Sebastian Wogenstein

Sebastian Wogenstein is an Associate Professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Connecticut. He co-chairs the German Section within the Department of Literatures, Cultures & Languages and serves as a faculty associate at the Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life and the Human Rights Institute. Additionally, he is the Secretary-Treasurer of the North American Heine Society and co-directs the Connecticut/Baden-Württemberg Human Rights Research Consortium.

• PhD in German Literature from the University of Tübingen
• M.A. in European Studies from Washington University in St. Louis
• Conducted doctoral research at Hebrew University in Jerusalem

His research explores intersections of literature, human rights, and German-Jewish cultural history, focusing on 20th/21st-century German literature, tragedy, and Jewish philosophy. He has published extensively in journals like The Germanic Review, Monatshefte, and Jewish Social Studies, and edited a special issue of The Germanic Review titled "Zionism and Its Discontents."

• Dos gezang fun vilner geto – Lieder aus dem Wilnaer Ghetto (annotated edition, 2023)
• Horizonte der Moderne: Tragödie und Judentum von Cohen bis Levinas (2011)
• Co-editor of Globale Kulturen–Kulturen der Globalisierung (2013) and An Grenzen: Literarische Erkundungen (2007)

Wogenstein received the Senior External Fellowship at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (2021-2023). His work bridges literary studies, cultural theory, and human rights scholarship.