“Poetics of the Wound: A New Take on German Romanticism”
Speakers): Nicole Sütterlin (Harvard University)
Nicole Sütterlin is Assistant Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. She holds a PhD and MA in Modern German Literature, received from the University of Basel. She has published on topics such as the grotesque body in Grimmelshausen, vampirism in E.T.A. Hoffmann, and Jacques Derrida’s epistelmology. Her book Poetik der Wunde (forthcoming) argues that German literature around 1800 is deeply informed by poetics of the wound. Opening up connections from German Romanticism to writers such as Baudelaire, Artaud, Kafka, and to what we may call a ‘body poetics’ (öDZپ) in post-wall German literature, Sütterlin proposes that the modern ‘episteme of Man’ (Foucault) is determined by a powerful paradigm of the wound.