About
Martin Amesquita joined the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan in 2020. His research interests include the discourses of Jewish assimilation and secularization German-speaking Europe and the impact of globalization on German and Austrian migration literature.
Martin is a two time graduate of Northwestern University (BA in German and MS in Education). As an undergraduate, he focused on Holocaust representation in German-language media and the impact of global political institutions on migrant identity as expressed in literature. As a masters student, he worked as an educational intern at the German International School of Chicago, a full-time dual-language school in Chicago's Uptown neighborhood. Before coming to University of Michigan, he taught high school German in Oswego, IL for four years.
