Dr Leena Petersen

Post:

Research Fellow (Sussex Weidenfeld Institute of Jewish Studies - Centre for German-Jewish Studies)

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Biography

Leena Petersen's former studies included Aesthetics/Cultural Studies, Philosophy, Literature and Scandinavian Studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Her MA dissertation at the University of Sussex dealt with Fin-de-Siècle’s concepts of myth (from which she graduated in ‘Social and Political Thought’). Here, she earned as well her PhD with a thesis on “Poetics of the In-between. On Linguistic Culture Critique and Physiognomic Historicity in Modernity, Exemplified through Walter Benjamin and Selected Writings of his Time”. As Rosenzweig Research Fellow 2007/2008 at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, she was working on “Negative Aesthetics in German-Jewish Thought”.

Role

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Modern European Cultural History and the Centre for German-Jewish Studies.