Gesa Frömming
(781) 283-2443
German
M.A., University of Göttingen; Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
Office Hours: Mondays, Wednesdays 10-11:00 AM Thursdays 4-5 PM
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Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in German
Professor Frömming's special interests include 20th-century German literature, the arts of the European Avantgarde and eighteenth-century studies.
Professor Frömming's special interests include 20th-century German literature, the arts of the European Avantgarde and eighteenth-century studies. Her dissertation entitled “Pastorale. Melancholic Sovereignty and Its Musical Redemption in Eighteenth-Century Thought” analyzes poetic transformations of the ancient trope of music’s anti-melancholic capacities in literary, essayistic and operatic works of Christoph Martin Wieland.
