We welcome our incoming students (Autumn 2013)

  • Daniel Carranza - Daniel received his B.A. at Reed College and is currently completing a Fulbright Teaching Assistantship in Konstanz. He is interested in the poetry and poetics of the long eighteenth-century, theories of rhythm, and the tradition of philosophical aesthetics from Kant to Adorno.
  • Emily Dreyfus - Emily received her B.A. from the University of Oxford in Classics and German in 2011. For the past two years she has been a Hanseatic scholar at Göttingen University completing her M.A. in Comparative Literature. Her current academic interests include sites of literary, musical and artistic exchange in the 19th and 20th century, the reception of Greek lyric poetry in German, and the question of Orientalism in the works of Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Arthur Schnitzler.
  • Jessica Resvick - Jessica received her Sc.B. in German Studies and Neuroscience from Brown University in 2011, and is currently finishing up her M.A. in Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College. Her interests include 20th century German, Austrian, and Russian literature and theory, in particular the works of Bachmann, Freud, Benjamin, Nabokov, and Shklovsky.
  • Noah Zeldin - Noah received his B.M. in Composition at Northwestern University and currently lives in Vienna, where he studies Comparative Literature and works as a translator. His scholarly interests include phenomenology, 20th century literature and German-Jewish writers.

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Welcome

The Department of Germanic Studies at the University of Chicago is made up of a small group of core faculty members working at the cutting edge of literary and cultural studies. They bring together expertise in literary history, intellectual history, literary and cultural theory, the German philosophical tradition, opera, theater and performance studies, cinema studies, psychoanalysis, and visual studies. The department has also recently developed considerable strengths in Scandinavian Studies and Yiddish language and literature.

The faculty and students are supported in their work—in large part through team-teaching--by an extraordinary constellation of resource faculty, scholars working with German materials across the disciplines: philosophy, history, theater studies, musicology, art history, history of science, sociology, religious studies, and political theory. There may, for example, be no better place in the world to study German Idealism or German-Jewish intellectual history than the University of Chicago.

Department Chronik

Recent and forthcoming contributions of all department members to the field of Germanic Studies.

June 15-16, 2013

Bastian Reinert. Talk: "Speechgrilles of the Shoah. Celan Between Translating and Being Translated." Conference: Translating Holocaust Literature. Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. 

May 23, 2013

Arata Takeda. Talk: “Aristotle on Mimesis and Violence: Hidden Things since the Foundation of Literary Theory.” Conference: Politics, Violence and the Sacred. University of Central Lancashire, Preston, United Kingdom.

April 10, 2013
Jan Lazardzig. Talk: "Théatre à machine - Die Maschine als Spektakel bei Leibniz und Ménestrier." Conference: "Barocktheater als Spektakel." Eikones NFS Bildkritik / NCCR Iconic Criticism. Basel, Switzerland.
April 4-6, 2013

Peter Erickson. Talk: "Wieland's 'Geheime Geschichte der Danae': Contrasting Models of the Self." Conference: American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Cleveland, Ohio.

Ongoing Events

Alternating Wednesdays at 2pm in Judd 313
Alternating Thursdays at 4:30pm in Foster 305
Alternating Mondays at 4:30 pm, Logan Center Terrace Seminar Room (801)
Wednesdays at 11:30 am in Cobb 500

Awards

Anthony Mahler has been awarded a Stuart Tave/Whiting Teaching Fellowship for 2013-2014.

Bastian Reinert has received a Graduate Student Fellowship Award from the Nicholson Center for British Studies to conduct research in the British Isles in 2013, December 2012.

Eric L. Santner has been named the Philip and Ida Romberg Distinguished Service Professor in Germanic Studies and the College, August 2012.

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