Overview
Christiane is participating in the Humboldt Exchange Program and visiting from Humboldt University in Berlin, where she is currently pursuing a dual master’s degree in philosophy and German literature. Since 2018, she holds a scholarship from the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes). Her research interests lie at the intersection of literature, theory, and philosophy. In the field of philosophy, she has concentrated on ancient Greek philosophy, with a recent focus on the philosophy and poetics of Plato and Aristotle. Her research interests in German literature include the works of Kleist, Kafka, and Rilke, with an emphasis on literary theory, psychoanalysis, and deconstruction. She has explored topics such as unreliable narration and memory in contemporary German literature, as well as Jacques Derrida's reading of Plato's "Phaedrus". During her time at Cornell, she hopes to explore topics for her master's theses and a potential doctoral thesis. She looks forward to a stimulating and fruitful intellectual exchange here at Cornell.
The interests of marginalized people are very close to Christiane's heart. This is why, in addition to her academic work, she has volunteered in a mentoring program for first-generation university students and at the ZOB Ukraine Welcome Center for refugees from Ukraine. Outside of academia, she enjoys doing yoga, playing the piano and the church organ, or going to museums.