Johannes Franzen

Johannes Franzen, born in 1984, is a literary scholar. He completed his doctoral work within the graduate program “Factual and Fictional Narration” and worked as a research associate at the universities of Bonn and Siegen. His research has focused on theories of fiction and the history of conflicts in German- and English-language literature. Franzen was a co-founder and co-editor of the online cultural magazine “54books.” His publications include “Mehr Bild als Roman”. Fiktionalität, Faktualität und das Problem der Bewertung (2016) and “Ein Recht auf Rücksichtslosigkeit. Die moralischen Lizenzen der Fiktionalität” (2017).