Christoph Schaub

Christoph Schaub holds a PhD in Germanic Languages from Columbia University (2015) and a M.A. in Comparative Literature, Modern German Literature, and Philosophy from FU Berlin (2009). Most recently, he was a faculty member at Columbia University (2015-17) and Duke University (2017-18), teaching classes on German language and literature, the European literary canon, and popular music cultures. His research focuses on literary and cultural globalization, urban studies, and popular music studies, and his first monograph Proletarische Welten. Internationalistische Weltliteratur in der Weimarer Republik is currently under review. The first of his two new projects examines the relationship between globalization, world-knowledge, and small prose forms in contemporary German-language literature, while the second investigates transnational collaborations in afro-diasporic popular music (rap, reggae/dancehall, techno) between Germany, Jamaica, and the U.S.

Publications (selected):

• “Internationalist Montages: World-Making in Interwar Germany’s Labor Movement Literature,” in Composing Modernist Connections in China and Europe. Ed. Chunjie Zhang. New York, London: Routledge 2019, 50-69.
• “Labor-Movement Modernism: Proletarian Collectives between Kuhle Wampe and Working-class Performance Culture,” in Modernism/modernity 25.2 (2018), 327-348.
• „Re-Imagining the World in an Era of Globalization: Christoph Ransmayr’s Atlas eines ängstlichen Mannes“, in Monatshefte 110.1 (2018), 93-109.
• „Verhinderte Selbsterforschung und Ethnographie des Urbanen in der Weimarer Republik. Karl Grünbergs »Brennende Ruhr« und Klaus Neukrantz’ »Barrikaden am Wedding«“, in Weimarer Beiträge 62.4 (2016), 561-583.
• „Internationalistische Weltliteratur. Die Buchgemeinschaft Universum-Bücherei für Alle und Kurt Kläbers Passagiere der III. Klasse“, in Internationales Archiv für Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur (IASL) 41.2 (2016), 215-241.
• „Aesthetics, Masses, Gender: Anna Seghers’s Revolt of the Fishermen of St. Barbara“, in New German Critique 124 (2015), 163-188.
• „Brooklyn Cosmopolitanisms: Situated Imaginations of Metropolitan Cultures in Paul Auster’s The Brooklyn Follies and Mos Def’s Black on Both Sides“, in Amerikastudien / American Studies 56.3 (2011), 381-401.
• „Beyond the Hood? Detroit Techno, Underground Resistance, and African American Metropolitan Identity Politics“, in fiar: forum for inter-american research 2.2 (2009), www.interamerica.de.
• „Mauer durchs Herz. Inszenierungen von Zeitzeug/innen-Wissen im erinnerungspolitischen Diskurs der Gedenkstätte Berlin-Hohenschönhausen“, in NachBilder der Wende. Ed. Inge Stephan und Alexandra Tacke. Köln, Weimar, Wien, Böhlau Verlag, 2008, 319-329 (with Florian Kappeler).

Contact:
Dr. Christoph Schaub
German Language and Literature
Email: [email protected]