Robert C. Abbott Jr.

Undergraduate Institution: St. John’s College, Annapolis (2004)

Intellectual Interests: the genre of the elegy in the Greek and German traditions; myths of the origin of culture (Herodotus, René Girard); the German reception of Greek culture post-Winckelmann (Goethe, Hölderlin); Rilke; Nietzsche; Schiller  

Dissertation Topic and Committee: The Work of Mourning in Rilke’s Duineser Elegien; David Wellbery (chair), Eric Santner, Adam Zagajewski