Scott Denham
Dana Professor of German Studies
Education
- Ph.D., M.A. Harvard University
- B.A. University of Chicago
Areas of Expertise
- Germany
- Holocaust
- Literary Translation
- Twentieth-Century German Literature and Culture
- Literary and Cultural Theory
Background
I studied at the University of Chicago, the Philipps-Universität Marburg, the Freie Universität Berlin, and Harvard University, working there primarily in German studies, but also in comparative literature and in history.
My teaching and research interests include German literary and cultural studies broadly, modernism and narrative theory, the Holocaust and its representation, literary translation, second-language and writing pedagogy.
Some authors I am committed to teaching include Franz Kafka, Thomas Mann, Günter Grass, Paul Celan, Ingeborg Bachmann, Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, Katja Petrowskaja, and Saša Stanišić.
My work engages with questions of identity, loss, and memory in the central European context.
