Shira Miron

Shira Miron joined Yale’s German Department in 2018. Her research explores aesthetics as a mode of investigation for human experience and social formation and studies the particularities of different artforms alongside their conceptual and practical cross-pollination. She pursues theoretical questions as they relate to history and culture and vice versa. 

Her dissertation project Composition and Community: The Extra-Musical Imagination of Polyphony 1800/1900/1950 explores the advent of western polyphony as a modern aesthetic, communicative, and ethical phenomenon with impact beyond the field of music.  

 

Shira published in English and German on the relationship between music and literature, German-Jewish literature and culture, visual studies, theories of dialogue and communication, and on a wide range of authors including Novalis, Adorno, and Gertrud Kolmar. Shira holds B.Mus. and M.Mus. degrees in piano performance from the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance. She studied German literature at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and at Freie Universität Berlin. In 2024/5 she is a DAAD research fellow at the Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research (ZfL) in Berlin. 

 

Selected Publications:

 

“Presence as Absence – The Homely and the Unhomely in Jewish Photography under Nazism,” New German Critique 151, 51.1 (2024): 109–142.

 

„Vielfältige Epistemologie, zerlegte Heteronomie. Kleists Erzählen in ›Die heilige Cäcilie oder die Gewalt der Musik,” Kleist-Jahrbuch (2023), 201–226. 

 

„Das Spiel des Helldunkels und die Erfahrung der Polyphonie: Mannigfaltigkeit zwischen und jenseits der Sinne“ Wiener Digitale Revue 3 (2022).

 

„Polyphon gefasstes Weiss – das weiße Papier in Gertrud Kolmars Welten,” Yearbook for European Jewish Literature Studies 6:1, (2019), 207–232