Elise Thora Volkmann is currently in her fourth year in the Department of German with a Designated Emphasis in Film & Media. Elise received her B.A. in German Studies and her B.M. in Voice Performance from the Oberlin College and Conservatory in 2018. After graduating from Oberlin, she attended the Peabody Conservatory at Johns Hopkins University where she received an M.M. in Musicology and Voice Performance. She also holds an M.A. in Germanistik from Middlebury College. Her dissertation explores the concept of Musikalisierung and its use specifically in avant-garde film of the 1920s and early 1930s. Elise argues that the utilization of various musical forms as structuring principles for avant-garde film facilitated narrative innovation, aesthetic experimentation, as well as broader socio-cultural critiques of the interwar period.
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