Princeton University

petra spies

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Petra Spies is a graduate student at the German Department. Her research interests include the German special semantics Stimmung and Ton and their implications with musical theory, the constellation 'around 1900', stylistics, theory building, the history of philology, the epic, and media as / in literature. She is Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes alumna. Before joining the department in the fall of 2006, she worked as a staff writer for the Netzeitung.de / Berlin (department of economics) and for various other news media.

• 2002 - 2005 Universität Potsdam / Germany, Europäische Medienwissenschaft (B.A.). Thesis: Schwarzpläne. Über Walter Benjamins Begriff der Geschichte.
  
  
• 2005 - 2006 University of Sussex / UK, Intellectual History and the History of Political Thought (MA.). Thesis: "...and the whole is more than the sum of its parts." How a metaphorical operation shaped German historical thought in the 19th century.
  
  
• 2006 - 2011 Princeton University, Germanic Languages and Literatures (Ph.D.)