Gregory Flanders is a Ph.D. student in the German Literature and Critical Thought program. He recently completed his M.A. at the University of Paris VIII St.-Denis, entitled "La naissance de la solitude moderne: etude critique et généalogique". He has received a B.A. in linguistics from the Sorbonne (Paris IV) and in German literature from the University of Iowa. He also studied two years at the Albert-Ludwig Universität in Freiburg, Germany. His research interests include the relationship between solitude and early modernist fiction, fin de siècle aesthetics, and various conceptionsof the subject at the end of the nineteenth century.