Germanics welcomes new Lecturer, Dr. André Schütze

Submitted by Stephanie N. Welch on
André Schütze

André Schütze comes to Seattle from Berlin via Los Angeles and is delighted to have landed in the Pacific Northwest. He joined the Department of Germanics at the University of Washington after receiving degrees from Humboldt Universität and UCLA and teaching a variety of courses at UCLA and Pomona College. An ardent fan of good coffee, André feels right at home in Seattle.

His main areas of research are twentieth century and contemporary German and Austrian literature, and film and media studies. Much of his work examines different aspects of urbanization and its effect on society and the individual. His dissertation centers on the topic of utopia, looking closely at modernization in utopias and the implicit urban and anti-urban tendencies.  André's publications include articles on Thomas Mann’s novel Der Zauberberg, Walter Benjamin and Bourdieu, Christa Wolf and Paul Scheerbart, in renowned peer-reviewed journals such as Weimarer Beiträge and Seminar. He is currently working on an article on global Berlin and film, titled “Unheimliches Berlin,” for Cultural Topographies of the New Berlin.

As lecturer at the University of Washington this year, André is thrilled to teach a range of interesting courses and to work with a diverse and talented group of students. At the moment he co-teaches an Urban Humanities course on diversity in Berlin, a topic he will explore further at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute in Victoria in June 2016.  In winter quarter he taught German 322, one of the core courses for German majors and minors, which focused on the representation of East German culture and identity. This course sought to provide a more nuanced account of East German culture and identity through literary and historical texts, film and other visual arts, and to provide students with insights into the social, historical and political context of Germany behind the Mauer. Students collaborated on fascinating group projects on topics ranging from East German food culture to the environment to the Namibian refugees.

This summer André will offer German 497, his newly developed senior seminar for graduates and undergraduates, entitled The Longing for Authenticity: Constructing Reality in Film and New Media.  For a full course description see https://german.washington.edu/courses/2016/summer/german/497/a

 

 

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