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PhD Student in German Studies
Bio/CV:
Verena Wolf is a Ph.D. candidate in German Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. She received her Magistra Artium and Erstes Staatsexamen (Master’s of Education) in History, English, and Education from the Goethe University Frankfurt (2016), and her Master of Arts in German Studies from the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa (2013). She was the recipient of various scholarships offered by the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes (German Academic Scholarship Foundation), the Deutschlandstipendium and the Verband Deutsch-Amerikanischer Clubs e.V. Her Magister thesis Koloniale Völkerschauen in Frankfurt. Die Wahrnehmung des Fremden zwischen Konsum, Politik und Wissenschaft (Colonial ethnological exhibitions in Frankfurt. Perceptions of the Other in commerce, politics and science) was honored with the Stiftungsfonds Kopper Award from the Goethe University Frankfurt.
Before coming to Berkeley, she taught English, German, and History at the Colegio Alemán in Guatemala City and completed her teacher training in Freiburg. Her general research interests include late 19th – to 21st – century literary cultures, women and gender studies, postcolonial and critical theory, climate fiction, and ecocriticism. Verena is the first person in her family to be able to go to University and thus, she plans to work in education and academia to support future first-generation college students that had to overcome obstacles to access higher education.
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