Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Biography

Molly completed her BA in 1998 with a double major in International Relations and German from The University of Alabama, and she earned her M.A. in 2001 from the same institution in German Studies. After teaching German at the high school and at the college level for a couple of years, Molly decided to return to graduate school and pursue a PhD in German literature at The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is interested in 20th- century German literature, focusing on Holocaust literature. In the department, she has taught courses in German at the 101/102 level and spent the previous year at the Universität Regensburg taking courses on the Uncanny and on Literatur der Nachkriegszeit, as well as struggling with Bairisch.