Daniel Nolan is a Ph.D. student in Comparative Literary Studies and German. He completed a BA in Philosophy at the University of Michigan and then spent a year learning Russian at the Humboldt University in Berlin. After more Russian training in Minsk and St. Petersburg he came to Northwestern where he is now working on a dissertation on Evgenii Abramovich Baratynskii and Heinrich von Kleist. The dissertation follows these authors' engagement with the jouralistic press in the first half of the nineteenth century. Baratynksii and Kleist serve as exemplary cases for study of the emerging literary public. Dan's areas of specialization include Romanticism, German idealism, phenomenology, literary publicity, and critical theory. He recently spent a year studying French literary criticism in Paris. He spent last year teaching courses on Kleist and literary theory at the University of Mannheim while also conducting research on the dissertation in Heidelberg.