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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.
"Tragedy as an Open Network: Antigone in Ferguson and The Nurse Antigone," Reception Studies: New Challenges in a Changing World, ed. by Anastasia Bakogianni and Luis Unceta, De Gruyter, 2024, 307-328.
"The Entanglements of Matter, Mind, and Meaning: Novalis's 'Elastic Mode of Thinking,'" The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory, 2023, Vol. 98 (3): 249-263.
"Jean Paul's Acoustic Romanticism and Aeolian Soundscapes in Vorschule der Ästhetik and Titan," Monatshefte, 2022, Vol. 114 (2): 220-241.
"Lessing's Critical Hermeneutics and Elliptical Reading of Aristotle's Poetics," Lessing Yearbook, 2020, Vol. 47: 53-71.
Book Reviews:
Romantic Empiricism: Nature, Art, and Ecology from Herder to Humboldt (Dalia Nassar, Oxford University Press, 2022), Monatshefte, 2023, Vol. 115 (4): 679-681.
Turkish Guest Workers in Germany: Hidden Lives and Contested Borders, 1960s to 1980s (Jennifer A. Miller, University of Toronto Press, 2018), Focus on German Studies, 2019, Vol. 25/26: 141-145.
Book Manuscript: Fluid Entanglements: German Romanticism and the Poetics of the Nonhuman
Review Article: "New Approaches to Romanticism," Monatshefte, 2025 (invited contribution)