Doctoral Student Fellow
Doctoral Student, Department of German, Graduate School of Arts & Science
Dania Hückmann is a doctoral candidate in the German Department. She received a B.A. in Comparative Literature and European Studies from New York University and a M.A. in Comparative Literature from the Freie University in Berlin. Her research interests include discourses of law in literature and film, narratology, and representations of trauma and violence, from German Classicism to the post World War II period. Her dissertation examines revenge as a subjective mode of justice that threatens established secular and sacred authorities in German Realist literature. She has published on metaphor in Jean Améry’s essays and fiction, Heinrich von Kleist and revenge, Thomas Bernhard’s Extinction, Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, and co-authored an article on 9/11 and the NYU community for the journal Traumatology.
Dania joins the Humanities Initiative as an honorary fellow. She is the recipient of the 2013-14 GSAS Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship.