Shoshana Schwebel is a 4th year PhD student in Germanic Studies at UBC. She previously did her MA and BA (Hons.) in German Studies at McGill under the supervision of Dr. Andrew Piper. Her MA thesis was on the poetics and materiality of Robert Walser’s writing materials (his pencil and paper).

She is writing on childhood memoirs around 1900, and the subtle ways in which trauma disturbs these texts. As part of this work, she is trying to approach trauma in a non-pathologizing, non-voyeuristic way.

Her areas of interest are Modernism and 20th century cultural texts, nostalgia and memory, trauma and trauma theory, emotions and affect (particularly negative emotions), feminism, media theory, and natural sciences.

Schwebel, S. (2022), “Lulu’s Smile: An Archive of Trauma in Die Büchse der Pandora (1929).” The German Quarterly, 95: 149-166. https://doi.org/10.1111/gequ.12259

2022: SSHRC Doctoral Award
2021: German Studies Research Grant, DAAD
2020: Killam Doctoral Fellowship
2019: Simons Foundation Doctoral Scholarship
2019: UBC Faculty of Arts Graduate Award
2019: BC Government Scholarship – Anne Piternick
2016: Best MA Thesis in Canada in German Studies (2014-2015), German Studies Canada
2012: Joseph Armand Bombardier Master’s Scholarship (SSHRC)

Co-supervised by Dr. Ervin Malakaj and Dr. Ilinca Iurascu