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 narratives, and committed literature.   Read more about her presentation.