Chubb, Adrian

Lecturer

achubb@arizona.edu

Dr. Adrian Chubb earned his PhD in Germanic Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2021. His research focuses on the interaction between the political world and literary and cultural production within the expanding public sphere in the post-War Federal Republic, and particularly in the 1960s and 1970s. Additional areas of interest include German thought from the Enlightenment to Critical Theory, theories of the public sphere, and cultural representations the German protest and terrorist movements. His dissertation analyzed the links between Günter Grass's political speeches and essays and his literary work. Adrian attended the University of Lancaster, Lancaster, UK, where he obtained a BA in German and Russian Studies and an MA in German Studies. Adrian has taught at Illinois State University and at Middlebury College, and outside of academia, he has worked in corporate and marketing communications, computer programming, and data and systems analysis in Germany and the USA.

Publication: "In Search of Public Sphere Pluralism in 1960s West Germany" in Unsettled 1968 in the Troubled Present edited by Konarzewska, A.; Nakai, A.; Przeperski, M. London: Routledge. 2019.

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GER 276 – Crisis and Rebellion: Germany and Beyond

What innovations can a moment of extreme crisis bring to a society? From the radicals and reactionaries of Weimar Berlin to the student movements of the 1960s and the fall of the Berlin Wall, German society has born witness to unprecedented traumatic and regenerative moments of social crisis and creative rebellion. Focusing on the economic, aesthetic, moral, and political transformations of one particular moment of crisis, this course explores how deep collective uncertainty can lead to booms of creativity across boundaries in music, literature, fine arts, pop culture, architecture, and film. Taught in English

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GER 310 – Present Day German: Its Structure and Uses

Overview of current topics in the analysis of German, including phonetics/phonology, morphology, syntax, the lexicon, pragmatics, and sociolinguistics. Taught in German.

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GER 325 – German Cinema

This course provides a historical overview from the 1920s to the present, with a focus on genres and movements such as expressionism, film noir, propaganda, New German Cinema, the Berlin School, by filmmakers such as Lang, Murnau, Riefenstahl, Ade and Akin. Films will be analyzed and discussed as aesthetic works and historical cultural products, and social issues such as gender, class, race, ethnicity and national identity will be explored. This course may be applied toward the major or minor.

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GER 375 – The Birth of the Modern: Culture and Politics in turn-of-the-century Vienna

Explores the themes of love, madness, decay and death as they appear in the works of major writers, artists, composers and thinkers associated with Vienna at the turn of the century, 1880-1920. Taught in English.

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Currently Teaching

GER 276 – Crisis and Rebellion: Germany and Beyond

GER 310 – Present Day German: Its Structure and Uses

GER 325 – German Cinema

GER 375 – The Birth of the Modern: Culture and Politics in turn-of-the-century Vienna