I am currently an assistant professor in the Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures at Harvard University. My interests include: late eighteenth- to twentieth-century German literature (especially poetry) and its discursive imbrication with the German philosophical tradition; moments of cross-pollination between the history of philology and the history of science; and literary theory. I have published on Roman Jakobson, Rilke, and Goethe. My current project reconstructs how Goethe’s poetic science of morphology (first developed with regard to vegetal growth and the skeletal structure of animals) shaped key moments in the methodological history of the humanities.

contact:

dcarranza@fas.harvard.edu