About
Luci joined the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures in 2021 and achieved candidacy in 2023. Their research interests broadly include (anti)fascism, nationalism, transnational resistance to state oppression, and their respective aesthetics and representations in literature, film, and popular culture in the German-speaking world post-1945.
Their dissertation examines Việt Nam in the German Imaginary from 1963-1975, particularly in work by Peter Weiss, Uwe Johnson, Harun Farocki, Heynowski and Scheumann, and Michael Verhoeven.
Luci earned their B.A. with high honors in German and International Studies (focus Europe) with a minor in Political Science and a certificate in Multicultural Studies from the University of Missouri-Columbia. Their senior thesis considers national myth-building by inspecting representations of the Red Orchestra, specifically the Schulze-Boysen Harnack Gruppe, in film and literature of postwar East and West Germany (Peter Weiss, VVN, Manfred Roeder, DEFA) and in official CIA files in the United States.
Other influences on their work include:
poetry, decolonization (not as a metaphor), critical theory, postcolonialism, memory culture and memorials/monuments, abolition discourse and praxis, avant-garde film and art, low-brow film and literature, and anti-historicism.
