Seraph Strevey graduated with honors from Bryn Mawr College with BAs in English and in German Literature in 2021, and completed their Masters at Georgetown University in German Studies in 2025.  

Their research interests include:
•  German Literature (Medieval & Nineteenth Century) 
•  Mythology, Folklore, and Superstition 
•  Disability Studies 
•  Gender & Sexuality Studies 
•  Medical Humanities 
•  Demonology and the Faust Tradition 
•  Monstrosity Studies 
•  Translation and Transmission Studies 
•  Narrative Theory and Symbolism 
•  Nordic Religions and Germanic Oral Traditions 
•  Adaptation, Allusion, and Reception Studies 
•  Embodiment and Cultural Constructions of Difference 

They hope to be able to continue studying these aspects in their work at the Ohio State University’s Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures while completing their PhD and Specialization, while also pursuing opportunities to engage with new academic concentrations.

Education

The Ohio State University, in progress
Doctor of Philosophy, Germanic Languages and Literatures
Graduate Interdisciplinary Specialization (GIS), Folklore

Georgetown University, 2025
Master of Arts, Department of German

Bryn Mawr College, B.A., 2021, Magna cum laude
Bachelor of Arts, German & English Double Major
German Honors Thesis Publication: "'Dämonendiagnose': Behinderung, Sexismus und Antisemitismus in der mittelalterlichen Monster-Mythologie Nordeuropas" 
Awards: Hester Ann Corner Prize for Best Thesis in a Foreign Language; Berle Memorial Prize for German Literature
English Thesis: “The Bloodthirsty Artist: Vampiric Capitalism & the Death of the Arts in Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive”

Presentations

NeMLA Conference Panel Chair, Moderator, & Presenter, 2025 
Strevey, S., “Exploiting the Prophetess: Kerner’s Seherin and the commodification of feminine mental illness” for “Imagining Hysteria in the German-Speaking Literary Tradition”. NeMLA’s 56th Annual Convention, March 6 2025.

NeMLA Conference Presenter, 2024
Strevey, S., "Literature as the tool of Retraumatization: Obsessional Recollection and Disordered Self-evaluation in Anton Reiser and the Genre of the Case Study” for “Where is the Cognitive Turn Today?”. NeMLA’s 55th Annual Convention, March 9th, 2024.

Panel Moderator & Conference Committee Member, 2023
Graduate Student Conference: “Dissent, Disagreement, and Difference: Understanding Conflict within German Studies”, Hosted by the Georgetown University German Department

BMC Community Day of Learning Panelist, March 2018 & March 2019
Presentation: Refugee Scholars from Nazi Germany to the Tri-Co
Panel: David Cast (Professor, History of Art), Qinna Shen (Chair and Associate Professor of German), S. Strevey '21

Teaching Experience

Instructor of German – Intro II August 2024 – December 2024
Georgetown University German Department

Instructor of German – Intro I January 2024 – July 2024
Georgetown University German Department

Intensive German I TA August 2023 - December 2023
Georgetown University German Department

German Peer Tutor Bryn Mawr College: Peer Tutoring Department
September 2019 - May 2021

German Department Community Film Screenings Host Bryn Mawr College: Department of German Studies
September 2019 - March 2020

Elementary German TA & Substitute Bryn Mawr College: Department of German Studies
September 2018 - May 2019

Stammtisch Language Lunch Host September 2018 - May 2019
Bryn Mawr College Department of German Studies