German Faculty
Darren Ilett
DEGREE: Ph.D., University of Chicago
POSITION: Assistant Professor of German
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Turn-of-the century German literature and culture, gender and sexuality studies, film studies, contemporary transnational literature in German
CAMPUS ADDRESS: A-637 Wells Hall
PHONE: 517 355-4762
EMAIL: ilettd@msu.edu
Darren Ilett is an Assistant Professor of German literature and culture in the Department of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian and African Languages. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Germanic Studies at the University of Chicago. His primary research concerns turn-of-the-century literature and culture, and other research interests include Weimar cinema and recent multicultural literature and film in German. Currently, he is developing his dissertation—which investigates the intersection of modernist aesthetics and homoeroticism in four turn-of-the-century boarding school narratives—into a book-length project.
