Jacob Haubenreich received his B.A. in Germanic Languages and Literatures from Washington University in St. Louis in 2005 and his M.A. from UC-Berkeley in 2007. He is currently a 5th year Ph.D. candidate and serving as the assistant GSI coordinator of the German language program at Berkeley. Jacob’s research interests include narrative theory, translation theory, semiotics, early Romanticism, as well as the work of E.T.A. Hoffmann, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Martin Heidegger. Jacob is currently writing a dissertation entitled “Realities in Flux,” in which he examines the construction of fictional worlds in language, the relationship between fictionality and actuality, and the process of learning through literature.

Presentations

“Reading and the Resignification of Reality in E. T. A. Hoffmann’s Councilor Krespel,” German Studies Association Conference, Washington D.C., October 8-11, 2009

“The Narrative Collapse of Reality, and Grasping --: the Magical in E.T.A. Hoffmann’s Councilor Krespel,” The Threat and Allure of the Magical, the University of California, Berkeley, March 13-15, 2009

“The ‘Mirror of Fools’: Learning through Literature and Sebastian Brant’s Ship of Fools,” Northeast Modern Language Association, Boston, February 26-March 1, 2009

“Heidegger as Semiotician? Language and Being,” the Semiotic Circle of California, the University of California, Berkeley, January 24, 2009

“Screening the Globe: Planetary Perspectives from Silent Film to IMAX,” Transitional Spaces and Places: Exploring Boundaries, Borders and Intersections, Fordham University, New York, October 6-8, 2006