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Alexandra Irimia is a Humboldt Fellow working on contemporary bureaucratic fiction in world literature and film at the Institute for German, Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Bonn (IGLK). Before joining the IGLK, she held postdoctoral fellowships at the Eric Auerbach Institute in Cologne and the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) Essen. Her first book, Figures of Radical Absence: Blanks and Voids in Theory, Literature, and the Arts (2023) is available in open access. Recently, she coedited a special issue of the journal Administory on the topic of administrative cultures and their aesthetics (forthcoming). The young newsletter Bureaucritics is her latest coeditorial project. Shorter pieces of her writing live online and/or offline in edited volumes, journals including The Comparatist, Discourse, Ekphrasis, and on the KWI Blog.
