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Zachary Sng is a Professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature at Brown University, with affiliations spanning both departments. Born and raised in Singapore, he earned his BA and MA from Brown (1993, 1994) and later completed his PhD at Johns Hopkins University and the University of Konstanz, Germany. His academic career focuses on German and British literature from the 18th century, particularly the Enlightenment and Romanticism periods.
- Department of German Studies
- Department of Comparative Literature
- School of Humanities (implied)
Dr. Sng's research explores aesthetics, rhetoric, literary theory, and concepts like the sublime and uncanny. His books include The Rhetoric of Error from Locke to Kleist (2010) and Middling Romanticism (2020), analyzing themes of error, mediation, and the 'middle' in German and British literature. He has received grants from the Dean of Faculty Lectureship Fund (2013, 2019) and the Wayland Collegium (2008).
Scientific awards and honors include a DAAD Doctoral Fellowship (2002), a Graduiertenkolleg member (2003-04), and the John Rowe Workman Award (2008-09). He actively collaborates with scholars across departments at Brown and internationally, particularly at German universities like Konstanz and Weimar.
