linca Iurascu’s research focuses on modern German literary, cultural and media studies, with particular focus on histories of materiality and intersections between aesthetics and technology. She has written, translated and edited works on realism and epistolary fiction, paper history, Weimar cinema and New German media theory. At UBC, she regularly teaches courses on 19^th– and 20^th-century literature, cinema, and critical theory.

• 18th – 20th century German and comparative literature
• Critical theory
• Media theory
• Material culture studies
• The realist novel
• Film studies and early cinema

Edited volumes and special issues

Friedrich Kittler-Operation Valhalla. Writings on War, Weapons and Media (with Geoffrey Winthrop-Young and Michael Wutz). Duke University Press, 2021. [link]

Seminar. Special Issue on “The Media Histories of Girls in Uniform.” 55.2 (2019). [link]

Theory, Culture & Society. Special Issue on “Cultural Techniques” (with Geoffrey Winthrop-Young and Jussi Parikka). 30.6 (2013). [link]

Peer-reviewed journal articles

“Paper Matters: Vielschreiberei and Bookkeeping in August von Kotzebue’s ‘Das Buch Papier’” Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies. 53.4 (2017). 349-361. [link]

“’Annoncenliteratur’: Kleist, Fontane and the Rustle of Paper.” Oxford German Studies. 43.3 (2014). 246-261. [link]

“German Realism in the Postal Office: Mail-Traffic, Violence and Nostalgia in Theodor Storm’s Hans und Heinz Kirch and Wilhelm Raabe’s Stopfkuchen.” German Studies Review. 32.1 (2009). 148-164. [link]

Selected Publications

Edited and Co-edited Volumes

Taking Stock: Media Inventories in the German Nineteenth Century. (with Sean Franzel and Petra McGillen). De Gruyter, 2024.

 Friedrich Kittler. Operation Valhalla. Writings on War, Weapons and Media. (with Geoffrey Winthrop-Young and Michael Wutz). Duke University Press, 2021.

The Media Histories of Girls in Uniform. Seminar. A Journal of Germanic Studies. 55.2 (2019).

Theory, Culture & Society. Special Issue on “Cultural Techniques.” (with Geoffrey Winthrop-Young and Jussi Parikka). 30.6 (2013).

Translations

Markus Krajewski. [The Server. A Media History from the Present to the Baroque.] Yale University Press. 600 pp. (2018). Translated and introduced by Ilinca Iurascu. [link]

Cornelia Vismann. “Cultural Techniques and Sovereignty.” Theory, Culture & Society. Special Issue on “Cultural Techniques.” 30.6 (2013). 83-93. [link]

Reviews in: Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies, German Studies Review