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Stefan-Alexander Bronner

I am Assistant Professor in Residence of German 
at the University of Connecticut.

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I completed my Dr. phil. in Germanistik at the Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg. My doctoral research led to the publication of the first monograph on the highly discussed con­tempo­rary Swiss author Christian Kracht. Published by Francke in 2012, the dissertation examines questions of representation in his novels from the perspective of Continental subject philosophy and psychoanalysis. Throughout the analysis, I draw on in­ternational film, literature and philoso­phy, including D.H. Lawrence’s Women in Love, David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive, and the ancient Chinese philosophical work I Ching.

I have taught a variety of German language, literature, and culture courses from the beginning to the advanced levels. I am very interested in creative  and non-traditional teaching methods and response-techniques, such as RRPs. 

My scholarly training, research and teaching interests encompass German literary and cultural history from the Baroque to the present. Currently, a major emphasis of my research is on narratives of spirituality. Since the financial crisis hit Europe in 2009, many literary works and films of young German-speaking authors are no longer searching for meaning within the self, as the neoliberal logic suggests, but rather in new forms of spirituality, which go back to the ideas of early Romanticism. Neoliberalism’s lack of a potential to form identity narratives has created a longing for a secret alliance between the self and nature for young artists. Other scenarios suggest a desire to merge reality and art. In 2018, I published a co-edited volume on Christian Kracht’s world literature with DeGruyter. 

Specific areas of interest are:
  • 19th century to contemporary German literature, film and culture
  • Contemporary German Identity Narratives 
  • Literary & media theory
  • Philosophy, Psychoanalysis & Cultural Studies 
  • Ethics of science
  • Strategic mediation of literature (Founder Literaturhaus Augsburg)
  • Terrorism​​
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  • Contact Information