Nick Jones

Nick hails from northern England, where he received his bachelor’s degree in German Language and Culture from Durham University in 2012. He subsequently moved to Tübingen, where he had spent a year as an Erasmus student in 2010/11, and earned his master’s degree in German Literature (MA Deutsche Literatur) in 2015. While completing a two-semester stint as a graduate exchange student and TA at UNC in 2015/16, Nick applied successfully to join the Carolina-Duke Graduate Program in German Studies. His research interests include twentieth-century German literature, especially literature of the Weimar Republic and the works of Alfred Döblin, and political aesthetics.