Christoph Schaub - Columbia University

Christoph Schaub
Curriculum Vitae
Department of Germanic Languages
Columbia University
414 Hamilton Hall,
1130 Amsterdam Ave
New York, NY 10027
[email protected]
Education
2009-2015
2011
Columbia University, Doctoral Program in Germanic Languages
Ph.D. Candidate (graduation expected in May 2015)
Dissertation Title: Weimar Contact Zones. Modernism, Workers’ Movement
Literature, and Urban Imaginaries (advisors: Andreas Huyssen, Stefan Andriopoulos)
M.Phil. in Germanic Languages
2002-2009
Freie Universität Berlin, Magister Artium in Comparative Literature, Modern German
Literature, Philosophy, February 2009 (Grade: 1,0 / A)
M.A. thesis title: Literarische Imaginationen Brooklyns im Rap Mos Defs und in Paul
Austers The Brooklyn Follies (advisor: Gert Mattenklott)
2006-2007
Emory University
Visiting Graduate Student in the Department of Comparative Literature
2004-2005
Université Paris VIII Vincennes-Saint-Denis
Visiting Student in the Department of General and Comparative Literature
Awards, Grants, and Fellowships
Whiting Foundation, Dissertation Completion Fellowship (2014-2015)
Honorable Mention, AATG/German Quarterly Graduate Student Essay Award (2010)
Faculty Fellow, Columbia University (2009-2013)
Emory University, Stipend of the Graduate School of the Arts & Sciences (2006-2007)
German-American Fulbright Commission Travel Grant (2006-2007)
Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Student Fellow (2005-2009)
ERASMUS/Socrates program Travel Grant (2004-2005)
Academic Positions
2013-2014
2010-2012
2009
2008-2009
2005-2006
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Preceptor, The Core Curriculum at Columbia College, Columbia University
Instructor, Department of Germanic Languages, Columbia University
Instructor (Lehrbeauftragter), Technische Universität Braunschweig
Instructor (Projekttutorium), Department of Social Sciences, Humboldt Universität zu
Berlin
Teaching Assistant (Tutor), Department of General and Comparative Literature, Freie
Universität Berlin, “Introduction to General and Comparative Literature” (Dr. Esther
von der Osten)
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Courses Taught
Columbia University
“Literature Humanities: Masterpieces of Western Literature and Philosophy” (Fall 2013,
Spring 2014)
“Intermediate German I” (Fall 2011, Spring 2012)
“Elementary German II” (Spring 2011)
“Elementary German I” (Fall 2010)
Technische Universität Braunschweig
“Introduction to Cultural Studies: Culture, Identity, Power” (team-taught with Urs Lindner,
summer 2009)
Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
“Theories of Power and Domination and the System of Education” (team-taught with Martin
Valenske and Michael Maschke,winter 2008/09 – summer 2009)
Publications
Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals
“Aesthetics, Masses, Gender: Anna Seghers’ Revolt of the Fishermen of St. Barbara,”
forthcoming in New German Critique 124 (Feb 2015).
“Brooklyn Cosmopolitanisms: Situated Imaginations of Metropolitan Cultures in Paul
Auster’s The Brooklyn Follies and Mos Def’s Black on Both Sides,” in Amerikastudien /
American Studies 56.3 (2011), 381-401.
“Beyond the ‘Hood? Detroit Techno, Underground Resistance, and African American
Metropolitan Identity Politics,” in FIAR: Forum for Inter-American Research 2.2 (October
2009), no page web.
Book Chapters and Articles
“Conflicting Imaginaries of Urban Socio-Cultural Complexity: Diversity and Division in
Contemporary U.S.-American Cultural Production.” Cityscapes in the Americas and
Beyond: Representations of Urban Complexity in Literature and Film. Ed. Jens Gurr and
Wilfried Raussert. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier 2011, 213-228. (This is an
abbreviated and modified version of the article in Amerikastudien/American Studies.)
“Beyond the ‘Hood? Detroit Techno, Underground Resistance, and African American
Metropolitan Identity Politics,” in: 'Cornbread and Cuchifritos' Ethnic Identity Politics,
Transnationalization, and Tranculturation in Urban American Popular Music. Ed.
Wilfried Raussert and Michelle Habell-Pallán. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier/
Tempe, AZ: Bilingual Review Press 2011, 185-202. (This is a reprint of the article in
FIAR)
“Mauer durchs Herz. Inszenierungen von Zeitzeug/innen-Wissen im erinnerungspolitischen
Diskurs der Gedenkstätte Berlin-Hohenschönhausen.” NachBilder der Wende. Ed. Inge
Stephan and Alexandra Tacke. Köln, Weimar, Wien, Böhlau Verlag, 2008, 319-329. Coauthored with Florian Kappeler.
“If Black Dante were to meet the Tupac Amaru of Stuttgart’s Barrio: Political Poetics and
Global Society: Contemporary Rap-Lyrics in the U.S.A. and Germany.” Traveling Sounds.
Music, Migration, and Identity in the U.S. and Beyond. Ed. Wilfried Raussert and John
Miller Jones. Münster, London, LIT Verlag, 2008, 247-263.
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“Die Banlieue und das Feuer. Urbaner Raum und ästhetische Selbstbehauptung in den RapLyrics von La Rumeur,” in UTOPIEkreativ 189/190 (July/August 2006), 702-708.
Reviews
Rev. of “Christoph Ransmayr: Atlas eines ängstlichen Mannes,” forthcoming in Focus on
German Studies.
“Internationalistische Weltliteratur und Forschungen über Arbeiter_innenliteratur: Sonali
Perera’s No Country. Working-Class Writing in the Age of Globalization,” in Undercurrents
– Forum für linke Literaturwissenschaft 5 (September 2014), no page web.
Rev. of “Benjamin Robinson: The Skin of the System. On Germany’s Socialist Modernity,” in
Focus on German Studies 17 (2010), 161-163.
Rev. of “Lisa Jandi: Vom »roten« zum »braunen« Gürtel? Rechtsextremismus in den Pariser
Vorstädten,” in UTOPIEkreativ 194 (December 2006), 1148-1149.
Translation
From English: “Boaventura de Sousa Santos: Denken jenseits des Abgrunds. Von globalen
Grenzlinien zu einer Ökologie von Wissensformen.” Philosophieren unter anderen.
Beiträge zum Palaver der Menschheit (Festschrift Frieder Wolf). Ed. Urs Lindner et al.
Münster, Verlag Westfälisches Dampfboot, 2008, 399-431.
Interview
“Rap und Literatur – Ein Interview mit Adam Bradley / Rap and Literature – An Interview
with Adam Bradley,” in Undercurrents – Forum für linke Literaturwissenschaft 3 (October
2013), no page web. Interview and translation from English.
Non-Academic Writing
Rev. of “Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson and Ben Greenman: Mo’ Meta Blues. The World
According to Questlove,” in De:Bug 175 (September 2013), 60.
“Quintessenz der Künstlerqual? The Broken Tower,” in Spex. Magazin für Popkultur 337
(March/April 2012), 51-52.
Rev. of “Adam Bradley and Andrew DuBois (eds.): The Anthology of Rap,” in De:Bug 153
(June 2011), 69.
Rev. of “Paul Beatty: Slumberland,” in De:Bug 138 (December 2009), 62.
“Islamistischer Terrorismus und Fiktionalisierung. Literarische Produktion und Ideologie in
Romanen von Safran Foer, McEwan und Cleave,” in Phase2 18 (December 2005), 68-71.
Conference presentations
“Alternative Modernisms and the Literature of the Workers’ Movement in Interwar Germany: Franz
Jung’s Joe Frank Illustrates the World,” Seminar: Modernism/modernisms: Alternative
Configurations of Modernity, ACLA Annual Meeting, New York, March 20-23, 2014.
“Modernist Realism, Workers’ Movement Literature, and the Red One-Mark-Novel in the Weimar
Republic,” Seminar: Rethinking Modernism after Cultural Studies, GSA Annual Conference,
Denver, October 3-6, 2013.
“Practicing Proletarian World Literature: Communist Literary Networks and Internationalist
Imaginaries in the Interwar Years,” Seminar: Positioning the Subject of World Literature, ACLA
Annual Meeting, Toronto, April 4-7, 2013.
“Transnational Belonging from Below: Internationalism, Migration, and Urban Imaginaries in Kurt
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Kläber’s Third Class Passengers and Anna Seghers’ The Wayfarers,” Migration, Memory,
Place, University of Copenhagen and ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj, December 5-7,
2012.
“Shared/Divided: Situated Cosmopolitan Imaginaries of Brooklyn in Mos Def and Paul Auster,”
Simultaneity, Multiplicity and Chaos in Cityscapes in the Americas and Beyond, Universität
Bielefeld, June 25 and 26, 2010.
“The Rhetorics of ‘Doppelte Deutsche Diktaturgeschichte’: On the Leveling of Differences between
National Socialism and the GDR in German Commemorative Practice,” MLA Annual
Convention, Philadelphia, December 27-30, 2009.
“Beyond the ‘Hood? Detroit Techno, ‘Underground Resistance,’ and African American
Metropolitan Identity Politics,” International Conference Cornbread and Cuchifritos: Ethnic
Identity Politics, Transnationalization, and Transculturation in American Urban Popular Music,
Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre Forschung, Bielefeld, May 18-20, 2009.
“Negotiating Artistic Production: Travel Narratives in Derek Walcott’s ‘Omeros’ and Christoph
Ransmayr’s ‘Die Letzte Welt’,” Graduate Conference Literary Odysseys. The Journeys in and of
Literature, University of Colorado at Boulder, February 23 and 24, 2007.
“Zwischen kapitalistischer Gegenwart und Utopie: Nichtaffirmative Narration in den Lyrics von
Mos Def,” Undergraduate/Graduate Conference Imaginationen des Kapitalismus, Brecht-Haus,
Berlin, November 18-20, 2004.
Service
Advisory Board Member and Book Review Editor, The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture,
Theory (since spring resp. September 2014)
Co-organizer, “‘Modernity at Large’ and its Imaginaries in Germany and Beyond.” 10th Annual
Columbia German Graduate Student Conference. Deutsches Haus, Columbia University, March
4&5 2011. (with Sophie Alexander and Yvonne Zivkovic)
Membership in Professional Organizations
German Studies Association, 2010-present
Modern Language Association, 2009-present
American Comparative Literature Association, 2013-present
Languages
German (native)
English (near-native fluency)
French (advanced reading knowledge, intermediate conversational knowledge)
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