Justin Mohler (he/him/his)

Alumnus

Contact Information

Fields of Interest

18th Century 19th Century Animal Studies Ecocriticism Film/Cinema Folklore and Mythology German Language Pedagogy

Biography

M.A., Germanics, University of Washington, 2015

B.A., German Language and Literature, Colby College, 2009

Curriculum Vitae (108.54 KB)

After receiving his BA from Colby College in 2009 and spending several years teaching English abroad in Austria and Hong Kong, Justin joined the department in 2013. His MA thesis addressed modes of perception, recognition, and tolerance in Lessing's Nathan der Weise. Since being awarded his MA in 2015, he has been working on a project exploring modes of writing about the animal-human divide entitled: "Beastly Specters: from Hubris to Hybridity in German Romanticism and Beyond"

He is currently teaching German 203.

Research

Selected Research

Sympathy for the Devil: The Rhetoric of Compassion (German 390), Team Learning Projects, 2014

Courses Taught

Spring 2022

GERMAN 203 B: Second-Year German

Winter 2022

GERMAN 302 A: Conversation and Writing Skills

Spring 2021

GERMAN 203 C: Second-Year German

Winter 2021

GERMAN 101 C: First-Year German

Additional Courses

Summer 2016 A-Term: German 121 First-Year Reading

Spring 2016: German 203

Winter 2016: German 201

Autumn 2015: Teaching Assistant for German 275 "Crime Scenes: Investigating the Cinema and its Cultures"

Summer 2015 A-Term: Intensive German 101

Spring 2015: German 103

Winter 2015: German 102

Autumn 2014: German 101

Related News

Related News

UW German Studies Expresses its Gratitude to Retiring Professor Sabine Wilke (November 6, 2023)
Graduate Student Update: Justin Mohler (May 17, 2021)
Justin Mohler: The Lives of Animals (October 27, 2020)
Hanauer Seminar Projects 2019-20: Environments in the Anthropocene: Migration, Climate, Non-Humans and Beyond (May 21, 2020)
Why I learn German in a Time of Pandemic (Emma Stuart, German 202) (May 21, 2020)
Debunking Spider Myths (December 2, 2019)
Congratulations to Matthew Childs: Hanauer Fellow 2019-2020 (June 11, 2019)
A Fun Language Learning Community: Kaffeestunde Winter 2019 (March 13, 2019)
Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference 2018 -Being a Hedgehog: Isolation, Creativity, and Destruction (June 11, 2018)
Being a Hedgehog: Isolation, Creativity, and Destruction (May 8, 2018)
Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference: Being a Hedgehog: Isolation, Creativity, and Destruction (March 6, 2018)
Digital Humanities in the Language and Culture Classroom and Beyond (June 5, 2017)
Against All Odds: Courage and Consciousness (March 14, 2017)
News from our Graduate Students: PhD Candidate Justin Mohler (March 6, 2017)
News from our Graduate Students: PhD Candidate Justin Mohler (May 8, 2022)
How Compassionate Are You? "Sympathy for the Devil" Team Projects 2021 (March 8, 2022)
Congratulations to Justin Mohler: Hanauer Fellow 2019-2020 and Bansleben Award for Excellence in Teaching (June 11, 2019)
Kaffeestunde in Denny Hall (December 13, 2017)
Congratulations on Graduate Fellowships and Awards to Justin Mohler and Verena Kick! (June 14, 2017)
Graduate Student Conference: Insiders, Outsiders, & In-Betweens (June 17, 2016)
Graduate Student Achievement (March 7, 2016)
Congratulations on Awards (March 4, 2016)
Graduate Student Interview with Distinguished Max Kade Visiting Professor Walter Erhart (July 13, 2015)
Graduate Student Achievements and Awards (December 2, 2014)
How Compassionate Are You? (July 1, 2014)

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