Spencer Hawkins

HISTORY, PHILOSOPHY, LINGUISTICS, TRANSLATION

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BA University of California, Berkeley (2007)

PhD University of Michigan (2014)

Current research: “Forced Self-translation” In collaboration with Professor Lavinia Heller, I am currently combining socio-linguistic and historical methods to study the rise of English as a lingua franca in the sciences and the adoption of English as language of scholarship by scholars in exile.

TEACHING

I) Thesis Advising

Advising and evaluation of senior theses, Department of English Language and Literature, Bilkent University (2016), FTSK, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz (2020-2022).

II) Instructor of Record

Doctoral

Critical Theory and Philosophy: Nietzsche and Freud, Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan (Fall 2017)

Graduate German Reading, Department of German and Russian Languages and

Literatures, University of Notre Dame (Summer 2018)

Masters

FTSK, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz:

Communication about Book Translation: Contracts, Funding, Peer Review, Copyrights (Winter 2022)

Navigating Global Englishes (Summer 2022)

Inclusive Language: The Sociolinguistics of Cultural Sensitivity in Contemporary English (Winter 2021/2022)

Advanced Academic Spoken English (Summer 2021)

The Position of the German Language in the World (On sociolinguist Ulrich Ammon’s work) (Winter 2020/2021)

Translation Practice: Economic Translation (Winter 2020/2021)

Translation Practice: Inter- and intralingual translation in (popular) science (Summer 2020)

Translation and (In)commensurability (Summer 2020)

Classics of Translation Studies (Winter 2019/2020)

International Translation Processes in the Humanities (Winter 2019/2020)

Upper-level undergraduate

Varieties of Love (Senior Seminar in Intellectual and Cultural History) Program in Liberal Studies (PLS), University of Notre Dame (Fall 2018)

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor:

Introduction to German Literature (taught in German) Germanic Languages and Literatures (Fall 2016)

Imagination(taught in English) Germanic Languages and Literatures (Fall 2016)

Isolations, Department of Comparative Literature (Winter 2014)

German language

First and Third Semester German, Germanic Languages and Literatures, University

of Michigan (Fall 2011, 2013); Department of German and Russian

Languages and Literatures, University of Notre Dame (Spring 2018)

Core Curriculum Courses

Seminar V (19^th century European literature and philosophy; East Asian wisdom

literature) Program in Liberal Studies, University of Notre Dame (Fall 2017)

Program in Cultures, Civilizations, and Ideas, Bilkent University:

Modern Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Literature (Al-Farabi, Shakespeare, Machiavelli,

Kojève, Smith, Marx, Nietzsche, Ellison) (Winter 2015, Winter 2016)

Great Books of Greek antiquity (including The Epic of Gilgamesh, Homer, Sophocles,

Plato, Gorgias, Dissoi Logoi) (Fall 2014, Fall 2015, Winter 2017)

First-year writing courses

University of Michigan:

Writing on Technology, Writing as Technology, Department of

Comparative Literature (Fall 2011)

Writing after Prometheus, Department of Comparative Literature (Winter 2011)

Scribble and Spit: Writing about Talk, Talking about Your Writing,

Department of English (Fall 2010)

III) Teaching Assistant

Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan:

German to English Translation (Fall 2014)

Love and Death in German Literature (Fall 2014)

Honors Program, Classical Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan:

Literature of Greek antiquity (Fall 2008, Fall 2009)

Literature from ancient Greece to the early Renaissance (Winter 2009, Winter 2010)

UNIVERSITY SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

2020    “Zwischensprachliche Übersetzung als wissenschaftliche Leistung im Spätwerk Karl Poppers” Forschungskolloquium “Politik der Translation” FTSK, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, February.

2019    “The Birth of American Monolingualism out of Conflicts with Germany” Department of Translation Studies, University of Graz, October.

2019    “The English of Exile: The Cultural and Linguistic Self-Translations of German-speaking Philosophers During and After World War II,” Institute of Culture Studies and Theatre History of the Academy of Sciences, Vienna. June.

2019    “Surprised by Familiarity: Literary Techniques for Intercultural Communication in Austrian Youth Travel Novels” Department of Comparative Literature, University of Vienna, May.

2019    “Literary Translation and Philosophy: Strategies for Conceptualizing Norm Deviation across Two Genres.” Department for Translation Studies, University of Vienna, March.

2018    “Between Image and Concept: Differential translation of repeated vocabulary in literature and philosophy,” Department of Comparative Literature, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, March.

2017    “Forschungsgeschichten: Drei Projekte, die auf einer Sammlung beruhen,” German Literature Archive, Marbach, Germany, July.

2016    “Freudian translation and the translation of Freud,” Program in Cultures, Civilizations, and Ideas at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, February.

2015    “Translation and metaphor in philosophy.” Department of Translation and Interpretation, Bosphorus University, Istanbul, Turkey, March.

2014    “Teaching strategies and learning goals for an introductory course on German to English translation.” Translation and Interpreting Studies Department. University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, March.

2014    “Preserving ambiguity when translating German philosophy into English,” Translation and Interpreting Studies Department. University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, March.