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Anna Souchuk

Education

Ph.D. - Yale University: 2008
M.Phil. - Yale University: 2006
M.A. - Yale University: 2005
B.A. - University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign: 2002

Teaching and Research Interests

Anna Souchuk is Associate Professor of German in DePaul's Department of Modern Languages. A scholar of twentieth century Germany and Austria with a focus on contemporary Vienna, her research focuses on memory culture, the Austrian process of coming to terms with the past, and refugee studies in Austria and Germany. Dr. Souchuk teaches a wide variety of courses in both German and English for DePaul’s German Program, Liberal Studies Program, and Honors Program. She’s also developed several short- and long-term study abroad programs at DePaul: a short-term study abroad program to Vienna on coffeehouse culture and fin-de-siècle Vienna; another short-term program to Berlin and Vienna that focuses on history, memory, and the refugee experience in those two cities; and a long-term program to Vienna for either a single quarter or full academic year. In addition to her work at DePaul, Dr. Souchuk serves as Executive Director of the American Friends of the Vienna Museum. 

Courses Taught

  • The Contemporary German (-language) Film​
  • The History of German Film
  • ​Coffeehouses and Culture in Turn of the Century Vienna
  • Working Through the Past: Memory and Memorial in Germany and the U.S.​​​​​
  • Berlin and the Golden Twenties
  • Kakfa and the Kafkaesque
  • Coming of Age in Germany and Austria
  • Contemporary Bestsellers from Germany and Austria
  • Memoirs of the Holocaust
  • Commercial German​​
  • The German Novella
  • Current Events in the German-Speaking World
  • German Literature: From Origins to 1600
  • Bertolt Brecht on the Stage of the Twentieth Century​
  • Explore: German-American Chicago
  • Grimms' Fairy Tales
  • New German Cinema
  • Multicultural Germany: Film, Literature, Art, and Food​​

Other Research Interests:

  • memory studies​​
  • coming to terms with the past in Germany and Austria​
  • refugee experiences and narratives in Germany and Austria
  • fin-de-siècle​​ ​Vienna​
  • space, place, and Heimat

Service

  • Chair, Department of Modern Languages
  • Director, German Program
  • Faculty Council Secretary
  • Faculty Council Representative​
  • University Comprehensive Internationali​zation Committee​
  • University Fulbright Committee
  • University Honors Program Committee
  • University Honors APR Committee
  • University Liberal Studies Program APR Committee, Core Self Study Group​
  • LAS Study Abroad Committee
  • LAS Awards Committee
  • Presidential Vetting Committee, 2016-17 and 2021-22​​​​
  • University Strategic Planning Team: Academic Portfolio and Faculty Development
  • Advisory Board Member, Grace School of Applied Diplomacy
  • Organizer and Co-Director, Berlin and Vienna: Navigating the Refugee Experience Study Abroad Program
  • Organizer and Co-Director, Vienna: City of Modern Tastes Study Abroad Program
  • Advisor, Illinois in Vienna German Language and Vienna Diplomatic Study Abroad Programs​​​
  • Faculty Advisor, German Club
  • Faculty Advisor, Russian Club
  • Creating Knowledge MOL Committee
  • Modern Languages DEI and Antiracism Committee​

Awards

  • Distinguished Honors Faculty
  • Excellence in Teaching Award
  • DePaul ENGAGE Faculty Award​