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DOMENIC DESOCIO University of Michigan Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures 3110 MLB, 812 E DOMENIC DESOCIO University of Michigan Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures 3110 MLB, 812 E. Washington Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 [email protected] - 732.890.0275 https://domenicjdesocio.com/ EDUCATION University of Michigan Ph.D., Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Expected May Dissertation Title: “The Times of Their Lives: Queer and Female 2021 Modernism, 1910-1934” Advisors: Scott Spector and Tyler Whitney (co-chairs), Kerstin Barndt, Andreas Gailus, Nadine Hubbs Columbia University B.A. German Cultural Studies, B.A. History 2014 Honors: magna cum laude Thesis: “’Ein jahrhundertaltes Problem’: Die kulturelle Bildung und Diskurse der männlichen Homosexualität in Anders als die Andern” Advisor: Erk Grimm PUBLICATIONS Journal Articles “Continuity and Rupture in Queer Studies, or, Klaus Mann’s Der fromme Tanz,” in “Rupture, Slowness, Untimeliness: Queer Time and History in German Studies,” special issue of Monatshefte 114, no. 3 (Fall 2022) (forthcoming) “In der Zwickmühle der Zeit: Marieluise Fleißer’s Mehlreisende Frieda Geier (1931) and the Non-Simultaneities of Gendered Subjectivity,” The German Quarterly 94, no. 4 (Fall 2020): 466-483. Book Chapters “The Role of Reading and Homosexual Citizenship in Early Twentieth-Century Germany,” Queer Print Cultures, eds. Vance Byrd and Javier Samper Vendrell, University of Toronto Press, forthcoming 2022 Scholarship of Teaching and Learning “Remaking the German Studies Curriculum: A Diversifying Approach,” Expanding German Studies Blog, October 30, 2020. (Link here.) “Teaching German Queerly: An Integrative Approach,” Diversity, Decolonization, and the German Curriculum Blog. July 14, 2020. (Link here.) Book Review Robert Walser: A Companion, eds. Samuel Frederick and Valerie Heffernan (Northwestern UP, 2018), in Studies in Twenty and Twenty-first Century Literature 45, no. 1 (2021), Article 13. 1 Queering German Culture, ed. Leanne Dawson (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2018), in German Studies Review 42, no. 1 (2019): 208-210. AWARDS AND HONORS Frank X. Braun Memorial Graduate Student Instructor Award 2017 Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan Cottrell Prize for Best Paper in a German Studies Seminar 2015 Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS Sweetland Center for Writing - Junior Fellow 2021 Austrian Cultural Forum New York Travel Fund 2020 Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship, University of Michigan 2019-2020 Rackham Professional Development Grant, University of Michigan 2019 Sturm FU Berlin Exchange Fellowship, Freie Universität Berlin 2018-2019 Rackham Summer Award, University of Michigan 2017 Rackham Pre-candidate Summer Research Grant, University of Michigan 2015 CONFERENCES Papers Presented “Queer Digital Humanities and Pedagogies,” in “Steal This Assignment! 2021 Hack Your German Studies Course with the GSA Teaching MakerSpace” Seminar, German Studies Association Conference, September 30-October 3 “A Queer Republic of Letters: Bruno Vogel's Alf and the Role of Reading 2021 in Homosexual Citizenship,” MLA Annual Conference, January 7-10 “To Be Understood Is to Be Desired: Sexual Love and Metaphor in Robert 2020 Musil’s Early Fiction,” German Studies Association Conference, October 1-4 “Plato, an Orphan, and Everlasting Love: Continuity and Rupture in Queer 2020 Studies, or, the Example of Klaus Mann’s Der fromme Tanz,” The Past and Present of Queer German Studies Conference, University of British Columbia, April 24-26 “Queer German Cultures and Language Learning: An Integrative Approach,” 2020 Northeastern Modern Language Association Conference, March 5-8 “Marieluise Fleißer’s Narrative Doublings and the Politics of ‘Feminine’ 2019 Narration in the Late Weimar Republic,” Midwest Modern Language Association Conference, November 14-17 2 “Everlasting Love: Klaus Mann’s Der fromme Tanz and the Post-Futurity 2019 of Queer Subjectivity,” The Mann Family – Lives and Fictions Workshop, Dartmouth College, October 24-25 “The Propulsive Augenblick of Hope: Annemarie Schwarzenbach’s Eine Frau 2019 zu sehen and the Utopics of Queer Female Subjectivity,” German Studies Association Conference, October 3-6 “Siegfried Kracauer’s ‘Über die Freundschaft,” Siegfried Kracauer and Media 2019 Colloquium, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, July 10 “Who and Where is ‘Modern’? Marieluise Fleißer’s Eine Zierde für den Verein 2018 and the Ungleichzeitigkeiten of Gendered Subjectivity,” in “Weimar Culture Revisited” Seminar, German Studies Association Conference, September 28-30 “’Ich glaube an diese Welt’: Klaus Mann's Der fromme Tanz and Queer 2017 Historicity,” German Studies Association Conference, October 5-8 “’Time fell out of time and aged’: Decadence, Continuity, and Rupture in 2017 The Tower,” Freie Universität Berlin, June 28-30, “6th Berlin Program Summer Workshop – Continuities and Ruptures: Reflections on Crucial Concepts” “‘Ankommen’ in Deutschland: Refugee Smartphone Applications and the 2017 Temporalities of German National Identity,” University of Michigan, May 5-7, “Transnational German Studies Workshop” “’Ein Zustand der Losgelöstheit’: Siegfried Kracauer’s Theories of Subjectivity 2016 in Georg,” Yale University, April 29-30, “The Aesthetics of Dissonance” “Excursions into the Unknown: The Sexual Politics of Geography in 2015 Contemporary Gay German Film,” University of Michigan, October 30-31, “Chronopolis: Time and Urban Space" Conferences Organized “Mediating the Modern: Sound/Image/Text,” University of Michigan 2017 Graduate Student Conference, September 29-30 Panels Organized “Robert Musil as Sexual Theorist (1): Polyvocal Eros and the Problem 2020 of Form,” German Studies Association Conference, October 1-4 “Robert Musil as Sexual Theorist (2): Desire, Dissolutions, and 2020 Disorientations,” German Studies Association Conference, October 1-4 TEACHING EXPERIENCE 3 Graduate Student Instructor, Department of English Language and Literature 2021 Graduate Student Instructor, Department of Germanic Languages and Literature 2014 – 2020 COURSES TAUGHT (* = instructor of record) German Language Sequence: German 101 – First semester of language sequence, Fall 2015 German 102 – Second semester of language sequence, Winter 2016 German 231 – Third semester of language sequence, Winter 2021 German 232 – Fourth semester of language sequence, Winter 2017 (see below) German 232 – Fourth semester of language sequence, Fall 2020 (see below) Topic Courses: Contemporary Politics in Germany, GER 232, Fall 2020* (original course, in German) Intermediate German: History of German Film, GER 325, Summer 2020* (original course, in German) Queer German Cultures, GER 232, Winter 2017* (original course, in German) TA for Discussion Section: Fairy Tales, GER 386, Fall 2014, with Prof. Fred Amrine First-Year Writing Seminar: College Writing: Writing and Academic Inquiry, ENG 125, Fall 2021* PEDAGOGY PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT & TRAINING Graduate Student Instructor Advisory Group for Remote Teaching, 2020 - present Center for Research on Learning and Teaching (CRLT), University of Michigan Graduate Student Instructor Consultant Workshop Development Program, 2020 – present Center for Research on Learning and Teaching (CRLT), University of Michigan Graduate Student Instructor Consultant, Center for Research on Learning 2019 - present and Teaching (CRLT), University of Michigan Co-organizer and co-facilitator, “Let’s Make a Screencast,” 2021 Seminar Series at Center for Research on Learning and Teaching, University of Michigan Co-organizer and co-facilitator, “Digital DEI: Using Digital Media and 2021 Instructional Technology for Social Justice and Inclusive Pedagogy,” Enriching Scholarship Conference workshop, University of Michigan 4 Co-organizer and co-facilitator, “Teaching with Technology: Incorporating 2020 Digital Media Workshop,” Center for Research on Learning and Teaching, University of Michigan, February 24 Instructional Technology Graduate Student Instructor Consultant, 2019 – 2020 Center for Research on Learning and Teaching (CRLT), University of Michigan Graduate Student Instructor Orientation Facilitator 2019 – 2020 Co-organizer and co-facilitator, “Using Digital Tools to Facilitate Student 2019 Collaboration Workshop,” Center for Research on Learning and Teaching, University of Michigan, October 31 Dissertation Writing Workshop Leader, Sweetland Center for Writing 2019 U-M Rackham Graduate Teacher Certificate 2019 Preparing Future Faculty Seminar, Rackham Graduate School and 2018 Center for Research on Learning and Teaching, May 1 – May 31, University of Michigan DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION (DEI) PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT German Studies Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Research and Teaching Database 2019 – present Compiled primary sources and teaching materials about and by individuals and groups underrepresented due to race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, ability, class, and religion. Designed teaching modules, activities, lesson plans, and syllabi for specific themes and materials. Created interactive online database to store and easily access materials. U-M Rackham Professional Development Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion 2019 - present (DEI) Certificate (in progress) Guidance, Perspective, & Support (GPS) Undergraduate Student Mentor, 2019 – present Spectrum Center (LGBTQ Center), University of Michigan Graduate Student Representative, German Department Diversity, Equity, 2019 – 2020 & Inclusion Committee, University of Michigan Co-initiator of German Department Diversity,
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