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- Kristin Brownsword (kbrown37@uic.edu),
MA Student and Teaching Assistant.
- Kristin’s current research interests are 18th- and 19th-century German literature and philosophy, as well as German-language film. She is currently completing her Master’s thesis on aspects of fate and free will in Goethe’s Wahlverwandtschaften.
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- Natalia Dudnik (ndudni2@uic.edu),
PhD Student, Teaching Assistant and Max Kade Fellow 2007-2008.
- Natalia’s areas of interest are gender studies, contemporary Austrian and German literature, drama, and parable. Currently she is writing her dissertation on the gendered and aged bodies in the works of Marlene Streeruwitz.
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- Kristina Foerster (kfoers2@uic.edu), PhD student and Max Kade Fellow 2008-2009.
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- Steve Iglesias (ligles1@uic.edu), PhD Student. Studying at Humboldt University Berlin 2008-2009.
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- Katarzyna Kowalczyk (kkowal9@uic.edu),
PhD Student
and Max Kade Fellow 2008-2009.
- Katarzyna’s (of Kasia’s) research interests are German literature of the 18th- and 19th-century and German philosophy of the 19th-century.
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- Sandra Kohler (skohle2@uic.edu),
PhD Student and Max Kade Fellow 2007-2008.
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- Martin Lorenz (mloren2@uic.edu),
MA Student
- Martin’s research interests include aspects of Trümmerliteratur and Stunde Null Literatur. His is currently working on a project on symbolic representation in Wolfgang Borchert’s Draußen vor der Tür.
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- Ervin Malakaj (emalak1@uic.edu),
MA Student and Teaching Assistant.
- Ervin’s research interests lie in 18th- and 19th-century German literature and culture, and intentionally always have something to do with Goethe. He is simultaneously exploring minority and contemporary literature in the German-speaking context.
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- Rebecca Mink (rmunk2@uic.edu), PhD Student.
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- Ekaterina Pirozhenko (epiroz2@uic.edu),
PhD student and Max Kade Fellow 2008-2009.
- Ekaterina’s (or Katya’s) current research interests lie in the works of contemporary women writers, gender and women's studies, and literature of the 20th- and 21st- century.
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- Vera Pollina (vkaude2@uic.edu),
PhD Student and Teaching Assistant.
- Vera’s research interests lie in all things Yiddish, as well as literature on monsters and monstrosities, fairy tales in German, Jewish, and other literatures, and crossover genres such as graphic novels and animation.
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- Rie Alison Sumitani (rsumit1@uic.edu),
PhD Student and Language Program Coordinator.
- Rie is currently completing a dissertation that investigates women's spheres of influence in the late-18th-century. She is looking at both literature and cultural artifacts from the period, including writings of Sophie Mereau and Johanna Schopenhauer.
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