Elena Stingl

Elena Stingl is a doctoral candidate at the Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School for Literary Studies at Freie Universität Berlin (FU), pursuing research on Simone Weil, Alfred Sohn-Rethel, and Georges Bataille's engagement with European workers' movements. Since August 2023, she serves as a research assistant in the Hannah Arendt Critical Edition team. Her academic career includes fellowships at the University of Chicago (2019) and the Maison Heinrich Heine in Paris (2021). She holds degrees from LMU Munich and UC Berkeley, with a master’s thesis on Marcel Proust.

• Education: MA in General & Comparative Literary Studies (LMU Munich/UC Berkeley, 2015)
• Research Focus: French literature, political/critical theory, Marxism, psychoanalysis, refugee/asylum policies

Her teaching includes seminars on literature and class dynamics, Oedipus narratives, and comparative literary theory. She actively contributes to academic discourse through conference presentations, translations (e.g., Brecht interviews, Frontex studies), and interviews exploring societal issues like right-wing violence and border policies.

Her work bridges literary analysis with socio-political critique, emphasizing interdisciplinary approaches to 20th-century thought and contemporary refugee crises.