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Bastian Lasse received his BA in German studies, with minors in history and pedagogy (2015), and his MA in literary studies (2018) at Bielefeld University. He has been pursuing his PhD at Harvard University's Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, with a secondary field in women, gender, and sexuality studies, since 2018. His publications on topics related to narratology, postcolonial and gender studies focus on texts from German realism, modernism, and late modernism. His dissertation, entitled Erzählweisen des Vergessens: Ellipsen im Roman von Theodor Fontane bis W.G. Sebald, investigates the interconnections of literature, forgetting, and memory projects from the late nineteenth to the end of the twentieth century.