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Petra McGillen Dartmouth College "You're right; our writing tools take part in the forming of our thoughts," Friedrich Nietzsche said to his secretary in 1882. Nietzsche's statement captures what lies at the core of my research: I work on the material history of creativity and knowledge production in German literature and culture, ca. 1750 to 1900. In particular, I explore the impact of different forms and media of notation—from doodles to writers' notebooks, from lists to databases—on creative writing processes and forms of generating knowledge. My other research and teaching interests include media and book history in 18th and 19th-century Germany, print and material culture, textual practices, intellectual technologies, history of information, the transnational history of journalism, and the emergence of fake news. |
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Bio: Petra McGillen is Associate Professor of German Studies at Dartmouth College. She holds a Ph.D. in Germanic Languages and Literature from Princeton University (2012). Before coming to the United States, she studied Intellectual History at the University of Sussex in England (M.A., 2006) and European Media Studies at Potsdam University in Germany (B.A., 2005). |
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