People / Graduate Students

IMG_3612

Elizabeth Sun

Biography

Elizabeth Sun is a graduate student in the Department of German. She received her B.A. from Columbia University with a Major in Comparative Literature and a Concentration in German. Afterwards, she spent time in Germany and Japan, where she researched philosophical and literary flows across Asia and Europe, and completed an M.A. in Transcultural Studies at Ruprecht-Karls Universität Heidelberg. Since 2018, Elizabeth has taught literature courses for high school students on the topics of World Literature and Comparative Literature. At Berkeley, Elizabeth will continue her research on 20th and 21st century literatures of migration and transculturality in the Dutch and German languages. She is currently the Managing Editor of TRANSIT: A Journal of Travel, Migration, and Multiculturalism in the German-speaking World