Rachael Petersen studies the interplay of philosophy, science, and literature in the long nineteenth century, with a particular focus on how German thinkers engaged questions of mind, matter, and animacy across human and nonhuman life. Her work traces how...
Conor Bulkeley-Krane studied philosophy and German at the University of Chicago, culminating in an undergraduate thesis examining Nietzsche and Thomas Mann’s differing interpretations of Euripides’ The Bacchae, supervised by David Wellbery. Conor then...
Siting Yang is a theatermaker born and raised in Beijing, China. A graduate student at Harvard GLL since 2022, her research focuses on dramaturgy, theater of the real, documentary/archival media, material culture, and intersections of non-fiction, history...
Max Street studied Philosophy, Literature and Natural Sciences in Tübingen, Durham and Ann Arbor, culminating in an undergraduate thesis entitled “Bodily Conditions of Thought in Aristotle”, prior to joining Harvard’s GLL program in 2022. His thesis...
Mercer Greenwald is a doctoral student in Harvard’s Germanic Languages & Literatures and the Studies of Women, Gender, & Sexuality working on the intersections of literature, music, and philosophy from the mid-eighteenth century to the present...
Therese Shire earned an M.A. in Music Education at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna as well as in German Literature at the Universities of Karlsruhe and Vienna, before receiving her M.A. at Harvard.
She is highly interested in the...
Elaine Chen received her B.A. in German Studies, with a minor in Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, from California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) in 2016. In 2017, she returned to complete an M.A. in German Studies; her thesis entitled “A...
