Department ofGermanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures

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William Weihe

William Weihe

Post Doctoral Fellow
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Biography:

Will Weihe is a Post Doctoral Fellow in German Literature and Culture. He holds a Ph.D. in German Literature and Culture from Penn State University, as well as an M.A. in German Studies and a B.A. in Religion, both from Florida State University. Will’s research focuses on the topics of racial capitalism, revolutionary internationalism, and settler colonialism in German literature of the long nineteenth century, as well as anticolonialism in Weimar film. His dissertation, “Race in (Counter)Revolution: Imagining Modern Germany through Colonial Genocide and Resistance in the Works of Heinrich von Kleist,” explores late-eighteenth-century German cultural productions embedded in contemporary developments of colonial expansion, early capitalism, and counterrevolutionary formations of whiteness.

 

Recent Publications:
“Of Earthquakes and Accumulations: Rewriting Indigeneity, Colonial Terror, and Modern Development in Kleist’s Das Erdbeben in Chili,” (accepted).
“Early African Internationalism and Projections of Race and Nation in Weimar Politics and Performance,” (under review).