Stephanie Galasso

Stephanie Galasso is a Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge, affiliated with the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics and the German Department. She previously served as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Brown University and completed her PhD in German Studies at Brown University in 2018, following an MA and BA in English and German from the University of California, Davis (2012). Her research integrates German literature and culture from the 18th to 19th centuries with contemporary frameworks like epistemic injustice, critical race theory, and feminist thought.

• PhD in German Studies from Brown University (2018)
• MA in German from Brown University
• BA in English and German from University of California, Davis (2012)

Her work interrogates aesthetic philosophy, genre theory, and women’s writing, with a focus on German Romanticism and post-war cultural memory. Stephanie co-edited Epistemic Injustice and Creative Agency (Routledge 2023) and leads a monograph on racializing structures in German Romantic genre theory. She teaches German language, translation, and literature at all levels and supervises advanced theses, including an MPhil on German colonialism and linguistics through the Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies.

Her publications span German Romanticism, post-war fiction, and contemporary responses to epistemic injustice, often analyzing intersections of race, gender, and cultural production. She collaborates with institutions like LMU Munich and the University of Bayreuth on projects such as 'Fictions of the Rechtsstaat' and 'Towards a Politics of Fiction', and contributes to initiatives like Towards an Equitable German Studies. Stephanie’s accolades include a Fulbright Research Fellowship for her work at the University of Konstanz (2018–2019).