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Doreen Densky

Director of Undergraduate Studies, Language Lecturer

Education

Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University; M.A./First Staatsexamen (German and English Literature, Linguistics, Teaching), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Areas of Research/Interest

19th to 21st century German-language literature, culture and thought, literary and filmic modernism, narratology, content-based instruction

Fellowships/Honors

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, Tufts University; American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Dissertation Completion Fellowship; Dean’s Teaching Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University; Dorot Foundation Fellowship, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies; Visiting Student Fellowships, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Brown University

peer-reviewed articles

"Duality, Duel, Diplomacy: Aesthetics and Politics in Arthur Schnitzler’s Der Weg ins Freie." Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies 55.1 (2019): 1-19.

“Narrative Transformed: The Fragments around Franz Kafka’s ‘A Report to an Academy’.” Humanities 6.2 (2017). (Special Issue Animal Narratology)

“Pre-Positioning the Narrator: Circumspection, Speaking-For, and Previous Knowledge in Adalbert Stifter’s ‘Granit’.” Journal of Austrian Studies 49.3 (2016): 17-42.


“Speaking for Liveliness: Franz Kafka’s Obituary for Hyperion and his Introductory Speech on Yiddish.” The German Quarterly 88.3 (2015): 334-354.

“Proxies in Kafka: Koncipist FK and Prokurist Josef K.” Kafka for the Twenty-First Century. Ed. Stanley Corngold and Ruth V. Gross. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2011 (Paperback 2015). 120-135.

Current Project

book manuscript on water as an element of thought in modern literature and film