Profile

Alexis Smith is a doctoral candidate and is also pursuing a graduate certificate in nonprofit management. Her dissertation investigates the ‘location’ of music in early German Romanticism, addressing not only music’s role as a universal language, but also its effects on the human body—questions that remain pertinent to German Studies, music, and science today. Her chapter, “Ritter’s Musical Blood Flow Through Hoffmann’s Kreisler” is expected for publication in Lebenskraft and Radical Reality in summer 2015. She received a double BA in Music and German from the University of Northern Colorado (2005), and an MA in German Literature from the University of Oregon (2008), and has presented at numerous conferences. Her research interests include late 18th through mid-20th century German literature and philosophy in relation to music, visual arts, science, and social/cultural boundaries.