Graduate Committee, 2022-2023
Collaboration between students and academics is at the heart of the White Rose Project. We therefore have a graduate committee as well as undergraduate members of the project. This year’s graduate committee will be supervising the undergraduate translation project and co-organising commemoration events for the 80th anniversary of the White Rose trials.
Ro Crawford joined the White Rose project as an undergraduate translator in its inaugural year and has been a member of the Graduate Committee since the 2021/22 academic year. Having completed BA and MSt degrees at Oxford, they are currently pursuing a DPhil in German Literature, focussing on the works of Klaus Mann. Ro is excited to help raise awareness of and engagement with the White Rose group and to help design the next stages of the project.
Ningxuan (Sophia) Dong is currently pursuing an M.Phil. in Modern Languages at Wadham College. Her research interest lies in Fin-de-siècle Austrian literature with a focus on gender. During her undergraduate degree, she researched on several Holocaust-related topics including Jewish Diaspora and the influence of gender on IR in Kindertransport. She interned at the Museum of Tolerance where she worked with Holocaust survivors and survivor testimonies. She looks forward to working with the White Rose Project.
Chloe Green is a Clarendon Scholar pursuing an M.St. in Musicology at Somerville College. She recently completed a B.A. in Music at Somerville and is delighted to return to Oxford to continue combining music-making with research. Passionate about engaging creatively with history, Chloe investigates the critical and complex relationships of music and text in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her musicoliterary focus has unfolded in various interdisciplinary contexts, from the Somerville Music Society’s Alternative Canon Project, where she collaborates with members of Somerville and the Faculty of Music to build a diverse and inclusive library of musical scores, to the Ashmolean Museum, where as a Krasis Scholar she explored the theme of ‘Re-use’ in museum collections. Chloe is excited to work with students in analysing, translating, and further circulating the texts of resistance.
Roberto Interdonato is a DPhil candidate in Medieval and Modern Languages at the University of Oxford and a Micheal Pragnell scholar in Modern Languages at St John’s College. Before moving to Oxford, he carried out his undergraduate and graduate studies between Italy, Germany and Austria. His current research interests pertain to the field of 20th century German and Italian-language literatures. His dissertation project aims to investigate light symbolism in the work of Anna Maria Ortese (1914-1998) and Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973). He collaborates with various cultural bodies, such as the German Centre for Venetian Studie