Stanford Humanities Center
Meryem Deniz is a PhD candidate in German studies with minor in classics at Stanford University. She studied German, Spanish, and Ancient Greek languages and literatures at Harvard University. Her primary research focuses on the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century German literature and poetics at the intersections of materiality, the history of science, and classical reception studies. Other areas include ecocriticism and contemporary transnational literature, film, and theater.
SHC Project
Ethereal Romanticism: Dynamic Materiality in German Thought in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
In her dissertation, Deniz explores how new scientific discussions around the conception of “ether” changed the way German Romantic writers conceived of humans’ interactions with nature and their environment and how literature and poetic forms are in turn transformed through such changes. She aims to show that this shift helped give rise to an emerging Romantic consciousness of a distributed agency, suggesting proto-ecological modes of thinking and ecopoetic modes of writing.
2022 “Jean Paul’s Acoustic Romanticism and Aeolian Soundscapes in Vorschule der Ästhetik and Titan” in Monatshefte, Vol. 114 (2): 220-241. doi.org/10.3368/m.114.2.220
2022 “The Entanglements of Matter, Mind, and Meaning: Novalis’s Elastic Mode of Thinking” in The Germanic Review, Accepted with revisions.
2022 “Antigone in Ferguson and The Nurse Antigone: Tragedy as an Open Network” in Reception Studies: New Challenges in a Changing World, ed. by Anastasia Bakogianni and Luis Unceta, De Gruyter, Forthcoming.
2020 “Lessing’s Critical Hermeneutics and Elliptical Reading of Aristotle’s Poetics” in Lessing Yearbook 2020, Vol. XLVII: 53-71. doi.org/10.5771/9783835345522
Book Reviews:
2020 Jennifer A. Miller, Turkish Guest Workers in German: Hidden Lives and Contested Borders, 1960s to 1980s (Buffalo, NY: University of Toronto Press, 2018) in Focus on German Studies, Vol.25/26: 141-145.
