Lecturer

jan.hohenstein@ttu.edu

CMLL 235

Jan Hohenstein holds a Ph.D. in comparative literature from the State University of New York at Binghamton. His research revolves around European literature and philosophy in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, specifically the legacy of the Enlightenment in Austrian Literature. 

Jan has taught German language and literature classes from the beginner to the expert levels at Binghamton University and in the Netherlands. His courses aim to equip students with the linguistic skills to master everyday life in the target language, and to expose learners to the diversity of life and letters in the German-speaking countries.

Education:

• Ph.D. in comparative literature, State University of New York at Binghamton (Binghamton, NY) 2025
   
• Master of Arts in philosophy, State University of New York at Binghamton (Binghamton, NY) 2019
   
• Master of Arts in German literature (Deutsche Literatur), Universität Konstanz (Germany) 2013
   
• Bachelor of Arts in German Studies (Germanistik), Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf (Germany) 2009

Areas of Research:

Jan Hohenstein is a lecturer in German at Texas Tech University. His research revolves around European literature and philosophy in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, specifically the legacy of the Enlightenment in Austrian Literature. He is currently in the process of completing his doctoral thesis with the working title, “‘Man Has Limits’: Adalbert Stifter and the End of the Enlightenment.” The dissertation traces the concepts of the Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment in the writings of Adalbert Stifter and in the reception of his oeuvre.

Current Courses: 

• GERM 1501: A Beginning Course in German I
• GERM 2301: A Second Course in German II

Awards:

• Gisela Brinker-Gabler Dissertation Year Fellowship, awarded by the Department of Comparative Literature at Binghamton University (academic year 2021-2022)

   

• Scholarship for Summer School at the Institute for World Literature at Harvard University, awarded by the Department of Comparative Literature (summer 2021)