#  Scholar Spotlights 

 



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  [### Student Spotlight -- Rebecca Stewart and Elaine Chen

 ](/student-spotlight-rebecca-stewart-and-elaine-chen) GLL Student Spotlight Elaine Chen and Rebecca Stewart met almost a decade ago at a conference entitled “100 Years of Death and Judgment: Thomas Mann and Franz Kafka” at California State University, Long Beach (CSULB), where Chen was pursuing a B.A. in... 

 

 

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   [### Robert Roessler

 ](/spotlight-robert-roessler) Before coming to Harvard, Robert studied German Literature and History at the University of Vienna and was a research assistant at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for the History and Theory of Biography. At Harvard, Robert continued to specialize in... 

 

 

   ![Robert Roessler headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum6781/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/germanic/files/img_3321-2_1.jpg?itok=zouDlZnT) 

 



 

 

   [### Aleksandra Kudryashova

 ](/spotlight-aleksandra-kudryashova) Aleks Kudryashova is a PhD student based in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures and the Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies at Harvard University. Before joining the program, Aleks completed a Research Master in Literary and... 

 

 

   ![Headshot of Aleksandra Kudryashova](/sites/g/files/omnuum6781/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/germanic/files/kudryashova_2.jpg?itok=FgJn9Cyo) 

 



 

 

   [### Daniel Carranza

 ](/spotlight-daniel-carranza) Daniel Carranza joined the department in the Fall of 2020 as a Fellow in Germanic Languages and Literatures. Dr. Carranza, who received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, was appointed Assistant Professor Germanic Languages and Literatures in July... 

 

 

   ![Headshot of Daniel Carranza](/sites/g/files/omnuum6781/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/germanic/files/carranza.jpg?itok=18nwKTSv)