Archive: Nadia Samadi

February 21, 2023

Lou is finishing her dissertation titled “Of Goo and Dust: Aesthetic Theories of Formlessness.” Congratulations!    

November 12, 2022

2022 Winner of the GSA Prize for the Best Essay in German Studies by a Graduate Student: Qingyang Freya Zhou (University of California-Berkeley): “‘A Temporality of Imminent, Never-Consummated Arrival’: Contemporary German Documentaries on North Korea”    Laudatio: Zhou’s essay uses close readings of contemporary documentaries to re-assess socialist experiments in the 20th century, as well as to illuminate the status of political documentary in the 21st. The stakes of the argument and the importance of Zhou’s intervention into scholarship on contemporary documentary are immediately clear and Zhou’s transnational analysis (two Germanies/two Koreas) is especially noteworthy given that it is very…

November 1, 2022

Yael Almog, “Politics and Literary Capital in Tomer Gardi’s Broken German,” German Studies Review, Volume 45, Number 3, October 2022, pp. 557-576. Yael is an Associate Professor of German at Durham University, UK, and the author of Secularism and Hermeneutics (2019).    

November 1, 2022

Paul Dobryden, “Marked Man: Fantasies of the Able Body in Fritz Lang’s M,” German Studies Review, Volume 45, Number 3, October 2022, pp. 407-428. Paul is an Assistant Professor of German at the University of Virginia and the author of The Hygienic Apparatus: Weimar Cinema and Environmental Disorder (2022).    

October 3, 2022

She presented a paper titled “Redefining Media Literacy” at a three-day seminar on “German Studies Approaches to Media Literacy,” co-organized by Thomas Küpper, Tanja Nusser, and Rolf Parr. This paper grew out of Prof. Lilla Balint’s seminar on “Digital Literatures, Critical Practices” last semester.   She was one of five discussants at the “Asian German Studies Roundtable: East Asian-German Cinema.” There she promoted the “Asian German Filmography: A Teaching Guide,” which she co-authored with Zach Ramon Fitzpatrick (Wesleyan University) and Qinna Shen (Bryn Mawr College) and published on the Multicultural Germany Project website. She also promoted the chapter line-ups of…

October 1, 2022

Co-edited with Cynthia Walk from the Sunrise Foundation for the Study of German Cinema and Media, WeimarCinema.org represents a central online archive and research hub for the exploration of Weimar film culture.  The project would not have been possible without the collaboration of former and current graduate students in the German department.     

September 27, 2022

Freya’s article “Queering the Screen: Spectral Figures and German-Taiwanese Encounters in Monika Treut’s Ghosted” was published in Seminar (University of Toronto Press) vol 58 Issue 3 September 2022, pp. 251-270. 

September 27, 2022

Elizabeth presented her paper titled “Halbzeug Realities: How do we interpret machine-generated literature?” as part of the “Modeling IR-Reality” panel.

September 27, 2022

Molly’s paper was titled “‘Was übrig bleibt:’ Max Czollek and the ‘Lachrymose Aesthetic’ in Contemporary German-Jewish Poetry”; it was part of the panel “Jews – Holocaust – Poetry.”  The LBI fellowship was awarded for her dissertation project with the working title, After Auschwitz: Contemporary German-Jewish Poetics and the Persistence of the Past). Since the grant is geographically flexible, she will spend a year in Berlin.

September 20, 2022

 (TRANSIT, VOL. 13, ISSUE 2, 2022:  TRANSIT  )   Under the topic of Archival Engagement, the beautifully designed issue contains refereed scholarly essays, including work of our own UCB graduate students and alums as authors, translators, and reviewers.