Julia Perrin (Nordmann)

Julia Perrin received her Ph.D. (2012) and M.Phil (2007) from the Department of Germanic Languages at Columbia University. She also holds an M.A. in German Literature and Political Science from Albert-Ludwigs-Universität (Freiburg, Germany, 2005) and an M.A. in German Studies from Dalhousie University (Halifax, Canada, 2004). 

Julia has taught elementary and intermediate German classes at Fordham University, Columbia University, Manhattan School of Music, Vassar College, and Dalhousie University in Canada. At Columbia, she also taught German for Reading Knowledge and was both a preceptor and a lecturer for Contemporary Civilization in the Core Curriculum. During the pandemic, she developed a German program for bilingual children teaching German every afternoon from her porch in Hastings-on-Hudson. 

Julia’s research focuses on the intersection of history, memory, literature, and politics in post-1945 Germany. Her dissertation examined the role that Günter Grass and other writers of the Hitler Youth generation played as “innocent witnesses” of World War II in German society after 1945. Most recently, she has been interested in contemporary memory projects in the United States that attempt to reframe history and national identity, such as The New York Times’ 1619 Project.