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JENNIFER KAPCZYNSKI

Assistant Professor of German

Phone 314.935.4007, Fax 314.935.7255

jkapczynski@wustl.edu

Jennifer Kapczynski is Assistant Professor of German and Film and Media Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. She received her Ph.D. in German from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2003.

Professor Kapczynski’s research focuses principally on twentieth century literature and film. Her book project, “The German Patient: Crisis and Recovery in Postwar Culture” examines the place of disease in discussions of German guilt after 1945, and demonstrates that illness provided a key framework for postwar thinkers attempting to explain the emergence and impact of fascism. She has published work related to this project (“Homeward Bound? Peter Lorre’s The Lost Man,” New German Critique), as well as articles on such diverse writers as Heinrich Böll and Heinrich von Kleist. In other recent projects, she has explored the construction of heroism in the 1950s German war film genre and the representation of democracy in American films made during World War Two. She is currently working on a special journal issue on trends in contemporary cinema.

Professor Kapczynski’s broader research and teaching interests include nineteenth through twenty-first century literature, film studies, gender theory, nationalism, and German-American relations. She has taught courses on the “Zero Hour,” German Modernism, History of German Cinema, and Germany Today.

Office Ridgley Hall 422	Mailing Address Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Campus Box 1104 Washington University St. Louis, MO 63130-4899
Mailbox Ridgley Hall 319

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