Jacob Denz is a fifth-year PhD student in the Department of German at New York University, where his dissertation focuses on the relationship between law and feeling in nineteenth-century literary prose. He has published an article in MLN on address to an absent maternal figure in several poems by Friedrich Hölderlin. Jacob enjoys teaching in the German language and Core Curriculum programs at NYU and is an organizer with the Graduate Student Organizing Committee (GSOC), United Auto Workers Local 2110, currently the only union representing graduate teaching and research assistants at a private university in the United States.
