Therese Augst

Therese Augst serves as Chair of World Languages and Literatures and Associate Professor of German Studies at Lewis & Clark College. She holds a PhD from the University of California, Santa Barbara (1998), and joined Lewis & Clark in 2008 after teaching at Princeton University. Her research focuses on German cultural history, translation ethics, and collaborations among early 20th-century women artists. She has published widely on topics including Greek tragedy's modern reinterpretations, Hölderlin's translations, German-Jewish Hollywood exiles, and Bauhaus weavers' contributions to sustainable design.

• Education:
• PhD in German Studies, UC Santa Barbara, 1997
• MA in German Studies, UC Santa Barbara, 1992
• BA in German, UC Davis, 1989

Her current projects examine women artisans in the Bauhaus movement, emphasizing their role in merging traditional craft with modern industrial practices. She regularly teaches courses on German language, modernism, and cultural translation. Her work appears in journals such as Modernism/Modernity and Germanic Review.