Jonas Faust
Research Associate, Graduate Program Coordinator
Contact
Heidelberg Center for American Studies
Hauptstraße 120
69117 Heidelberg
Tel.: +49 6221 543713
E-Mail: jfaust@hca.uni-heidelberg.de
Office Hours
Monday, 10:00 - 12:00 pm
Room 207
About
Jonas Faust is currently pursuing his PhD at the English Department with Günter Leypoldt on the poetry of Allen Ginsberg. From April 2024 to March 2025 he is the interim coordinator of the master program at the HCA.
Areas of Specialization
- American Poetry of the 20th and 21st century
- Religion and Religious/Epiphanic Experience in Literature
- Hinduism and Buddhism in American Culture
- Beat Generation and Counterculture
- American Romanticism and Transcendentalism
Education and Employment
Since April 2024: Research Associate, HCA
2021-2024: Student Assistant, HCA
2020-2024: Ph.D. Scholarship from the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes
2017-2020: MA English/American Literature, University of Heidelberg
2017: Bachelor degree English Studies (Major) / Psychology (Minor), Universities of Heidelberg and Bristol
Selected Publications
“Allen Ginsberg, Religious Experience and the Anxiety of ‘Othering’,” HCA Graduate Blog, June 2023.
“Nature, the Self and its Redemption in the Pastoral Poems of Allen Ginsberg”, Beatdom 23 (2023).