About
Luci joined the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures in 2021. They are an activist scholar whose personal politics and community engagement drives much of their research interests. Their current research focuses on antifascism, nationalism, transnational resistance to state oppression, and their respective aesthetics. Other interests include the works of Peter Weiss, poetry, biopolitics, anti-historicism, and the use of Terror Management Theory to approach questions in historiography and literary studies.
Before attending the University of Michigan, Luci earned their B.A. with high honors in German and International Studies (focus European Studies) with a minor in Political Science from the University of Missouri--Columbia. Luci has studied abroad in Prague and received the Benjamin A. Gilman Scholarship for study in Berlin and Leipzig, Germany. Academic-based travel to Vietnam in 2020 has also influenced their language and studies focus areas. Their undergraduate thesis, “A Genealogy of Resistance: Examining the Historical Representation of the Schulze-Boysen/Harnack Group in German Memory Cultures,” focuses on historical representations of antifascist resistance to state oppression based on ideological and nationalist frameworks from 1945-present, and interrogates the construction of memory cultures and mythologies by Nation-States.