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Marcel Knöchelmann is a sociologist, focussing on issues of authorship, publishing, and moral discourse.
Marcel Knöchelmann currently pursues a postdoctoral fellowship at Yale University’s Center for Cultural Sociology. His research focusses on the intersection of literature, solidarity, and democracy. Marcel received his PhD from UCL's Department of Information Studies in 2021.
Cultural intermediaries and literary production
Marcel’s postdoctoral project on literary production at Yale University’s Center for Cultural Sociology looks at processes of cultural intermediation in contemporary literary production, particularly the work of cultural intermediaries such as editors, critics, or jury board members. Literature is said to be one of the fundamental cultural products influencing moral discourse of Western societies, but knowledge about how it is produced vis-à-vis existing culture structures and notions of morality tends to be scarce. Literature not only influences morality, it is influenced by moral discourse just as well. How so, and how the decision-making of agents, editors, and critics reflects this, is the concern of this research. Find out more about the research on literature and solidarity here.
Scholarly communication and the humanities
Scholarly interests include:
- The decision making of cultural intermediaries
- Ethics of publishing
- Scholarly communication in the humanities
- Open access practices and discourses
- Social theory and democratic theory
Contact: marcel.knochelmann.15 [a] ucl.ac.uk