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Portrait of Jakub Kazecki

Jakub Kazecki

Promoted to professor of German.

Kazecki teaches a range of courses from introductory language courses to seminars like “Weimar and Berlin: German Culture in European Context.” In his recent First-Year Seminar, “Humor and Laughter in Literature and Visual Media,” Kazecki led students to consider the uses of humor not only in texts, but also in relationships.

His foundational research focuses on World War I military literature and the intersection of humor with serious literary genres. This work is found in his monograph Laughter in the Trenches: Humour and Front Experience in German First World War Narratives (2012). His upcoming monograph, Framing Neighbors: Poland in German Cinema after 1989, analyzes the depictions of Poland in German film, documenting the evolution from colonially-coded spaces to sites of creative hybridity. Kazecki is currently the chair of the Department of German and Russian Studies.

  • “Ich bin ein Betweener”: the concept of the existential migrant in Steffen Möller’s travel narratives about Poland

    “Ich bin ein Betweener”: the concept of the existential migrant in Steffen Möller’s travel narratives about Poland

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    Through an Orientalist Lens: Colonial Renderings of Poland in German Cinema after 1989

  • Are the Polish Housekeepers ‘willig und billig’? The Image of Polish Migrant Women Workers in German TV Productions of the 2010s

    Are the Polish Housekeepers ‘willig und billig’? The Image of Polish Migrant Women Workers in German TV Productions of the 2010s

  • From Polski Crash to Meine polnische Jungfrau: Orientalizing Poland in the German Cinema of the 1990s

    From Polski Crash to Meine polnische Jungfrau: Orientalizing Poland in the German Cinema of the 1990s

  • Laughter in the trenches : humour and front experience in German first world war narratives

    Laughter in the trenches : humour and front experience in German first world war narratives

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    Border, Bridge, or Barrier? Images of the German-Polish Borderlands in German Cinema of the 2000s

  • Border Visions: Identity and Diaspora in Film

    Border Visions: Identity and Diaspora in Film

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    The Functions of Humor and Laughter in Narrating Trauma in German Literature of the First World War

  • Heroism and Gender in War Films

    Heroism and Gender in War Films

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    War Memoir as Entertainment: Walter Bloem's <i>Vormarsch</i> (1916)

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    The mimicry of The Lizard Man: Dariusz Muszer's narratives of migration in the (post-)colonial context

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