Teaching Professor and Program Head, German; Arts and Ideas in the Humanities Program; First Year Writing Seminar
About
Karein Goertz, Ph.D., is Lecturer IV, Program Head of the RC German program, and also teaches in the Arts and Ideas in the Humanities and First Year Seminar programs.
Karein teaches undergraduate-level courses in German Language and Literature (First and Second Year Intensive German, German Readings: Berlin, Memoir and Autobiography, Multicultural Literature, Narratives of Transformation and Passage), as well as seminars in English (Refugee Narratives, Holocaust Literature, Cities and Modernism, Literature of Walking, Literary Translation).
She is the author of articles in academic journals (Michigan Quarterly Review, The Comparatist), online journals (salon.com), as well as book chapters (Shaping Losses: Cultural Memory and the Holocaust, Secret Spaces of Childhood, Berlin: The Symphony Continues, Routledge International Handbook of Walking, If I Don't Make It, I Love You: Survivors in the Aftermath of School Shootings).
