German for Reading Knowledge

Anne Dymek is currently a lecturer in Germanic languages and literatures at Harvard University. Her research focuses on literary theory, philosophy of language, film, and media.​ Twelve years of teaching across three continents and four disciplines have expanded her perspective and opened worlds. Before joining the faculty at Harvard (in the departments of German and Mind, Brain, Behavior), she taught in the Department of Social Sciences at the American University of Sulaimania Iraq, the Department of Philosophy at Otto-Friedrich Universität Bamberg, the Institut Européen de Cinéma et d'Audiovisuel in Nancy, and the Department of Arts et Sciences de l'Art at Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris 1). Her thinking has evolved through two doctoral studies: a PhD in film philosophy from Université Paris 1 (2013) and a PhD in Germanic languages and literatures from Harvard University (2022). Her research in film explores the semiotic nature of filmic perception and its relationship to the perception of reality. Her literary research expands this exploration into how literature engages cognitive processes—especially imagination, metaphor, and perception—to create immersive and creative worlds in the mind.