Graduate Students
Laura Bohn grew up in Romania, Illinois, Colorado, and, mostly, Vienna, Austria. After her Austrian Matura she attended Princeton University and graduated with a B.A. in Comparative Literature in 2003. As an exchange student, Laura also attended the universities of Freiburg, Heidelberg, and Tübingen. Her interests currently focus on the interrelation between German and Eastern European culture and literature, Hapsburg colonialism and its literary implications, as well as foreignness in German literature, past and present.
Manuel Clemens studied Cultural Studies and Philosophy in Frankfurt (Oder) and Paris. He graduated in 2005 with a diploma thesis on Adorno's notion of experience. Before joining Yale he spent a year as a Visiting Research Student in the German Department at Stanford University. His main interest lies in the history and theory of "Bildungshumanismus" and its interaction with "Kulturkritik" and the historical avant-garde at the beginning of the 20th century. Other topics include architecture, aesthetics, marxism, Musil, Carl Einstein and Foucault.
Alicia E. Ellis is completing a dissertation on the drama of Kleist and Grillparzer and is currently a visiting assistant professor of 20th century literatures at Hampshire College. She holds undergraduate degrees in Women's and Gender Studies and German Literature from Amherst College (1998) and a master's degree in African-American Studies from Yale University (2004). Alicia has also studied at the Universities of Goettingen, Konstanz, and Heidelberg. She has taught in the Department of Women's and Gender Studies and been a Five College Fellow in German Literature at Amherst College.
Nora I. Gortcheva holds a BA in Architecture and German Studies from Mount Holyoke College and the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg. After completing her undergraduate studies in 2003 she returned to Hamburg to join a seminar with Wim Wenders on the cinematic representation of dreams. Her major topic of research is the city of modernity in film, specifically German film from 1920s and 1930s. Her other interests are in the field of photography, filmmaking and sculpture.
She began her Ph.D. at Yale in 2004 in the interdisciplinary program of Film Theory and German Studies.
She began her Ph.D. at Yale in 2004 in the interdisciplinary program of Film Theory and German Studies.
Jason Groves comes from Carlsbad (California not Bohemia). He has studied at UCSD (San DIego), the Georg-August Unviersity (Göttingen), Johns Hopkins (Baltimore) and currently is a Ph.D. candidate at Yale. He holds a B.A. from UCSD in English Literature and German Studies, and an M.A. from Johns Hopkins in German Studies. He has published articles on Artaud, Beckett, and Freud, and has a forthcoming chapter in an Atlas to be published by Fordham University Press under the aegis of The Institute on Critical Climate Change. Translations include a documentary film on the Schattenparker in Freiburg and a map for An Architektur published in the Atlas of Radical Cartography. Currently he is working on a dissertation on the problem of the ground in German literature.
Melissa Ingersoll began graduate work at Yale in 2002. She has studied at the universities of Rochester, Connecticut, Vienna, Potsdam, Freiburg, and Konstanz. Her dissertation concerns itself with the construction of gender in the periodicals of Sophie von La Roche, Johann Georg Jacobi, and Christoph Martin Wieland. Other interests nebulize around the history of reading and publishing, nineteenth-century women writers, decadence and the Fin-de-Siècle, GDR literature, film studies, travel literature and the politics of location, and alienation and modernism.
Hans Jochen Lind, ph.d. candidate, entered the Graduate Program in 2005 after one year at Yale as a Fulbright/Baden-Wuerttemberg Scholar. He studied Law, Literature, Philosophy, Art and Film at the Universities of Tübingen and Konstanz (Germany), Copenhagen (Denmark), Fribourg (Switzerland) and Yale (USA), holding a Law Degree from the University of Tübingen, a BA/MA-equivalent (Magister Artium) in Literature, Art, Film and Philosophy from the University of Konstanz, and a professional degree in Law (Assessor Iuris). Appointed Attorney-at-Law in 2003 by the German Barrister Association.
His interests lie in the Early 18th till Early 20th Century Literature and Philosophy (with main focus on the German Enlightenment), Literature and Media Theory (Semiotics, Aesthetics, Reader-Response-Criticism, and in general Questions of Representation) as well as in interdisciplinary approaches on Literature, Theatre, Film and Philosophy – in short the field of Media Studies from a broader perspective. His legal interests comprise the Conflict of Laws as well as Legal Theory and Legal Hermeneutics. His dissertation deals with the spatial mechanics of cognition in 18ct Epistemology.
Past projects include assistance in translating an annotating Immanuel Kant’s “Lectures on Anthropology”, ed. by Allen Wood, Cambridge University Press (forthcoming). And of course there is film…
His interests lie in the Early 18th till Early 20th Century Literature and Philosophy (with main focus on the German Enlightenment), Literature and Media Theory (Semiotics, Aesthetics, Reader-Response-Criticism, and in general Questions of Representation) as well as in interdisciplinary approaches on Literature, Theatre, Film and Philosophy – in short the field of Media Studies from a broader perspective. His legal interests comprise the Conflict of Laws as well as Legal Theory and Legal Hermeneutics. His dissertation deals with the spatial mechanics of cognition in 18ct Epistemology.
Past projects include assistance in translating an annotating Immanuel Kant’s “Lectures on Anthropology”, ed. by Allen Wood, Cambridge University Press (forthcoming). And of course there is film…
Kristina Mendocino entered the German Department at Yale in 2006, after studying English and American Literature at Dartmouth College, and Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism at the Yale School of Drama. The community of words within German poetry – Celan, Rilke, Büchner, Hölderlin – and the thinking that poetry makes possible, are where her interests lie.
Ansgar Mohnkern entered the PhD program in German Literature in 2005. He studied German Literature, German Language and Philosophy at the University of Bonn (Germany) where he received his M.A. in 2004. His work focusses on German literature and philosophy from the 18th century to present, with a particular interest in early 19th century literature and aesthetics. He is working on a dissertation on Goethe's Repetitions, including readings of both scientific and literary writings.
A Seattle native, Bryn Savage studied English and German literature at the Universität Hamburg and Smith College, writing an honors thesis on corporeal metaphor in 17th-century English love poetry. During the 2004/05 academic year, she received a DAAD Fellowship to pursue the same topic in German Baroque love poetry. Bryn is also interested in the influence of scientific and theological discourses on poetry and the role of the poet in relation to the state at different points in German history. Of all the many resources at Yale, Bryn finds the availability of Early Modern texts in the Beineke most exhilarating.
Brangwen Stone was born in Iowa and spent her childhood in Canberra, Basel, Cambridge and Melbourne. She received a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws from The University of Melbourne in 2003. During the course of her lengthy undergraduate studies she spent a semester at Humboldt Universität in Berlin. Her honours thesis is entitled ‘Riskante Freiheit’: Identitätssuche in zwei Wenderomanen von Monika Maron und Angela Krauss'. She commenced her graduate studies at Yale in 2004. Her main areas of interest are GDR literature, Wendeliteratur, 20th century literature and contemporary literature.
Jan Claas van Treeck received a B.A. in Theatre Studies as well as an M.A. in German Literature from Ruhr-Universität Bochum before pursuing a career in international marketing.
After six years as an independent project manager he felt the "call" of academia again to work on his long-abandoned dissertation on Walter Serner.
His interests center around aestheticism and the avantgardes from 1870 to 1930 and what emerged from the ashes of 90s German Pop literature as well as multimedia-art.
After six years as an independent project manager he felt the "call" of academia again to work on his long-abandoned dissertation on Walter Serner.
His interests center around aestheticism and the avantgardes from 1870 to 1930 and what emerged from the ashes of 90s German Pop literature as well as multimedia-art.
Martin Wagner studied German language and literature in Vienna and London (UCL). He received his M.A. with a thesis on Georg Büchner from the University of Vienna in 2009 before coming to Yale. While his interests span the history of German literature from the Middle Ages to now, he is planning to focus on the literature and philosophy of the Goethezeit.
