Suzuko Knott
Associate Professor of German
Director of the Toor Cummings Center for International Studies & the Liberal Arts (CISLA)
Acting Chair of the Department of German
Joined Connecticut College: 2012
Education
B.A., M.A., University of Georgia
Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis
Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis
Film and media studies
Gender and women's studies
Suzuko Knott's research interests include Japanese-born German-language writer Yoko Tawada, intersections of German literary and cultural production with Japan and the United States, and sport and body culture of the 19th century. She teaches Beginning German, Imagining Amerika, Sexology and Sex Activism in the Weimar Republic and Stories from the Road.
Suzuko attended the Baden-Württemberg Seminar for American Faculty in German and German Studies, June 9 – 22, 2013, on a full grant sponsored by the German-American Fulbright Commission.
Recent publication
"Yoko Tawada par Yoko Tawada: das automatische Schreiben eines verschwindenden Senders /Empfängers." Yoko Tawada et la culture français. Bernard Banoun, ed. Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag. Forthcoming, 2013.
Recent presentation
The "good wife, wise mother" of Kirschblüten - Hanami: Doris Dörrie's German domesticity in a Japanese context, German Studies Association Conference, Milwaukee (2012).
Suzuko Knott is a member of the German Studies Association, The Coalition of Women in German, Association of American Teachers of German, American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Modern Language Association, American Friends of Marbach
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Mailing Address
Suzuko Knott
Connecticut College
Box # GERMAN STUDIES/Blaustein Humanities Center
270 Mohegan Ave.
New London, CT 06320
Office
332 Blaustein Humanities Center