• Leonie Ettinger earned her Ph.D. in German from New York University in 2023 and was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies in the 2024/2025 academic year. Her research examines twentieth- and twenty-first-century German literature and theater, with particular attention to critical theory, cultural history, fascism, memory, and Holocaust studies.

    Her academic work has appeared in Expressionismus and The Journal of Literature and Trauma Studies, with additional articles forthcoming in Concepts of Culture: Experiments in Conceptual History and The Oxford University Press Handbook of Jewish Literature. She has also published public-facing writing and theater criticism in The Platypus Review, Jüdische Allgemeine Zeitung, mosaik, EDA Magazine, Caesura, and der Freitag. In 2020, she received the Alpine Fellowship Academic Writing Prize for her essay "Speaking Past: Ruth Klüger's weiter leben: Eine Jugend."

    At Trinity, she teaches German language, literature, film, and theater.

    • Ph.D. in German, New York University
    • M.A. in Performance Studies, New York University
    • B.A. in Anthropology and Media Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London

    Academic Writing
    Ettinger, Leonie. "The Rise and Fall of the Youth Concept: Intergenerational Conflict in Walter Hasenclever's Der Sohn and Hanns Johst's Schlageter." In Concepts of Culture: Experiments in Conceptual History, edited by Michael Lipkin and Mattias Pirholt. Berghahn Books, 2026.
     
    Ettinger, Leonie. "Witnessing Impossibility: The Traumatic Theater of Rachel Neuburger's Nepenthe." In The Journal of Literature and Trauma Studies 8.2 (2022): 25–54. Edited by Lucia Aiello and David Miller.

    Ettinger, Leonie. "Zwischen Freiheitsdrang und Autoritätszwang: Vaterlosigkeit in Hasenclevers Der Sohn und Werfels Nicht der Mörder, der Ermordete ist schuldig." In Expressionismus, Väter und Söhne, edited by Kristin Eichhorn and Johannes S. Lorenzen (2020): 37–48.

    Public-Facing Writing
    Ettinger, Leonie. "Wenn Schicksale sich reimen." Jüdische Allgemeine Zeitung, December 22, 2024.
    https://www.juedische-allgemeine.de/kultur/wenn-schicksale-sich-reimen

    Ettinger, Leonie. "Max Czollek im Gespräch." mosaik blog, July 2, 2024.
    https://mosaik-blog.at/author/leonie-ettinger/

    • 20th and 21st-century German literature and theater
    • critical theory
    • cultural history
    • fascism studies
    • memory studies
    • minority studies
    • Holocaust studies

    • German Language (Elementary, Intermediate, Advanced)
    • German Literature (19th–21st century)
    • German Cinema
    • German Theater

    • 2026 — URAH SURF Faculty Award, Trinity University
    • 2026 — Broadening Academia Initiative Conference Travel Grant, Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies
    • 2024 — Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship, Freie Universität Berlin
    • 2021 — Dean's Dissertation Writing Fellowship, New York University
    • 2021 — Mainzer Summer Fellowship, New York University
    • 2020 — Teaching Fellowship, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
    • 2020 — Alpine Fellowship Academic Writing Prize
    • 2019 — Outstanding Teaching Award, New York University
    • 2016 — GSAS MacCracken Fellowship, New York University

    • Film Series Organizer, German Kino Nights, Trinity University (2026–)
    • Contest Judge, Texas State German Contest (2026)
    • Contest Judge, Sprachfest, San Antonio (2026)
    • Student Reader Recruiter, German Christmas Celebration, Trinity University (2025)
    • Editorial Board Member, Augenblick, University of British Columbia (2025–)
    • Peer Reviewer, The Journal of Literature and Trauma Studies (2024–)
    • Alumni Representative, Performance Studies, New York University (2024–)
    • Co-organizer, Postdoctoral Colloquia in the College Core Curriculum, New York University (2023–2024)
    • Graduate Representative, Department of German, New York University (2018–2019)