COMPARATIVE LITERARY STUDIES PROGRAM

Emily Landkamer

Home Department: German

• EmilyLandkamer2028@u.northwestern.edu

Emily Landkamer is a PhD Student in Comparative Literary Studies with a home department in German. Emily’s grounding is in continental philosophy. Focusing on Benjamin, she works on nineteenth- and twentieth-century German literature, aesthetic theory, and philosophy of history. Having come up in Japan, she translates the works of Mishima Yukio and other modern Japanese writers. She is also interested in Kierkegaard, psychoanalytic conceptions of language, and Dostoevsky.