Julia Goesser Assaiante is a Visiting Assistant Professor of German in the Language and Culture Studies Department at Trinity College.  She earned her B.A. in German Literature and Political Theory from Princeton University, and completed her Ph.D. in German Literature at New York University in September of 2009.  She has taught all levels of German language instruction, as well as courses on modern German literature, cinema, and philosophy.   Her research interests concentrate on eighteenth and early twentieth-century literature and philosophy, with an emphasis on poetic language, aesthetics, hermeneutics, and currents of anti-Enlightenment thought.

Publications:

• Goesser Assaiante, Julia. Body Language: Corporeality, Subjectivity, and Language in Johann Georg Hamann. New York: Peter Lang, 2011.
• Goesser Assaiante, Julia. "Performative Creativity- Life as Art in the Letters of Rahel Varnhagen.”  Women's Creativity Around 1800. Eds. Angela Borchert, Linda Dietrick, and Birte Giesler. Forthcoming (fall 2011).

Translations:

• Eva Geulen, “Legislating Education: Kant, Hegel, Benjamin on ‘Pedagogical Violence’, in Cardozo Law Review, Vol. 26, Iss. 3 (Buffalo:William S. Hein, 2005).
• Thomas Schestag, “Unconquered Language: Hannah Arendt’s Theory of Poetry” (given as lecture, Princeton University, Johns Hopkins University, Spring 2005).
• Thomas Schestag, “Promenaden: Rousseau, Schiller, Hölderlin” (given as lecture, Northwestern University, Fall 2005).

• Otto Mainzer Fellowship, 2000-2005 New York University
• Mary Cunningham Humphrey’s Junior German Prize, 1998-1999 Princeton University
• Reh Prize for most outstanding junior paper, 1998-1999 Princeton University
  
• German Department Award of Excellence, 1997-1998 Princeton University