Landon Reitz

LANDON REITZ

Guten Tag. My name is Landon Reitz.

I am a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto. My research areas include the representation of reading in German literature, concepts of the medieval futures, medieval mystical and devotional theory and practice, and narratives of migration. My received a concurrent PhD in German and Medieval Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2022, and spent two years as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Cincinnati.

Current research projects

An overview of my current research projects.

Publications

An overview of current publications and conference papers.

Teaching

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Curriculum Vitae

Professional career

Since September 2024
Faculty of Arts and Sciences Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto

August 2022 to August 2024
Visiting Assistant Professor of German at the University of Cincinnati

March 2021 to March 2022
Associated Fellow at the Erich Auerbach Institute for Advanced Studies at the Universität zu Köln

March to October 2021
Fulbright Fellow at the Universität zu Köln

Fall 2015 to Summer 2022
Concurrent Ph.D. Student in German and Medieval Studies and Graduate Student Instructor at the University of California, Berkeley

2013 to 2015
Admissions Counselor at the University of Pennsylvania

Education

Concurrent Ph.D.,  2022
University of California, Berkeley, German and Medieval Studies

Master of Arts, 2016
University of California, Berkeley, German Studies                

Bachelor of Arts, 2011
University of Pennsylvania, English (with distinction), German, and Classics
summa cum laude

 

Get in touch. 

Interested in collaborating? Curious about my research? Or keen to grab a coffee? Then I look forward to your email!