Meryem Deniz

Meryem Deniz is an Assistant Professor of German Studies at Dartmouth College. Previously, Deniz worked as an Acting Assistant Professor at Stanford University, where she earned her Ph.D. in German Studies and her Ph.D. Minor in Classics. She was the recipient of the Stanford Humanities Center Dissertation Prize, Ric Weiland Graduate Fellowships, and the Stanford Centennial Teaching Assistant Award. Her research focuses on late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century German literature and poetics, contemporary transnational literature, and migration studies as they intersect with environmental humanities and (new) materialisms. She is currently working on her first monograph, titled The Fluid Effect: Materiality, Agency, and Environment in German Romanticism. Drawing on the History of Science, Environmental Humanities, Classical Reception Studies, and New Materialist theories, this project examines how literary and scientific experiments with various fluid phenomena enabled Romantic writers to explore new aesthetic forms and ecopoetic modes of writing. Her teaching experience and interests include German language courses at all levels, as well as courses on a broad range of topics, including the environment, migration, refugees, and transnationalism in literature, music, film, theater, and performative arts.