German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch Graduate Students

Below you can browse the profiles of our graduate students. 

GNSD Graduate Student Profiles

Olivia Branstetter, Fall 2022 Headshot

Olivia Branstetter

she/her

Specialties

Performance Studies; Media Studies & Art Technologies; Gender & Women's Studies; Contemporary German Literature; Modernist Art & Art in times of crisis; Representations of female corporeality in art, literature, and media in the German-speaking world from early German Romanticism to the present

Rachel Dodson Headshot

Rachel Dodson

she/her/hers

Specialties

Memory Studies; Cinema Studies; Transnationalism; Moving Image Studies; Second Language Acquisition; Weimar Germany cinema; Remediation in the 20th-21st centuries

Melissa Drew standing outside of Folwell Hall on UMN TC campus.

Missy Drew

she/her

Specialties

Transnational Feminisms; 20th and 21st century German Literature; Feminist and Critical Sexuality Studies; Queer Space; Community and Coalition Building

Ahlam Hassan

Ahlam Hassan

She/Her

Specialties

Politics of Belonging; Transnational Migration Study; Cultural Imaginaries