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Axel Englund, PhD

  • Anna Lindh Fellow, The Europe Center

Encina Hall
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305

Biography

Axel Englund is a scholar of Literature and Musicology. He completed his doctorate at Stockholm University, Sweden (April 2011), where he has also taught modernist exile literature and metrics. His dissertation, a book version of which is being published by Ashgate in 2012, focuses on the poetry of the German-speaking Holocaust survivor Paul Celan, and its interplay with music. In 2009, he was a visiting scholar at the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Columbia University. His research interests include the poetry and music of the 20th century, intermedial relations, critical musicology, hermeneutics and aesthetics. His current research addresses the poetic output of W.G. Sebald.

publications

Books
December 2012

Still Songs: Music In and Around the Poetry of Paul Celan

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Books
December 2010

Intermedial Topography and Metaphorical Interaction

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Journal Articles
December 2009

Modes of Musicality in Paul Celan’s Die Niemandsrose

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