Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge

Language: German

Research/Language Interests: 18th-21st century German literature and culture; lyric poetry; Race in/and German literature and philosophy;  music and literature; meter, rhythm, and prosody; sound/text relations.

About: Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge is Professor of German and Associate Chair in the Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She works on German literature and culture from the 18th to 21st centuries, with a focus on lyric poetry, race and literature, and the interactions between sound and text. Metrical Claims and Experience: Klopstock, Nietzsche, Grünbein appeared with Oxford University Press in 2022 and her first book, Lyric Orientations: Hölderlin, Rilke, and the Poetics of Community in Cornell University Press’s Signale series in 2015. She has published articles on Friedrich Hölderlin, Barbara Köhler, Rainer Maria Rilke, Stanley Cavell, Paul Celan, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Karoline von Günderrode, Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, and Friedrich Nietzsche. She is currently working on a book project on the co-constitution of modern theories of lyric poetry and modern theories of race.

Education:
• University of Chicago, Ph.D. in Germanic Studies (2007-2012)
• University of Konstanz, Research semester and coursework abroad via the Netzwerk Transatlantische Kooperation (2010)
• University of Chicago, M.A. with exam on the history of poetics from Opitz to Celan (2006-2007)
• University of California, Berkeley, B.A. in German; summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa (2002-2006)
• Free University, Berlin, Study abroad under the Berlin Consortium for German Studies (2005)

Website: https://wisc.academia.edu/HannahEldridge

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