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Margaret Strair is a Lecturer of German at ½ñÈÕ³Ô¹Ï. She received her Ph.D. in 2022 from the University of Pennsylvania with a dissertation on synesthesia and intermediality in the literature of German Romanticism, as well as certificates in Cinema/​Media Studies and College Teaching. Her research interests include the inter-arts, visual and scientific culture, German literature and philosophy in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and foreign language pedagogy. She is currently an assistant editor of the . Her research and writing have appeared in or are forthcoming in Unterrichtspraxis, The Goethe Yearbook, The German Quarterly, The Language Educator, and in edited volumes on anti-Idealism, German Romanticism, and New German Cinema. 

Since Fall 2019, she has been teaching in the Bi-Co, offering courses at all levels on language, literature, and culture. In addition to Elementary and Intermediate German, her recent seminars have included: Sinn und Wahnsinn: Literatur, Kunst und Medizin in der Literatur des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts; Die Schatten der deutschen Romantik: Literatur und Wissenschaft; Seeing and Being Seen: Vision and Visuality in the German Middle Ages; Die Goethezeit/The Age of Goethe; Advanced German: Deutsche Märchen; Haunting Encounters: Ghosts in the 18th and 19th Century; The Letter, the Spirit and Beyond: Jewish Culture in German Literature and Thought in the 18th and 19th Centuries; and  "Under Surveillance: Literature and Visual Culture from the Enlightenment to the Present.