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The focus of my dissertation is the German-Jewish poetess, Gertrud Kolmar (born in Berlin in 1894), who died in a Nazi concentration camp in 1943. My particular interest is in Kolmar's re-workings of various contemporary spatial images that sought to define, confront, and manipu…

Bridges to the Past: Orientation, Materiality, and Participatory Reading in Late Medieval England explores the value that Sara Ahmed’s phenomenological theorization of “orientation” holds for thinking about the kinds of participatory, embodied, spatial, and temporal performances…