Elizabeth Ramsey graduated from the University of Oxford with an AHRC-funded MSt in Modern Languages in 2017 before joining the Department in 2018. She received her BA in German with Italian Studies from the University of Warwick in 2015 having spent a year at the Humboldt University in Berlin studying German and Italian literature. Her current research considers concepts of play in the long nineteenth century and in texts by Goethe, Brentano, Hoffmann and Kafka. She is also interested in broader topics related to narratology, pedagogy, didactics, genre, children's literature and folklore from the eighteenth century to the present day. Elizabeth is a Provost Fellow and Franke Affiliate Fellow for the academic year 2023-4.
Teaching
GRMN 10100, GRMN 10200, GRMN 10300 (Instructor, 2019-20)
GRMN 21103 (Erzählen), Autumn 2021, and GRMN 20301 (Kunst und Kultur), Spring 2022