Skye Shannon Savage

Skye Shannon Savage is a doctoral student in the Germanic Languages Department. Their research focuses broadly on the medical humanities in both the 20^th and 18^th centuries. They are currently writing a dissertation on authors Unica Zürn and Ingeborg Bachmann and their relation to post-war medical discourses, entitled The Performativity of Diagnosis: Medicine, Fascism, and Identity in Post-War Germany. They have previously presented research on Karl Philipp Moritz and his work with Deaf learners and their impact on his pedagogical theories. They currently serve as a graduate assistant for the Motherhood and Technology working group, sponsored by the Center for the Study of Social Difference.

In addition to their academic work in the department, they are extremely active in teaching development at the university, having held multiple positions at the Center for Teaching and Learning. They currently serve as a Teaching Consultant where they provide peer support for fellow graduate instructors seeking to improve their teaching. They have also conducted research in adult second-language acquisition and metalinguistic knowledge in the university foreign language classroom. With the support of peers in the Yiddish program, they also worked to develop the university’s first blended Yiddish/German class unit with the goal of emphasizing shared traits across language family trees.