Leonie Ettinger
Leonie Ettinger is a College Core Curriculum Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow at NYU. She earned her PhD in German from NYU in 2023. She also holds an MA in Performance Studies from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and a BA in Anthropology and Media from Goldsmiths, University of London.
As a theater producer and dramaturg, she has worked with various New York companies, such as The Living Theatre, The Civilians, and Brave New World Repertory Theatre.
Leonie researches 20th and 21st-century theater and literature, especially Expressionism and Brechtian Epic Theater; cultural history; Frankfurt School critical theory; authoritarianism; and trauma theory, particularly transgenerational Holocaust trauma. She has held fellowships at NYU’s Global Research Institute in Berlin (2019) and the Free University of Berlin (2019); her scholarship has also been supported by Mainzer Summer Fellowship (2021) and the Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship (2021-2022). She is the recipient of NYU’s Outstanding Teaching Award (2019).
Leonie’s writing has been published in Marxism in the Age of Trump (2018), Expressionismus (2020), The Journal of Literature and Trauma Studies (2022), and Jüdische Allgemeine Zeitung (2023), with another article forthcoming in Concepts of Culture: New Directions in Conceptual History (2023). For her essay “Speaking Past: Ruth Klüger’s weiter leben: Eine Jugend,” she was awarded the Alpine Fellowship Academic Writing Prize (2020).
Address: New York, New York, United States
As a theater producer and dramaturg, she has worked with various New York companies, such as The Living Theatre, The Civilians, and Brave New World Repertory Theatre.
Leonie researches 20th and 21st-century theater and literature, especially Expressionism and Brechtian Epic Theater; cultural history; Frankfurt School critical theory; authoritarianism; and trauma theory, particularly transgenerational Holocaust trauma. She has held fellowships at NYU’s Global Research Institute in Berlin (2019) and the Free University of Berlin (2019); her scholarship has also been supported by Mainzer Summer Fellowship (2021) and the Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship (2021-2022). She is the recipient of NYU’s Outstanding Teaching Award (2019).
Leonie’s writing has been published in Marxism in the Age of Trump (2018), Expressionismus (2020), The Journal of Literature and Trauma Studies (2022), and Jüdische Allgemeine Zeitung (2023), with another article forthcoming in Concepts of Culture: New Directions in Conceptual History (2023). For her essay “Speaking Past: Ruth Klüger’s weiter leben: Eine Jugend,” she was awarded the Alpine Fellowship Academic Writing Prize (2020).
Address: New York, New York, United States
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