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Research Interests
Contemporary German-language literature, Memory Studies, intercultural literature, time, and hauntology
Research Description
Zack Hader's 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. Some example texts that Zack is currently researching are Das Ungeheuer by Terézia Mora and Die Schrecken des Eises und der Finsternis by 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