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“Die Möglichkeiten der Sinne – Wahrnehmungsmodelle und Wirklichkeitsinszenierungen bei Robert Musil und Rainer Maria Rilke”
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"Rehearsal for the Eschaton"
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"Built on Sand: Weimar Republic Representation and the November Revolution."
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“Nietzsche, Luther, and Thus Spoke Zarathustra”
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"Irony and 'Unpolitics' in Wartime: An Overdue Critical Analysis of Thomas Mann’s Betrachtungen eines Unpolitischen and Its Place in the Critical Theory Tradition."
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"The Survival of Literature: Kafka and the Problem of Finitude"Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Pembroke Center, Brown University, 2019-2020
Assistant Professor of German, Rutgers University, starting 2020 -
Arbitrariness, Personhood, and Property in Hegel's Philosophy of Right
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"A Feeling Unlike Any Other: Reactionary Rhetorics of Rechtsgefühl in Kleist, Droste-Hülshoff, and Fontane"
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Literary Potions and Poisons: Schiller, Goethe, KleistVisiting Assistant Professor of German at Saint John’s University
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Autonomie und Kreatuerlichkeit: Hunde in der Literatur der Goethezeit und der Moderne
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Scenes of Surrender Figures of War Sociality and Subjectivity in German Drama around 1800
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"Schiller und Freud: Vom Erhabenen zur Sublimierung. Eine Wissensgeschichte intellektueller Leidbewältigung"
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"Toward a Theory of the Veteran: The Trenches, Trauma, and Technology's 'Third' Hero"
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"On the Serious Motherhood of Men: Dissonance in Music, Rhetoric, and Poetry"Albert Einstein Fellowship, The Einstein Forum & the Daimler Benz Foundation, 2016
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"'(denn unser Organismus ist oligarchisch eingerichtet)' - Thermodynamik und der Verfall einer Familie"Assistant Professor in the Department of German Studies, Scripps College
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"Displaced Battlefields: Sigmund Freud and the Reading of War Zones"Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, Co-Director of the Bard Debate Union, Term Assistant Professor of Social Studies at Bard College
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Andrea Hacker, M.Phil. 2014
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Sarah Harris, M.A. 2014"Disjointed Narratives: Limbs, Gears, and the Monstrosities of the Human Form in Romanticism"Ph.D. candidate at U.C. Berkeley
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Dania Hückmann, Ph.D. 2014"Das Versprechen der Gerechtigkeit: Rache im Realismus"Adjunct Professor, NYU Berlin
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Lydia B. Tang, Ph.D. 2013"Die Inszenierung der Einbildungskraft: Phantasie und Publikumsbezug in Lessings Dramatik, Kritk und Ästhetik"Assistant Director of Programs at Modern Language Association
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Alicja Kowalska, Ph.D. 2013"Bildung und Rebellion. Jugend in literarischen und philosophischen Texten von Johann G. Herder bis Friedrich Nietzsche"
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Joshua Winchester, M.A. 2013"Apprehension: Towards Franz Kafka's Ethics"Ph.D. candidate at Northwestern University
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Lauren Stone, Ph.D. 2013"The Turn to Childhood: Toward a Theory of the 'Kinderstube' in Stifter, Rilke, and Benjamin"Assistant Professor of German, University of Colorado, Boulder
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Thorsten Carstensen, Ph.D. 2012"Romanisches Erzählen: Peter Handke und die epische Tradition"Associate Professor of German at Indiana University-Purdue University in Indianapolis (IUPUI)
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Allan Madin, M.A. 2012"Romancing the Stone: Stone as trope in Novalis' novel fragments: Die Lehrlinge zu Sais and Heinrich von Ofterdingen"Ph.D. candidate at University of Pennsylvania
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Barbara Natalie Nagel, Ph.D. 2012"Der Skandal des Literalen. Barocke Literalisierungen bei Gryphius, Kleist, Büchner"Assistant Professor of German at Princeton University
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Chadwick Smith, Ph.D. 2012"The Self-Defeat of Enlightenment Politics: German Premises of Global Human Rights"Visiting Assistant Professor of German at NYU and former adjunct instructor in the German departments of Rutgers University, NYU, and Barnard College
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Jeffrey Champlin, Ph.D. 2011"The Making of a Terrorist: German Rogues in Götz von Berlichingen, Die Räuber, and Michael Kohlhaas"Professor of Literature at Barenboim-Said Akademie
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Christopher J. Delcker, M.A. 2011"Die Geraeuschkulisse Berlins bei der Einfuehrung des Tonfilms"
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Leigh Gold, Ph.D. 2011"'Ich sterbe am Leben': Else Lasker-Schueler and the Work of Mourning"
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Daniela Leder, Ph.D. 2011"Wenn Maedchen Ueberleben inventur im Gewalthaushalt bei J.M.R. Lenz und Frank Wedekind"
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William Rauscher, Ph.D. 2011"Powering Down: Disfigurations of Authority in the Modern Era"Post-doc at the NYU German Department through the Morse Academic Program
Copy/Online Writer, Ardency Inn, 2012 -
Nicola Behrmann, Ph.D. 2010"The Signature of Emmy Hennings Dada. Autobiography and Abandonment"Associate Professor of German at Rutgers University
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Antje Pfannkuchen, Ph.D. 2010"When Nature Begins to Write Herself: German Romantics Read the Electrophore"Associate Professor of German at Dickinson College
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Hilger Schmerwitz, M.Phil. 2010
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"Der Ring der Notwendigkeit: Friedrich Schiller nach der Natur"Independent language coach, translator, and editor at www.stachel-english.de
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Cornelia Uhlenhaut, Ph.D. 2010"Zur Ökonomie des Genusses bei Bertolt Brecht"
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Julia Goesser Assaiante, Ph.D. 2009"Body Language and the Body of Language: Corporeality, Subjectivity, and Language in Johann Georg Hamann"Lecturer of German in the Department of Modern Languages at Trinity College
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Peter Banki, Ph.D. 2009"The Forgiveness to Come: Dreams and Aporias"Lecturer in the Department of Humanities and Languages at the University of Western Sydney, Australia
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Brian W. Kassenbrock, Ph.D. 2009"Novalis and the Two Cultures: The Chiasmic Discourse of Mathematics, Philosophy, and Poetics"
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Irani-Tehrani Amir, Ph.D. 2008"Persian Figures in German Letters (1700-1900)"Assistant Professor, US Military Academy - West Point, New York
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Yevgeniy (Zhenya) Pomerantsev, Ph.D. 2008"Enchanted Truths: Romantic and Post-Romantic Models of Poetic Knowledge in E.T.A. Hoffman, Gottfried Keller, and Fyodor Dostoevsky"Russian Program Coordinator and Lecturer at the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures, Fordham University
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Alexandra Huster, Ph.D. 2007"Eigene Wege Gehen. Zur literarischen Konstruktion des Sonderlings"Management and communication trainer, Pro: Aktiv Management AG in Munich, Germany
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Edna Epelbaum, Ph.D. 2006"Das Drama zum Ende. Friederike Roth, Elfriede Jelinek, und Theresia Walser"CEO/owner of Cinevital AG and Cinepal SA, Switzerland
Artistic director of the Festival du Film Francais d'Helvetie -
Gilbert W. Meyns, Ph.D. 2006"Der himmel über Hellas und Halberstadt: A study of the image of the sky in Greek philosophy and recent German literature (Plato and Alexander Kluge)"
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Jörg Kreienbrock, Ph.D. 2005"Robert Walser"Associate Professor of German, Northwestern University
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Ulrich Plass, Ph.D. 2004"The Art of Transition. Language and History in T.W. Adorno's Notes to Literature"Associate Professor in the Department of German at Wesleyan University
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Kirk Wetters, Ph.D. 2004"'Life and Opinions': On the Foundations of Modern Discourse"Associate Professor of German, Yale University
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Andrea Dortmann, Ph.D. 2003"Winter Facets: Traces and Tropes of the Cold"Senior Language Lecturer and Language Program Director, NYU German Department
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Paul Greene, Ph.D. 2002"Hoffmannian Variations: The Figure of E.T.A. Hoffmann in Scott, Baudelaire, Wagner, Freud, and Kofman"
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Saskia Hintz, Ph.D. 2002"Writing in Another Tongue: Contemporary German Minority Literature and Creative Writing in German as a Foreign Language"Senior Instructor of German, University of Colorado, Boulder