Dennis Schäfer is a writer, scholar, and book collector who has been a Ph.D. student at Princeton University. Dennis is interested in media cultures from the late 18^th to the early 20^th century and has a particular focus on the literature and legacy of German Romanticism.

His academic essays and book reviews have appeared, or are slated to appear, in a variety of periodicals (e.g. E.T.A. Hoffmann-Jahrbuch, Goethe Jahrbuch, Zeitschrift für deutsche Philologie) and he co-edited special issues in Das achtzehnte Jahrhundert and the Publications of the English Goethe Society as well as an anthology on E.T.A. Hoffmann adaptations. In the past, he has been a fellow with the Goethe Gesellschaft Weimar, the Klassik Stiftung Weimar and the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz and received Princeton’s 2023 Research Prize.

Since 2022, Dennis has been examining the Bettina von Arnim estate at the Morgan Library & Museum. He will dedicate his time as a Wiepersdorf Fellow to make his research on the Arnim Family Archive more publicly accessible.