A graduate student workshop on epistolary poetics and practice, with scholars Frauke Berndt, Daniel Carranza, Joel Lande, Dorothea von Mücke, and David Wellbery. Pre-registration required: please email dcarranza@fas.harvard.edu. Workshop schedule here.
Jonas Rosenbrück, Assistant Professor of German at Amherst College, will present "Common Scents: On Brecht's Revolution of the Senses." Professor Rosenbrück is currently completing his first book, titled Common Scents: Poetry, Modernity, and a Revolution of the Senses, which traces the various poetological functions of smell and its erasure in the modern age through Hölderlin, Baudelaire, Nietzsche, Brecht, and Ponge. His work has been published in Comparative Literature, CR: The New Centennial Review, and The Germanic Review...Read more about Jonas Rosenbrück, "Common Scents: On Brecht's Revolution of the Senses"
Markus Kupferblum teaches opera directing and acting at Vienna's University of Music and Performing Arts. He has lectured at Yale University, CUNY, and Columbia University, among others, and has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan and Rutgers University. In 2013 he published (in German) The Birth of Curiosity from the Spirit of Revolution: The Commedia dell'Arte as Political Popular Theater and, in 2023, The Beauty of Helena: A Guide to the Art of Acting. In 2012 he founded the annual European Theatre Day of Tolerance....