Steven Weinberg joined the department in Fall 2017 as an Excellence Fellow.
My research interests are in Kafka, Jewish Studies, Law, Aesthetics, and Irony. I am currently writing my dissertation on Walter Benjamin’s and Gershom Scholem’s reception of Kafka’s literature. This dissertation asks whether and to what extent Kafka’s literature can be read as “kabbalistic.” Before joining Rutgers’ German Department in 2017, I did an M.A. in Literature from Ben-Gurion University in Israel. My M.A. Thesis read Kafka’s Der Prozess in light of a jurisprudential debate occurring in Prague at the turn of the twentieth century. I also have a J.D. from Temple University (2012) and a B.A. in English from Carnegie Mellon University (2008). I grew up in Philadelphia, but my current home is Berlin. In addition, I host a podcast show which brings together my academic passions. It is called The Schrift: Ancient Jewish Wisdom for Modern Times and analyzes the Torah from the perspective of the German literary canon and from the teachings of mindfulness meditation.
Honors/Awards
Brandeis Tauber Research Award (2022)
DAAD Research Award (2020)
Rutgers Jewish Studies Research Award (2018, 2020, 2022)
Courses Taught
WP 101 Expository Writing
Fall 2022
WP 101 Expository Writing
Fall 2021
GER 101 Elementary German
Spring 2021
GER 104 German Conversation
Fall 2020
GER 105 German for Reading Knowledge
Fall 2020
GER 101 Elementary German
Spring 2020
GER 101 Elementary German
Fall 2019
