Sebastian Brass

Sebastian Brass teaches (and writes on) German language and literature. He received his PhD in Germanic Languages and Literatures from Harvard University in 2022, and he holds an MA as well as an MEd in English and American literature from Ruhr-Universität Bochum. His dissertation, “Fact, Fiction, and Transparency: Modes of Autobiographical Self-Reference in the 20th and 21st Centuries,” proposes a narratology of the manifold ways in which modern autobiography operates with self-referential discourse regarding its own truth claims. Other fields of interest include the media theory and aesthetics of reading scenes, the epistemology of case narratives, and literary theory. Sebastian has published articles on E.T.A. Hoffmann, Gertrude Stein, Christa Wolf, and Marcel Beyer. At various German and American institutions, he has taught courses on realism and the fantastic, Marx–Nietzsche–Freud, and ecocriticism as well as language classes of all levels and tutorials in comparative literature.

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Dr. Sebastian Brass
German Studies
Email: s.brass[at]berlin.bard.edu