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Language/Literature
Natalie Bartush (1990-91)
Natalie is the Advising & Outreach Coordinator of the Center for Global Educational Opportunities at the University of Texas at Austin. (6/8/07)
Susan Bernofsky (1995-96)
Susan is a writer, scholar, and literary translator. She is a recent recipient of an NEH grant and Lannan Foundation Residency Award to support her work on a critical biography of the Swiss-German novelist and short prose author Robert Walser, which received previous support from the American Council of Learned Societies. Her book Foreign Words: Translator-Authors in the Age of Goethe appeared in 2005 in the Kritik series from Wayne State University Press. Her translation of Robert Walser's novel The Tanners, which received an NEA Translation Fellowship, is forthcoming in August 2009 from New Directions, and her translation of Yoko Tawada's The Naked Eye appeared with New Directions in May 2009. Other recent translations include Walser's The Assistant (New Directions, 2007), Hesse's Siddhartha (Modern Library, 2006) and The Old Child and Other Stories by Jenny Erpenbeck (New Directions, 2005), which received a 2005 PEN Translation Fund Award and the 2006 Helen and Kurt Wolff Translation Prize. She frequently offers workshops on literary translation, most recently at the Banff International Literary Translation Centre in Banff, Canada (June 2009). Susan graduated from Johns Hopkins University and received a master's degree in fiction writing from Washington University and a doctorate in comparative literature from Princeton. She lives in New York and is at work on a novel set in Germany and in her home town, New Orleans. www.susanbernofsky.com (6/26/09)
Eric Jarosinski (2002-03)
Eric is an Assistant Professor of German at the University of Pennsylvania, where he teaches modern German literature, culture, and theory. He spent his year as a German Chancellor Fellow in Berlin conducting research on the metaphor of "transparency" in new government architecture. He is currently revising his dissertation for book publication (working title "Cellophane Modernity") while beginning a new project on the radio play in Germany and Austria, past and present. In addition to graduate studies in German both at the University of Wisconsin and abroad (Berlin, Frankfurt, Freiburg, Utrecht, and Bonn), he has also worked as a journalist and translator, primarily within the fields of Jewish Studies and psychoanalysis. He has recently published on figures such as Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Siegfried Kracauer, and Vladimir Nabokov. (2/22/09)
Lisa Lampert-Weissig (1996-97)
Lisa is Associate Professor of English Literature and Comparative Medieval Studies in the Literature Department at the University of California, San Diego, where she also now directs the interdisciplinary German Studies program. Her book, Gender and Jewish Difference from Paul to Shakespeare, appeared with the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2004. Her current project, The Once and Future Jew: Narrative, Temporality and Antisemitism, looks at the connections between antisemitism and narrative structures in texts ranging from medieval Grail narratives to the popular contemporary Left Behind series. Sections of the book have recently appeared in Modern Language Quarterly and the Journal of English and Germanic Philology and have also been presented to audiences at Dartmouth College, the Association of Jewish Studies, and the Faculty of English at the University of Belgrade, Serbia. She will also be presenting related work as a keynote speaker at the “De/Constructions of Occidentalism” conference at the Humboldt University in Berlin in June 2007. Her project during the German Chancellor Fellowship Program focused on the German-Jewish writer, Hermann Sinsheimer, who worked with the Jewish Kulturbund in Berlin from 1933-38. She was in Berlin for that year, which followed the completion of her doctorate at UC Berkeley. (4/20/07)
John Parker (1999-00)
John is Associate Professor of English at the University of Virginia. He is the author of The Aesthetics of Antichrist: From Christian Drama to Christopher Marlowe (Cornell, 2007), along with several book chapters and articles. "What a Piece of Work is Man: Shakespearean Drama as Marxian Fetish, the Fetish as Sacramental Sublime," The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 34.3 (Fall 2004): 643-672 summarizes the results of the research he carried out in Berlin as a German Chancellor Fellow. His interests include medieval and Renaissance drama, classics, the New Testament, Patristics, Luther, and German philosophy after Kant -- especially Marx, Nietzsche and Adorno. In 2008-9 he was the recipient of the National Endowment for the Humanities/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Post-Doctoral Rome Prize in Medieval Studies at the American Academy in Rome for a project on the Christianization of Seneca. (6/26/09)
Thomas Pepper (1991-92)
Thomas is an Associate Professor in the Department of Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota. His primary research interests are the histories of western philosophy and of psychoanalysis, Kierkegaard and his effects on twentieth-century thought and literature, gender, the history of criticism, English, French and German lyric poetry, and the contemporary renascence in trauma studies. Thomas spent his German Chancellor Fellowship year at Freie Universität Berlin and Universität Freiburg. (6/8/07)
Jing Yuen Tsu (1997-98)
Jing is Assistant Professor of Modern Chinese Literature at Yale University. As a German Chancellor Fellow, she worked on the cultural and literary relations between Germany and Republican China in the 1920s and 1930s with a focus on comparative modernities and nationalisms. After returning from Munich in 1998, she began her Ph.D. studies in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University and received her degree in 2001. She was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows from 2001-2004, Fellow at the Radcliffe for Advanced Study in 2008-2009, and Asakawa Fellow at Waseda University in Tokyo in winter 2009. Her research interests include nationalism, science and occultism, and comparative and diasporic studies. Her first book, Failure, Nationalism, and Literature: The Making of Modern Chinese Identity, 1895-1937, was published by Stanford University Press in 2005. Her second book, Sound and Script in Chinese Diaspora (Harvard University Press, 2010), deals with contemporary Sinophone literature and the cultures of modern Chinese diaspora in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Southeast Asia, and North America. Other publications include numerous articles and a co-edited volume (with David Der-wei Wang), Global Chinese Literature: Critical Essays (Brill, 2010).(2/4/10)
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