Adam Toth Defends Dissertation on Orientalist Writings of Franz Kafka

On 28 February 2017, Adam Toth successfully defended his dissertation for the Ph.D. in German under the direction of Drs. Bettina Brandt and Daniel Purdy. Adam’s dissertation, titled “Kafka’s Mei Lanfangs: Race Theory, Performativity, and the Undoing of German Orientalisms,” analyzed Orientalist writings of Franz Kafka as deconstructions of 19th-century German race theory.