My name is Zoë Burgard and I am a PhD candidate in the Comparative Literature department at Yale University.
My research interests are Early Modern and Modern German, Italian, English, and French literature. My research focuses on narrative writing as trauma response, manifestations of self-fashioning, critical disability studies, nation building and collapse, and translation studies.
My dissertation project is entitled “Witness to National Collapse: Early Modern and Modernist Fictions” and explores the work of Ariosto, Grimmelshausen, Svevo, and Musil as reactions to political, religious, and social schisms in Early Modern and Modern Italy, Germany, and Austria. The project is advised by Katie Trumpener, Rüdiger Campe, and Jane Tylus.
My working languages are English, German, Italian, French, and Latin, and I have experience with teaching language, literature, and composition.
