He holds a PhD in German Studies from Cornell University (2016) and an M.A. in Comparative Literature from Binghamton University (2009). Johannes currently works on a monograph on the eighteenth-century fascination with attention, which excavates a transdisciplinary discourse on Aufmerksamkeit (attention) that was critical both to early scientific method and to the emergence of aesthetics as a discipline from Baumgarten to Herder. Published projects in this context include articles on Johann Jakob Breitinger’s poetics of attention and on the concept of contingency at the intersection of eighteenth-century cosmology and poetics.