Spencer Hadley

IES Graduate Fellow 2025-26
Spencer Hadley (he/him/his) is a PhD candidate in the Department of German Studies. His dissertation project carries the provisional heading “Jazz Poetry in German Keys: Race, Gender, Sound and Transnational Exchange Since 1945.” It involves 20th and 21st century German-language poetry, prose and performance and is informed by Literary and Cultural Studies, (Jazz and Popular) Music and Sound studies, and Black European Studies.