Christine Schott

  

• Graduate Student
• Cornell University

I am a third year PhD student in German Studies at Cornell University. I was born and raised in Bavaria, Germany, and I received my undergraduate degree in Literature at SUNY Purchase in 2010, with a thesis in tourism and the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop. I work on German poetry after 1945, German Popliterature, and poetry that breeches genre boundaries, especially those between performance and text. "Reading" such texts that operate between genres and both on and off the stage I treat as occasions for questioning interpretive intervention. I engage different philological and theoretical branches of readerly practice, including f.ex. Kittler's poststructuralist work. And I am also invested in the German hermeneutic tradition, especially how it developed after WWII (Gadamer, Emil Staiger, Peter Szondi). and various critiques of hermeneutic thought. At Cornell, I teach German as a Foreign Language as well as Freshman Writing, content based courses on topics such a Fairytales and Marx, Nietzsche, Freud. In 2012, I co-organized a graduate conference at Cornell, titled "Poetic of the Thing" I live in Ithaca with my husband, who practices BioArt, and my two daughters.