The Author: Born and raised in Germany, Andrea Dortmann studied German Literature, Comparative Literature and Romance Languages and Literatures at the Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität, Bonn. She completed her M.A. in Comparative and French Literature at the Freie Universität, Berlin, and her Ph.D. in Germanic Languages and Literatures at New York University. Currently, she teaches German Language, Literature, and Culture and directs the German Language Program at the College of New York University.

• Contents: German Literature – Literature and Science – Snow and Ice Configurations – Liminality – Transience – Melancholia – Organic vs. Inorganic Nature – Representations of Winter – Authors treated: Goethe, Thomas Mann, L. Tieck, Brockes, Felix Braun, George, Rilke, Robert Walser, Kepler, Descartes, Robert Hooke, Bentley, Kant, Stifter, Georg Hermann, Kafka, Capek, Hebbel, Keller, C.F. Meyer, Max Dauthenday and Saint-John Perse.

The Author: Born and raised in Germany, Andrea Dortmann studied German Literature, Comparative Literature and Romance Languages and Literatures at the Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität, Bonn. She completed her M.A. in Comparative and French Literature at the Freie Universität, Berlin, and her Ph.D. in Germanic Languages and Literatures at New York University. Currently, she teaches German Language, Literature, and Culture and directs the German Language Program at the College of New York University.

• Contents: German Literature – Literature and Science – Snow and Ice Configurations – Liminality – Transience – Melancholia – Organic vs. Inorganic Nature – Representations of Winter – Authors treated: Goethe, Thomas Mann, L. Tieck, Brockes, Felix Braun, George, Rilke, Robert Walser, Kepler, Descartes, Robert Hooke, Bentley, Kant, Stifter, Georg Hermann, Kafka, Capek, Hebbel, Keller, C.F. Meyer, Max Dauthenday and Saint-John Perse.

The Author: Born and raised in Germany, Andrea Dortmann studied German Literature, Comparative Literature and Romance Languages and Literatures at the Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität, Bonn. She completed her M.A. in Comparative and French Literature at the Freie Universität, Berlin, and her Ph.D. in Germanic Languages and Literatures at New York University. Currently, she teaches German Language, Literature, and Culture and directs the German Language Program at the College of New York University.

• Contents: German Literature – Literature and Science – Snow and Ice Configurations – Liminality – Transience – Melancholia – Organic vs. Inorganic Nature – Representations of Winter – Authors treated: Goethe, Thomas Mann, L. Tieck, Brockes, Felix Braun, George, Rilke, Robert Walser, Kepler, Descartes, Robert Hooke, Bentley, Kant, Stifter, Georg Hermann, Kafka, Capek, Hebbel, Keller, C.F. Meyer, Max Dauthenday and Saint-John Perse.