Graduate Students

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  • Contemporary German and Italian novels, identity construction, multilingualism, German post-migration literature.

  • 20th Century German Cinema, Gender and Sexuality, Queer Literature, and Culturally Responsive Pedagogy

  • Contemporary literature, Ecocriticism, and Translation

  • · The Transition of Literary Works to Film Adaptations· Female Authors Who Emigrated from Germany to the United States, such as Vicki Baum· 20th Century German Literature

  • Kafka; (urban) ecologies; feminist theory; race studies; disability studies; bodies under pressure; transcultural studies; the long 20th and 19th centuries; food studies; pharmacognosy and Drogenkunde of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; qualities of taste and smell; literature of the German Democratic Republic, Wilhemine Berlin, and the Dual Monarchy; recipe books, plot gardens, Arzneimittel, and Arzneimittelwirkung.

  • Weimar Republic,  Contemporary German Novel,  Foreign Language Pedagogy,  Turkish-German Studies/Migration Literature

  • German literary and intellectual history in the long nineteenth century; German Idealism and Romanticism; German Modernism; Philosophy; Psychoanalysis; Aesthetics; Gender and Sexuality; Comparative Studies in Chinese and Anglophone Literatures