Doctoral Student Fellow
Doctoral Student, Department of German, Graduate School of Arts & Science
Sean Larson is a doctoral candidate in the Department of German at NYU. His research interests include Marxism, aesthetic theory, psychoanalysis, political economy, and revolution. Sean previously studied Political Theory and Philosophy at the Ludwig-Maximilians Universität in Munich as well as German and Spanish Literature at the University of Florida. His dissertation project investigates the social and economic transformations brought about during the German Revolution of 1918-23 and their impact upon the core aesthetic trends of the Weimar Republic, including “New Objectivity” literature, Bertolt Brecht’s theatre, and the circle of humanist philosophers and art historians around Aby Warburg.