Abstract of “Anagram––Atithi––Anarchy, Sub Rosa, German Imperialism” by Miriam Rainer, Ph.D., Brown University, May 2022 How to live together in the afterlife of a German …
The central query of this dissertation concerns the suspension (Aussetzung) of Western colonial concepts that occurs in the face of those who are to be …
This thesis traces the setting of the hotel and its (im)possibilities in three German-language novels published between 1920 and 1930: "Menschen im Hotel" by Vicki …
This dissertation examines the central concept of the “image” in Walter Benjamin’s oeuvre, with particular attention to the recurrence of the figure of the cloud …
This dissertation is an interdisciplinary analysis of Heiner Müller’s dramatic work, focusing not only on the depiction of history in his texts and stage productions …
Inspired by a desire to foreground under-researched women Romantics of the German tradition, I perform careful close readings of a constellation of authors (Bettine von …
This dissertation proposes the concept of a 'maternal education' as counterpart to both the established genre of the 'Bildungsroman' and the Freudian narrative of a …
My dissertation is entitled “Nebeneinander, Miteinander, Querfeldein: Johann Peter Hebel—Walter Benjamin—W.G. Sebald.” and identifies the subversive and salvific potential in proliferating paratactic constructions in Johann …
Tables are standing, unassuming and overlooked, in between most interactions in our society, and shape even digital exchanges as tablets and desktops. My dissertation Nichtig-Notable. …
This study investigates how practices of and poetic experiments with translation are fundamentally ingrained in the writings of Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt and Yoko Tawada who have …
The two questions that guided the proposed readings in Goethe, Heidegger, and Kafka were: in what ways does care, in its particular temporal, logico-eccentric nature, …
German environmental activism and scholarship seems to interpret "environmental justice" differently than it is used in the US, where the term originated. Strikingly, German activists …
“Unclaimed Language” examines the epistolary debates and philosophical tensions between Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno, focusing on their divergent understandings of language and literary …