Alan Itkin

Bio

Dr. Itkin oversees administrative, admissions, recruitment, professional development, student life, fellowship, and other functions of the Moody School of Graduate and Advanced Studies under the direction of Dean Poston.

Dr. Itkin holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Michigan, an M.A. in Humanities and Social Thought from New York University, and a B.A. in Mathematics from the University of California Berkeley. Prior to joining SMU, he served as Assistant Dean for Graduate Education and Research in the College of Arts and Science at Vanderbilt University.  He also maintains an active research profile as a scholar of modern German culture and Holocaust literature.  His academic monograph, Underworlds of Memory: W. G. Sebald’s Epic Journeys through the Past, was published by Northwestern University Press in 2017, and he has held the titles of Senior Lecturer in German at Vanderbilt University and Visiting Assistant Professor of Literary Cultures at New York University. Recent articles have appeared in PMLA, The German Quarterly, and Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies.

Dr. Itkin teaches as adjunct lecturer in the Department of World Languages and Literatures. 

Research Interests

Courses Taught

World Languages 3316: Continental Philosophy from Marx to Derrida

University Honors Program 4100: Franz Kafka's Worlds

Professional Affiliations & Leadership

Executive Committee Member, Conference of Southern Graduate Schools (CSGS)
Co-chair, Membership Committee, Conference of Southern Graduate Schools (CSGS)