DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE

Program Area(s):  Political Theory

Dissertation Title:

Echoes of Cassandra: Christa Wolf's Literary Dissent and the Politics of Language, Surveillance, and Nuclearism

Dissertation Committee:  Mary G. Dietz (Co-Chair); Demetra Kasimis (University of Chicago, Co-Chair); S. Sara Monoson

Research Interest(s): Christa Wolf, Feminist Theory, East German Literature, Ancient Greek Political Thought, Hannah Arendt

Conference Presentations: 

• “Eros, Gossip, and Philosophy in Plato’s Symposium” American Political Science Association Annual Conference, August 2023 UCLA Classics Graduate Conference, September 2023 
• "Wondering, Wandering, and Socrates: Hannah Arendt on Thinking Politics." American Political Science Association, September 2022
• "'To Kill the Sons of Brutus' - Filicides, Foundings, and Biblical Reference in Machiavelli's Discourses." Association for Political Theory, October 2022

Honors & Awards: 

• Fulbright Foreign Student Scholarship