Landon Reitz

LANDON REITZ

Curriculum Vitae

Professional career

Since September 2024
Faculty of Arts and Science 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 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

August 2015 to August 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

Narratives of Migration in German

Reading (in) German Literature

Cultural Encounters: Exploring Languages and Intercultural Competence

Language Teaching in German Studies

Introduction to German Literature

(Re)Imagining the Middle Ages

Reading the Reader

Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced German Language

2024
Faculty of Arts and Science Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Toronto

2023
Fellow, German Literary Institutions in Berlin

2021
US Fulbright Research Fellowship, Universität zu Köln

2021
Berkeley-Cologne Research Fellowship

2020
Graduate Remote Instruction Fellow, UC Berkeley

2020
Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, UC Berkeley

2018
DAAD Short-Term Research Grant, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg

2018
Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, UC Berkeley

2016-17
New Directions in Theology Grant, UC Berkeley

2015-16
Institute of European Studies Fellow, UC Berkeley

2012-13
US Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Fellowship to Germany   

2010-11
Andrew W. Mellon Undergraduate Research Fellowship, UPenn

2020
Assistant to the Organizer, DAAD Workshop: Deutsch als Fremdsprache in den USA: Grundlagen und Perspektiven

2020
Editorial Board Member, TRANSIT, vol. 12.2

2019-20
German Language Program Assistant, Department of German, University of California, Berkeley

2019
Co-Organizer, 27th Annual German Studies Conference: Affective Realisms, University of California, Berkeley, February 22-23

2018
Graduate Student Assessment Fellow, Berkeley Center for Teaching and Learning, Department of German, University of California, Berkeley

Modern Language Association

German Studies Association

Medieval Academy of America

English (native)

German (near native)

Middle High German (reading fluency)

French (intermediate)

Medieval Latin (intermediate)