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Beastly Specters: from Hubris to Hybridity in German Romanticism and Beyond
This dissertation project investigates narrative modes and strategies for writing about non-human animals that challenge the idea of a clear animal-human divide. Beginning with works from German Romanticism, the first half ... -
Invisible dangers : the Presentation of Modern Environmental Threats and the Anthropocene in Contemporary German Literature
This dissertation project examines how contemporary German literary texts depict modern environmental threats that are characteristic for the new age of the Anthropocene. Joining the larger conversation in environmental ... -
Moral considerations in the works of Arthur Schnitzler
(1961)Out of the charming and dusty world of rococo Vienna, sweet melancholy and tired resignation, impressionism and moral relativism emerges the author and moral critic, Arthur Schnitzler. Himself a product of his times, he ... -
Subverting the Gazhe Gaze: Reclaiming Roma Identity in the European World and Beyond
For centuries, the Romani people in Europe and North America have been the focus of a non-Roma gaze which simultaneously fetishizes and vilifies them. This ascription of a tropic identity serves to both reify the constructed ... -
Negotiating the German Public Sphere: Workers, Soldiers, and Women in Photobooks of Weimar Germany
This dissertation focuses on the intersection of non-fiction writing and visual culture, specifically on the montage of texts and photos as an approach to examine the changing public sphere in Weimar Germany. “Negotiating ... -
Writing Across Margins: Contemporary Afro-German Literature
My dissertation argues that Afro-German literature—a new strand in contemporary German literature since the late 1980s—functions as aesthetic activism by creating collective identity through textual practices. Joining the ... -
Kasper’s Theater: Avant-Garde and Propaganda Puppetry in Early Twentieth-Century Germany
Kasper’s Theater: Avant-Garde and Propaganda Puppetry in Early Twentieth-Century Germany is a research-driven study of how and why artists turned to puppetry during the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich. Organized ... -
Mind-Crafting: Anticipatory Critique of Transhumanist Mind-Uploading in German High Modernist Novels
This dissertation explores the question of how German modernist novels anticipate and critique the transhumanist theory of mind-uploading in an attempt to avert binary thinking. German modernist novels simulate the mind ... -
Art, Cinema, and the Berlin School
This dissertation argues that the Berlin School (Berliner Schule)—the most important development in German cinema since the New German Cinema of the 1970s—explores the relation between cinema and traditional art genres. ... -
Moments of Rupture: Narratological Readings of Contemporary German Literature
“Moments of Rupture: Narratological Readings of Contemporary German Literature” explores the representation of disruptive moments in contemporary German novels using a narratological framework of analysis. Joining the ... -
Preformations of the Amazonian: Strong Women in German Literature of the Early Enlightenment
The dissertation explores preformations of the Amazonian in German literature of the Early Enlightenment. Far prior to Heinrich von Kleist’s famous Amazonian drama Penthesilea (1808), Amazons and other strong female ... -
Stages of Inversion: Die verkehrte Welt in Nineteenth-Century German Literature
Stages of Inversion: Die verkehrte Welt in Nineteenth-Century German Literature presents a literary ahistory of inverted subjectivity that runs parallel with, and at times contrary to, the historical consolidation of ... -
The Postsecular Traces of Transcendence in Contemporary German Literature
This dissertation focuses on texts written by four contemporary, German-speaking authors: W. G. Sebald’s Die Ringe des Saturn and Schwindel. Gefühle, Daniel Kehlmann’s Die Vermessung der Welt, Sybille Lewitscharoff’s ... -
W.G. Sebald and the Cinematic Imagination
W. G. Sebald's references to films, film directors, and actors pervade in both his critical essays and in his prose fictions. Although there are many different films, cinematic metaphors, and allusions to cinema throughout ... -
Accommodating the Nation: Hospitality and Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century German Literature
This dissertation investigates the ways nineteenth-century German literature imagines nationality by examining metaphors and structures of hospitality. This examination is twofold: it takes as its subject hospitality ... -
Critical Conditions: The Signature of the Wound in Franz Kafka's Shorter Fiction
This dissertation explores the significance of wounds in four short texts by Franz Kafka: "Ein Landarzt," "Das Urteil," Ein Bericht für eine Akademie," and "Prometheus." Rather than reduce the metaphor of the wound to ... -
Remodeling the Frauenzimmer: Women-Authored Spaces in German Literature from 1770-1820
"Remodeling the Frauenzimmer: Women-Authored Spaces in German Literature from 1770-1820" searches for a narrated space that could allow women authors to communicate with one another free from controlling forces exerted by ... -
Veränderte Umwelt: Neue Leseweisen im Anthropozän
(2014-04-30)My dissertation, titled "Veränderte Umwelt: Neue Leseweisen im Anthropozän" ("Altered Environments: New Readings in the Anthropocene"), explores the role imagination plays in coming to terms with the Anthropocene, the new ... -
Pure Violence on the Stage of Exception: Representations of Revolutions in Georg Büchner, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Heiner Müller, and Elfriede Jelinek
(2013-07-25)This dissertation examines pertinent issues of today's terrorism debate in frequently overlooked earlier representations of revolutionary and state violence. At the center of this debate is the state of exception through ... -
<italic>Die Boten des Unglücks</italic>: Verortung der Sprache der Flüchtlinge im Werk von Jakob Wassermann, Franz Kafka, Emine Özdamar und Herta Müller
(2013-04-17)"Messengers of Ill Tidings: Situating the Speech of Refugees in the work of Jakob Wassermann, Franz Kafka, Emine Özdamar and Herta Müller"; draws on a line from a poem by Bertolt Brecht, <italic>Landscapes of Exile</italic>, ...