Grace Jenevieve Rosenberg

Grace joins the Department in 2025. In 2023, she graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University, where she concentrated in German and completed a certificate in French. Her undergraduate thesis examined, questioned, and queered the rigidity of binaries — sacred/profane, feminine/masculine, German/Hebrew — in and around the Yiddish word shmatte. Other research focused on the practice and politics of editing in a 1941 anti-fascist British newsreel that discombobulated audio and visual to parody Nazi propaganda, particularly Triumph des Willens. 

Following her undergraduate studies, Grace taught English and Film Studies at Eton College in the UK as the Annenberg Fellow. Upon returning to the States, she worked as the Curatorial Research Assistant at the Museum of Jewish Heritage -- A Living Memorial to the Holocaust. In this role, she helped to curate multiple exhibitions, as well as researching, processing, and cataloging new acquisitions to the Museum's Permanent Collection. 

At Columbia, Grace hopes to foray further into the topics of instability and rewriting in and of language, media, self/other, attention, affect, community, and tradition.