Alicia Ellis
Election
Position
Name
Alicia Ellis
Candidate statement
I am an associate professor of German at Colby College where I also chair the Department of German and Russian. I earned a doctorate in German and an MA in African American Studies from Yale University. My first book, Gender and Identity in Franz Grillparzer’s Classical Dramas: Figuring the Female, was published in 2021. As a scholar of the long nineteenth century and,
most recently, of Black Europe, my commitment to the discipline is dynamic and shifting. I recently joined the GSA Community Fund Committee. I am also committed to the organization’s diversity, equity, and inclusion goals. A member of the Committee on Institutional Transformation and Social Justice, I have been involved in discussions that tackle questions about race and racialization in the GSA and beyond. If elected as Board Member for Germanistik/Cultural Studies, I wish to explore how a focused expansion of the meaning of German Studies would benefit the organization. Even as diverse approaches to the field are
introduced, it is clear that some of the scholarly nuances that un-conventional approaches to the discipline bring are often overlooked. As such, their impact on the intellectual rigor of German Studies disappears from a deeper discourse about the field.
most recently, of Black Europe, my commitment to the discipline is dynamic and shifting. I recently joined the GSA Community Fund Committee. I am also committed to the organization’s diversity, equity, and inclusion goals. A member of the Committee on Institutional Transformation and Social Justice, I have been involved in discussions that tackle questions about race and racialization in the GSA and beyond. If elected as Board Member for Germanistik/Cultural Studies, I wish to explore how a focused expansion of the meaning of German Studies would benefit the organization. Even as diverse approaches to the field are
introduced, it is clear that some of the scholarly nuances that un-conventional approaches to the discipline bring are often overlooked. As such, their impact on the intellectual rigor of German Studies disappears from a deeper discourse about the field.