CURRENT GRADUATE
STUDENTS
Ena Jung is a Ph.D. student in Comparative Literary Studies and German. Her interests include: lyric poetry, diacritical marks,
detective fiction, early German cinema (especially Fritz Lang), experimental film and
theater, and French theory. More information on Ena...
Gregory
Flanders is a Ph.D. student
in the German Literature and Critical Thought program.
He recently completed his M.A. at the University of Paris
VIII St.-Denis, entitled "La naissance
de la solitude moderne: etude critique et généalogique".
His research interests include the relationship between
solitude and early modernist fiction, fin de siècle
aesthetics, and various conceptions of the subject at the
end of the nineteenth century. More information on Greg...
Joel
Morris is in the Ph.D. program
in Comparative Literary Studies and German. Joel received
his B.A. in Comparative Literature from Colorado College
and an M.A. in Comparative Literature from the University
of Colorado. His interests include German literature and
critical thought; art history/photography and issues concerning
image and narrative; “modernism” in the 20th
century novel and film; and 20th century Irish literature. . More information on Joel...
Steven
Tester is a Ph.D. student
in the German department. He completed his B.A. in English
Literature at the University of Oregon and has since taken
courses in Philosophy and Comparative Literature at DePaul
University, Charles University in Prague and Johann Wolfgang
Goethe University in Frankfurt. His interests include problems
of Temporality, Hermeneutics and Illusion in Phenomenology,
Critical Theory and Aesthetics. More information on Steve...
Julia
Ng is a Ph.D. student in the
program of Comparative Literature and German. She received
her
B.A. and M.A.
in German and Comparative Literature from UCLA, and studied
at the Humboldt and Freie Universities in Berlin before
arriving at Northwestern. Her main research interest
is in urban theory. More
information on Julia...
Anna
Glazova is a Ph.D. student in Comparative Literature
and German. Currently, she is working on her dissertation
thesis
on Paul Celan as Osip Mandelshtam's interpreter – in
both meanings of the word. More information on Anna...
Paul
North is a Ph.D. student
in German and Comp Literature. Areas of interest include
ancient Greek literature and philosophy; Latin American
literature;
the history of aesthetics; Romanticism; and German critical
thought. His dissertation traces the implications of
a problem in Kafka and Borges. More information on Paul...
Robert
Ryder entered into the program in 2001 as a student of
Comparative Literature and German. His
research interests include music and literature, German
critical thought and early German film. His dissertation
will focus on acoustics and the uncanny in early twentieth-century
German literature and film. More information on Rob...
Michael
Koch is a Ph.D. candidate
in German Literature and Critical Thought. His dissertation
topic addresses the representations of angels in early
20th century literature and art as an expression of the
Absolute. Consequently, his academic attention has recently
been on Rainer Maria Rilke, Paul Klee, Georg Trakl, and
Walter Benjamin. His scholarly interests lie primarily
in German Expressionism, particularly the issue of Doppelbegabung,
although Heinrich von Kleist also holds a special place
in his heart. More information on Michael...
Ananda
Satya Spike is a
Ph.D. student in the German Literature and Critical Thought
program. She received her B.A in Philosophy from the
University of California, San Diego and her M.A. in Philosophy
from
DePaul University. She has also studied at the Freie
University in Berlin. Her main research interest is in
Hoelderlin and Nietzsche. More information on Ananda...
Daniel
Nolan is a Ph.D. student
in Comparative Literary Studies and German. His areas
of
interest include romanticism, German idealism, phenomenology
and theory of prose. He is now working on a dissertation
on Evgenii Abramovich Baratynskii and Heinrich von Kleist. More information on Dan...
Markus
Hardtmann is a Ph.D.
student in Comparative Literary Studies and German. He
is currently
writing a dissertation on logic, language, and literary
form in Robert Musil's writings.His research
interests include literary theory, aesthetics, analytical
and continental philosophy, as well as German and Comparative
Literature. More information on Markus...
FORMER
GRADUATE STUDENTS
CATHERINE GRIMM__MCathie Grimm completed her dissertation on Novalis (Der Mensch --
Metapher: Temporality, Identity, and the Concept of Language in the
Works of Friedrich von Hardenberg) in 1998. She taught at the University
of Notre Dame and Wabash College and has been an Assistant Professor of
German at Albion College in Albion, Michigan since 2003. At Albion she
teaches all levels of German language and culture, a popular first year
seminar on European fairy tales (with a name like Grimm…) and an Honors
course on European Romanticism and American Transcendentalism. Besides
doing research and serving on various committees, she is slowly getting
used to the idea of being a Michiganian. Email
and webpage.
MARTIN
KLEBES__MMartin
Klebes completed his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature (based
in German Literature and Critical Thought) in 2003. Part
of his dissertation, "Remembering Failure:
Philosophy and the Form of the Novel," was
the basis for his book Wittgenstein’s
Novels (Routledge, 2006) that discusses
the impact of Wittgenstein's work on four contemporary
German and French writers (Thomas Bernhard,
W.G.
Sebald, Jacques Roubaud, Ernst-Wilhelm Händler).
Martin taught at Kenyon College and at the University
of New Mexico before taking his current position at the
Unviversity of Oregon. He is also the translator of Händler's
literary debut City
with Houses and contributing co-editor
of parapluie,
an electronic journal devoted to cultures, arts,
and literatures. Contact him here.
JOSEPH
SUGLIA___Joseph
Suglia earned a Ph.D. in Comparative Literary (based
in German Literature and Critical Thought) in 2002. Since
that time, he has published a scholarly book, Hölderlin
and Blanchot on Self-Sacrifice, and twenty-one essays
in contemporary literature and literary theory. In addition
to his scholarly accomplishments, he is also a writer of
experimental and narrative fiction. His first novel is
slated for release in March 2006.
RICHARD
BLOCK___Richard
Block earned his PhD in 1998 with a dissertation entitled "The
Spell of Italy: The Goethe Effect and the German Literary
Imagination." After spending four years in the Department
of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University
of Colorado at Bolder with a joint appointment in Comparative
LIterature, Richard joined the faculty of the University
of Washington in the Department of Germanics in the fall
of 2004 where he will also work closely with the Jewish
Studies Program.
