Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures
Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures
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Julia Gutterman

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Assistant Professor
Email: jg4mt@virginia.edu

Office Hours: Tuesdays & Thursdays 3:30–4:30PM, New Cabell Hall 227

EDUCATION

PhD, Yale University
MA, University of Amsterdam
BA, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Neurodiversity and neuroqueer studies; disability studies; German and comparative literatures of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; contemporary German literature; German Jewish literatures.  

ARTICLES

Gutterman, Julia. “A Secret Thing: Forgetting the Author in Annette von Droste-Hülshoff’s “Das erste Gedicht”.” German Quarterly, 96, 2023, pp. 498–515.

TRANSLATIONS

“Mourning Play,” “Good Night,” “The Dragon,” “A Dragon Speaks,” “The Whale,” Gertrud Kolmar. Trans. Julia Gutterman and Anna Henke. Asymptote Journal of Translation, Spring 2019. https://www.asymptotejournal.com/poetry/animal-dreams/

“A Journal,“ “Aquarium“, “The Herons,” Gertrud Kolmar. Trans. Alex Gardner, Julia Gutterman, Anna Henke. Inventory no. 8, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 2017/2018.

“About the early death of Fräulein Anna Augusta Marggräfin zu Baden,” Georg Rodolf Weckerlin (1616). Trans. Julia Gutterman and Anna Henke. Inventory no. 7, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 2016/2017.

CURRENT AND RECENT COURSES

The Art of Dreaming
German Jewish Culture and Literature
Illness and Disability in Fiction
New Voices in German: Transnational and Multilingual Literature Today
Lyric Poetry
Black German Literatures
Literature in German I (20th and 21st Century)
Literature in German II (18th and 19th Century)
Texts and Interpretations
Elementary through Advanced German

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