Title
Assistant Professor of German and Director, German Language Program
German, Russian, and Asian Languages and Literature
Profile
Kathrin Seidl, Assistant Professor of German and Director of the German Language Program, received her M.A. and Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University. Professor Seidl’s primary research focuses on German exile in Latin America, particularly Colombia, and the vibrant cultural-intellectual transfer between Germany and the region during the mid-twentieth century. Her scholarship on the essayistic oeuvre of the German literary critic and cultural mediator Ernesto Volkening (Antwerp 1908 – Bogotá 1983) and the journal Eco: revista de la cultura de occidente investigates key moments of cultural transfer, transformation and translation that decisively shaped the post-WWII image of German literature and culture in the Andean country. Further research interests include online teaching of foreign languages, development of undergraduate curricula, and cross-cultural literature.
Degrees
Vanderbilt University, Ph.D.
Vanderbilt University, M.A.
Contact
| Email: | kseidlgo@brandeis.edu |
| Phone: | 781-736-3299 |
| Office: | Shiffman Humanities Center, 210 |
Awards and Honors
Hilde – Domin – Stipendium für lateinamerikanisch-deutsche Literaturbeziehungen, Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach (2013)
Research Grant, Center for German and European Studies, Brandeis University (2013)
Theodore and Jane Norman Award (for Faculty Scholarship in Arts & Sciences), Brandeis University (2013)
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) / Vista Higher Learning Scholarship, Annual Convention (2012)
CGES Course Development Grant, Center for German and European Studies, Brandeis University (2012)
Courses Taught
| GER | 10a | Beginning German |
| GER | 20b | Continuing German |
| GER | 104a | Let's Talk! Shall We? |
| GER | 105a | Writing on the Wall: Literature, the Arts, and the Fall of the Wall |
| GER | 109b | Meisterwerke Deutscher Kurzprosa |
Scholarship
