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PANDAEMONIUM GERMANICUM

PANDAEMONIUM GERMANICUM presents: PG Kino. A project undertaken by the graduate students in the Department of German Studies at Cornell University in an effort to educate themselves and others about important developments and discourses in German cinema past and present.

For more information and upcoming screenings visit http://pgkino.blogspot.com/


GRADUATE STUDENTS

Ana Maria Andrei: Ana-Maria Andrei’s interests include aesthetics, literary theory and the German novel. Ana is also close to completing a Ph.D. in analytic philosophy at the University of Florida, and expects to defend her dissertation (on a topic in the philosophy of mind) in the spring of 2010. Email: aa674@cornell.edu

Gizem Arslan
: Email: ga56@cornell.edu

Paul Buchholz
: Paul Buchholz is interested in the afterlifes of 19th century realism in experimental novels and pseudo-novels of the 20th century. He is currently writing a dissertation that examines the role of monologue in the prose works of Robert Walser, Franz Kafka, and Thomas Bernhard. Paul is also interested in examining the specific intertextualities that link these experimental German-language writers to English, French and German realists and "romantic realists" of the 19th century. Email: pjb45@cornell.edu

Michelle Duncan: opera studies; performance studies; post-Wagnerian theater and aural culture; early cinema; modernity and post-modernity; psychoanalysis. Email: mrd17@cornell.edu

Megan Eaton: Megan Eaton’s interests include German cinema during the Third Reich, the political and rhetorical uses of film genre conventions, the relationship between German cinema and Hollywood, propaganda, Scandinavian cinema, twentieth-century painting, film & visual studies. Email: mse38@cornell.edu

Carl Gelderloos: Carl Gelderloos is chiefly interested in 19th and 20th century literature and culture, especially Weimar literature and political culture, the novel, photography and visual studies, theories of modernity, critical theory, relationship between art and politics, literary constructions of space, the avant-garde and political art, and science fiction. He is currently struggling to wrangle these divergent interests into some form of workable project. Email: cag236@cornell.edu

Grace Gemmell: Grace-Yvette Gemmell’s interests include early cartography and cultures of collecting, the Dutch Atlantic world, Museum history, Wunderkammern and travel literatures of the New World. She is currently writing a dissertation on hyperbole and topography in the New World. Email: gyw2@cornell.edu

Miyako Hayakawa: Miyako Hayakawa is developing her interests in and around narrative theory, models of intersubjectivity and translingualism in 19th and 20th Century German literature, as well as seeing/reading in various media. Email: meh257@cornell.edu

Amalia Herrmann: Amalia Herrmann’s interests include 18th to 19th century literature and thought, modernism and visual arts, book history and politics, and poetry and nationalism. Email: ach16@cornell.edu

Franz Peter Hugdahl: Email: fph2@cornell.edu

Ari Linden: Ari is interested in how the domains of ethics and aesthetics intersect in the work of Karl Kraus, Walter Benjamin, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Franz Kafka, and his dissertation centers on the intellectual affinities among these various figures. Though his primary field of focus is fin-de-siécle Austro-Hungarian culture, his interests also include the tradition of German Idealist aesthetics (and its more recent interlocutors) as well as--and in relation to--modern German-Jewish thought. Email: ari.linden@cornell.edu

Andreea Mascan
: Email: aem235@cornell.edu

Martins Masulis Email: mm399@cornell.edu

Katrina Nousek: Katrina Nousek is interested in twentieth-century German and Austrian literature and history, intellectual history, theoretical issues regarding the writing of history, and methods of cultural studies and critical theory especially as employed within/across various disciplines. Email: kln37@cornell.edu

Alexander Phillips: Alexander Phillips' interests include 19th and 20th century German literature and culture, narrative theory, the novella as form and genre, realism, issues of censorship, questions of historical representation and appropriation, and literature of, in, about, and around the former GDR. Email: arp234@cornell.edu

Nadia Rodriguez: Email: ncr27@cornell.edu

Arina Rotaru: Email: acr42@cornell.edu

Jens Schellhammer Email: jss93@cornell.edu

Melanie Steiner Sherwood: Melanie Steiner Sherwood's interests include 20th century Jewish-German literature and thought, the intersection of law and literature, historiography, and the workings of the German Literaturbetrieb. Email: ms432@cornell.edu

Johannes Wankhammer : Email: jfw67@cornell.edu

 


PANDAEMONIUM GERMANICUM

Pandaemonium Germanicum (PG) is the association of graduate students in German Studies. The purposes and goals of PG are as follows:

1. To foster the social and intellectual environment of graduate students in the Department of German Studies.

2. To represent the interests and concerns of graduate students in the department of German Studies in matters concerning department policy and decision making.

3. To participate in the social and intellectual life of the university.

4. To promote a critical understanding of German Studies.

5. To address and support the professional development of future academics in the discipline of German Studies.

All current graduate students in the Department of German Studies at Cornell University are eligible for membership. Active participation is voluntary.


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For more information, send e-mail to: germanic_studies@cornell.edu or visit the Cornell University home page. This site was created by M. Duncan. Last modified: 10/13/2009.