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Jason Groves is an Associate Professor of German Studies at the University of Washington, with core faculty status in the Environmental Cultures and Values minor. Holding a PhD from Yale University (2012), he bridges German literature, memory studies, and environmental humanities through innovative research and community engagement. His work interrogates human-geological relations in 19th-20th century texts and contemporary ecological crises.
- PhD, Yale University (2012)
- Co-organizer, Colloquium on Transcultural Approaches to Europe (2019-present)
- Co-organizer, Cross-disciplinary Research Cluster on the Anthropocene (2016-2019)
Research focuses on geology's cultural mediation through literature, Jewish-German poetics, and Anthropocene memory frameworks. His The Geological Unconscious: German Literature and the Mineral Imaginary (Fordham UP, 2020) traces lithic disruptions in romantic/modernist texts by Tieck, Goethe, Stifter, and Benjamin. Current monograph project Fugitive Relations: Remembering the Holocaust in the Anthropocene connects ecological and historical trauma, with co-edited special issue Reading Celan Today.
Translation work spans academic (Sonja Neef, Werner Hamacher), community (Seattle Holocaust Center for Humanity archives), and pedagogical (service-learning modules on 'translating extinction'). Collaborations include artist collective Futurefarmers' projects on anthropogenic soils and the Simpson Center for the Humanities-funded An Anthropocene Observatory. His teaching covers ecocriticism, fairy tales, literary theory, and global German studies curricula.
- Co-organized Simpson Center research clusters (2016-2019)
- Community translation initiatives with Holocaust Center for Humanity
- Performance lectures at Exploratorium and Glass Box Gallery
