Department of German and Dutch

Department of German and Dutch

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Research interests

Lucia Ruprecht’s research is situated at the intersection of literature, dance, film and cultural theory. Her book Dances of the Self in Heinrich von Kleist, E.T.A. Hoffmann and Heinrich Heine (2006) won a Special Citation for the 2007 de la Torre Bueno Prize. She is co-editor of Performance and Performativity in German Cultural Studies (2003), Cultural Pleasure (2009), and New German Dance Studies (2012). She has completed a project on charisma and virtuosity which was carried out from 2005 to 2010 in collaboration with the research centre Kulturen des Performativen at the Free University Berlin. This resulted in a series of articles on the imaginary life of nineteenth-century virtuosity, on the status of virtuosity in Vaslav Nijinsky’s choreography, and on the virtuosity of servitude in Robert Walser and W.G. Sebald. Her current project explores the concept of expression, and its relation to forms of authorship, in the literature, cinema and dance of German Expressionism.

Teaching Interests

Lucia Ruprecht teaches literature, thought, film and performance culture on the nineteenth and twentieth century papers, and on the Faculty's two modern comparative papers. She supervises for the MPhil in European Literature and Culture, and for the MPhil in Screen Media and Cultures. She has recently supervised a PhD on Weimar dance and currently supervises a PhD on female suicide in twentieth-century German literature. She advises PhD students working on Thomas Mann, Trümmerfilm, and contemporary German political cinema. Lucia Ruprecht welcomes research students in any of her fields of expertise.

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