Seminar Directors
William Collins Donahue is the Cavanaugh Professor of the Humanities (College of Arts & Letters), Professor of European Studies (Keough School of Global Affairs), and Director of the Initiative for Global Europe at the University of Notre Dame. He holds a Ph.D. in German literature from Harvard University and is a scholar of modernism, Holocaust Studies, German Jewish literature, as well as of contemporary literature and film. He is the author of Holocaust as Fiction: Bernhard Schlink’s “Nazi” Novels and their Films and The End of Modernism: Elias Canetti’s Auto-da-Fé. With Martin Kagel, he is coeditor of Die große Mischkalkulation: Institutions, Social Import, and Market Forces in the German Literary Field (Paderborn, Fink/Brill, 2021). With Martha Helfer, Donahue edits the book series, Nexus: Essays in German Jewish Studies. With Georg Mein (Université du Luxembourg) and Rolf Parr (Universität Duisburg-Essen), he edits the journal andererseits. Yearbook of Transatlantic German Studies. He also serves as a senior editor of Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik.
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Martin Kagel is A.G. Steer Professor in the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies at the University of Georgia, where he currently also serves as Associate Provost for Global Engagement, He earned a Ph.D. in German from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a Master’s degree in German and Theatre from the Freie Universität Berlin. His research spans from eighteenth to twenty-first century German literature and culture. Recent publications include two co-edited volumes: Die Große MIschkalkulation: Institutions, Social Import, and Market Forces in the German Literary Field (Fink Verlag, 2021, with William Donahue), and Open Wounds: Holocaust Theater and the Legacy of George Tabori (Michigan UP, 2022, with David Saltz).
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Seminar Coordinator
Sebastian Burkholdt is the Interim Assistant Director of the Intensive English Program at the University of Georgia and a research assistant at UGA's Office of Academic Honesty. He earned his Ph.D. in Educational Theory and Practice with an emphasis in Social Studies Education from UGA's Mary Frances Early College of Education in December 2022. He also earned a Master's degree in German Language and Literature from the University of Georgia and completed his First State Examination for teaching at German college-track secondary schools at the University of Bamberg in Germany. His dissertation research focused on the role of transformative learning and identity for shaping ambitious high school history teachers' goals, purposes, and approaches to history education.
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