Skye Shannon Savage completed her PhD in Columbia's Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, with a Certificate from the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, in June 2025. In her research and teaching she interrogates the narrative structure of scientific knowledge and its histories. Her dissertation, The Performativity of Diagnosis: Case Writing Between Medicine and Literature in Postwar Germany examines the intertwined histories of medical and literary writing in the German context and culminates in an analysis of clinical files from the Karl-Bonhoeffer-Nervenklinik in Berlin, and new readings of works by Ingeborg Bachmann and Unica Zürn. She is currently a Lecturer in the Core Curriculum.
Website: skyesavage.com
