Recent Successes of UC Davis German Ph.D.s

Graduates of the UC Davis German Ph.D. program continue to be successful in the profession. Among their most recent achievements: Sebastian Heinsohn, who completed his dissertation on the aesthetics and politics of representing the street in German film in June 2009, assumed a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of German at Bucknell University, beginning fall 2009. Isaac Tubb, who finished his dissertation on the thought of melancholia and history in Rilke, Benjamin, and Handke in fall 2008, has accepted a position as lecturer in the German Department at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. And Caroline Schaumann, who earned her Ph.D. in German here in 1999, just earned tenure at Emory University. She now holds the title Associate Professor of German Studies. Congratulations to all of them!