12 Sep 2017

ERICA WEITZMAN at ZfL with a Humboldt Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers

September 1st, Erica Weitzman (Northwestern University) started working at the ZfL thanks to a Humboldt Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers. Her research project, tentatively titled At the Limit of the Obscene: Realism, Profanation, Aesthetics, deals with how the concept of obscenity relates to questions of representation, perception, and knowledge in late nineteenth, early twentieth century European realism and beyond.

Erica Weitzman received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from New York University in 2012. Prior to joining the Department of German at Northwestern University, she held positions as Visiting Assistant Professor in the Departments of German and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley from 2013–2014, and from 2012–2013 as Volkswagen Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the Universität Konstanz with the German Research Foundation (DFG) Graduiertenkolleg »Das Reale in der Kultur der Moderne.« She was also a doctoral fellow in the DFG-Graduiertenkolleg »Lebensformen und Lebenswissen« from 2008–2011.