Charles Campbell (he/him) joined the department in 2020 with a B.A. from Bowdoin College (2017) in German Literature. He has also studied at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and served as an English Teaching Assistant in Dresden on a Fulbright Grant in 2017-2018.
His undergraduate honors thesis challenged the legacy of Frank Wedekind as a progressive, countercultural icon based on new readings of his depictions of women and non-normative sexuality and examined Wedekind’s influence on the early work of Bertolt Brecht. In addition to gender and sexuality in fin de siècle and modernist drama, he has also explored twentieth-century literature, visual art, film and drama through various theoretical frameworks such as queer theory, adaptation studies, trauma studies, psychoanalysis, sexology, phenomenology, embodiment theory, postcolonialism, and disability studies.
At present, Charles’ dissertation explores the intersection between adaptation and corporeality in postwar German-language film, literature, poetry, and drama by utilizing a term from psychoanalysis to discuss the nuance of underlying intertextual dynamics through aesthetically represented bodies: incorporation. He also is active in honing various pedagogical methods for foreign language instruction while also working with local theaters in Chicago.
Teaching Experience:
Elementary German for Beginners 1 (GRMN 10100, Autumn 2021)
Elementary German for Beginners 2 (GRMN 10200, Winter 2022)
Elementary German for Beginners 3 (GRMN 10300, Spring 2022)
Drama und Film: German Expressionism (GRMN 21203, Winter 2024)
Writing Gender (GRMN 35524, Spring 2024, as Course Assistant)