Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University; M.A./First Staatsexamen (German and English Literature, Linguistics, Teaching), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Doreen Densky
Language Lecturer
19th to 21st century German-language literature, culture and thought, literary and filmic modernism, narratology, content-based instruction
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
Book
Literarische Fürsprache bei Franz Kafka: Rhetorik und Poetik (Literary Advocacy in Franz Kafka: The Rhetoric and Poetics of Speaking-For).
Forthcoming with De Gruyter (2020).
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
Contact Information
Doreen Densky
Language Lecturer doreen.densky@nyu.edu 19 University Place, Room 325Phone: (212) 992-9661
Office Hours: Tuesdays 1-3pm / Fridays 11-12pm & by appt.