I am currently a PhD candidate in German Studies at Stanford University. My current research focuses on the intersection of politics and the contemporary German stage. In particular, I am interested in “critical intertextuality,” the process by whic
...MoreI am currently a PhD candidate in German Studies at Stanford University. My current research focuses on the intersection of politics and the contemporary German stage. In particular, I am interested in “critical intertextuality,” the process by which theaters [ab]use older, canonical works to do political work in the present day through citation and re-performance. I am fascinated by the way theater in Germany is in dialogue with topics such as race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, and contemporary debates around immigration and “German-ness.” Under the auspices of a DAAD scholarship, I received my master's degree in Comparative Literature in 2016, at the Johannes Gutenberg Universität in Mainz, Germany. My thesis focused on political intertextuality in the theatrical works of the radical Austrian author Elfriede Jelinek.
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