The research project Embodied Erudition examines how contemporary poets like Barbara Köhler and Ulrike Draesner develop dialogic, sensory-intellectual, and intermedial forms of learnedness within the contemporary German-language poetry landscape, experimenting with the long narrative poem and exploring the interplay between literary form, knowledge, and speaking position. Drawing on feminist theory and intermedial studies, the project analyses how shifts in voice, materiality, and the gendered marking of the lyrical ‘I’ structure the poems, and how such shifts shed light on the gendered ramifications of (neo‑)avant‑garde claims to radicality and experimentality.