Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures University of Toronto

Middle High German Reading Group - Odette Hall German Dept. Lounge on Mondays 10-11 Read More »

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PhD Candidate Contact info jm.evjen@mail.utoronto.ca Office University of Toronto Odette Hall Rm 311 50 St. Joseph Street Toronto, ON M5S 3L5 Office Hours TBA Classes 2022-2023 GER100Y, Fall & Winter Background John is a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto. His research focuses on relationships between humans and other animals in contemporary German fiction and the implications for literature resultant of these relationships. Since completing his MA at the University of Toronto, John has been involved in many capacities at uToronto such as the Graduate Education Council, Graduate Academic Appeals Board, and German and Yiddish Graduate Student Association. Apart from the academy, John spends his spare time with his dog and wife, mixing music, and reading poetry. Read More »

Ph.D candidate Contact info andre.flicker@mail.utoronto.ca Office Hours Wednesday, 12:30-1:30pm, Odette Hall, library (OH323) Classes 2022 GER300 Intermediate German II GER400 Advanced German I GER275 Marx, Nietzsche, Freud BackgroundStaatsexamen (Philosophie, Germanistik) Universität Mannheim, Germany, 2016. Master of Arts, University of Victoria, Canada, 2018. Review Editor The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory Research InterestsI would describe myself as genuinely curious, which is mirrored in the research I’ve been doing throughout my studies. Starting from my interest in short prose and its usage of narrative space and narration of space to dramaturgies of silence, the common thread of my research is the work of language and our reflective engagement with language as work. In my dissertation, I am exploring artistic forms of nonsense and contradiction as the last resorts for individuality. I focus on the work of Swiss and German Dadaists whose performance cabaret reveals the enduring relationship between German language drama and the concept of subjectivity. InfoI am currently organizing the reading group Ekphrasis: Text – Image Denkräume. In this interdisciplinary reading group we engage with texts of different genres that construct by their inherent intermedial drama such a Denkraum: We read texts from the major literary categories of novel, drama, lyric ... Read More »

PhD student Contact info maria.harutyunyan@mail.utoronto.ca Office Hours Tue and Thur 12-1 pm Classes 2020-2021 GER100 Background I completed my hon. Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Toronto with a major in Sociology and a minor in German and French. In 2020, I completed my MA in Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Toronto. As a current PhD student in Germanic Literature, Culture and Theory, my main focus is on environmental humanities. Aside from literature, my interests also lie in the field of visual arts and acquiring languages. My spoken languages include: German, English, French and Armenian. Teaching Positions Course Instructor, Introduction to German, University of Toronto, 2019 Awards & Scholarships Angela Hildyard Award for Academic Excellence, 2016-2018 Thomas & Beverley Simpson Graduate Achievement Award For Single Parents, 2019 Institutional Services Advisor, U of T Family Care Office Advisory Committee, 2018- 2019 Read More »