Antje Gebhardt

Antje is a doctoral candidate in German Studies at Stanford University, having commenced her Ph.D. program in 2023. She holds both a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Education in Literature, History, and Education from Freie Universität Berlin. Her research is primarily concerned with contemporary German literature, memory culture, and the dynamics of collective memory. In her dissertation project, she investigates the intersections of minority memory cultures with dominant memory narratives as represented in the works of authors such as Jenny Erpenbeck, Maja Haderlap, Katja Petrowskaja, Sharon Dodua Otoo, and Ulrike Draesner. Her analysis particularly emphasizes the structural forms of these entanglements, including layerings, loops, rooms, and knots/nets. Her scholarly interests further encompass the interplay between history and literature, inquiries into temporality, twentieth-century literature, and cultural history.

Before coming to Stanford University, she studied at Freie Universität Berlin, where she worked as a student research assistant first in the research area of Prof. Dr. Jutta Müller-Tamm and subsequently with Dr. Olga Katharina Schwarz. Beyond her work as a student assistant, she proofread and prepared several edited volumes for publication and conducted archival and emendation work for the Alexander von Humboldt, Sämtliche Schriften (Aufsätze, Artikel, Essays). Berner Ausgabe. She wrote her master’s thesis on the radicalization of memory in the war writings of Ernst Jünger.

Publications:

• with Lukas Nils Regeler: Lesen im Weltenbuch. Barthold Heinrich Brockes’ Irdisches Vergnügen in Gott. In: Einlässliche Lektüren. Über Offenheit, Bezogensein und Genauigkeit im Umgang mit Literatur. Jutta Müller-Tamm zum 60. Geburtstag, ed. by Bernadette Grubner, Julia Kitzmann, Marie Millutat, Lukas Nils Regeler, Caroline Welsh. Berlin: Aisthesis, 2024, pp. 59–66.