Dr. Michele Chinitz

I am an Assistant Professor of English Literature and Culture at the University of Passau. I work primarily on British and global Anglophone literatures and specialize in postcolonial studies, German Jewish studies, translation, music, film, and new media. My recent publications appear in the Journal of Modern Literatureand EuropeNow. In 2025, I co-organized Reverberations Mixtape, a multimedia platform and digital volume about sound, collectivity, and futurity. Currently I am writing a book about music and complicity in global Anglophone and German fiction. My second book project focuses on collectivity in minoritarian fiction and film collectives. Previously, I taught at Albion College and the City College of New York. In my teaching, I am eager to empower students to analyze and creatively reflect on the complexity of their own lives through a comparative consideration of literature, culture, and history in different parts of the world.

Education

• City University of New York, PhD and Critical Theory Certificate, 2024
• City University of New York, MPhil, 2021
• Free University of Berlin, MA, 2015
• Williams College, BA, 2010

Fellowships and Prizes

• English Dissertation Program Prize in Interdisciplinary Studies, City University of New York, 2024
• “On Nationalism” Seminar Fellowship, James Gallery, New York City and The Racial Imaginary Institute, 2021-2022
• Center for Place, Culture and Politics Dissertation Fellowship, 2020-2021
• Visiting Researcher, University of Antwerp, Fall 2018
• PhD Scholarship, City University of New York
• DAAD Graduate Research Fellowship, Film and Music Studies, Free University of Berlin, 2012-2013
• DAAD Scholarship, Leo Baeck Summer University in Jewish Studies, Humboldt University of Berlin, 2011
• Strauss Prize in English for Best Honors Critical Thesis, Williams College, 2010
• Bursary Grant, University of Oxford, 2009
• Visiting Student, University of Oxford, Exeter College, 2008-2009