Gesa Frömming - gesa.fromming@vanderbilt.edu

Originally from Northern Germany, I studied German literature, musicology and art history at the University of Göttingen. After receiving my M.A. in 2002, I worked for a year as the coordinator of an internet database concerning German literary life from 1945 up to the turn of the century, which fits nicely with my emphasis on 20th century literature. In 2003/4 I studied at the Rhetoric department of the University of Berkeley, then moved to Berlin, where I designed e-learning modules for the Zentrum zur Förderung der Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung at the Freie Universität Berlin. I am now pursuing a PhD at Vanderbilt. My special interests are German poetry, 19th and 20th century prose as well as interrelationships between music, painting and literature around 1910. I'm particularly interested in working at the intersections of philosophy and literature. I'm focusing on 18th and 19th century aesthetics (with an emphasis on music), but I'm also interested in psychoanalytical/ semiotic accounts of the arts.