Silja Maehl

Silja holds a M.A. in German Literature, Philosophy and Journalism/Communication Studies. She has studied at the Humboldt-Universität Berlin, the Freie Universität Berlin and at the Université Lumière Lyon 2. Her Masters Thesis was called „The Unsaid and the Unsayable. Communication Breakdowns and Silence in selected plays of Arthur Schnitzler“ („Das Ungesagte und das Unsagbare. Kommunikationsstörungen und Schweigen in ausgewählten Dramen von Arthur Schnitzler“). During her studies she was especially interested in aesthetics and language philosophy in Romaniticism, the turn of the century and the 20th century as well as in the works of E. T. A. Hoffmann, Ingeborg Bachmann and W. G. Sebald. At Brown, Silja continues to work on language and the body in the writings of Yoko Tawada and Walter Benjamin.