German Studies

Ioannis Dimopulos studied German Studies, Comparative Literature, Latin, and Philosophy at Bielefeld University, Meiji University Tokyo, and the University of Tübingen. In 2023, he received an M.A. with a thesis titled “Love as Gift, Love as Excess: Constellations of Love in the Work of Theodor W. Adorno.” In this thesis, Ioannis examined the epistemological potential of the erotic and its troubling resemblance to the aesthetic experience of the artwork.

His research focus lies at the threshold between literature and philosophy, with an emphasis on modes of thinking and writing in the 19th and 20th centuries. He also works in particular on the philosophy and literary theory of the Frankfurt School, especially Theodor W. Adorno and Walter Benjamin. At Brown, his work includes research on the problem of suffering and on the attempt to articulate experience in linguistic form.

Ioannis’s research has been published in various journals, including Arcadia. International Journal for Literary Culture, Zeitschrift für Ästhetik und Allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft, and Jahrbuch Sexualitäten, as well as in several edited volumes. Ioannis Dimopulos is a fellow at the Institute for Critical Theory in Berlin (inkrit). He also writes for the feuilleton sections of the German daily newspapers Welt, ND, and Freitag.