About
Nathan Bailey is a doctoral student in the Germanic Languages and Literatures department at University of Michigan.
He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Southern Illinois University Carbondale in 2024 with a B.A. in Languages, Cultures, and International Studies, specializing in German. While at SIUC, he also minored in Philosophy and completed additional supplementary research in critical theory of cinema. He has taught German to students at three high schools under the direction of the Goethe-Institut and studied in Ulm, Baden-Württemberg as a foreign exchange student.
He wrote an undergraduate honors thesis titled “Fritz Lang’s Critique of Capitalism through Body Language in Metropolis,” which evaluates relationships between the human body and structures of class inequality in Fritz Lang’s German expressionist silent film, Metropolis.
His research interests are aligned with critical theory, Marxism, phenomenology, psychoanalytic film theory, and representations of the human body within media under fascism.
