Jan Uelzmann is Assistant Professor of German in the School of Modern Languages. He received his Ph.D. in German studies from the University of Texas at Austin. He is the recipient of the 2011 Texas Foreign Language Teaching Excellence Award, which is awarded by the Texas Language Center at the University of Texas. Research interests include postwar West German literature and culture, Weimar modernism, German film, and foreign language pedagogy. He has published on the city as a cynical presence in the Weimar Großstadt novel. Current projects include an article on the representation of the 1950’s domestic gender conflict in the West German postwar novel, and a project on Bonn as literary topography.