Meryem Deniz

Meryem Deniz is Assistant Professor of German Studies at Dartmouth College. Previously, Deniz worked as an Acting Assistant Professor at Stanford University where she received her Ph.D. Her research focuses on late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century German literature and poetics, contemporary transnational literature, and migration studies as they intersect with the environmental humanities and (new) materialisms. She is currently working on her first monograph, tentatively titled Fluid Entanglements: German Romanticism and the Poetics of the Nonhuman. Drawing from the History of Science, Environmental Humanities, Classical Reception Studies, and new materialist theories, this project examines the ways literary and scientific experiments with various fluid phenomena helped the Romantic writers explore new aesthetic forms and ecopoetic modes of writing. Her teaching experiences and interests span German language classes on all levels and courses on a wide range of topics, including environment, migration, refugees, and transnationalism in literature, music, film, theater, and performative arts.