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Dr Reinier van Straten
Room 206
50 Gordon Square
London
WC1H 0PQ
Appointment
- Teaching Fellow
- SELCS
- Faculty of Arts & Humanities
Biography
Reinier van Straten is a Teaching Fellow in German Language and Literature. He teaches German literature from the Enlightenment to the twentieth century, German cinema and German translation. Before joining UCL, he was a Stipendiary Lecturer at St Hilda’s College, Oxford, and a Retained Lecturer at The Queen's College, Oxford.
His research has taken him from Magdalen College, Oxford, to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he was a Leo Baeck Fellow in 2011-2012.
Research Themes
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Reinier van Straten's research interests lie primarily in German-Jewish writing of the modernist period: his doctoral thesis investigates Nietzsche’s influence on Martin Buber, and he is also developing a new project on Franz Kafka and the Prague Circle.
Teaching Summary
GERM1104: Introduction to German Post-1945 Cinema. [Fassbinder, Herzog, Schlöndorff, Wenders, Tykwer, Petzold, Haneke.]
GERM1105: Introduction to German Literature. [Brecht, Kafka, Grass, Schiller, Tieck.]
GERM2107: Debating Enlightenment. [Kant, Lessing, Goethe, Schiller, Hoffmann, Eichendorff, Heine, Kleist, Büchner, Keller.]
GERM2108: Challenging Modernity. [Nietzsche, Fontane, Schnitzler, Rilke, Mann, Kafka, Benjamin, Riefenstahl, Brecht, Bachmann, Grass.]
GERM2002: German Reading Comprehension and Unseen Translation.
GERM4133: Reading Modern Novels: Introduction to Literary Theory. [Kafka, Mann, Bachmann.]
Appointments
| 01-SEP-2013 | Teaching Fellow | UCL, United Kingdom | |
| 01-SEP-2013 – 01-APR-2014 | Retained Lecturer | The Queen's College, Oxford, United Kingdom | |
| 01-DEC-2012 – 01-SEP-2013 | Stipendiary Lecturer | St Hilda's College, Oxford, United Kingdom |
Academic Background
| 2016 | DPhil | Doctor of Philosophy – Modern Languages | University of Oxford |
