Leonie Wilms

Leonie earned her B.A. in German Studies with a minor in Rhetoric from the University of Tübingen. She first came to UNC as an exchange student in 2016 and joined the CDG program the following year. Her research focuses on the aesthetic politics of strong negative emotions in drama and theater of the 20^th and 21^st century. Her dissertation examines anger and compassion in Bertolt Brecht’s epic theater; hate, media, and violence in plays by Elfriede Jelinek and Milo Rau; and female and queer rage and revenge in plays by Sivan Ben Yishai and Ewald Palmetshofer. Leonie is a recipient of the Dissertation Completion Fellowship awarded by the UNC Graduate School for the academic year 2023/24. An article on Bertolt Brecht in Monatshefte is forthcoming.