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Dr. Sophie Duvernoy

KWI International Fellow

Academic Career

  • 2023-2024 Translation Fellow, National Endowment for the Arts
  • 2022-2023 Doctoral Research Fellow, Berlin Program, Freie Universität Berlin
  • 2021-2022 Leo Baeck Doctoral Fellow, Leo Baeck Fellowship Programme/Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
  • 2016-2023 PhD, Yale University, German Studies

Research Interests

  • German-Jewish studies
  • Feuilleton in the Weimar Republic
  • 19th and 20th century German intellectual history
  • Modernist aesthetics

Publications (Selection)

  • 2025, Translation: Effingers by Gabriele Tergit, New York: New York Review Books.
  • 2024, Review: ‘Yiddish Writers in Weimar Berlin: A Fugitive Modernism’ by Marc Caplan, in Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Culture, Vol. 42.1, pp. 249–52.
  • 2023, “Unproductive Labor, Invisibility, and Testimony in Emmy Hennings’ Das Brandmal,” in: Sophie Duvernoy, Ulrich Plass, Karsten Olson (eds.), Representing Social Precarity in German Literature and Film. New York: Bloomsbury Academic.
  • 2022, Review: ‘Branded: A Diary’ by Emmy Hennings, translated and edited by Katharina Rout, in Modern Language Notes: German Issue, In/Visible, ed. by Nicola Behrmann and Antje Pfannkuchen, Vol. 137.3, pp. 612-614.
  • 2019, Translation: Käsebier Takes Berlin by Gabriele Tergit, New York: New York Review Books.