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Project

A continuum of loss: productive Melancholia and irresolvable loss in twentieth-century elegy.

I am proposing to conduct research and produce a dissertation chapter on elegy in the late-work of the twentieth century German-language poet, Paul Celan, while at the Institute of Jewish Studies in Antwerp, Belgium. The Institute itself will provide necessary support for the project in terms of bibliographic and archival materials, as well as academic mentorship by Celan scholar and Institute director, Professor Vivian Liska. Working with other Ph.D. candidates in residence, I plan to workshop my ideas and enhance my professional network of up-and-coming Jewish Studies scholars. Additionally I will work with undergraduates in a tutorial on post-1945 poetry. The Institute's central location in Europe is critical for the pan- European field of Celan Studies, providing easy access to conferences in honor of the 50 year anniversary of the poet's death during the proposed research period. The Institute is also within two hours travel of both of the major Paul Celan archives, in Paris, France, and in Marbach, Germany. Through my time at the Institute, I hope to produce a work of scholarship that enhances both the study of this important literary figure as well as the study of elegy and the literary representation of loss more broadly.
Date:1 Jan 2021 →  1 Jul 2021
Keywords:POETICS, LITERARY STUDY
Disciplines:Literatures in German, Poetics