Dr. Sara Luly

Associate Professor &

Director, University Honors Program

 

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Research Interests

German Romanticism, German Gothic literature, theories of mental health and illness around 1800, women’s writing, gender studies, the works of Caroline de la Motte Fouqué

Education

  • PhD. in German Studies, The Ohio State University, 2011
  • M.A. in German Studies, Michigan State University, 2004
  • B.A. in German, State University of New York Oswego, 2002

Recently Offered Courses

  • 500 level courses including survey of 18th and 19th century literature, German fairytales, and business German
  • 700 level courses on Old German Script, German Gothic literature, and E.T.A. Hoffmann.
  • Honors first year seminar: breaking the Arts & Science divide

Publications and Research in Progress (Selected)

  • “A Shield and a Grave: the Duality of Gothic Interiority in Caroline de la Motte Fouqué’s Das Fraulein vom Thurme (1811)” (forthcoming in: Interiority in Women’s Writing).
  • Luly, Sara. “Mesmerizing Encounters: Animal Magnetism and Affect.” In Derek Hillard, Heikki Lempa, Russell Spiney. Feelings Materialized: Emotions, Bodies, and Things in Modern Germany. Ed. Berghahn Books, 2020. 25-40.
  • Luly, Sara. “Ghostwriters: Hauntings and Authorship in Naubert’s “Die weiße Frau” and Albrecht’s Das höfliche Gespenst.” In Elisabeth Krimmer and Lauren Nossett. Eds. Writing the Self, Creating Community:German Women Authors and the Literary Sphere, 1750–1850. Camden House, 2020. 119-140.
  • Luly, Sara. “From Material Substance to Mental Influence: Remarks on the Embodied Media of Animal Magnetism.” Das Achzehnte Jahrhundert, 2019.
  • Luly, Sara. “The Horror of Coming Home: Integration and Fragmentation in Caroline de la Motte Fouqué’s ‘Der Abtrünnige’” The Goethe Yearbook. 24. 2017. 175-195.
  • Luly, Sara. “Polite Hauntings: Same Sex Eroticism in Sophie Albrecht’s Das höfliche Gepsenst.” Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies. 52:1. 2016. 60-79.