KRISTIN DICKINSON ~ Assistant Professor of German Studies, University of Michigan
[email protected] AREAS OF INTEREST German and Turkish literature and culture, contemporary Turkish German Studies, translation studies, transnationalism, migration and multiculturalism, Orientalism, postcolonial studies, mono- and multilingualism, world literature, comparative methodologies EDUCATION Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, Department of Comparative Literature, 2015 M.A., New York University, Department of English, 2007 B.A., University of Rochester, Magna Cum Laude in German and English Literature, 2003 EMPLOYMENT Assistant Professor, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan (2015-present) Affiliated Faculty, Department of Comparative Literature, University of Michigan (2019-present) Affiliated Faculty, Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies (2020-present) FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, AND HONORS Fellow at the Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften (IFK), Vienna (Summer Semester 2018) ACLA Charles Bernheimer Prize awarded for the best dissertation in Comparative Literature (2017) International Dissertation Research Fellowship awarded from the Social Science Research Council to conduct research in Turkey and Germany (January-October 2013) Departmental grant awarded to attend courses in modern Turkish and late Ottoman literature at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, and to conduct archival research on translations from German into late 19th century Ottoman (January-August 2010) Pre-Dissertation