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Eva Hoffmann is a doctoral candidate, and is also pursuing a graduate certificate in Women’s and Gender Studies. She received her MA in German Literature and Philosophy at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität in Freiburg (2009). Her dissertation focuses on animals and animality in the works of Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Franz Kafka, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Georg Trakl. Her research interests include Modernism, Psychoanalysis, animal studies, and gender studies. Eva has published an article on Franz Kafka (2014). Two additional articles on Orhan Pamuk and Hugo von Hofmannsthal are forthcoming. Together with Alexis Smith, Eva is also currently working on a translation of Elsa Asenijeff’s Unschuld (1901).