Peter Metzel, a Teaching Fellow in the Humanities since 2023, teaches in the Germanic Studies Department and the College. He completed his dissertation, Dramaturgie des Bürgerkrieges: Schiller, Grillparzer, Hebbel, at the University of Chicago in 2023. His work explores the intersection of literary studies, political philosophy, and the history of social life. In his current research, he investigates spatial representations of natural law problems in drama from the seventeenth century to the present, including focuses on off-stage representations of social exclusion, stagings of collective self-recognition, boundaries between social and natural worlds, and cross-media symbolizations of gender conflict. He is also working on an article that traces the history of the term "global civil war," linking its origins to the conservative reaction against the French Revolution and examining its resurgence in the post-Cold War era in light of this new genealogy. Additionally, he maintains a long-term research interest in the impact of the Haitian Revolution on the European imagination of Human Rights. Recently taught courses include Theaters of Revolution. German Drama 1789-1918, Lyrik und Krieg, and Human Being and Citizen (Humanities Core).