Irina Tautschnig wins literature prize
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Posted on Friday 16 January 2026
Warm congratulations to Irina Tautschnig, who has been awarded the University of Innsbruck's 2025 annual Literature Prize.
Irina Tautschnig, currently Postdoctoral Research Associate working with Kevin Killeen on the AHRC/DFG-funded project Scientific Poetry and Poetics in Britain and Germany, has been awarded the University of Innsbruck's 2025 annual Literature Prize, funded by the H. and K. Zuegg Foundation, for her dissertation, 'Moving the Earth in Song. The Reception of Copernicus in Latin and Greek Poems, 1543–1873'.