DEPARTMENT OF GERMAN

Placement

Placement Record in the Graduate Program in German Literature and Critical Thought, including students who graduated from the Program in Comparative Literary Studies with a “home department” in German

• Wiebke Bullermann (PhD 2021)
  “Die Auswirkungen von Migration, Flucht und Asyl auf Heimat und Identität in der deutsch-arabischen Migrationsliteratur”
  Current Position: Project manager and strategist for Peta Germany in Berlin

•  Jan Cao (PhD 2021)
  “Transplanting Languages: Botanical Poetics of Paul Celan and Yoko Tawada”
  Current Position: Junior Research Fellow at the Si-Mian Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Assistant Professor in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at East China Normal University in Shanghai

• Jonas Rosenbruck (PhD 2020)
  “The Smell of Language: Messianism and Olfactory Poetics in Modernity”
  Current Position:  Assistant Professor of German, Amherst College

• Nadav Avruch (PhD 2019)
  “Occasions of Underground: German Miners and Moles on the Essence of Ground (ca. 1780–1920)”
  Current Position: Translator at Yad Vashem, Jerusalem

• Sonia Li (PhD 2018)
  “Secretaries of the Negligible: Reading Animals in Kafka and Coetzee”
  Current Position: Associate Product Manager, Mentor Collective

• Frederike Tevebring (PhD 2017)
  “Unveiling Baubo: The Making of an Ancient Myth”
  Current Position: British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, King’s College London

• Clemens Ackermann (PhD 2017)
  “Writing as a Continuation of War by other Means: Ernst Jünger in Weimar Germany”
  Current Position: Forschungskoordination Internationalisierung at ARENA2036, Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

• Henrik S. Wilberg (2016)
  “Language before Critique: Figures of Aesthetics from Leibniz to Herder”
  Current Position: Assistant Professor, University of Miami

• Benjamin Robinson (PhD 2016)
  “Bureaucratic Fanatics in the Work of Kleist, Melville, Conrad, and Kafka”
  Current Position: Assistant Professor of German, NYU

• Steven Tester (PhD 2013)
  “Georg Christoph Lichtenberg: Reflections on Knowledge Nature and the Self”
  Current Position: Lecturer in Philosophy, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

• Julia Chi Yan Ng (PhD 2012)
  “Conditions of Impossibility: Failure and Fictions of Perpetual Peace”
  Current Position: Senior Lecturer in Critical Theory, Goldsmiths, University of London

• Daniel Nolan (PhD 2010)
  “Exhibiting Candor: Public Exposure in the Works of Heinrich von Kleist and Evgenii Baratynskii”
  Current Position: Assistant Professor of German Studies, University of Minnesota-Duluth

• Michael Koch (PhD 2009)
  “Here and Now: The Immanence of Rilke's Angel”
  Current Position: Instructor, Marquette University

• Rob Ryder (PhD 2009)
  “Hearing Otherwise: The Acoustical Unconscious from Walter Benjamin to Alexander Kluge”
  Current Position: Assistant Professor of Instruction, Northwestern University

• Amy Zumfelde (PhD 2009)
  “Surviving Survival: Trauma, Testimony and Text in Slavery and Holocaust Fictional Narratives”
  Current Position: Professor of Modern Languages, Oakton Community College

• Anna Glazova (PhD 2008)
  “Counter-Quotation: The defiance of poetic tradition in Paul Celan and Osip Mandelstam”
  Current Position Poet, literary, scholar, freelance translator, and editor

• Paul North (PhD 2007)
  “A Drawback of Thought: The Concept of Distraction in Benjamin, Heidegger, Kafka”
  Current Position: Professor and Chair of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Yale University

• Christopher Reid (PhD 2006)
  “Invested Identities: The economics of Self-Development in the ‘Bildungsroman’”
  Current Position:  Founder/CEO LanguagePilot GmbH

• Anthony Adler (PhD 2005)
  “The Rule of Nature: Dance, Physiocracy, and Poetic Language in Hölderlin's Hyperion”
  Current Position: Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Yonsei University's Underwood International College, Seoul, South Korea

• Martin Klebes (PhD 2003)
  “Remembering Failure: Philosophy and the Form of the Novel”
  Current Position: Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Oregon

• Colin Benert (PhD 2002)
  “Coming to Terms with Music: Music, Memory, Language, and the Crucible of Interiority in Germany in the 1790”
  Current Position: Associate Instructional Professor, Department of Germanic Studies, University of Chicago

• Catherine Grimm (PhD 1998)
  “Der Mensch—Metapher: Temporality, Identity, and the Concept of Language in the Works of Friedrich von Hardenberg (Novalis)”
  Current Position: Assistant Teaching Professor of German, Miami University

• Richard Block (PhD 1998)
  “The Spell of Italy: The Goethe Effect and the German Literary Imagination”
  Current Position: Professor of German Studies, University of Washington