DEPARTMENT OF GERMAN

Alexa received her B.A. in Philosophy from Humboldt University in Berlin. She then pursued an M.A. in Philosophy at Humboldt University and an M.A. in Interdisciplinary Research on Antisemitism at the Technical University of Berlin. Alexa also worked for three years as an educator at the Jewish Museum Berlin. For her master's thesis, she examined Walter Benjamin's concept of Eingedenken in his later writings as a specific form of remembrance and a critique of reified forgetting. Her current research builds on this, focusing on his concept of translation and its connection to psychoanalytic conceptions of memory and language. Alexa's research interests include feminist philosophy, social philosophy, psychoanalysis, aesthetics, and the philosophy of language.