Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures
Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures
Marcel Schmid

Marcel Schmid

Assistant Professor
ms5qt@virginia.edu

Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m., and by appointment.

Specialties: Contemporary German Literature; German Romanticism; Science, Media and Technology; Environmental Studies

SELECTED ARTICLES

  • “Wer aufs Gas tritt, will beschleunigt werden.” NZZ, Feuilleton, May 27, 2018. 
  • “Das Auto als Wille und Vorstellung.”NZZ, Feuilleton, May 11, 2017. 
  • “Freedom in the Wake of Autonomous Driving.” Feedback, Open Humanities Press, ed. Henry Sussman, and Jason Groves, 5/2017. 
  • “Tesla’s Model 3 as Ikon of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.” Feedback, Open Humanities Press, ed. Henry Sussman, and Jason Groves, 6/2016.
  • “Zauberbergischer Prototyp – Davos, der Roman und die Lebensreform.” Die Literatur der Lebensreform. Kulturkritik und Aufbruchstimmung um 1900, ed. Marcel Schmid, Thorsten Carstensen, Bielefeld: transcript 2016.
  • “Das ‘Imperium’der Lebensreform. Krachts Rezeption utopischer Projekte.” Alman Dili ve Edebiyatı Dergisi (The Journal of German Language and Literature) 34, 2015 /II.
  • “Auto(r)referentialität am Beispiel einer Collage von Kurt Schwitters.” Theorien und Praktiken der Autorschaft. Eds.Matthias Schaffrick and Marcus Willand. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter (Spectrum Literaturwissenschaft, Comparative Studies, 47), 2014.

INTERVIEW

  • "Prädikat Weltliteratur – benkenswert”. Interview on Christian Kracht’s novel Die Toten. Schweizer Buchjahr. Digitaler Almanach für Schweizer Gegenwartsliteratur und Diskurskritik, ed. by Christoph Steier, and Philipp Theisohn, 10/2016.

INTERDISCIPLINARY PROJECTS

GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS

  • Center for Teaching Excellence, University of Virginia for the Course Design Institute (2019)
  • Visiting Postdoctoral Scholar, Brown University / Swiss National Science Foundation Advanced Postdoctoral Scholar (2017-2018)
  • Pro Helvetia (Switzerland) and Swiss Consulate, New York City. Funds for reading with Christian Kracht and Daniel Bowles at Yale University (2017)
  • Visiting Postdoctoral Scholar, Yale University / Early Postdoctoral Fellow, Swiss National Science Foundation (2015-2017)
  • Travel Grant, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf (2015)
  • Teaching Fellowship, New York University / Exchange Fellowship, New York University - University of Zurich (2013) 
  • Fellowship, Swiss National Science Foundation (Visiting Graduate Student, Yale University) (2012-2013)
  • Fellowship, Swiss National Science Foundation (Visiting Graduate Student, New York University/ Yale University) (2011-2012)
  • Several Travel Grants form the Graduate School (Doktoratsprogramm) of the University of Zurich for conferences and workshop organization in Shanghai, New York City, Kansas City.

SELECTED TALKS (2018-2019)