Brandon Pahl
Credentials: German
Position title: Graduate Student
Email: bhpahl@wisc.edu
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Languages: German, French, Hungarian
Area(s) of Study: 20th century German and Austrian literature; history and culture of the Austro-Hungarian Empire; depictions of alcohol use and abuse in literature.
Pronouns: He/him
About: I am a PhD student in the German program. I received my B.A. in German and English and Creative Writing from the University of Iowa in 2020 and my M.A. in German from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. From 2020-2022 I worked as an English teaching assistant in the town of Spittal an der Drau, Austria through the Fulbright Austria program. In 2024 I received FLAS to study Hungarian at the University of Pittsburgh and at Central European University in Budapest, through Indiana University. My present research analyzes depictions of alcohol use and abuse in the works of twentieth-century authors such as Joseph Roth, Irmgard Keun, and Hans Fallada.
Education:
– M.A. in German, University of Wisconsin-Madison
– B.A. in German and B.A. in English and Creative Writing, University of Iowa (2020)
Courses taught:
– German 102 (Spring 2024)
– German 101 (Fall 2023)
– Yiddish Song and the Jewish Experience (Fall 2022)
– German 203 (Fall 2024)
– German 204 (Spring 2025)
Awards:
– Fulbright Teaching Assistantship in Austria (2020-2022)
– Phi Beta Kappa (2018)
– FLAS Scholarship for Study of Hungarian (2024)
– Klaus Berghahn Award (2023)