Museo Civico Medievale, Bologna
Graduate Students
Stepan Atamian
Research Interests:
Richard Wagner; Adaptation; E.T.A. Hoffmann; Tragedy; and Scenography.
Cohort Year:
2019
Daniel Burnfin
Research Interests:
The relation between classical German literature, the sciences and 19th century German philosophy; the relation between ‘critical’ and ‘speculative’ thought, Jena 1794-1807; the history of Hegel-reception and the influence of neo-Kantianism
Cohort Year:
2015
Charles Campbell-Decock
Research Interests:
The intersection of adaptation theory and queer studies; The function of adapting narratives to other media as a form of critique
Cohort Year:
2020
Charles Ducey
Research Interests:
The concept of "Geist", hermeneutics, early 20th-century fiction, the linguistic turn, metaphor and symbolism; 19th century literature, 20th century literature, German philosophy of language, Begriffsgeschichte
Cohort Year:
2018
Simon Friedland
Research Interests:
Poetry and poetics in the Age of Goethe; reception of classical antiquity; the fin-de-siècle lyric; imitation and exemplarity ; Nietzsche
Cohort Year:
2015
Joseph Haydt
Research Interests:
18th-century Literature and Aesthetics; German Idealism; Contemporary Theology
Cohort Year:
2014
Naomi Holzapfel
Research Interests:
Romantic nationalism, German culture/society, modern myth-making, folklore and fairytales, the edifying function of literature, the works of Thomas Mann and Goethe
Cohort Year:
2020
Jennifer Jenson
Research Interests:
Germanophone literature from 1945-present, memory studies, gender studies
Cohort Year:
2018
Matthew Johnson
Research Interests:
German- and Yiddish-language literature; German-Jewish Studies; translation theory and practice; memory studies
Cohort Year:
2015
Clemence Kavanaugh
Research Interests:
Material form dynamic in Judeo-Christian and classical strains of Western culture
Cohort Year:
2012
Yun Ha Kim
Research Interests:
Comparative Modernisms, the Austro-Hungarian Empire and its Writers, Visual Art.
Cohort Year:
2019
David Kretz
Research Interests:
philosophy of history, hermeneutics, translation theory, philosophical anthropology, modern social thought
Cohort Year:
2018
Gina Marich
Research Interests:
aesthetics and the philosophy of art; literary aestheticism; realism; the modern novel.
Cohort Year:
2018
Peter Metzel
Research Interests:
Early enlightenment poetry, Enlightenment thinking, development of semiotics since the 18th century
Cohort Year:
2017
Nathan Modlin
Research Interests:
Multilingualism, hermeneutics, film theory and criticism; German and Austrian-Jewish literature from the fin-de-siècle to the contemporary period.
Cohort Year:
2020
Elizabeth Ramsey
Research Interests:
narratology, violence, didactics, children’s literature, folklore
Cohort Year:
2018
Ella Wilhelm
Research Interests:
Theories of secularization, the media theory of religion, narratology (especially formalism and structuralism), word and image studies, print culture, and dramaturgy.
Cohort Year:
2017
Noah Zeldin
Research Interests:
a. Modernism; Twentieth-Century German History; Critical Theory and Political Economy; culture, economy and politics of interwar Germany; sociology of art; ethnomusicology; quantitative approaches to textual analysis
Cohort Year:
2013