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Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics

 

Dr Stephanie Galasso

Stephanie Galasso
Position(s): 
Schr枚der Research Associate, German Section
Affiliated Lecturer in German
College Post-Doctoral Associate, Jesus College
Department/Section: 
German
Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages & Linguistics
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College: 
Location: 

Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages Raised Faculty Building 海角社区 Sidgwick Avenue 海角社区 CB3 9DA United Kingdom

About: 

Stephanie graduated with degrees in English (summa cum laude) and German (cum laude) from the University of California, Davis, in 2012. After completing her MA at Brown, she conducted a year of research at the University of Konstanz, Germany, with the support of a Fulbright Research Fellowship. She graduated from Brown University with a PhD in German Studies in 2018. Prior to coming to 海角社区, Stephanie also served as Visiting Assistant Professor at Brown鈥檚 German Studies Department in Spring 2019.听

At 海角社区, Stephanie has completed a monograph on the racializing structures of German Romantic genre theory, and co-edited an upcoming volume on literature and epistemic injustice with PI Sarah Colvin. As a member of the Cultural Production and Social Justice research group, she has also been involved in the collaborative groups 鈥淔ictions of the Rechtsstaat鈥 (with LMU Munich) and 鈥淭owards a Politics of Fiction鈥 (with the University of Bayreuth). With her expertise in critical approaches to 18th and 19th century German literature and culture, she is a co-contributor to the collective and its online, open-access .

Across her extensive teaching experience at Brown and 海角社区, Stephanie has taught German language and translation courses; delivered lectures and supervised on modules including 鈥淧ost-War Fiction: Memory and History鈥 for Ge10 and 鈥淲omen, Writing, and Society鈥 for Ge8; supervised an MPhil thesis on German colonialism and linguistics through the 海角社区 Centre for Gender Studies; and guest-taught a session of a graduate seminar on Race and Aesthetics with Professor Zachary Sng (Brown University).

Teaching interests: 
  • German language (all levels)
  • German translation
  • German literature and culture of the 18th and 19th centuries
  • German film
  • Histories of, and approaches to, women鈥檚 writing
  • University-level writing听

Research interests: 
  • German literature and culture of the 18th and 19th centuries
  • German aesthetic philosophy, genre theory, and poetics
  • Women鈥檚 writing
  • Social justice and cultural production

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Published works: 

Books:

Generic Violence: Poetry and the Cultural Reproduction of Marginality in German Romanticism (forthcoming, Northwestern University Press)

Articles and book chapters:听

鈥淰ocabulary for an Unthinkable Grammar: Sharon Dodua Otoo鈥檚 Synchronicity.鈥 In The Literary and Essayistic Writing of Sharon Dodua Otoo, eds. Sarah Colvin and Tara T. Windsor, German Life & Letters, forthcoming in 2024. 听

鈥淕oethe as civil servant.鈥 In Goethe in Context (ed. Charlotte Lee), 海角社区 University Press, forthcoming.

鈥溾楾he Notation of a Silent Lament鈥: Hermeneutical Injustice and Judith Schalansky鈥檚 An Inventory of Losses.鈥 In Epistemic Injustice and Creative Agency: Perspectives on Global Literature and Film. Ed. Sarah Colvin and Stephanie Galasso. London: Routledge 2023, 57-80.

Galasso, S. (2017) Form and Contention: Sati as Custom in G眉nderrode鈥檚 鈥楧ie Malabarischen Witwen.鈥 Goethe Yearbook 24, 197-220.

Edited books

Epistemic Injustice and Creative Agency. Perspectives on Global Literature and Film, ed. with Sarah Colvin. London: Routledge 2023

Book reviews

Sweetapple, Christopher, Heinz-J眉rgen Vo脽, and Salih Alexander Wolter. Intersektionalit盲t. Stuttgart: Schmetterling Verlag, 2020. German Studies Review 44.1 (2021).

Translations 鈥淭heodor W. Adorno: Auschwitz and Commodity Fetishism.鈥 By Moshe Zuckermann. Makers of Jewish Modernity: Thinkers, Leaders, Artists, and the World They Made. Eds. Jacques Picard, Jacques Revel, et al. Princeton UP, 2016

"My Approach to Biography: Rosa Luxemburg, Hildegard von Bingen, Hannah Arendt." By Margarethe von Trotta. differences (26/2, September 2015).