Vincent Kancans

• Educational Background & Specialties
• Publications
• Activities
• Awards
• Courses

Educational Background & Specialties

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Educational Background

• MA: Germanic Studies, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 2020
• BA: German, summa cum laude, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 2015

Specialties

• Contemporary German literature
• media theory
• sound studies
• Soviet culture and migration

Publications

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Publications

• Kancans, Vincent. "Accumulation and Race in the Neoliberal Epoch." Journal of American Socialist Studies 2 (2022): 57-64.

• Maye, Harun. "What is a Cultural Technique?" ("Was ist eine Kulturtechnik?"). Translated from German by Ross Etherton and Vincent Kancans. Forthcoming.

Activities

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Activities

Professional

• German Studies Association Conference: Model Realities: On "Simulationstechniken" (SEMINAR). 2022
• German Studies Association Conference: Ulrich Plenzdorf’s New Werther: Narrative Forms and Possibilities of Resistance in Technical Media. 2023
• German Studies Association Conference: Nonsynchronism and Contemporary Representations of Tape.
• Ringvorlesung (public lecture), Ruhr University Bochum: "Documentary Practices".
• Forschungskolloquium (research colloquium), Ruhr University Bochum: "Documentary Practices".

Research

• Visiting Research Associate, Ruhr University Bochum: DFG Graduate Research Group 2132: “Documentary Practices. Excess and Privation”.

Awards

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Awards

• Max Kade Fellowship, 2023-2024
• Outreach Fellowship, 2020-2021
• Gerhard Weiss Fellowship, 2020
• GNSD Summer Grant, 2019
• Mears Legacy Fellowship, 2018 - 2019
• CGES Summer Grant
• American Latvian Association Fellowship

Courses

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Courses

• 051728: Ludology and Ludomusicology (Ruhr-University Bochum, primary instructor, self-designed course)
• GER 3104W: "Coming of Age, Media, Youth Culture" (primary instructor, self-designed course)
• GER 3104W: "Modern Miniatures" (TA and grader)
• GER 3011W: Conversation and Composition (instructor of record)
• GER 1004: Intermediate German, accelerated summer course (instructor of record)
• GER 1004: Intermediate German (instructor of record)
• GER 1003: Intermediate German (instructor of record)
• GER 1002: Introductory German (instructor of record)
• GER 1001: Introductory German (instructor of record)