Klara Fuchs, Selwyn
Course: English
Supervisor: Prof Jan Melissa Schramm
Dissertation Title: The Transatlantic Story of E Pluribus Unum: Unity, Multiplicity, and National Identity in Nineteenth-Century American and British Literature
Biographical Information
Before starting my PhD at Selwyn College in April of 2023, I studied English Studies and Musicology at the University of Heidelberg in Germany where I received a first-class Bachelor of Arts in 2019. I then came to the UK to study for an MSc in US Literature: Cultural Values from Revolution to Empire at the University of Edinburgh which I completed in 2020 with distinction. I subsequently pursued a second MSc in International Relations which I successfully completed in 2022. Both masters were most generously funded by the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes. My PhD is kindly funded by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom. As Kurt Hahn Scholar for the academic year 2023/24 I received additional support from the Kurt Hahn Trust.
Research Interests
My thesis explores the ways in which transatlantic sketch writing of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century facilitated and contributed to (post)-revolutionary thinking about political representation and the relationship of the individual to civil society, the one and the many, in particular.
