Philipp Leonhardt is a doctoral candidate and university assistant. His research interests include literary and cultural theory, performance studies and performativity, border studies, ecocriticism, intermediality and sound studies in relation to American literature and culture with a focus on postmodernism, contemporary literature, autofiction, life writing, the new sincerity, and cli-fi. 

His dissertation project examines the affordances of sound recording technologies and the impact of technologically mediated listening experiences on writing and reading practices in contemporary literature. With a focus on the novel, the project centers on authors who experiment with microphones and recordings as compositional tools and archival resources, feature field recordists and sound engineers as protagonists in their fictions, destabilize the notion that writing is an exclusively text-based process of composition, representation and expression (via pen, typewriter or keyboard), and foreground a sonic conceptualization of literature as immersive soundscape, text-as-tape and transcript.

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