Sam Frederick joins the department as an assistant professor of German literature and culture

Samuel Frederick will join the department as an Assistant Professor of German in August. He received his Ph.D. in German Studies from Cornell University in 2008, after which he spent four years in the Department of Languages at Clemson University. In his research and teaching he focuses primarily on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He is particularly interested in Swiss and Austrian literature, narratology and the history of the novel, experimental fiction, modernism and the avant-garde, and film. His book, Narratives Unsettled: Digression in Robert Walser, Thomas Bernhard, and Adalbert Stifter, will be published by Northwestern University Press in August 2012. He has also co-translated (with the American poet Graham Foust) two volumes of poetry by Ernst Meister, the first of which, In Time’s Rift, will be published by Wave Books in September.