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Zack Hader

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Contact Information

3112 FLB

Office Hours

Fall 2022: Wednesday 1:30 to 2:30, or by appointment. Please email before coming.
PhD Candidate, SLCL Dissertation Fellowship

Research Interests

Spectrality/hauntology, memory studies, trauma studies, comparative literature, German-language literature of the 20th and 21st centuries

Research Description

My research focuses on the transferral of various forms of memory through time. It does this not only through examinations of generations, i.e. generational memory, but also through individual lives. I am currently writing my dissertation on the philosophical figure of the specter in the works of Austrian author Christoph Ransmayr.

Education

B.A., University of Kansas

M.A., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Awards and Honors

  • Max Kade Fellowship AY 2019/2020, Illinois
  • Departmental Summer Fellowship, Illinois
  • Elizabeth Rusk Award, Illinois, 2016
  • Award for Outstanding Service to the Department, University of Kansas, 2014
  • Member of the German honor society Delta Phi Alpha, Kapitel Gamma Pi, 2014

Courses Taught

  • German 101
  • German 102
  • German 103

Papers Presented:

Newberry Library Graduate Student Conference (January 2019)- "These roles don't quite fit:" An examination of Doppelgeschlechtigkeit in Grimmelshausen's Simplicissimus Teutsch

American Comparative Literature Association annual meeting (March 2019)- Specters of Memory in Terézia Mora's Das Ungeheur

Upcoming: 2023 NeMLA annual convention: Writing as a Remedy for Mortality: Spectrality in Christoph Ransmayr’s Der fliegende Berg