Graduate Student Research Symposium

The Department of Germanic Studies encourages and promotes scholarship for its graduate students. It holds an annual graduate research competition where students submit papers that are judged by the entire faculty. The authors of the best papers are invited to present at the Graduate Symposium. The awards are made possible by donations to the Robert Kauf Memorial endowment.

2012 Finalists:

1st Place:

Michelle Reyes

"Reconfigurations of the Devil: Animal Hauntings in Jeremias Gotthelf's The Black Spider"

2nd Place:

Jai Kshirsagar

"Anti-Semitism, the Common Ground between Zionism and Anti-Zionism: A Juxtaposition of Herzl's

Zionist Play Das Neue Ghetto and Pappenheim's Anti-Zionist Play Tragische Momente: Drei Lebensbilder"

3rd Place:

Jonathan Tillotson
"Conceptions of Class and Knowledge in Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland's Die Kunst, das menschliche

Leben zu verlängern (1796)"

2011 Finalists:

1st Place:

Kristina Förster

“For an ‘In Between’: On the Road in Die Welt ist groß und Rettung lauert überall”

2nd Place:
Jai Deshpande
“Self-perception vs. Treatment by Society: Invisible Woman: Growing up Black in Germany and

Afro-deutsch I and II”

3rd Place:
Jonathan Tillotson
“Deconstructing Myth in Vladimir Vertlib’s Am Morgen des zwölften Tages”