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Jakub Kazecki is Associate Professor of German at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine (USA). He joined the faculty in German & Russian Studies at Bates in 2012. He teaches a wide range of German language, literature and film courses, and he also contributes to the European Studies program.
Jakub’s research interests include images of German-Polish relationships in literature, film and visual arts, 20th-century German literature (especially literature about the First World War), and laughter and comedy in different media. He is the author of Laughter in the Trenches: Humour and Front Experience in German First World War Narratives (2012) and the co-editor of the books Heroism and Gender in Film (2014, together with Karen A. Ritzenhoff) and Border Visions: Borderlands in Film and Literature (2013, together with Karen A. Ritzenhoff and Cynthia Miller).