Graduate Student, Comparative Literature
About
Erica Weitzman is a Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Literature at New York University. She received her B.A. in English and French literature from the College of William and Mary (1997); an M.A. in Creative Writing (Poetry) from Boston University (1999); and an M.A. in Liberal Studies from the New School for Social Research at New School University (2003). From 2008-2011 she was a doctoral fellow at the Graduiertenkolleg "Lebensformen und Lebenswissen" at the Europa Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder) and the Universität Potsdam.
Her research interests include: German literature after 1800; critical theory; aesthetics, poetics, rhetoric; philosophy of comedy, irony, wit, humor, and jokes; law and literature; theory of language; political theory; historiography and narratology; comparative modernisms; cultures of World War I; literatures of Mitteleuropa.
She is currently completing her dissertation on comic irony in the work of Robert Walser, Franz Kafka, and Joseph Roth.
