Charles Campbell (he/him) joined the department in 2020 with a B.A. from Bowdoin College (2017) in German Literature. He also studied at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg in 2015-2016 and served as an English Teaching Assistant in Dresden on a Fulbright Grant in 2017-2018.
His undergraduate honors thesis challenged the legacy of Frank Wedekind as a progressive, countercultural icon based on new readings of his depictions of women and non-normative sexuality and examined Wedekind’s influence on the early work of Bertolt Brecht. In addition to gender and sexuality in fin de siècle and modernist drama, he has also explored twentieth-century literature, visual art, film, and drama through various theoretical frameworks such as queer theory, adaptation studies, trauma studies, psychoanalysis, sexology, phenomenology, embodiment theory, postcolonialism, and disability studies.
Charles’ dissertation explores the intersection between adaptation and corporeality in postwar German-language art (film, literature, poetry, and drama) by utilizing a term from psychoanalysis to both expand the paradigm of adaptation and to discuss the nuance of underlying intertextual dynamics through aesthetically represented bodies: incorporation. He actively practices various pedagogical methods for foreign language instruction and is a lector for the University of Chicago Writing Program.
Teaching Experience:
Elementary German for Beginners 1 (GRMN 10100, Autumn 2021)
Elementary German for Beginners 2 (GRMN 10200, Winter 2022)
Elementary German for Beginners 3 (GRMN 10300, Spring 2022)
Drama und Film: German Expressionism (GRMN 21203, Winter 2024)
Writing Gender (GRMN 35524, Spring 2024, as Course Assistant)
Reading German For Research Purposes (GRMN 33300 91, Summer 2024, as Course Assistant)
