Assistant Professor (and LSA Collegiate Fellow)
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About
Dr. Cho-Polizzi's research focuses on topics of migration, diversity, and trans- and multilingualism in the contemporary German-speaking world. His book project, tentatively titled Resistance, Resilience, Representation: Unmaking the Myths of Post-Wende German Identity traces the intersectional networks of authors, activists, and journalists pushing to reimagine the multidirectional history of Post-Unification Germany.
Fields of Interest
- Contemporary Literature
- Literary Translation and Translation Studies
- Poetry and Poetics
- Radical Diversity
- Migration, Transnationalism, and Multiculturalism
- Trans- and Multilingualism
- Post- and Decolonial Studies
- Intersectional Politics & Activism
Booklength Translations
Public Humanities
- Editor for the open-access translation of Your Homeland is our Nightmare (Transit Journal, December 2021), edited by Fatma Aydemir and Hengameh Yaghoobifarah (Eure Heimat ist unser Albtraum). This collection presents essays on community, belonging, discrimination, and the concept of homeland from a diversity of voices and positionalities spanning the contemporary German-speaking world, providing an accessible, comparative study for an English-language readership interested in transnational diversity discourse.
Upcoming Events
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Recent Events
- April 1, 2023: "Ada's Room: Author Event" with Sharon Dodua Otoo, Source Booksellers (4240 Cass Avenue, Detroit), 2-4 pm EST
- March 31, 2023: "Ada's Room: Realms in Translation" with Sharon Dodua Otoo, @ 2210ABC Michigan Union (second floor), 2-4 pm EST
- Book Tour for De-Integrate: A Jewish Survival Guide for the 21st Century with Dr. Max Czollek
- January 12, 2023: "Paranoid Poetics: Excavating a Language of Gegenwartsbewältigung" with Dr. Max Czollek, 3308 MLB, 2:30-4 pm EST
- September 27, 2022: "Translating Adas Raum," Ziegler Lecture Series at the University of British Columbia, 12:30 pm PST (3:30 pm EST)
- September 20, 2022: Introducing "Revenge: Fantasy and Self Determination in Jewish Discourse" by Dr. Max Czollek, 2435 North Quad, 5-7 pm EST
Recent and Pending Publications
- "Was ist die Mehrzahl von Dschinns?: Translating the Transnational" in Companion to Turkish German Literature (forthcoming 2024)
- "Translating the Archive: An Introduction to the Translation of 'The Archive of Migration' by Deniz Utlu" in Companion to Turkish German Literature (forthcoming 2024)
- "Adas Raum: Realms in Translation" in German Life and Letters: Special Issue on Sharon Dodua Otoo (forthcoming 2024)
- "Your Homeland is Still our Nightmare" in Konturen Special Issue: Heimat(en) (forthcoming 2023)
- "Almanya: A [Different] Future is Possible" in TRANSIT Journal 13.2, July 19, 2022
