Graduate: Alumni Profiles
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- Sandra Berjan (
PhD 2019)
Dissertation: The Neuro-Poetics of Pain: Human Physiology in Haller and Lessing
Director: Peter Fenves Joanthan Agins (PhD 2019)
Dissertation:Im Gefilz von Kräften: The Language of Force in Robert Musil's Der Mannohne Eigenschaften
Director: Peter Fenves- Sonia Li (
PhD 2018)
Dissertation: Secretaries of the Negligible: Reading Animals in Kafka and Coetzee
Director: Anna Parkinson
Current Position: Associate Product Manager, Mentor Collective - Frederike Tevebring (
PhD 2017)
Dissertation: Unveiling Baubo: The Making of an Ancient Myth
Director(s): Peter Fenves and Marianne Hopman (co-chairs) Ann Gunter (committee member)
Current Position: France Yates postdoctoral Fellow at the Warburg Institute in London
Initial Position: Visiting Assistant Professor of Instruction, Northwestern University - Clemens Ackermann (
PhD 2017)
Dissertation: Writing as a Continuation of War byother Means: Ernst Jünger in Weimar Germany
Director: Jörg Kreienbrock
Current Position: Forschungskoordination Internationalisierung at ARENA2036, Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany (clemensackermann@outlook.com) - Henrik S. Wilberg (2016)
Dissertation: Language before Critique: Figures of Aesthetics from Leibniz to Herder
Director: Sam Weber
Current Position: Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota-Morris - Benjamin Robinson (
PhD 2016)
Dissertation: Bureaucratic Fanatics in the Work of Kleist, Melville, Conrad, and Kafka
Director: Peter Fenves
Current Position: Universitätsassistent (Postdoc), University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Initial Position: ICI-Berlin - Saein Park (
PhD 2015)
Dissertation: Genealogies of Lumpen: Waste, Humans, and Lives from Heine to Benjamin
Director: Peter Fenves
Current Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz - Christian Pinawin (
PhD 2014)
Dissertation: The poetics of function. On the concept of literature in the writings of Robert Musil.
Dissertation Committee: Peter Fenves, Samuel Weber, Jörg Kreienbrock - Ena Jung (PhD 2013)
Dissertation: Punctuation and Mimesis in Heinrich von Kleist, Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Thomas Bernhard, and Konrad Bayer
Dissertation Committee: Peter Fenves, Samuel Weber, Jörg Kreienbrock, Betsy Erkkila - Steven Tester (PhD 2013)
Dissertation: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg: Reflections on Knowledge Nature and the Self
Director(s): Peter Fenves and Rachel Zuckert
Also:PhD , Philosophy, Humboldt-Universitätzu Berlin (2014)
Dissertation: Kant's Metaphysics of Mind and Rational Psychology
Director(s): Rolf-Peter Horstmann and Rachel Zuckert
Current Position: Adjunct Lecturer, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Philosophisches Seminar - Julia Chi Yan Ng (
PhD 2012)
Dissertation: Conditions of Impossibility: Failure and Fictions of Perpetual Peace
Directors: Peter Fenves and Sam Weber
Current Position: Lecturer (tenured assistant professor), English and Comparative Literature, Goldsmiths, University College London
Initial Position: Harvard - Daniel Nolan (
PhD 2010)
Dissertation: Exhibiting Candor: Public Exposure in the Works of Heinrich von Kleist and Evgenii Baratynskii
Director: Peter Fenves
Current Position: Assistant Professor of German Studies, University of Minnesota Duluth - Koch Michael (
PhD 2009)
Dissertation: Here and Now: The Immanence of Rilke's Angel
Dissertation Committee: Rainer Rumold, Sam Weber, Volker Dürr
Current Position: Visiting Instructor, Marquette University - Rob Ryder (
PhD 2009)
Dissertation: Hearing Otherwise: The Acoustical Unconscious from Walter Benjamin to Alexander Kluge
Director: Sam Weber
Current Position: Visiting Assistant Professor of Instruction, Northwestern University
Initial Position: Justus-Liebig-University in Giessen, Germany) - Amy Zumfelde (
Phd 2009)
Dissertation: Surviving Survival: Trauma, Testimonyand Text in Slavery and Holocaust Fictional Narratives.
Director: Julia Stern
Current Position: Professor of Modern Languages, Oakton Community College - Anna Glazova (
PhD 2008)
Dissertation: Counter-Quotation: The defiance ofpoetic tradition in Paul Celan and Osip Mandelstam
Dissertation Committee: Peter Fenves, Rainer Rumold, Sam Weber, Werner Hamacher
Current Position: Literary scholar, freelance translatorand editor
Previous positions: Cornell, Johns Hopkins, Rutgers - Paul North (
PhD 2007)
Dissertation: A Drawback of Thought: The Concept of Distraction in Benjamin, Heidegger, Kafka
Director: Peter Fenves
Current Position: Professor of Germanic Languages & Literatures, Yale University
Initial Position: NYU - Christopher Reid (
PhD 2006)
Dissertation: Invested identities: The economics of self-development in the "Bildungsroman "
Director: Volker Dürr
Current Position: Founder/CEO LanguagePilot GmbH (January 2018)
Initial position: Purdue University; Center for European Studies (CES); Harvard, Freelancer academic translator, 2011 to 2017 - Anthony Adler (
PhD 2005)
Dissertation: The Rule of Nature: Dance, Physiocracy, and Poetic Language in Hölderlin's Hyperion
Director: Peter Fenves
Current Position: Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Yonsei University's Underwood International College, Seoul, Korea
Other positions: University of Colorado at Boulder, Loyola University - Martin Klebes (
PhD 2003)
Dissertation: Remembering Failure: Philosophy and the Form of the Novel
Director: Helmut Müller-Sievers
Current Position: Associate Professor, University of Oregon
Initial positions: Kenyon College andUniversity of New Mexico - Colin Benert (
PhD 2002)
Dissertation: Coming to Terms with Music: Music, Memory, Language, and the Crucible of Interiority in Germany in the 1790’
Dissertation Committee members: Samuel Weber, Helmut Müller-Sievers, Peter Fenves
Current Position: Lecturer in Germanic Studies, University of Chicago
Initial Position: Yale - Catherine Grimm (
PhD 1998)
Dissertation: Der Mensch --Metapher : Temporality, Identity, and the Concept of Language in the Works of Friedrich von Hardenberg (Novalis)
Directors: Géza von Molnár and Peter Fenves
Current Position: Lecturer in German, Miami University
Initial Position: Notre Dame - Richard Block (
PhD 1998)
Dissertation: The Spell of Italy: The Goethe Effect and the German Literary Imagination.
Director: Géza von Molnár
Current Position: Associate Professor of Germanics, University of Washington
Initial Position: University of Colorado