This dissertation explores how humor is employed by minority authors of 21st-century German literature and how that humor contributes to redrawing perceived centers and margins in contemporary Germany. I investigate humor as a community-building tool that establishes points of i…
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Located at the interdisciplinary nexus of literary criticism, cultural studies, and musicology this dissertation examines representations of Berlin in Turkish-German literature and music. The dissertation argues that Turkish-German writers and musicians construct the city textua…
Heinrich Heine famously identified German Romantic authors with the “resuscitation of the Middle Ages”. This identification has long been read as foundational to Heine’s critique of German Romanticism and what he saw as its political and cultural failings. It has long been assum…
This dissertation is a historical case study that focused on the founding and continuation of the GSSch to define the term, academic resilience and to determine how the GSSch had impacted academic resilience. I examined qualitative data from interviews alongside research publish…
Because its geographic reach was not as vast as Britain, France, or Spain's, Imperial Germany is often rendered to the marginalia of colonial historiography. Yet Germany’s colonial endeavors, specifically its genocidal war against the Ovaherero and Nama (1904-1908) in German Sou…
This study explores the eighteenth-century and nineteenth-century German dramatic genre Sklavenstücke (slave plays). These plays, which until recently have not received any significant attention in scholarship, articulate a nuanced critique of slavery and the transatlantic slave…