Bryson Tedford teaches in the elementary German language sequence and developed a 300-level course on the Architecture of Chicago and Germany. for Spring 2026.
Intellectual Profile
Bryson Tedford studied German and Biology at Barnard College and completed her Ph.D. in the Department of Germanic Languages at Columbia University in 2025. Her dissertation, “Illusion beyond the Fourth Wall: The Unstageable Theater of Ludwig Tieck,” examined the anti-illusion bias in Performance Studies and its historiographic implications for Romantic Theater. Bryson is building on this research in her book manuscript, Beyond the Fourth Wall: Staging Spectator Experience in German Theater around 1800, which examines how theater’s advocates articulated the social value of theater in institutional and aesthetic programs. She enjoys connecting her research on aesthetics to contemporary discourses in her teaching, whether exploring the intersection of taste and function in Modern architecture or relating early German Romanticism to contemporary Environmental Studies.
Teaching
- GRMN 10100 (Elementary German I)
- GRMN 10200 (Elementary German II)
- GRMN 22103 (Architektur; cross-listed with ARCH and CHST)