German Studies

Serena graduated from Rutgers University in 2022 with B.A.s in German and Cognitive Science. Her honors thesis, “Praying for Language: Hamacher’s Bogengebet and the Possibility of Address” was about the relationship between address and language in Werner Hamacher’s philological works. After completing her undergraduate degrees, she spent a year as a Fulbright Student at the University of Graz studying early quantum physicists’ interests in the poetics of atomic physics. She is currently interested in the philosophy of language, phenomenology, and the history of physics in German speaking Europe.