"Sentimental State(s)", edited by Heike Paul and Sarah Pritz, has been reviewed by Kathryn Starnes and listed as one of the Top 5 books of January 2026 by International Affairs. It is the third book in transcript’s Global Sentimentality series and contains contributions from GRK2726 members and fellows. For the blog entry see here and for the full review see here .   The volume is available in print and open access here .

Coming soon: A volume on "renunciation" as a key concept in current political, social, and scholarly discourses. The contributions offer a much-needed interdisciplinary discussion of the concept, problematizing and systematizing various semantics of renunciation in different areas of society, past and present.   For more information, see here .

The third book in transcript’s Global Sentimentality series was published in August 2025: "Sentimental State(s): Affective Politics of Order and Belonging", edited by Heike Paul and Sarah Pritz. It includes contributions from GRK2726 members and fellows, including Anna Corrigan, Thomas Demmelhuber, Christian Krug, Sarah Marak, Marc Andre Matten, Heike Paul, Sarah Pritz, Elaine Roth, Charleena Schweda, Vincent Steinbach, Antonia Thies, among others.   The volume is available i

Heike Paul has published an article titled "Wie viel Zensur verträgt die Demokratie?" in the German-language journal Einsichten +...

A new reference book for melodramas in film, the Lexicon of Glocal Melodrama , edited by Heike Paul, Sarah Marak, Katharina Gerund, and Marius Henderson is out now! It assembles contributions by experts from a wide range of disciplines, including cultural studies, film and media studies, gender and queer studies, political science, and postcolonial studies, covering melodramas ranging from early 20th century silent movies to contemporary films, from independent ›arthouse‹ pro