Jessica Riviere – jessica.riviere@vanderbilt.edu
I am in my fifth year in the graduate program here at Vanderbilt. After graduating from The College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio in 2005, with a double major in German Literature and International Relations, I moved to Storkow, Brandenburg for one year, and taught English at the Europaschule Storkow on a Fulbright grant. I grew up in Atlanta, GA, where I started to learn German in elementary school.
I completed my MA at Vanderbilt in May 2008, with a research project on Gerstenberg’s Ugolino and how it relates to the Sturm and Drang period of literature. I spent the Sommersemester 2009 at the Georg-August Universität Göttingen. Since passing my comprehensive exams in May 2010, I am working my dissertation project: Women Writers, Essayistic Writing, and the Public Sphere 1770-1830. I spent the Summer of 2010 in the Deutsches Literaturarchiv in Marbach am Neckar and in Göttingen to look more closely at Therese Huber’s essayistic writing.
I have taught German beginning and intermediate German in my time here, and am looking forward to being in the classroom again. In 2009-2010 I was the department representative to the Graduate Student Council, and will serve as the GSC Vice-President of Academic Affairs for 2010-2011. If you have any questions about Vanderbilt's German program, I'll be happy to answer them as best I can.
Presentations at Conferences
“‘Nothing beside remains’: Glimpses of Ruins in German Thought, Literature, and Art,” German Studies Graduate Student Conference, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 2009.
Teaching Experience
Instructor for first and second year German language classes (German 101, 102, and 103)
Teaching Assistant for German 244: “German Fairy Tales”
Awards, Fellowships, and Grants
Vanderbilt Summer Research Award, Summer 2010
Phillip Rhein Award for Excellence in Teaching, Spring 2010
Gisela Mosig Graduate Fellowship, Spring 2009
Hans Joachim Schulz Graduate Award for Excellence in Research, 2008
