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2022

Cecilia Sebastian
Critical Theory in Revolt: Angela Davis, Rudi Dutschke, Hans-Jürgen Krahl and the Frankfurt School, 1964-1972

2021

Maximilian Chaoulideer
Figuring Collectivity in the Age of Climate Crisis

Irina Kogan
Taking Sides with the World: Between Politics and Poetics from 1794 to 1960
Current Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, Lafayette College

Tobias Kuehne
Living and Judging: Studies in Pragmatic Reasoning in Philosophy, Literature, and Law

Ido Lewitt (combined Film & Media Studies)
Toward a Media-Technological Approach to Films: Meaning-Making, Objects, and Procedures

Thiti Owlarn
Rethinking Aesthetic Humanism: Schiller after Rancière and Agamben

2020

Anna Alber
The Bourgeois Animal: The Critique of Cultivation in Hoffmann, Nietzsche, and Kafka

Julia Gutterman
Spielarten des Heimlichen: Annette von Droste-Hülshoff wiedergelesen mit Walter Benjamin.
Current Position: Assistant Professor, University of Virginia

2019

Ole Hinz
Die Epoche der Zeitgenossen. Zur historischen Gegenwart von Hegel und Marx bis zum 21. Jahrhundert
Current Position: DAAD-Lektor, University of Oxford

Regina Karl
Manipulations: The Hand as Symbol and Symptom in the Arts and Literature after 1900
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Rutgers University

Susan Morrow
Schematism: Poetics on The Way to Kant, 1760–1790
Current Position: Lector, Yale Germanic Languages and Literatures

2018

Adrian Renner
Erzahltes Leben. Zufall und Moglichkeit im biographischen Roman 1730-1830

Elisa Ronzheimer
Poetologien des Rhyhmus. Versformen um 1800 (Klopstock, Hölderlin, Novalis, Tieck, Goethe)
Current Position: Akademische Rätin a.Z., Comparative Literature, Bielefeld University

Nadine Schwakopf
Poetry Unbound: Sounding the Language of Materiality in the Works of Man Ray, Henri
Chopin and Gerhard Rühm - A Reading through Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Merleau-Ponty
and Kittler
Current Position: Lecturer on Germanic Languges and Literatures, Harvard University

Will Stovall
Prospect for a Lifeworld Interface: A Dissertation on the Institutional Imagination of Jürgen Habermas

2017

Joshua Alvizu
Montage Praxis: Militant Modernism and the German-Soviet Avant-Garde
Current Position: Assistant Professor of German and the Environmental Humanities, University of Maryland
Former: Visiting Assistant Professor, Roanoke College; Adjunct Lecturer, Virginia Tech

Janett Buell
Body, Space, Interaction: Notions of Human Experience in North American and German Media Theory and Popular Culture

Florian Fuchs
The Afterlife of Ars Topica: On the Pragmatism and Agency of Short Narrative Forms
Current Position: Lecturer of German, Princeton University
Former: Lector, Yale Department of Germanic Langauges and Literatures

Jason Kavett
Figures of the Fleeting in Gryphius and Celan: A Study on the Return of the Baroque in Modernity
Current Position: Instructor and Researcher, Department of Foreign Languages, Université Paris
Former: Visiting Assistant Professor, Bard College

2016

Patrick Reagan
The Contested Community: European Auteur Cinema at the Beginning of the 21st Century

2015

Anna Hunt (formerly Henke)
Taking the World by Storm: Forgiveness in Walter Benjamin’s Early Works
Current position: Assistant Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Former: Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, RCHA Postdoctoral Fellow

2014

Hans Lind
Regime der Aisthesis. Zur Medialitaet der Zauberfloete. Schikaneder. Goethe. Walser. Bergman
Current position: Lecturer, Yale University Summer Session

Alexander Gardner
Citation in the Realm of the Deed: Readings of Heine, Buechner, and Celan
Current Position: Professor, Santa Monica College; Professor, Los Angeles Valley College

Jan Claas van Treeck
Walter Serner-Hochstapler: Ein Moderne-Verfahren
Current position: wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Humboldt-Universität Berlin

Martin Wagner
Narrate, Describe, or Observe: Scientific Observation and Narrations of the Visual from Alain-René Lesage to Arthur Conan Doyle.
Current position: Associate Professor of German, University of Calgary
Former: Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Yonsei University, Underwood International College, South Korea

2013

Manuel Clemens
The Labyrinth of Aesthetic Solitude. A Small Theory of Bildung
Current position: Lecturer in Cultural Studies, Universität Vechta
Former: Lecturer, Australian National University; Instructor, Germanic Languages and Literatures Program, Rutgers University; Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter; Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City

2012

Laura J. Bohn
The Habsburg Self? Narrative Perspective and Linguistic Identity in Robert Musil’s Tonka, Herta Müller’s Niederungen and Reisende auf einem Bein, and Terézia Mora’s Alle Tage”.        
Current position: Wheaton College, Visiting Assistant Professor

Jason Groves
Erratic: Fictions of Movement in Goethe, Stifter, and Benjamin.
Current position: University of Washington, Seattle, Assistant Professor of Germanics
Former: Yale University, Postdoctoral Associate in the Integrated Humanities

Jonas Karlsson
Richard Wagner and the Rise of German Anti-Semitism.
Current position: Clark College, Visiting Assistant Professor

Kristina Mendicino
Interrupting the Origin: Hegel, Humboldt and Hölderlin’s Prophecies of Language
Current position: Brown University, Assistant Professor

Bryn M. Savage
Collecting Tradition: Modernity, Material Culture, and German Poetry Anthologies, 1765-1795.
Current position: Seattle, client relations, publishing

Gabriela Stoicea
Narrating Bodies: Physiognomy and Its Afterlife in the German Novel, 1775-1930.
Current position: Associate Professor of German, Clemson University

2011

Nora Gortcheva
Modern Spaces and Cinema: Movie Theaters and City Films in Wilhelmine and Weimar Berlin.

Ansgar Mohnkern
Goethes “Fortgepflanztes” - Metapher. Wiederholung. Reim. Form Studien zur Unbegrifflichkeit.
Current: University of Amsterdam, Assistant Professor

Stewart L. Murrey
Tragic Light and Language: An Exploration of the Mystical Depth and Limits of Hölderlin’s “Second Bacchus”.

Brangwen J. Stone
Heimkehr? Narratives of Return to Central and Eastern Europe in German Literature.
Current position: Macquarie University, Sydney, Tenure Track Position

Ellwood H. Wiggins
To Grasp the Minds of Men: Performing Recognition.
Current position: University of Washington, Seattle, Assistant Professor

2010

Melissa E. Ingersoll
Enlightenment Engendered: Performative Contradictions in the Periodicals of Johann Georg Jacobi, Sophie von La Roche, and Christoph Martin Wieland. 
Current position: High School Teacher, Waldshut-Tiengen, Germany 

2009

Alicia E. Ellis
Gender, Narrative and Revision: An Analysis of Heinrich von Kleist’s Penthesilea and Franz Grillparzer’s Sappho and Medea.
Current position: Colby College, Associate Professor of German
Former: Hampshire College, Assistant Professor of German and Comparative Literature; University of Chicago, Provost’s Postdoctoral Scholar in Germanic Studies (2012-2014)

2008

Martin C. Blumenthal-Barby
Acts of Sovereignty: Müller Kafka Benjamin New German Cinema Arendt.
Current position: Rice University, Assistant Professor

Qinna Shen
From Jacob Grimm to GDR-Witches:  Feminist Witchcraft and Magical Realism in East German Women’s Writing.
Current position: Assistant Professor of German, Bryn Mawr College
Former: Miami University (Ohio), Visiting Assistant Professor; Loyola University Maryland, Visiting Assistant Professor of Chinese and German

Anna C. Souchouk
The Problem with Gemütlichkeit: (De)Constructing Artificial Places in the Novels of Josef Haslinger, Robert Menasse, and Elfriede Jelinek.
Current position: DePaul University, Assistant Professor

2007

Judith G. Benz
Charakterisierung, Funktion und Repräsentation der Artusfigur in Wolframs von Eschenbach Parzival und Adolf Muschgs Der Rote Ritter. Eine Geschichte von Parzivâl.
Current position: Juniata College, Assistant Professor of German

2006

Kristen M. Hylenski
Dance and the Dancer in Early Twentieth Century German Literature:  Hofmannsthal, Wedekind, Hauptmann.
Current position: University of Minnesota Duluth, Assistant Professor

2005

Laura J. Heins
The Domestic War:  Film Melodrama and German Fascism.
Current position: University of Virginia, Assistant Professor

Tessa Lee
The Question of Heimat: Identity and Alterity in Contemporary German Literature and Film.
Current position: Wheaton College, Associate Professor of German, Chair of German Studies

2004

Esther K. Bauer
Geschlechterrollen und begehrte Körper in Romanen Franz Kafkas, Thomas Manns und Vicki Baums.
Current position: Virginia Tech, Assistant Professor

Lisa Silverman
The Transformation of Jewish Identity in Vienna, 1918-1938.
Current position: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies

2003

Jennifer Driscoll Colosimo
Two Representations of the Criminal in the Works of Friedrich Schiller.
Current position: University of Puget Sound, Visiting Assistant Professor

2002

Helen J. Ferstenberg
Meditations on Jewish Creative Identity:  Representations of the Jewish Artist in the Works of German-Jewish Writers from Heine to Feuchtwanger.
Current position: Newcastle University, Teacher