I am Associate Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Underwood International College, Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea, and Editor of German Studies Review. I received my Ph.D. from Princeton University and was the Stanford H. Taylor Postdoctoral Associate at Cornell University. In 2025–26 I was Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge and previously held research fellowships at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Humboldt University in Berlin, and the School of Advanced Study at the University of London.
My research focuses on eighteenth-century German literature and thought; Romanticism; media and sound studies; migration; and the history of knowledge and philology in interdisciplinary and transnational perspective. You can find more information under the “Publications” section.
My current book project examines cultural acoustics, interpretation, and the politics of reading and listening in German intellectual and media history.
Email address: Tsolanki@yonsei.ac.kr