
Gerald Jia Ding
Ph.D. Student in Comparative Literature, admitted Autumn 2018
2016-2017: M.A., Comparative Literature, Edinburgh University
2013-2016: B.A., Germanistik, University of Leipzig
- Born and raised in a small town in southern China;
- Spent five years roaming in Europe; studied German literature, philosophy and art history;
- Currently writing a dissertation on what he calls the "lyrical mode" in 20th-century literature and cinema
Courses Taught:
- CompLit 199: Senior Seminar
- CompLit 121: Poetry, Poems, Worlds
- CompLit 240: Rainer Maria Rilke: Poetry and the Meaning of Life
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Research Interests
- Film History, Criticism & Theory
- German Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
- Literary and Cultural Theory
- Modernism
- Poetry and Poetics