Dr. Zoë Burgard

PhD, Comparative Literature, Yale University

Curriculum Vitae

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Yale University, 2019–2026

  • Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, May 2026
    • Dissertation: Witness to Collapse: Early Modern and Modernist Fictions
    • Advisors: Professors Katie Trumpener (Chair), Rüdiger Campe, and Jane Tylus
    • Readers: Professors Alessandro Giammei, Pericles Lewis, and Kirk Wetters
  • M.Phil. in Comparative Literature, May 2023
  • M.A. in Comparative Literature, May 2023

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2016–2018

  • M.A. sehr gut, European Literatures, September 2018
    • Master’s Thesis: “Essayismus als Lebensphilosophie: Montaigne, Svevo, Musil”
    • Advisors: Professors Helmut Pfeiffer (Romance Languages and Literatures) and Roland Berbig (German)

Harvard University, 2012–2016

  • A.B. cum laude, English and Romance Languages and Literatures (high honors in field), May 2016
    • Senior Honors Thesis, summa cum laude: “‘Une Espineuse Entreprise’: Diagnostic Self-Fashioning in Montaigne and Milton”
    • Advisors: Professors Gordon Teskey (English) and Tom Conley (French)
  • Secondary Field: Classical Civilizations

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