About Emmett
Emmet Baumgarten completed a BA in Classics at Furman University in 2019, where he was awarded the John S. Murray Greek prize twice and inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. He studied German the following summer in a total immersion program at Middlebury College. Before enrolling at IU, Emmett worked for the Indiana University network as an accessibility analyst. He has collaborated in the digital humanities Homer Multitext project, leading Furman University’s manuscripts research group for several years, and he has presented his contributions to the project at the Center for Hellenic Studies in DC as well as at the 2018 Digital Humanities conference in Mexico City. Alongside teaching, Emmett works for Second Language Studies as a TEPAIC exam reviewer.
Emmett's current academic interests include the ETA Hoffmann's der Sandmann, 17th-19th century european psychology, emergent narratives as a language education tool, and New Sensationalist Chinese writers (施蟄存 in particular) who were influenced by Freud (Emmett is currently learning Chinese in part to explore this further).
In his leisure, Emmett is fervently committed to his hot pilates fitness regiment. Beyond that, he enjoys a good board game, cooking elaborate meals, artistic endeavors (ceramics, painting miniatures), foreign films, dark fantasy manga, and soccer.
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