Josh Alvizu

Josh Alvizu is an Assistant Professor of German Studies and Environmental Humanities at the University of Maryland, serving as Director of Undergraduate Studies. He specializes in 20th-century German and Russian literature, art, and film, focusing on ecology and art-politics intersections. His research explores figures like Walter Benjamin, Bertolt Brecht, Vsevolod Meyerhold, and Alexander Kluge. His current book project examines intellectual exchanges between German and Soviet avant-garde movements, while a second project investigates the ecological thought of Paul Scheerbart.

• PhD: Germanic Languages and Literatures, Yale University (2017)
• MA: German and Romance Languages and Literatures, Johns Hopkins University
• BA: Philosophy, University of Colorado at Boulder

Alvizu has taught at Roanoke College, Virginia Tech, and Washington & Lee University. His recent DAAD grant supported participation in a Cornell University seminar on 'Literature, Media, Form.' He has lived/studied in Berlin, Tübingen, Konstanz, St. Petersburg, and Istanbul.

Teaching focuses on modernism, avant-garde studies, and environmental humanities.