Aubrie Blauvelt

Aubrie Blauvelt

M.A. Candidate
German Program
Aubrie Blauvelt holds a BA in both German and Folklore & Ethnomusicology from Indiana University all the way in Bloomington, Indiana. In her time in Indiana, she focused primarily on storytelling in Folklore, with a specific interest in German folklore and its connection to German culture. She also co-founded and led an LGBTQ+ youth group in the town of Bloomington, which then led her to research positions within her university...
Stefan Bongers

Stefan Bongers

Ph.D. Candidate
German Program
Stefan Bongers is a PhD candidate in the German department. He got both his BA and MA in German and English from the University of Basel where he focused on literary studies in both subjects. He wrote his MA thesis on contemporary German autofictions. Before coming to Colorado, he worked as a student assistant at the University of Basel and at Literaturhaus Basel where he was part of a team...
Sean Bray

Sean Bray

PhD. candidate
German Program
Originally from Colorado, Sean Bray earned a BA in Political Economy and German Studies from Tulane University. He has studied in Berlin and Regensburg, using that time to focus on topics of East German literature, film, and society. His research interests include the political economy of authoritarianism, expression under conditions of censorship, and historical conceptions of the state.
Taylor Budde

Taylor Budde

Ph.D. candidate
German Program
Taylor Budde joined the German Studies PhD program in 2018 after receiving his BA at the University of Minnesota and MA at the University of Colorado Boulder. His work and interests involve intersections of myth, science, and culture in the 19 th and 20 th century, serialized, pulp, and “Weird” fiction, occultism, monsters, and film studies. His Master’s thesis titled Of Monsters and M ä rchen explored the relationship between...
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Pascal Edenhart

M.A. Candidate
German Program
Pascal Edenhart holds a BA (equivalent) in German and English Language and Literature from the University of Regensburg. He also acquired a BA in International Relations and Management from Regensburg University of Applied Sciences. His research interests include the structure and history of German language as well as linguistic and literary theory. He spends the academic year 2024/25 in Boulder as part of an exchange program.
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Ben Kirchoff

M.A. Candidate
German Program
Ben received his BA in German and Global Studies from Wayne State University and studied abroad in Munich for his junior year. He has had internships as a research assistant at both the Deutsches Museum in Munich and the Detroit Institute of Arts, and focused on German and European history and colonialism during his time at Wayne State. His research interests include the rise of nationalism and populism, theories of...
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Alexandria Koch

M.A. Candidate
German Program
Alex Koch holds a BA in both German Studies and Anthropology from Indiana University, Bloomington. They are interested in the evolution of GIL (Gender Inclusive Language) with a focus on the emergence and usage of gender neutral and neo-pronouns in German. Alex also works as an intern with the FGS (Feminist German Studies) journal and wishes to continue working this path alongside their research.
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Griffen Reese

M.A. Candidate
German Program
Griffen studied German and Linguistics at the University of Colorado Boulder, with an emphasis on computational linguistics and language models. His interests include the application of linguistic concepts in language learning and the study of interaction between German and Japanese culture.
Elisa Riga

Elisa Riga

Ph.D. candidate
German Program
Elisa Riga holds a BA from the university of Liège in Belgium (ULG) and an MA from the Johns Hopkins University. For her Bachelors, she double-majored in English and German literatures at the ULG, and also completed coursework at the university of Göttingen in Germany. Her graduate studies at JHU and Boulder have included work on Viennese modernism, critical theory and theories of translation. Riga has conducted research on...
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Maycee Roshel

M.A. Candidate
German Program
Maycee Roshel holds a BA in English Education with a minor in German studies from Indiana State University. She has also taken several courses at Freie Universität while living in Berlin. Some of her interests include contemporary literature and media following the fall of the Berlin Wall, immigrant and refugee culture, the role of gender within immigrant and refugee cultures in different regions within Germany, contemporary curricula in German schools,...
Alexander Sellers

Alexander Sellers

Ph.D. candidate
German Program
Alex Sellers is a student and graduate of the University of Chicago's Comparative Literature department. He also holds an MA from 's School of Education. His interests include modern and contemporary fiction and film, with a particular focus on coming-of-age narratives and theories of emotion and emotionality. Outside of Colorado, he has lived in New York, Chicago, and Berlin.