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Maya Nitis<\/strong> completed the PhD program in 2023 with a dissertation entitled Minoritized Knowledges: Literature, Agency, Temporalities<\/em>. Maya is currently the Assistant Director of the PhD Program and Assistant to the Dean at Morgan State University, and a lecturer in the PhD program at Morgan State and the MLA Program at Hopkins.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\"Jason<\/figure>
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Jason Yonover<\/strong> completed his PhD in 2022 with a dissertation entitled Early Modern Naturalism in Modern German Thought<\/em>. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy Tel Aviv University.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\"Elisa<\/figure>
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Elisa Santucci<\/strong> completed his PhD in 2021 with a dissertation entitled B ANAL: Cypher Scheerbart<\/em>. He is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Office of Diversity and Inclusion at Johns Hopkins University.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\"Nina<\/figure>
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Nina Tolksdorf<\/strong> completed her PhD in 2017 with a dissertation entitled Riskante Redlichkeit.<\/em> Nietzsche \u2013 Kleist \u2013 Kafka<\/em>. She is currently an Associated Member of the Cluster of Excellence \u201cTemporal Communities. Doing Literature in a Global Perspective\u201d at the Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\"Brandon<\/figure>
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J. Brandon Pelcher<\/strong> completed his PhD in 2017 with a dissertation entitled Performing Ideology: Dadaist Praxis and Interpellation<\/em>. He is currently a lecturer in the German Program at Tufts University.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\"Bryan<\/figure>
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Bryan Klausmeyer<\/strong> completed his PhD in 2016 with a dissertation entitled Signs of Life: Form, Life, and the Materiality of Writing around 1800 (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg \u2013 Jean Paul \u2013 Goethe)<\/em>. He is currently an Assistant Professor of German at Virginia Tech.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\"Johannes<\/figure>
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Johannes Schade<\/strong> completed the PhD program in 2015 with a dissertation entitled Aesthetic Experience in Robert Musil<\/em>. He is working as a psychotherapist in Berlin. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\"Johannes<\/figure>
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Johannes Birke <\/strong>completed his PhD in 2014 with a dissertation entitled Baustellen der Zerst\u00f6rung. Literatur, Architektur und Dekonstruktion<\/em>. Upon completing his PhD he taught in the German program at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\"Doreen<\/figure>
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Doreen Densky<\/strong> completed her PhD in 2013 with a dissertation entitled Literary Advocates: The Rhetoric and Poetics of Speaking-For in Franz Kafka<\/em>. She is currently a Clinical Associate Professor at New York University.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\"Bianca<\/figure>
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Bianca Schroeder<\/strong> completed her PhD in 2012 with a dissertation entitled From Epic Theater to Literary Weblogs: Reader Participation in Twentieth and Twenty-first Century Literature<\/em>. She is the Press and Communications Officer at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies in Potsdam.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\"Anne<\/figure>
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Anne Flannery<\/strong> completed her PhD in 2011 with a dissertation entitled The Anti-Fl\u00e2neur in Twentieth-Century Austrian Literature: Walking and Becoming Text<\/em>. She is Head of Museum Archives at the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures at the University of Chicago.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\"Tove<\/figure>
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Tove Holmes<\/strong> completed her PhD in 2011 with a dissertation entitled Literary Images: Viewing and Visuality in German Realism<\/em>. She is currently an Associate Professor of German at McGill University.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\"Malte<\/figure>
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Malte Wessels<\/strong> completed his PhD in 2011 with a dissertation entitled Enthusiastische Modelle \u2013 Epistemologische Subjektivit\u00e4t im Roman des 18. Jahrhunderts<\/em>. After completing his thesis, he was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship at the Europe University Viadrina in Frankfurt\/Oder.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\"Annette<\/figure>
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Annette Budzinski-Luftig<\/strong> completed her PhD in 2010 with a dissertation entitled The \u2018Divine\u2019 Comedy of Education: Curious German Encounters with Dante<\/em>. She is Head of German at Towson University.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\"Arne<\/figure>
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Arne H\u00f6cker<\/strong> completed his PhD in 2008 with a dissertation entitled Eine Ordnung des Verbrechens: Lustmord im literarischen und kriminologischen Diskurs um 1900<\/em>. He is currently an Associate Professor of German at the University of Colorado at Boulder.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\"Markus<\/figure>
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Markus Wilczek<\/strong> completed his PhD in 2007 with a dissertation entitled The Articulate and the Inarticulate: Reconfiguring Articulation around 1800<\/em>. He is currently an Associate Professor of German at Tufts University.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\"Arndt<\/figure>
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Arndt Niebisch<\/strong> received his PhD in 2007 with a dissertation entitled Distorted Media: The Noise Aesthetics of Italian Futurism and German Dadaism<\/em>. After working as an Assistant Professor at UNC Greensboro, he returned to Europe and completed his Habilitation Kleists Medien<\/em> at the University of Vienna in 2016. He continues to teach there as a Privatdozent and works in Vienna as a software developer.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\"Christiane<\/figure>
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Christiane Arndt<\/strong> completed her PhD in 2006 with a dissertation entitled Farewell to Reality: Problems Concerning the Representation of Reality in German Literary Realism.<\/em> She is an Associate Professor of German at Queen\u2019s University (Canada).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\"Aili<\/figure>
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Aili Zheng<\/strong> completed her PhD in 2006 with a dissertation entitled Transformations: Schnitzler\u2019s Drama from Print to Stage and Film<\/em>. She is currently an Associate Professor of German at Willamette University.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\"Zachary<\/figure>
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Zachary Sng<\/strong> completed his dissertation in the Humanities Center in 2005 with a dissertation entitled Corrupting the Fountains of Knowledge: Language and Error from Locke to Schlegel<\/em>. He is a Professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature at Brown University.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\"Anita<\/figure>
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Anita McChesney<\/strong> completed her PhD in 2005 with a dissertation entitled The Probability of Truth: Framing Detection from Heinrich von Kleist to Gerhard Roth<\/em>. She is currently an Associate Professor of German at Texas Tech University.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\"Elke<\/figure>
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Elke Siegel<\/strong> completed her PhD in 2004 with a dissertation entitled Distant Friends: Three Case Studies on Friendship in Modernity (Nietzsche, Freud, Kafka)<\/em>. She is currently Associate Professor of German at Cornell University.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\"Jocelyn<\/figure>
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Jocelyn Holland<\/strong> completed her PhD in 2003 with a dissertation entitled Poetic Procreation, Goethe, Novalis, F. Schlegel and E.T.A. Hoffmann<\/em>. She is a Professor of Comparative Literature at Caltech.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\"Marion<\/figure>
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Marion Picker<\/strong> completed her PhD in 2003 with a dissertation entitled Der konservative Charakter; Walter Benjamin und die Politik der Dichter<\/em>. She is a Ma\u00eetresse de conferences <\/em>in German Studies at the University of Poitiers (France).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\"Kelly<\/figure>
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Kelly Barry<\/strong> received her PhD in 2002 with a dissertation entitledThe Play of Poetry:  <\/em>Spiel as Aesthetic Concept and Literary Figure<\/em>. She was on the faculty in German at Columbia before returning to Johns Hopkins to serve as the Executive Director of the Center for Student Success.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\"Paul<\/figure>
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Paul Fleming<\/strong> completed his PhD in 2002 with a dissertation entitled The Dissonant Whole: Jean Paul\u2019s Polyphonic Prose<\/em>. He is the L. Sanford and Jo Mills Reis Professor of the Humanities at Cornell.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\"Patrick<\/figure>
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Patrick Greaney<\/strong> completed his PhD in the Humanities Center in 2002 with a dissertation entitled The Beggar\u2019s Voice: Impoverished Writing in Nietzsche, Mallarm\u00e9, Rilke, and Benjamin<\/em>. He is a Professor of German at the University of Colorado, Boulder.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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