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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 Current Position: Lecturer, The Steve Tisch School of Film and Television, Tel Aviv University
Thiti Owlarn
Rethinking Aesthetic Humanism: Schiller after Rancière and Agamben
Current Position: Visiting Lecturer, University of Washington
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: Assistant Professor, Princeton University
Former: 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: Postdoc, Exzellenzcluster “Temporal Communities” at Freie Universität Berlin
Former: Lecturer of German, Princeton University
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: Visiting Assistant Professor, Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture Former: 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