Syed Habeeb Tehseen

Syed Habeeb Tehseen

Graduate Student

habeeb.tehseen@duke.edu


Habeeb earned his BA in German from Delhi University (first year) and Jawaharlal Nehru University, India in 2020. He earned his MA in German Literature from Jawaharlal Nehru University, India in 2022 and his Master thesis focused on the motif of borders in Burhan Qurbani's Berlin Alexanderplatz (2020). He is a U.S. State Department Exchange alum, having taken part in the Study of U.S. Institutes (SUSI-2019) program at the Dialogue Institute, Temple University, Philadelphia. He also received a DAAD-HSK Summer School Scholarship (2019) for the course "Berlin Pur: Sprache lernen – Landeskunde erleben '' at the Free University of Berlin. His current interests include contemporary German literature and cinema and intercultural literary theory. Outside of his studies he enjoys reading literature, writing poetry and going to the cinema.