Salome T . Rodeck

Salome Rodeck studied cultural and literary studies at Leuphana University Lüneburg and the University of Amsterdam. Her PhD project focuses on the emerging interest in symbiosis as a fundamental principle of life on Earth within biology and the humanities. By examining the theory production and research practices of two key figures in this emerging discourse - Lynn Margulis and Donna Haraway - the project traces the circulation of symbiosis as a more-than-biological concept. In doing so, it also aims to contribute to the historicization of transdisciplinary knowledge formations with a focus on the United States in 1970s and 80s. She has been funded by the Leibniz Centre for Literary and Cultural Research (ZfL) since January 2020. Her project is based at the Institute for Cultural Theory and History at HU Berlin and is supervised by Prof. Dr. Kerstin Palm and Prof. Dr. Etienne Benson. She was a visiting predoctoral fellow at the MPIWG Berlin.