About
Nathan Bailey is a doctoral student in the department of Germanic Languages and Literatures 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 completed a minor in philosophy. He has taught German to students at three high schools under the direction of the Goethe-Institut's SPARK for German outreach initiative, and studied in Ulm, Baden-Württemberg as a foreign exchange student in 2016.
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 1927 German expressionist silent film, Metropolis.
His current research asks questions concerning body and spatiality in German film history, how gay and queer epistemologies respond to and offer viable alternatives to the modern alt-right "manosphere", and how performativity and architecture of social organization emphasize ways we can rethink art and media.
