Affiliated Department or Office:
Humanities and Arts
Education:
PhD University of Pennsylvania 2014
MAR Yale Divinity School 2008
BA University of Notre Dame 2006
Daniel DiMassa is a scholar of German literature and culture from the eighteenth century to the present. His research resides at the intersection of literature, religion, and aesthetics in the wake of the Enlightenment, with a particular interest in how literary texts participate in religious and mythical enterprises. His book, Dante in Deutschland: An Itinerary of Romantic Myth (Bucknell/Rutgers), is forthcoming in 2022.
In addition to teaching courses in German language, literature, and film, DiMassa is an avid participant in WPI's Global Projects Program. He has twice advised projects in Switzerland, and once in Thailand. With Prof. Katherine Foo, he co-directs WPI's Berlin Project Center.
Email
ddimassa@wpi.edu
Office Location
Salisbury Labs 106
Scholarly Work
“Varieties of Radical Enlightenment: Secularization as Translation in Goethe’s Autobiography." Religion & Literature 48.1 (Spring 2016): 1-19 - 2016
“Der göttliche Poet. Romantische Selbstmythologisierung in Goethes Terzinen.” Goethe-Jahrbuch 132 (2014): 59-70 - 2014
News
(L-R) President Laurie Leshin, Kylie Dickinson, Sarah St. Pierre, Donald Dione, Tyler Weiss, project advisor Leslie Dodson, Albanian project center co-director Peter Christopher, and IGSD Dean Kent Rissmiller
February 11, 2019