Cassandra Winkelman
Credentials: German
Position title: Graduate Student, German Student Representative
Email: cwinkelman2@wisc.edu
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Languages: German, French, Swedish
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 candidate in the German unit of GNS+. For the 2025-2026 academic year, she is working on her dissertation in Berlin with a Dissertation Fellowship in the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin. 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, Cassandra 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 (Spring 2024)
-German 203: Third Semester German (Fall 2022, Spring 2023)
-German 204: Fourth Semester German (Fall 2023)
-German 249: Intermediate Speaking and Listening (Fall 2024)
-Littrans 270: German Women Writers in Translation (7 weeks as Student Assistant Lecturer, Fall 2023)
-German 676/683: Borders and Bordercrossings, Teaching Practicum with Dr. Sonja Klocke (Fall 2024)
UW-La Crosse
University Lecturer:
-German 202/212: Fourth Semester German (Spring 2025)
-German 321: German Civilization (Fall 2025)
Awards:
-Berlin Program Dissertation Fellowship, Freie Universität Berlin (2025-2026)
-UW-Madison Language Institute Grant (Summer 2025)
-CGES-DAAD Research Assistantship (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)
-English Teaching Assistantship, Fulbright Program (2021-2022)