Ann Cotten
Ann Cotten
Bogenberger
Ann Cotten studied German literature at the University of Vienna, finishing with a book on the use of lists in concrete poetry. After a decade of freelance work she is now working on a PhD at the Peter Szondi-Institute of Comparative Literature at Freie Universität Berlin. She has been working in primary literature, using different genres and unclassified ways of writing. Her books have won numerous prizes. Cotten’s bilingual background (USA, Austria) is being augmented by an ongoing study of the Japanese language.
Her areas of interest are regional differences in global histories of the mind; language as a system, amplification, and distortion; side effects of and intercultural differences in aesthetics, philosophy, and artificial intelligence.
Recent translations include Nirvana, Legacy Russell, Liesl Ujvary, Isabel Waidner, Rosmarie Waldrop und Joe Wenderoth. In 2020 she held the DAAD Distinguished Chair in Contemporary Poetics in the Department of German at New York University.
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