Maria Euchner

Maria Euchner is a Senior Fellow and FYP Associate Director (Academic) at the Foundation Year Program, Dalhousie University. She holds a BA in Classics and German from the University of King’s College (1999), an MA in German from Dalhousie (year not specified), and a PhD from the University of Toronto, focusing on discourses of forgetting in Elektra. Her research explores 18th-20th century German and Austrian thought, opera studies, animal studies, visual studies, music-literature adaptation, fin-de-siècle culture, Expressionism, Weimar culture, and Contemporary Studies. She has led study abroad programs, including a course on Berlin’s 20th-century history and German Romanticism. Her current projects include a book on Hugo von Hofmannsthal and a large-scale analysis of Viktor Ullmann’s politically defiant operas composed during the Third Reich. While no formal awards are listed, her work bridges interdisciplinary topics like memory, politics, and art. She has taught courses such as GERM 3610.06 and EMSP2290.03, emphasizing cultural and historical contexts. No part-time status is noted.