Caroline Rupprecht
Caroline Rupprecht, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, is from Frankfurt am Main, Germany, where she studied at Goethe University for an MA in German Literature, after spending a year in Lyon, France, as an intern for a performing arts center. In 1988, she moved to New York to work in publishing, then graduated summa cum laude from City College in 1991. She received her PhD in Comparative Literature in 1999 from the Graduate Center, and her dissertation won the Carolyn G. Heilbrun Prize. She is the author of two books, Subject to Delusions: Narcissism, Modernism, Gender (Northwestern UP, 2006), and the translation and introduction of Unica Zürn’s novella, Dark Spring (Cambridge: Exact Change, 2000). She has published articles on madness, body image, narcissism, Turkish-German writing, and migration, as well as a short story. And, she received the 2003 South Central MLA Prize for Best Paper in Gender Studies. At Queens, she teaches avant-garde literature, drama, and psychoanalysis, as well as translation for the MFA Program in English. And she has also taught in the Comparative Literature PhD Program at the Graduate Center. She is currently working on a book on “Womb Fantasies in the Postwar European Avant-garde.”
