Joscha Jelitzki

UConn Graudate Assistant

Joscha Valentin Jelitzki (he/him) has joined the department in 2019 and is a doctoral candidate in German Studies and Hebrew and Judaic Studies. He has studied General and Comparative Literature, Philosophy, and Jewish Studies at Freie Universität Berlin, Europa-Universität Viadrina in Frankfurt/Oder, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Joscha is a passionate teacher of academic writing, German literature and language. He has designed and taught gen-ed courses on Grappling with Technik, Writing Madness and Mad Writing, Pleasure and Principle, and Language and Violence. In addition he has taught Studies in Film History and elementary German.

His dissertation with the tentative title “Reading Desire in Jewish Viennese Modernism” traces the aesthetics of desire in Jewish Vienna around 1900 by analyzing literary, rabbinical, and psychoanalytical textual sources. His research interest generally lie in 19th–21st Century German Jewish Literature and Culture with special interests in Jewish Thought and Secularization, Literary Theory, Psychoanalysis and Critical Theory, Memory and Mourning.

Joscha has presented his research at the American Comparative Literature Association, the Association for Jewish Studies, the Popular Culture Association, the International Vienna Jewish Studies Colloquium, and at the symposium of the International Brecht Society.

Publications:

• “Hiob: Ungestilltes Leiden” (Job: Unanswered Affliction). Co-authored with Sebastian Wogenstein. Deutschsprachig-jüdische Literatur vom Zeitalter der Aufklärung bis zur Gegenwart – Neue Forschungszugänge in Paradigmen, ed. by Alfred Bodenheimer et al. (typescript 14p., forthcoming)
• “Education against antisemitism within a human rights framework.” Open Global Rights website. April 21, 2023.
• “Begegnungen in Sprache – Skizzierung einer Poetologie anhand Martin Bubers autobiographischer Fragmente” (Encounters in Language – Delineation of a Poetics on the Basis of Martin Buber’s Autobiographical Fragments). Co-authored with Sarah Ambrosi. Martin-Buber-Studien 4: Martin Buber und die Literatur (2022): 159–181.
• Review of Wer oben sitzt, der hat die Macht. Die Verschränkung von Sexualität und Shoah im Werk Edgar Hilsenraths by Anna Zachmann. Gegenwartsliteratur. German Studies Yearbook 20 (2021): 395–397.

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