We would like to acknowledge all of our faculty members and graduate students who participated in the Fortieth Annual German Studies Association Conference!
Faculty Contributions
Margareta Christian
Seminar: "Lyric Matters"
Florian Klinger
Talk: "Life and Purpose" (Panel: "Re-reading Kant’s Critique of Judgment")
David Wellbery
Seminar: "Lyric Matters"
Christopher Wild
Talk: "'Grüne Gläser': Kleist’s Literary Epistomology and Anagnorisis" (Panel: "Anagnorisis and the Epistemology of Literature: From Kleist to Benjamin")
Graduate Student Contributions
Daniel Carranza
Seminar: "Lyric Matters"
Fabian Goppelsroeder (Visiting Scholar)
Talk: "Calendar Tale and the Poetics of Circumscribed Space" (Panel: "Media Aesthetics and Small Form: From Calendar Tale to Digital Microblogging"
Jessica Resvick
Talk: "Editing and Editions: Adalbert Stifter’s Die Mappe meines Urgroßvaters and the Recension of Memory" (Panel: The Business of Literature (3): Editorial Practice")
Moderator: "Anagnorisis and the Epistemology of Literature: From Kleist to Benjamin"
Alex Sorenson
Talk: "The Drowning Scene: Polis, Paralipsis, and Sacrifice in Theodor Fontane’s Unwiederbringlich" (Panel: "Theodor Fontane: Aesthetics, Rhetoric, Politics (2)")
Amy Stebbins
Talk: "From Green Glasses to Night Vision: Kleist’s Penthesilea at the Bavarian State Opera (2016)" (Panel: "Communicating War and Violence since 1914 (3): Multimedia War Transmissions")