Sophie Schweiger

Sophie Johanna Schweiger is Assistant Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Yale University. She completed her Ph.D. at Columbia University with a dissertation on the role of gestures in literature, film, and performance in 2021 and was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Colgate University for one year before moving to Yale. Her research focuses on theater, drama theory and the study of performance, inter- and trans-mediality, (post-)apocalyptic narratives, and committed literature.

She has recently published on Arthur Schnitzler, “Corseted Choristry. Arthur Schnitzler’s Reigen as Chor(e)ography,” The German Quarterly (2021), and on emojis and Black Lives Matter: “Digital Schreibzeug & Emoji Activism,” The Germanic Review (2023). Currently, she is working on her first book, in which gesture informs the study of trans-mediality and media difference.