Its Historical Background”. In Asiatische Studien - Études Asiatiques, vol. 77, no. 3-4, pp. 509-527. 

5. Azadani, Z. (2022) “Mullā Ṣadrā on Free Will and Freedom”. In Asiatische Studien - Études Asiatiques, vol. 76, no. 2, pp. 355-370.

Translation 

1. Azadani, Z. (2020) Dar ǧahān būdan. Persian translation of Being in the World by Hubert Dreyfus. Tehran: Nashr-e Ney. 

2. Co-translator of the Persian translation of A History of Contemporary Women Philosophers (Originally edited by Mary Ellen Waithe), together with Maryam Nasr, Zahra Moballegh, etc. Tehran: Kargadan, 2022. 

Publications: 

1. Scriptural Reasoning: Abrahamic Interfaith Practice (co-authored with Tom Greggs and Steven Kepnes). Wiley-Blackwell, 2026.
2. “Myth and History in Islamic Thought: A Comparison with Jewish and Christian Traditions” in Buddhist-Christian Studies 42, 2022.
3. Routledge Companion to the Qur’an, George Archer, Maria Dakake, Daniel Madigan (eds.), Routledge, 2021.
4. “Qur’anic Terminology, Translation, and the Islamic Conception of Religion” in Religion 49.3, 2019.
5. The Study Quran, general editor and co-author, with S.H. Nasr (editor-in-chief), C. Dagli, J. Lumbard, M. Rustom. HarperOne, 2015.
6. The Charismatic Community: Shi‘ite Identity in Early Islam, State University of New York Press, 2008.
7. “‘Guest of the Inmost Heart’: Conceptions of the Divine Beloved among Early Sufi Women.” Journal of Comparative Islamic Studies, 3.1, 2007.

About: I am an early career social scientist from Cyprus. I recently completed my PhD in Government

and International Relations at Durham University, where I was an A.G. Leventis Scholar in the School of Government and International Affairs. My doctoral research examined the intersection between vulnerability, austerity and refugee resettlement, focusing on the Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme in the North East of England. I am now in the process of adapting this research into publications, as well as look into ways I can offer insight into the practice of resettlement contributing to the support and improvement of the everyday living experiences of refugee communities.

Research Project: “Vital Stones Across Cultures: Materiality, Nature, and the Human Body between China and Europe (1550–1800)”

This research explores how stones mediated cross-cultural understandings of nature and the human body.

Publications:

1. ‘The Culture of Tincture: Experiencing Colour in Medicine, Art, and Chymistry in Early Modern Britain (1650–1750)’, Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal on the History of Science 20250036 (2026), pp. 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2025.0036.
2. ‘Experimenting with New Ingredients for Health: Asian Plants in Women's Recipe Books in Early Modern Britain’, Galilæana XXII: 2 (2025), pp. 139-173. Doi: 10.57617/gal-79.
3. ‘Seeing, Touching, and Drinking Ink: Exploring the Culture of Collecting Ink-Cakes in Late-Ming China (1550-1644)’, in Writing Artifacts, edited by Cydney Alexis and Hannah J. Rule (Routledge, forthcoming in 2026).
4. ‘Materiality and Sensory Knowledge: The Role of Chinese Cassia in Early Modern European Medicine and Botany’, in Localizing Global Culture in China and Beyond, edited by Jing Zhu and Kan Li (Springer, under review).

Without peer review:

1. ‘Edible Tableware in Motion: Multisensory Use of Sugar Sculpture in Renaissance England’, EPOCH History Magazine, Issue 19: Art & Architecture, March 2025.
2. ‘Understanding the Fragrance of Lacquer in Early Modern Europe’, The Wollesen: University of Toronto Art Journal 9:1 (2021), pp. 68-76.

Research Project: Making Peace with Nature: Confidence, Trust, and the Political Psychology of Climate Diplomacy. 

Climate science has made the stakes unmistakably clear. The remaining challenge is political. How can states build trust and sustain cooperation under deep uncertainty? Why do some climate negotiations collapse while others produce breakthrough agreements?

This project examines how leader confidence and trust dynamics shape cooperation in climate diplomacy. Drawing on political psychology and research on advice utilisation, I argue that miscalibrated confidence, what I call the “Confidence Trap,” distorts how leaders interpret evidence, incorporate expert advice, and signal commitment. Overconfident leaders may dismiss credible counsel and overpromise. Underconfident leaders may hesitate and signal unreliability. Both patterns weaken trust.

Through comparative case studies of major negotiations such as Copenhagen, Paris, and Glasgow, as well as analysis of China’s role in climate diplomacy, the project investigates how calibrated confidence, trusted chairs, and epistemic communities enable durable cooperation and shared norms.

By integrating in-depth case analysis with experimental design, the research offers theoretical and practical insights into how diplomacy can move beyond tactical bargaining toward sustained trust-building. Achieving peace with nature requires scientific knowledge, political will, and carefully calibrated judgment. It requires rethinking the psychological foundations of cooperation itself.

Publications: 

1. “Getting Inside the Mind of Leaders and Advisers: A Data Collection Strategy for Historical Case Studies in International Relations” (with Pascal Vennesson) International Studies Perspectives 26 (3) (2025), pp. 356-376: https://doi.org/10.1093/isp/ekae017

2. “Naming and Shaming China: America’s Strategy of Rhetorical Coercion in the South China Sea” (with Haridas Ramasamy) in Contemporary Southeast Asia 42, No. 3 (2020), pp.317-345; DOI: 10.1355/cs42-3a

3. “No Peace without Pause: Why Ceasefires Must Precede Negotiation in Ukraine,” Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies (IDSS) papers, RSIS, NTU, December 9, 2025.

4. “The Psychology of Waiting in U.S.-China Economic Statecraft: Why Washington’s Demand for Speed and Beijing’s Patience Create New Risks in the Tariff War,” China Dialogues (LSE IDEAS, London School of Economics and Political Science), December 5, 2025.

About: Wendy He is an interdisciplinary scholar of international relations whose research bridges political psychology, international security, and diplomatic history. Her work examines how leaders and advisers assess credibility, escalation risk, and restraint under conditions of uncertainty, developing a psychological framework that explains how confidence calibration and trust dynamics shape foreign policy decision-making. She is currently developing a book project, The Confidence Trap, which advances this framework to explain how miscalibrated confidence distorts advice utilisation, trust, and cooperation in high-stakes negotiations.

She is a Global Encounters Fellow at the University of Tübingen, where she applies this framework to climate diplomacy, examining how confidence distortions and advice utilisation shape trust, cooperation, and norm formation in climate negotiations. She was a Hans J. Morgenthau Fellow in Grand Strategy at the Notre Dame International Security Center from 2024 to 2025 and was awarded the prestigious Singapore Social Science Research Council Graduate Research Fellowship in support of her postdoctoral research at Tübingen. 

In 2026, she received the Carl Beck Award at the International Studies Association, an annual award presented for an outstanding graduate student paper in International Studies, with special recognition for originality and innovation in engaging traditional concerns or emerging international problems. She was also the recipient of the 2025 Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society Graduate Paper Award for her paper on leader-adviser dynamics, confidence, and the assessment of threat credibility in foreign policy decision-making.

Her broader research agenda explores how cognitive and relational dynamics shape cooperation across both traditional security crises and global challenges such as climate change.

Publications: 

1. Jiang Zhouwei. Ontological Difference or Ontological Identity?: On Heidegger and Rombach’ Interpretations of Chapter 11 of Laozi. In: Thought and Culture, 2023. (in Chinese)
2. Jiang Zhouwei. From inflexible “play” to flexible “structure”: on the surpassing of Rombach over Fink. in: Thought and Time, 2025. (in Chinese)
3. Jiang Zhouwei. From the worldlization of mathematics to the mathematicization of world: on the transmutation of the concept of mathesis in the renaissance. in: Research of Philosophy of Science and Technology, 2025. (in Chinese)
4. Jiang Zhouwei. Way and home: on the placement of elements in Heidegger's Daoism. in: German Philosophy, 2025. (in Chinese)

Publications: 

1. Johnson, D.  (2025, Feb 6). Blast Pressure Injuries May Affect More Than the Brain of Troops, New Data Shows. Military.Com. https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/02/06/blast-pressure-injuries-may-affect-more-brain-of-troops-new-data-shows.html
2. Johnson, D.  (2024, March 16). The Maine shooter’s traumatic brain injury didn’t have to happen. The New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/17/opinion/maine-shooter-traumatic-brain-injury.html
3. Freelon, D., Pruden, M. L., Malmer, D., Qunfang, W., Xia, Y., Johnson, D., Chen, E., & Crist, A. (2024). What's in your PIE? Understanding the contents of personalized information environments with PIEGraph. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 1–15. https://asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.24869
4. Johnson, D.  (2023). Traumatic injuries among service members and veterans in North Carolina: A pressing public health problem. North Carolina Medical Journal, 84(6). https://doi.org/10.18043/001c.89220
5. Phillips, D., Callahan, M., & Johnson, D. (2023, November 5). A secret war, strange new wounds, and silence from the Pentagon. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/05/us/us-army-marines-artillery-isis-pentagon.html
           Finalist, Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting
6. Johnson, D. (2022, Feb. 24). Ukraine could be the most documented war in human history. Slate. https://slate.com/technology/2022/02/ukraine-russia-livestream-google-maps.html

Publications:

1. Kim, S., Dayeon J., Nagengast, B., & Bong, M. (2026). Socializers' mindsets predict students' mindsets and learning outcomes: Evidence from nine countries. European Journal of Psychology of Education, 41, Article 36. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10212-026-01067-4
2. Cha, W., Kim, S., Lee, H. J., Anderman, E. M. (2025). Exploration of mindset meaning system in a competitive elite Korean high school using a mixed-methods approach. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 83, Article 102415. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cedpsych.2025.102415
3. Lee, H. J., Kim, S., & Bong, M. (2025). Social antecedents of children's mindsets, motivation and achievement in math: Investigating parental beliefs and perceived teacher beliefs. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 95, 849–870. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjep.12764
4. Lee, H. J., Kim, S., & Bong, M. (2025). Testing the dynamics between parent-child relationship and parent-belief intervention on children's math motivation: A replication study with 3-month follow-up. Journal of Educational Psychology, 117(3), 411–433. https://doi.org/10.1037/edu0000908
5. Kim, S., Lee, H. J., & Bong, M. (2024). Parental mindsets as determinants of children's achievement goals and performance in math. Social Psychology of Education, 27, 2943–2965. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11218-024-09953-9
6. Kim, S., & Bong, M. (2023). Producing confident learners using specific tasks, competent models, and credible messages. Theory Into Practice, 62(3), 219–231. https://doi.org/10.1080/00405841.2023.2226555
7. Lee, H. J., Lee, J., Song, J., Kim, S., & Bong, M. (2022). Promoting children's math motivation by changing parents' gender stereotypes and expectations for math. Journal of Educational Psychology, 114(7), 1567–1588. https://doi.org/10.1037/edu0000743

Publications: 

1. Curioni, A., Voinov, P., Allritz, M., Wolf, T., Call, J., & Knoblich, G. (2022). Human adults prefer to cooperate even when it is costly. Proceeding of the Royal Society B, 289, doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2022.0128
2. Lewis, P. A., Knoblich, G., & Poe, G. (2018). How memory replay in sleep boosts creative problem solving. Trends in Cognitive Science, 22, 491-503.
3. Marschner, M., Dignath, D., & Knoblich, G. (2024). Me or We? Action-Outcome Learning in Synchronous Joint Action. Cognition, 247.
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2024.105785
4. Schweinfurth, M. K., Baldrige, D. B., Finnerty, K., Call, J., & Knoblich, G. (2022). Inter-individual coordination in walking chimpanzees. Current Biology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.09.059
5. Sebanz, N., & Knoblich, G. (2021). Progress in Joint-Action Research. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 30, 138-143. doi:10.1177/0963721420984425
6. Vesper, C., Schmitz, L., & Knoblich, G. (2017). Modulating action duration to establish non-conventional communication. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 146, 1722-1737.

For a full list of publications visit: https://somby.ceu.edu/gunther-knoblich-0

Publications: 

1. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108938
2. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109645
3. https://doi.org/10.3390/land14010178
4. https://doi.org/10.1177/09596836251387252
5. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.07.14.664680

Research Project: Law and Fiction (grant doi: 10.55776/J4887)

Fictions within legal theory and practice have populated the law from Pretorian legal practice to today. They are particular frequent in tax law and international tax treaties, but encompass all areas of the law, from contract law to public international law. Though deriving from Roman civil law, legal fictions were important tools in the history of human rights, from the inception of a ius gentium to the age of colonization. Unsurprisingly, both legal scholars and literary authors have discussed legal fictions, their merits and their discontents. Depite the long history of a theorization and practice of legal fictions, the understanding of these fictions is not up to date anymore. The project sees the cause of this development in a stagnation of the ongoing transfer of knowledge between law, philosophy and the humanities during the second half of the 20th century. This stagnation had a double consequence: First, the consciousness of the law of the nature of these fictions has ceased, including the dangers of legal fictions, leading to highly problematic laws and court decisions that range from asylum law to tax law. Second, this stagnation has led to problems of jurisprudence when dealing with works of fictional literature as object of their rulings. This project aims at countering the latter development by reviving the transfer of knowledge between the three disciplines.

Publications: His most recent book “Legal Fictions” is to appear with Routledge. 

For a complete list of publications see: 

https://fwf.academia.edu/HansJochenLind

Publications: 

1. Pym, A. & Macreadie, R. (2026). Risk in translation and interpreting. In H. Nesi & P. Milin (Eds.) International Encyclopaedia of Languages and Linguistics. 3^rd edition. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-95504-1.01368-5
2. Pym, A. & Macreadie, R. (2026). Translator employment and the risk of market collapse. News from Australia. Translation & Interpreting. 18(1), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.12807/ti.118201.2026.a01
3. Macreadie, R., Bouyzourn, K., Pym, A. & Meylaerts, R. (2025). Thick and thin trust in cross-cultural vaccination messaging. What code of ethics do we need? Translation Studies, 18(2), 265-282. https://doi.org/10.1080/14781700.2025.2516000.
4. Meylaerts, R., Macreadie, R., Bouyzourn, K. & Pym, A. (2024). How should we study interactions between translation policies, practices, and beliefs? Comparing case studies from a time of crisis. Perspectives, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/0907676X.2024.2408590
5. Bouyzourn, K., Macreadie, R., Zhou, S., Meylaerts, R. & Pym, A. (2023). Translation policies in times of a pandemic. Language Problems and Language Planning. https://doi.org/10.1075/lplp.22053.bou
6. Fung, P. & Macreadie, R. (2018). Engaging culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities in parliamentary inquiries. Parliamentary Library, Parliament of Victoria. https://apo.org.au/sites/default/files/resource-files/2018-12/apo-nid211056.pdf 

Publications: 

1. Mennuti, Maria Cristina, ‘Recasting Zoroastrian Dualism within the Greek Philosophical Imagination’. In The Zoroastrian World. Edited by Albert de Jong, Jenny Rose, and Sarah Stewart. London: Routledge. (In press).
2. Mennuti, Maria Cristina, ‘From Homer to Platonism: The Reception and Role of Daimons in Ancient Philosophy’. Collection de l'Institut des Sciences et Techniques de l'Antiquité 2026. Besançon: Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comté. (In press).
3. Mennuti, Maria Cristina, 2022. La notion de daïmôn dans le pythagorisme ancien: de la pensée religieuse à la pensée philosophique by Detienne, Marcel, Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2021. In Bryn Mawr Classical Review.

A full list of publications can be found here

Publications: 

Recent books: 

1. Forthcoming in 2026: Dashtgard, Pasha and Cynthia Miller-Idriss. A School Without Hate: Evidence from Education Interventions. Under contract at Harvard Education Press, fall 2026 pub date.
2. Miller-Idriss, Cynthia. 2025. Man Up: The New Misogyny and the Rise of Violent Extremism. Princeton University Press. 

3. Miller-Idriss, Cynthia. 2020. Hate in the Homeland: The New Global Far Right. Revised paperback edition with new preface and reader's guide, 2022. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 

4. Miller-Idriss, Cynthia. 2018. The Extreme Gone Mainstream: Commercialization and Far Right Youth Culture in Germany. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Recent peer-reviewed articles:  

1. Miller-Idriss, Cynthia. 2025. “Misogyny Incubators: How Gaming Helps Channel Everyday Sexism into Violent Extremism.” Frontiers in Psychology. Volume 16. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1537477

2. Miller-Idriss, Cynthia. 2024. “What We Miss When We Overlook the Gendered Aspects of Nationalist Mobilization.” Nations and Nationalism 30(3): 404-409. doi: 10.1111/nana.13031

3. Miller-Idriss, Cynthia. 2023. “Extremist Recruitment and Extremist Sentiment Normalization.” Conference briefing note from keynote, Canadian Association for Security and Intelligence Studies (CASIS) 2022 conference. Journal of Intelligence, Conflict, and Warfare 5(3): 164-168.

Recent popular and public-facing media: 

1. Miller-Idriss, Cynthia. “How Misogyny and Gendered Grievances Fuel Authoritarianism.” Fascism: Journal of Comparative Fascist Studies (in production, Oct 2025).  

2. Miller-Idriss, Cynthia. “How Tradwives Use Sexism, Racism, and Transphobia to Police Other Women.” Teen Vogue, September 17, 2025.

Activities at the College of Fellows: During my time in Tübingen, I will be a part of the focus groups in IRex called “Far Right Threats” and “Everyday Extremism”. I will be part of regular discussions and work across these units and will also be working on the analysis and writing for my book-in-progress on gendered social divides among Gen Z and Gen Alpha, to be published in both English and German. I will also participate in and/or lead several workshops and shorter events, including public talks, interactive sessions and research insights with local practitioners, policy roundtables, and two workshops (in summer 2026 and in fall 2026):

• Workshop on Everyday Extremism and Normalization (June or July 2026): Uniting scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds to examine the cultural dimensions of the rise and normalization of far-right ideologies beyond formal (electoral) politics. During this workshop, participants present and discuss their own research on everyday life extremism. They develop a joint perspective for further collaborative research. As one outcome, a joint publication, e.g. a research note, is envisioned. As a second step, joint efforts to apply for research grants can be based on the results of the workshop.
• Workshop on Cross-Disciplinary Dialogues on Democratic Resilience (October 2026): Bringing together scholars, activists, and public officials to discuss strategies for strengthening social cohesion. Strengthening democracy requires transforming knowledge into action. Building on the results of the first workshop, which focused on bringing together academic researchers, this second workshop will explore innovative formats and social interventions by fostering collaboration between scholars, activists, and public officials to discuss ways to enhance social cohesion. 

There will be substantial other outcomes during my stay, including short essays that I will publish in mainstream media publications and additional meetings with faculty and students from across the university and the region.

Publications: 

1. Passaghe, Roberta, “Biografismo esistenziale nell'opera di Fabrizia Ramondino”, in “Realismo esistenziale” nel romanzo italiano contemporaneo, edited by di Dalila Colucci, Raffaello Palumbo Mosca, Alessandra Pantano & Leonarda Trapassi, Franco Cesati Editore, (in press, June 2026).
2. Passaghe, Roberta, “Il desiderio come strumento di emancipazione nelle riscritture italiane di Fedra di Eva Cantarella e Nadia Fusini”, in Quaderns d'Italià, 30, 115–128, 2025. https://revistes.uab.cat/quadernsitalia/article/view/v30-passaghe
3. Passaghe, Roberta, “Ricostruire umanità attraverso la deformità: l'avventura del corpo in Voltami di Savina Dolores Massa”, in Corpi Terrestri, Corpi Celesti. L'avventura Del Corpo Nella Letteratura e Dintorni, edited by Monica Farnetti and Nadia La Mantia, 1st ed., Dykinson, S.L., 2024, pp. 429–39. https://escritorasyescrituras.com/publicaciones/corpi-terrestri-corpi-celesti-lavventura-del-corpo-nella-letteratura-e-dintorni

Publications:

1. Piecing together African Americans' future: The Subversive Relationship between Children and Death as a Space of Cultural and Historical Reappropriation in Jesmyn Ward's Sing, Unburied, Sing. JAm It! Journal of American Studies in Italy 5, 2021, pp. 130-152. DOI: 10.13135/2612-5641/5532.
2. “Fierce and Free, or Caged and Cowed”: Interspecies Obsession and Survival in Lucy Ellmann's Ducks, Newburyport. European journal of American studies, 19 (1), 2024. DOI: 10.4000/ejas.21437.
3. Queering the American (super)hero in Cassandra Clare's Shadowhunters novels, REDEN Revista Española de Estudios Norteamericanos, 5 (2), 2024, pp. 80-95. DOI: 10.37536/reden.2024.5.2325.
4. Travel and the Self in Maggie Shipstead's The Great Circle, RIAS, 17(1), 2024, pp. 123-38. DOI: 10.31261/rias.16096.
5. (co-authored with Rachele Dini) “That's What All This Wokeism Is About” Books Erased, Printed Word Censorship, and US National Identity, RSA, 35, 2024, pp. 9-46. DOI: 10.13135/1592-4467/10777. 

Forthcoming publications: 

1. Teenage Time – Coming of Age Disruptively in Literature, Culture and Film 1945–2024: By Pamela Thurschwell. (book review). International Research in Children's Literature.
2. “It's Time to Take Out the Trash!” – Lights and Shadows of the Fourth of July in TJ Klune's The Extraordinaries Series. Book Chapter in: Portrayals of the Fourth of July in American Culture and Literature: Reimagining American Identity at USA 250.
3. Against the (Father's) Grain: Women Encyclopedism in the Contemporary US Novel, RSA, 37, September 2026.

Publications: 

ORCID ID: orcid.org/0000-0001-9565-9083

1. Querejazu, A. (2026). Pluriversality as methodology. Third World Quarterly, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2025.2601814
2. Querejazu, A. (2025). Pluriversal IR in the Classroom. Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/03043754251395230
3. Querejazu, A. (2025). “Naturaleza(s)” En Angela Iranzo, Itziar Ruiz-Giménez & Martha Iñiguez Heredia (eds.) Manual de estudios críticos: cartografías disidentes para comprender las relaciones internacionales. Madrid: Tirant lo Blanch.
4. Querejazu, A. (2024). Are the International Tribunals of Rights of Nature pluriversal? International Relations, 38(3), 369-387. https://doi.org/10.1177/00471178241269737
5. Querejazu, A. Animacy and the Agency of Spiritual Beings in Pluriversal Societies. International Political Sociology, Volume 18, Issue 2, June 2024, https://doi.org/10.1093/ips/olae012
6. Querejazu, A. (2022). ‘Cosmopraxis: Relational methods for a pluriversal IR’, Review of International Studies, 48(5), pp. 875–890. doi: 10.1017/s0260210521000450.

Research Project: “Friends in Thought: Aristotle and Confucius on the Ethical Meaning of Friendship.” 

My research project explores connections between the ethical thought of Aristotle and Confucius on the nature of friendship and its role in moral development. It will argue that both thinkers share a conception of friendship as essentially aimed at shared activity with friends and a conception of moral development that emphasizes habituation. It will then appeal to these shared conceptions to explain why both thinkers saw friendship as an important tool for moral development. According to both thinkers, friendship has the power to shape our moral character, for better or for worse.

Publications: 

For a full list of Guy's publications please visit: https://philpeople.org/profiles/guy-schuh

Publications:

Published

1. ‘‘And Grew a Giant Tree; – the Mind May Grow the Same’: The Rooting, Growth, and Transplantation of Byron’s Exilic Identity’, Byron Journal (53.1: 2025), https://doi.org/10.3828/bj.2025.
2. Book Review: ‘Jane Austen and Lord Byron: Regency Relations. By Christine Kenyon Jones. | Byron: A Life in Ten Letters. By Andrew Stauffer.’ Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies (48.2: 2025), https://doi.org/10.1111/1754-0208.12981.
3. ‘Women’s Fashion: The Deceit in Dress’, Gissing Journal (LIV, 4: 2020).

Forthcoming

1. ‘‘Like These Blasted Pines’ and Hardy Firs: Byron’s Resilient Exilic Identity’, Romantic Trees: The Literary Arboretum,1740-1840, eds. Amanda Blake Davis and Anna Burton (under contract with Liverpool University Press)
2. ‘Byron and Shelley, Human Potentiality, and the Poetics of the Ocean’, Shelley and Collaboration: Posterity, Intertextuality and Affect (under contract with Legenda Press), Percy Bysshe Shelley in Collaboration

Under Review

1. ‘Reconfiguring Mind and World: The Ecological Imagination in the Poetics of Byron and Shelley, 1816-1820' (proposed monograph, Liverpool University Press)
2. ‘‘As If the Earth and Sea Had Been Dissolved in a Lake of Fire’: The Illusory Venetian Shoreline in Julian and Maddalo’, Essays in Romanticism
3. ‘‘In the Valley of Waters’: Byron’s Willow, Liminality, and Ambient Poetics’, Romanticism on the Net

Research Project: 

Investigating Ecological Hopefulness in Lusophone Cultures:

During my 1-year position as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Tübingen, I am inspired by this year’s Global Encounters Fellowship theme of ‘making peace with nature’ to research how literature and the arts can inspire hope at a time of human-made environmental crisis. Building on my background in Lusophone studies and my ecocritical collaborations with Dr Dorothée Boulanger (University of Oxford), I am currently building a panorama of cultural expressions of eco-optimism that emerge specifically in Portuguese-speaking contexts, namely Portugal and Brazil – where Indigenous languages and cosmologies provide additional critical counterpoints. Every culture’s storehouse of ecological wisdom and accompanying toolkit for green politics evolve in response to (and even in co-authorship with) local climates, landscapes, ecosystems, and species. Disseminated more widely, Portuguese, Brazilian, and Indigenous artists’ own unique solutions to the problems of climate change, environmental degradation, and biodiversity loss can provide the global community with fresh ways of imagining an eco-utopian ‘counterapocalypse’ (Joanna Zylinska, 2018) worth striving for.

In this vein, as my new and evolving research project begins to take shape (under its more precise title of Eco-Utopias of the ‘We-Earth’—The Multi-Species Co-Authoring of Culture in Portugal & Brazil), I will be exploring how Portuguese- and Indigenous language-speaking writers, filmmakers, and visual artists engage hopefully and reciprocally with other species in order to imagine solidaristic futures beyond the purely human. Examining a range of cultural objects co-authored in partnership with the biodiverse species of the Lusophone world, I am looking to redress anthropocentric narratives that prioritise exclusively human understandings of cultural creation, the future, and ecological catastrophe. By focusing on multi-species collaborations between cultural practitioners and the ‘more-than-human’, I mobilise ecocriticism alongside critical animal studies, plant philosophy, and queer ecologies to celebrate the forms of conviviality, expressivity, and artistry that only a biodiverse world can sustain. (I borrow the term ‘more-than-human’ from David Abram’s book The Spell of the Sensuous, from 1996: for a succinct explanation of its meaning, origins, and evolution, please see this collection edited by César Rodríguez-Garavito in 2024).

My stay in Tübingen equally represents an opportunity for me to revisit my DPhil thesis (Unruly Daughters: Complications of Epic and Identity in 20th and 21st Century Portuguese Women’s Poetry), which examined the critique of Portuguese canonical literature and national identity offered by modern Portuguese women poets, in order to expand upon its eco-feminist conclusions.

In parallel, I am looking forward to disseminating my collaborative work with Professor Cláudia Pazos-Alonso on translating the poetry of Natália Correia (1923-1993) into English. Soon to be published by Shantarin, the bilingual collection Song of Emerging Homeland and Other Poems seeks to show how this Azorean surrealist poet and philosopher of eco-matriarchy, who dreamt of ‘rewilding the world with roses’, may help us to revitalise our ecological hopefulness today.

Publications: 

1. (Forthcoming) Stuart-Thompson, Andrzej. ‘Ana Luísa Amaral’s Animal Voice-Overs: Exploring the politics and possibilities of (more-than-)human speech in Mundo (2021)', in Abriu: estudos de textualidade do Brasil, Galicia e Portugal.
2. Boulanger, Dorothée and Andrzej Stuart-Thompson (eds.). Luso-Ecologies: Environmental, Ecocritical and More-Than-Human Perspectives in Lusophone Studies, Portuguese Studies, no. 41.1 (Spring 2025).
3. Stuart-Thompson, Andrzej. ‘“A Casa da Porca”: the porcine undoing of domesticity and anthropocentrism in Hilda Hilst’s sensual world’, in Luso-Ecologies: Environmental, Ecocritical and More-Than-Human Perspectives in Lusophone Studies, Portuguese Studies, no. 41.1 (Spring 2025).
4. Boulanger, Dorothée, and Andrzej Stuart-Thompson. ‘Postcolonial childhoods, literary filiations? Angolan boyhood narratives in the works of Luandino Vieira and Ondjaki’. Global Portuguese: Legacies of Empire and Acculturation, edited by Shihan da Silva and Stefan Halikowski-Smith (Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2025).
5. Joy, Vaughn, and Andrzej Stuart-Thompson. ‘O Ornitólogo, João Pedro Rodrigues (2016)’, in Natureza e Cinema Português Contemporâneo, edited by Filipa Rosário and José Duarte (Lisbon: Editora Documenta/Sistema Solar, 2024).
6. Stuart-Thompson, Andrzej. ‘“Escrever um poema/ escavar uma toca”: inhabiting the world dis-anthropocentrically with the poetry of Adília Lopes’. Adília Lopes: do privado ao político, ed. Burghard Balstrusch et al. (Lisbon: Editora Documenta/ Sistema Solar, 2024).
7. Stuart-Thompson, Andrzej. ‘Ethically Inclined Models of Authorship and Lyric Subjectivity in the Poetry of Adília Lopes’. ELyra: Revista Da Rede Internacional Lyracompoetics, n. 14 (Dec. 2019), pp. 19-47, https://elyra.org/index.php/elyra/article/view/304.

About: Having completed my DPhil in Medieval and Modern Languages (Portuguese) in 2023 at the University of Oxford, with a thesis entitled ‘Unruly Daughters: complications of epic and identity in 20^th and 21^st century Portuguese women’s poetry’, I carried my love of eco-feminist women’s writing into my teaching practice with a stipendiary lectureship at Oxford’s sub-faculty of Portuguese. More recently, I have convened a module on masculinities (‘A Cultural Analysis of Swagger: Representing Performative Masculinities in Literature and the Arts') and supervised master's dissertations for Oxford's MSt in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. 

With Dr Dorothée Boulanger, I run an ongoing research project entitled ‘Luso-Ecologies’ which focuses on ecocritical approaches to Lusophone cultural production. In this vein, I am now using my Global Encounters Fellowship at the University of Tübingen to investigate how literature and the arts – with case studies from Portugal and Brazil – can help with combatting eco-anxiety, generating active hope for a greener and more biodiverse planet.