Ariana Croese

Ariana Croese joined the German department at Princeton in Fall 2025. Her research interests include interwar German and Italian literature, with a focus on the crisis of modernity following World War I and its representation in the Bildungsroman. Additionally, she is interested in post-WWII German poetry as well as the influence of Dante’s Commedia on Thomas Mann. Ariana graduated summa cum laude from Cornell University with a double major in German Studies and Italian. She was a Rawlings Cornell Presidential Research Scholar from her sophomore through senior years. Beyond her academic work, Ariana is an emerging poet and regularly participates in critique seminars and writing circles. Prior to beginning her Ph.D. studies at Princeton, she worked as a Portuguese- and Spanish-speaking research manager at an international consulting firm.