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Paola Mayer


Associate Professor of German, University of Guelph

PhD (Princeton)

Professor Mayer’s research interests are: German Romantic literature and thought,  myth and fairy tales in German culture 18th -19th century,  the uncanny and fantastic in German literature and theory. Her publications include a monograph, Jena Romanticism and its Appropriation of Jacob Böhme: Theosophy – Hagiography – Literature (Kingston & Montreal: McGill-Queen’s UP, 1999) and an edition (with Marianne Henn and Anita Runge) of Benedikte Naubert’s fairy tales. Her current project is a book on the uncanny in German literature of the Romantic period.

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Waterloo Centre for German Studies
University of Waterloo

200 University Avenue West
Waterloo, ON
N2L 3G1
Canada

wcgs ä uwaterloo.ca

Upcoming Events

November 15 to December 15, 2011

Modern Languages (ML) atrium

Photo Exhibition: The Wall: A Border through Germany

Friday, February 3rd - 7pm

Home of Dr. Alice Kuzniar

Reading by Dragica Rajčić

Saturday, February 4th

Centre for Environmental and Information Technology (EIT) 3142

Dream of the Other Europe

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