Research in focus: David Gramling
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November 21, 2022
Name:
David Gramling
My pronouns:
he/they
Title:
Professor, Department Head
Department/Unit:
Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies (CENES)
Location:
Vancouver
Year I started working at UBC:
2020
Provide an overview of your research in 75 words or less:
Single-author books: The Invention of Monolingualism (Bloomsbury, 2016); The Invention of Multilingualism (Cambridge University Press, 2021). Co-authored books: Palliative Care Conversations (de Gruyter, 2019), Linguistic DIsobedience (2019). Co-edited books: Germany in Transit (University of California Press, 2007), Transit Deutschland (University of Konstanz Press, 2011) Co-translated books: Valor, by Murathan Mungan (Northwestern University Press, 2022)
Are there any research collaborators you'd like to acknowledge and why?
Aron Aji, Chantelle Warner, Yuliya Komska, Michelle Moyd, Robert Gramling, Deniz Göktürk, Anton Kaes, Andreas Langenohl. They've taught me how to nurture friendships in the context of scholarly work.
What have you learned during your research that has surprised you the most?
That I love to write! This was not the case when I was in university, or when I began my career.
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