Rob Kohn, Ph.D.

Adjunct Faculty of German

Rob Kohn's primary research interests include cultural memory, trauma and traumatic memory in German and Austrian literature and film, with a focus on the Holocaust and post-WWII era. Other research areas include modernity in the Weimar Republic, German intellectual history, Critical Theory, and philosophy in ecology and the German environmentalist movement. 

Education

Ph.D. - Germanic Studies

BA - German/International Business

Courses Taught

Bekenntnis zum Gleisdreieck: The Experience of Modernity in Weimar Cinema and Literature (graduate course)

Memory and Victimization Discourses in Contemporary Germanic Film and Literature Since 1945

Eco-Revolution – Germany’s Student Movement, Environmentalism and Green Politics in Literature & Culture

Modern German Drama

Representations of the Holocaust in German Literature and Film

When Nature Strikes!! Nature, Catastrophe, and Ecology in German Literature

Selected Publications

Giving Voice to Uncertainty: Memory, Multilingual and Unreliable Narration in W.G. Sebald’s Austerlitz.” Zeitschrift für interkulturelle Germanistik 3.2 (2012): 33-48.

Review of Wolff, Lynn, W.G. Sebald’s Hybrid Poetics: Literature as Historiography. Gegenwartsliteratur 14 (2015): 349-351.

Review of Brady, Martin; Leal, Joanne, Wim Wenders and Peter Handke: Collaboration, Adaptation, Recomposition. H-German, H-Net Reviews. March, 2014.

Review of 86 und die Folgen. Robert Schindel, Robert Menasse und Doron Rabinovici im literarischen Feld Österreichs, by Mathias Beilein. Focus on German Studies 16 (2009): 114-118.