We're delighted to announce an open position on the LitAttention project! 🎉 The role is for a full-time two-year Postdoctoral Researcher (f/m/d) in Educational Psychology. Further information is available at the link below. We look forward to your applications!

To wrap up our summer colloquium series, Prof. Dr. Marion Thain will be joining us next week to give a lecture entitled "Attention Studies: Configuring a New 'Interdisiplinary Discipline'" ⏰ 11:30 - 13:00 🗓️ 02.07 📍 17.22 See you there!

Upcoming this week: guest lecturer Prof. Dr. Yves Citton discussing narrative attention and anthropological curisosity for the LitAttention Summer Colloquium 🔗 Access the lecture online at the link below 📍 Or join the live viewing in 17.22

LitAttention@litattention.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Note the date! Yves Citton will be joining us for an online guest lecture on the 18th of June at 11:30am. 🗓️❗ The link to the talk will be available shortly before, or join us in K2 17.22 for a live screening. 📺

Note the date! Yves Citton will be joining us for an online guest lecture on the 18th of June at 11:30am. 🗓️❗ The link to the talk will be available shortly before, or join us in K2 17.22 for a live screening. 📺

Join us tomorrow for our first Summer Colloquium guest lecture! See you there, 11:30 in Room 17.22 ,to discuss eye-tracking and "seeing literariness" 👀

LitAttention@litattention.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We're kicking off our Summer LitAttention Colloquium on the 21st of May with Prof. Dr. Kathy Conklin, from the University of Nottingham. Join us to learn more about 'Seeing literariness: Eye-tracking as a window into the reading of literary texts'. 📍 K2 Keplerstraße 17, Room 17.22 ⏰ 11:30am

“If you treasure your attention, and then use it to do hard things, with other people, in real life,” Jonathan Haidt tells the class of 2026, “your life is going to be amazing.” Read his full commencement address here:

Pay Attention

Essential advice for the class of 2026

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Coming up: Join us for our summer #LitAttention colloquium! Very much looking forward to Kathy Conklin‘s talk on „Seeing Literariness: #eyetracking as a window into the reading of literary texts“. ALL WELCOME! #attention #psycholinguistics #reading

LitAttention@litattention.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We're kicking off our Summer LitAttention Colloquium on the 21st of May with Prof. Dr. Kathy Conklin, from the University of Nottingham. Join us to learn more about 'Seeing literariness: Eye-tracking as a window into the reading of literary texts'. 📍 K2 Keplerstraße 17, Room 17.22 ⏰ 11:30am

We're kicking off our Summer LitAttention Colloquium on the 21st of May with Prof. Dr. Kathy Conklin, from the University of Nottingham. Join us to learn more about 'Seeing literariness: Eye-tracking as a window into the reading of literary texts'. 📍 K2 Keplerstraße 17, Room 17.22 ⏰ 11:30am

For @vpfa.bsky.social’s recent Online Study Day @hannaharmour.bsky.social and @jnam.bsky.social had the opportunity to present their respective research on Le Fanu’s “The Watcher” and on Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories. Many thanks to the organisers for coordinating such an inspiring event!

A very warm welcome to our new researcher, Reem Chebab, who will be joining us as a PhD student! Her thesis examines how microfiction across print and digital media affords attentional engagement under contemporary conditions of digital circulation.

Mark your calendars, we have an attentive summer semester ahead! 🔆 We're delighted to be hosting three guest speakers - Kathy Conklin, Yves Citton and Marion Thain - for our LitAttention Summer Colloquium!

We're still looking for native English speaking participants for our eye-tracking study! 👁️ Find out how to get involved below.

⏳ Only 14 days of testing left! Sign up for a slot today, support science, and receive €40 for your participation. We’re looking for native speakers of #English who meet the study requirements. The task is simple: 📖 read a few short texts ⏱ takes about 1.5 hours That’s it! @unistuttgart.bsky.social

Sibylle Baumbach@sibyllebaumbach.bsky.social · 7mo ago

We’re looking for native speakers of English to take part in an eye-tracking study on literary reading at Keplerstrasse 17, University of Stuttgart: €40 compensation! 📢 Please share this call with colleagues, family, and friends! Interested?👇 @unistuttgart.bsky.social

Was bedeutet #Literaturtheorie heute? / What does #literarytheory mean today? How is it practiced in different academic traditions? Submit your papers (in English or German) to the Journal of Literary Theory by 25 March 2026. We look forward to your contributions! #JLT jltonline.de/cfp/2025/CfP...

On the 8th of January, we look forward to hosting Prof. Dr. Alice Bennett for a lecture entitled 'Watching the Watchmen: On Literary Vigilance' for our final session of the LitAttention Colloqium. 📍17.24 ⏰ 11:30am - 1:00pm

“Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring out the false, ring in the true.” Happy new year, everyone. May 2026 bring you happiness, health, cherished moments, pleasant surprises, and wonderful memories!

We're looking forward to welcoming Prof. Dr. Carolin Duttlinger from the University of Oxford to give a lecture entitled: 'Spaces of Immersion: Franz Kafka's Poetics of Attention' 🗓️ Thursday the 18th of December at 11:30am 📍Room 17.24

Calling all native English speakers in Stuttgart! We're currently looking for participants to take part in an eye-tracking experiment, investigating how people process literary stories during reading. 👀 Check out the details below. 👇

Catherine Emmott @uofglasgow.bsky.social is coming to @unistuttgart.bsky.social to talk about #attention control and cognitive misdirection in detective fiction. Join us on Thursday in the #LitAttention Colloquium! @litattention.bsky.social #CogLit #CogHumanities

We're delighted to announce our upcoming LitAttention Colloquium with some fantastic guests -- always at 11:30-13:00 in room 17.24. We start next week on Thursday the 6th with Dr. Catherine Emmott, giving a lecture on "Attention Control in Detective Fiction".

❗Attention❗We're an ERC funded project at @unistuttgart.bsky.social interested in percisely that: attention. After all, literature knows a lot about attention – how it is gained and retained, how it is mastered and manipulated. Do we have your attention? Keep up with our research here!