Gabriela Stoicea holds an M.A. and M.Phil. in German literature from Yale University and is currently at work on a dissertation outlining the influence of physiognomics on narrative techniques and character delineation practices in modern German novels from the late 1770s to the end of the Weimar Republic. Her teaching and research interests fall under the general umbrella of German literature, culture, and intellectual history from the 18th to the 20th centuries, with an emphasis on theories of narrativity and visuality, translation as intercultural communication, as well as the interplay between science and culture, and between politics and culture.