Dennis Schäfer




      I am a writer, educator, curator, and book collector, and recently defended my dissertation in the Department of German at Princeton University. From July to September 2026, I will be a fellow at the Kulturstiftung Schloss Wiepersdorf.

      My work lies at the intersection of  media studies, literary study, and book history; especially pre-digital media practices and cultures fascinate me. Specifically, my scholarship and curatorial work explores the literature of German Romanticism and its enduring legacy. 

      I am currently an independent curator and working on my first book, which is based on my dissertation and entitled Obsolete Medium: The Amanuensis of German Romanticism. 

      Recent/Upcoming Publications

      For a list of my publications and exhibitions, see here. 

      “Hoffmann’s Afterlives in Film,” in: E.T.A. Hoffmann in Context, edited by Polly Dickson and Joanna Neilly. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2026.  (forthcoming)

      “The Yale Fragments: Two E.T.A. Hoffmann Manuscripts from the Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscripts Library,” Goethe Yearbook 33 (2026): 89-106

      “’[I]m beherrschenden Mittelpunkte einer bestimmt umgrenzten dichterischen und künstlerischen Welt‘: Zum literarischen Familienarchiv der Arnims,“ Zeitschrift für deutsche Philologie 144, no. 4 (2025): 519-50.

      Contact

      HerrScha3fer[at]gmail.com

      @mrschaefer.bsky.social