Caleb Davis
Ph.D. Candidate / Max Kade Dissertation Fellow
davis.5470@buckeyemail.osu.edu
Hagerty Hall, 4th floor
Research Interests
- Monuments and sites of memory
- Media- and visual literacy
- Nationalism (current movements, and historical conceptions of nationality in North America and Europe)
- Narrative Theory
- Semiotics
- Translation and translation theory
- Visual Narratology
Education
Doctor of Philosophy, Germanic Languages and Literatures
Dissertation Title: Reading Double: A Semiotically Informed Analysis of Myth and Master Narrative in Children's Picturebooks from 1929-1945.
Academic Leave AU22-SP24
The Ohio State University
Master of Arts, Germanic Languages and Literatures
M.A. Thesis
Study Abroad AU18-SP19
Bachelor of Arts, Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures + Double Major English Linguistics
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Academic Publications
MA Thesis. “‘Man stellt Denkmäler nicht auf den flachen Asphalt’ – Nationalism and Narrative in Commemorative “Siegfried” Monuments in Weimar- and Nazi Germany.” Ohio Link May 2020
Coauthor. “Attention to “Cirrhosis” in the News Media in 36 Countries Worldwide: Insufficient Awareness of Non-alcoholic Compared to Alcoholic Liver Disease.” American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases May 2016
Translation Projects
Compiled Writings and Memoirs of Gisela Steinbach. 160+ page memoir translated for the family of the late Ms. Steinbach; prose, poetry, and archival materials. 2023
Co-translator: Dr. Ann-Sophie Röhm. Nazi Experiments on Extreme Cooling and Warming Effects on the Body. Translation for Dr. Med. Pedro Weisleder, Nationwide Children’s Hospital. 2020
Presentations
“The Persistence of Memory and a Decaying Monument—What Denazification Left Behind” Presentation at the 2022 2nd Annual European Languages and Transcultural Studies Conference, Then University of California Los Angeles Permanence and Decay. May 2022
“Memories, Monuments, and the Remnants of Denazification” Presentation at the 2022 14th Annual GGSA Conference, The Ohio State University Traditions: A Survey into the Past, Present and Future in German-speaking Cultures. February 2022
Awards and Grants
2024 Max Kade Dissertation Fellowship
2022 Arts and Humanities Graduate Research Small Grants
2021 Felice M. Grad Endowed Scholarship for Graduate Research
2020 Dr. Henry J. Kratz Graduate Student Research Scholarship
2019 Freunde und Förderer der TU Dresden
2018 Dr. Henry J. Kratz Graduate Student Research Scholarship
2018 Deutsche Akademische Austausch Dienst
2018 Erasmus+
2015 Foreign Language Area Studies Grant in Russian
University Service
2021 – 2022 Vice President of the Germanic Graduate Student Association
2020 – 2021 Council of Graduate Students, Member of Graduate Compensation and Benefits Committee
2020 – 2021 German House Liaison
2017 – 2018 Member of the Kaffeestunde Committee
Professional Experience
2024 – 2024 Resident Director, Global May Germany Program, The Ohio State University, Berlin DE
2023 – 2024 Student Life Program Assistant, New York University Berlin, Berlin DE
2022 – 2023 Freelance Translator and Interpreter at Booka Local, UG, Berlin DE
2022 – 2023 Freelance German Instructor at German Language School (GLS), Berlin DE
2022 – 2022 Project Manager, German-English translator at Alpha Translation Service GmbH, Berlin DE
2020 – Independent Translator of German
2019 – 2022 Graduate Teaching Associate and Grader at the Ohio State University, Columbus USA
2019 – 2019 English Trainer, FremdSprachen Akademie GmbH, Dresden DE
2019 – 2019 English Trainer, Berufsförderungswerk, Dresden DE
2018 – 2018 Camp Counselor and Intern at Deutsche Akademie für Sprachen, Berlin DE
2017 – 2018 Graduate Teaching Associate at the Ohio State University, Columbus USA
2017 – 2022 Independent Tutor of German for high school and university students
2016 – 2016 Media and Translation Intern at Medienbüro am Reichstag GmbH, Berlin DE
Courses Taught at The Ohio State University
German 3798 (Resident Director and Guest Lecturer)
Global May Germany
General Education faculty-led study abroad course (Enrollment ~20)
SU24
German 3252 (Grader)
The Holocaust in Film and Literature
General Education course (Enrollment ~200-400)
SP21; SP24
German 1103 (Instructor)
Intermediate language course (Enrollment ~18)
AU20; SP21; AU21; SP22; SP24
German 6101 (Instructor)
German for Reading Knowledge (Enrollment ~28)
SU21; SU22
German 2254 (Grader and Guest Lecturer)
Grimms’ Fairy Tales and their Afterlives
General Education course (Enrollment ~100-300)
AU19; AU20; AU21; SP22
German 1102 (Instructor)
Basic to intermediate language course (Enrollment ~21)
AU19; SP20
German 1101 (Instructor)
Elementary language course (Enrollment ~20)
AU17; SP18