Cassandra Winkelman

Area of Study: GDR and post-GDR literature, Christa Wolf, DEFA films, crisis of language, the dream narrative, movement, inner foreignness, the GDR and world literature

Pronouns: She/her

About: Cassandra is a PhD student in the German department. She received her MA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2024 and her BA from Colby College in 2021. Upon completion of her Bachelor’s, she spent the 2021-22 academic year with the Fulbright Program as an English Teaching Assistant in Riesa/Döbeln, Saxony. There, she also worked with the US Consulate, visiting many schools across East Germany, and she was a fellow at the German American Institute of Saxony. She is researching sequences of movement, borders, and the dream structure in GDR and post-GDR literature, DEFA film, and the broader world literature context.

Education: 

-MA in German, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2024)

-BA in German, French, and Education, Colby College (2021)

Courses taught:

UW-Madison

-German 102: Second Semester German

-German 203: Third Semester German

-German 204: Fourth Semester German

-German 249: Intermediate Speaking and Listening

-Littrans 270: German Women Writers in Translation (7 weeks as Student Assistant Lecturer)

-Teaching Practicum in German 676/683: Borders and Bordercrossings (Dr. Sonja Klocke)

-Littrans 270: German Women Writers in Translation (7 weeks as Student Assistant Lecturer)

UW- La Crosse

-Lecturer, German 202/212: Fourth Semester German

Awards:

-Berlin Program Fellowship, Freie Universität Berlin (2025-2026)

UW-Madison Language Institute Grant (Summer 2025)

-CGES-DAAD Research Assistant (2025)

-Graduate School Summer Non-Dissertator Fellowship (Summer 2024)

-UW-Madison Language Institute Grant (Summer 2023)

-Graduate Study in German Scholarship from Delta Phi Alpha (March 2023)