Research profile and guiding principles
Additionally, their projects enhance the local, national, and international visibility of Graz within the academic world. The ubiquity of intermedial phenomena inherent in contemporary culture (such as the popularity of adaptations and myriad forms of digital culture) provides far-ranging possibilities for interdisciplinary cooperation with other scholars and for informing the interested general public about the social relevance of intermediality research.
Freedom's Journal and the Intermedial Power of Periodicals
This project studies the first Black-owned and Black-published US-American newspaper, Freedom's Journal (1827-29), exploring how the newspaper offered a unique tool of communication and intellectual stimulation that produced radical cultural meanings-especially for early Black Americans whose opportunities for widespread intellectual cultivation, community growth, and cultural expression were limited. The research focuses particularly on the relationship between Freedom's Journal's physical and technological characteristics like its page layout, masthead, and printed visuals, on the one hand, and the newspaper's textual content on the other hand, including advertisements, short stories, poems, letters, news reports, travel accounts, articles, opinions, extracts, and reviews of literature and theater.
Duration: 2024 – 2027
Project Leader/Principal Investigator: Scott Zukowski
Funding program: FWF: Esprit
Website: scottzukowski.com
Employees: Jolie Bua; TBD
