Christiane Frey

Christiane Frey is an Associate Professor of German at Johns Hopkins University and concurrently teaches at RWTH Aachen University. She serves as Co-Director of the Max Kade Center for Modern German Thought. She is on sabbatical for the academic year 2024-25.

Education: PhD in Modern Languages and Literatures from the University of Bonn, M.A. in German, French, and Comparative Literatures from the Sorbonne (Paris IV), with additional concentrations in Philosophy and Theology. Prior teaching appointments include Humboldt University Berlin, the University of Chicago, Princeton University, and New York University.

Her research bridges 17th- and 18th-century German literature and philosophy with the history of science and religion. Key interests include medical and philosophical anthropology, self-care practices, pre- and post-Kantian aesthetic theory, baroque theater and astronomy, early modern political theologies, literary epistemologies, and ecological discourse. She explores short literary forms, genre theory, seriality, and the intersections of literature with mathematics and ecology.

She co-directs the Max Kade Center, fostering interdisciplinary research on modern German thought. Her work emphasizes historical epistemologies, secularization critiques, and the baroque's temporal frameworks.