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ParticipantsParticipant InformationMichele Ricci. Ph.D. Candidate, German Studies. 2002-3 Humanities Center Geballe Fellow. Her dissertation, entitled "Lyrical Cardiograms of an Age: German Love Poems, 1895-1922," analyzes the treatment of love in selected German poems, in light of contemporary discourses on love in the German language. In addition to poems by Gottfried Benn, Ricci examines those of Stefan George, Else Lasker-Schueler, und Rainer Maria Rilke. Other interests include: Exile Literature (see pub. "Between Depiction and Experience: The Exile Dreams of Paula Ludwig," Women in German Yearbook, Vol. 17, 2001), East German Political Cabaret, and Medieval devotional texts. Luba Golburt is a Ph. D. Candidate in Comparative Literature, working in Russian, French, and English and interested mainly in the 18th century. For the Berlin project, she has focused mainly on the imaginative constructions of exile and the city by the prominent Russian-American writer Vladimir Nabokov and on the world of Russian publishing in the Berlin of the 1920s. In the future, she also hopes to extend the scope of the project, which so far deals primarily with the 20th century,to include Frederick I's Berlin of the Enlightenment as experienced by the Russian travelers, such as Princess Dashkova and others. Marilena Ruscica is a fifth year Ph.D. student in Slavic and is currently working on her dissertation entitled "Poets and Autobiography: Russian Modernist Strategies." She holds a degree in Russian Language and Literature from the University of Venice, Italy Jakov Kuharic is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Comparative Literature at Stanford University. His research focuses on catastrophism in the European literatures from the late 19th century until the outbreak of the Second World War, with a particular focus on the interwar period. Kristin Jones is a Senior in German Studies. She studied for two quarters at Stanford-in-Berlin, attended Professor Eshel's "Berlin as a Metaphor" course, and will return to Berlin for an internship the summer of 2002. Naama Rokem is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Comparative Literature at Stanford University. Her research focuses on the use of spatial images and metaphors in theoretical and philosophic language. Victoria Szabo, Ph.D., is the Academic Technology Manager for Undergraduate Education Programs and Specialist for the Introduction to the Humanities Program at Stanford University. Her academic background is in Victorian Studies and her current research interests are in technology in teaching, new media studies, and critical theory. |