Raphael Koenig is a Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Literature at Harvard University, and a graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure and the Sorbonne in Paris. Raphael's research focuses on French, German, and Yiddish avant-garde literature and visual culture, more specifically on the reception of the so-called "art of the insane" from the early 1920s to the late 1940s. Raphael is a member of In geveb's Editorial Board
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Raphael Koenig
Harvard University
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Announcing a hybrid avant-garde academic project linking the early 20th century with the early 21st.
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