The German Studies Seminar presents Alexander Sorenson, speaking on "For Love of the World: Rilke's Ecology of Praise and Transience." Professor Sorenson (Ph.D. University of Chicago, 2019) teaches German and Comparative Literature at Binghamton University. His research and teaching interests center upon interdisciplinary themes and issues related to the environmental humanities, such as the interface between philosophy, literature, art, and the history of science. His first book project, The Waiting Water: Order, Sacrifice and Submergence in German Realism...
Alice Lacoue-Labarthe, a former visiting student in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, is affiliated with the Université de Picardie Jules Verne (Amiens, France) and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, as part of a Belgian-French joint PhD program. She is also an associated researcher at the Centre Marc Bloch, a French-German research center in Berlin.
The German Studies Seminar presents Professor Sophie Johanna Schweiger, Assistant Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Yale University. Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center.
Sophie Schweiger completed her Ph.D. at Columbia University with a dissertation on the role of gestures in literature, film, and performance in 2021 and was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Colgate University for one year before moving to Yale. Her research focuses on theater, drama theory and the study of performance, inter- and trans-mediality, (post-)apocalyptic...
The German Studies Seminar presents Nadine Schwakopf, sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center
Dr. Schwakopf studied law at the Universität Passau, Germany, and the University of Western Australia in Perth. After graduation, she worked at the European Parliament in Brussels and the Goethe Institut in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She holds a Masters Degree in French and Francophone Literatures from the Université de Montréal and a Ph.D. in Germanic Languages and Literatures from Yale University. Between 2018 and 2023, she was first a College Fellow and then a Lecturer...
Fabienne Steeger is a Fulbright Visiting Student in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures during the 2023-24 academic year. She received her B.A. and M.Ed. in German Studies, Social Sciences and Educational Sciences, and her M.A. in Literary Studies at Bielefeld University. During her studies, she was a holder of the scholarship awarded by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes). Since 2022, she has been a doctoral student and research assistant at the Institute of German Philology at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in...
Dr. Sebastian Meixner will be a guest lecturer in German 229, a seminar on Goethe's novels, on November 15, during the regular classroom session. He will speak on...