German Studies

Recent Ph.D. Placement

See what recent German Studies Ph.D. Graduates are doing.

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Recent Ph.D. Placement

See what recent German Studies Ph.D. Graduates are doing.

Rebecca Haubrich

2019

Dissertation: Mourning (M)Others: Images of a Maternal Education

Current Position: Managing Director of the “Worlds of Contradiction” research platform at the University of Bremen: https://www.woc.uni-bremen.de/about/.
Stephanie Galasso

2018

Dissertation: Genre and National Identity in German Romanticism

Current Position: Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Germanic, Russian, and Eastern European Language and Literature at Rutgers University
Dennis Johannssen

2017

Dissertation: Unclaimed Language: The Literary Criticism of Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno

Current Position: Assistant Professor of German, Lafayette College
Benjamin Brand

2016

Dissertation: Nebeneinander, Miteinander, Querfeldein: Johann Peter Hebel - Walter Benjamin - W.G. Sebald

Current Position: Visiting Lecturer in German, University of Pittsburgh
Natalie Lozinski-Veach

2016 (Ph.D. in Comparative Literature with German Emphasis)

Dissertation: Creaturely Constellations: Animals, Literature, and Critical Thought after Auschwitz

Current Position: Assistant Professor, School of International Letters and Culture, Arizona State University
Silja Maehl

2016

Dissertation: Poetics of Translation: Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt and Yoko Tawada

Current Position: Editor, Heyne Verlag / Penguin Random House
Michael Powers

2015

Dissertation: Clouds: Walter Benjamin and the Rhetoric of the Image

Current Position: Assistant Professor at Kalamazoo College
Katrin Dettmer

2012

Dissertation: Die Berührung der Toten: Geschichte und Performanz in Heiner Müllers Dramatik

Current Position: Arts Coordinator, NYU Berlin