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 鶹Ƶ. 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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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...
Alexandria Koch

Alexandria Koch

M.A. Candidate
German Program
Alexandria Koch holds a BA in German Studies and Anthropology from Indiana University, Bloomington. She is interested in the grammatical and social relationship between gender-nonconforming pronouns, like they/them, and the gendered German language structure. They hope to combine both the German and Anthropological interests in the future as she continues her studies.
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 CU Boulder have included work on Viennese modernism, critical theory and theories of translation. Riga has conducted research on...
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 CU'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.