Publications

Kosch, L., Stocker, G., Ahrens-Schwabe, A., & Boomgaarden, H. (2025). Media, modality, and motivation in literary-aesthetic experience: exploring auditory and visual reception of literature. In: Poetics 111. doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102021

 

Kosch, L. (2024). Review: Karl Berglund. Reading Audio Readers: Book Consumption in the Streaming Age. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. 208 pp. Scientific Study of Literature13(1), 50–53. DOI: doi.org/10.61645/ssol.193

 

Kosch, L., & Ahrens-Schwabe, A. (2024): Digital Audiobooks: Studying the Effects of the Auditory Reception of Literature – A Project Report. In: Wiener Digitale Revue 5. https://doi.org/10.25365/wdr-05-03-03

 

Kosch, L. (2024): »Hörbücher hören ist nicht so wertvoll wie ›richtiges Lesen‹«: Über die Unterschiede der auditiven und visuellen Rezeption von Literatur. In: D. Achtermeier & L. Kosch (Hg.): Mythen des Lesens: Über eine Kulturtechnik in Zeiten gesellschaftlichen Wandels (S. 241-258). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839472088-014

 

Kosch, L., Schwabe, A., Boomgaarden, H. & Stocker, G. (2024): Experiencing Literary Audiobooks: A Framework for Theoretical and Empirical Investigations of the Auditory Reception of Literature. In: Journal of Literary Theory 18/1, 67-88. https://doi.org/10.1515/jlt-2024-2005

Lectures

Kosch, L. (2026, January). The Individual Voice Against Collective Forgetting: On the Function and Form of Jean Améry’s Radio Essays. Presented @ Sounds of a Lifetime: Exploring Life Writing in Audio Media Conference, Brusseles, BELGIUM.

 

Kosch, L. (2025, Dezember). Medialität, Digitalität und Literarizität: Literarisches Lesen als Praktik und Prozess. Presented @ Reading between Ruptures: Literature and Reading Cultures in the 21st Century Conference, Giessen, GERMANY.


Ahrens-Schwabe, A. & Kosch, L.  (2025, November). AI Voices and The Audiobook: Listener Evaluation of Human and AI-Narrated Audiobooks in the German Market. Presented at „Doing audiobook research: Local voices, national markets, global contexts“, Münster, GERMANY. 


Kosch, L. (2025, September). The Transformation of Everyday Reading: Consequences of Modality and Materiality for Literary Reading Practices. Presented @ Everyday Reading of Literature (EROL) Symposium, Zagreb, CROATIA

 

Stocker, G (2025, July). Modalität und Motivation: Rezeptionspraktiken von Hörbüchern. Presented at IVG-Kongress, Graz, AUSTRIA

 

Kosch, L. (2025, July). Lesen mit den Ohren? Empirische Befunde zu den auditiven Rezeptionsformen bei digitalen Hörbüchern. Presented at IVG-Kongress, Graz, AUSTRIA


Ahrens-Schwabe, A., Salmerón, L., & Khoo, S.E. (2024, July). Invited panel discussion: The smart reader: The best of print & screen. Presented at “Reading in the Age of Distraction”, Singapore, SINGAPORE

 

Stocker, G. & Kosch, L. (2024, June). Reading vs. Listening to Literature:

Patterns and Practices in Consuming Digital Audiobooks. Presented at “Researching the Reading Experience in the Digital Age”-Conference, Copenhagen, DENMARK 

 

Kosch, L.  (2024, June). Literatur zum Hören: Literarische Erfahrungen mit HörbüchernPresented at Institutstagung der Germanistik 2024, Vienna, AUSTRIA

 

Kosch, L.  (2023, September). The auditory reception of literature: 

Experiences and practices with audiobooks. Presented at IGEL conference, Monopoli, ITALY

Workshops/guest lectures/conferences

Lecture and discussion on “Reading Audiobook Research” with Assoc. Prof. Birgitte Stougaard Pedersen Ph.D. (Aarhus University, Denmark): 26.11.24 @ Universität Wien

Lecture and discussion on “Reading in Flux: Audiobook Streaming and Contemporary Uses of Literature” with Assistant Prof. Karl Berglund (Uppsala University, Sweden): 21.10.25 @ Universität Wien