Carol Jacobs (academic)

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Carol Jacobs is a literary scholar and Birgit Baldwin Professor Emeritus of German and Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at Yale University. Her research interests include modern German, English, and French literature, literary theory from the 18th to 20th centuries, and film.

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Jacobs completed her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at Johns Hopkins University in 1974. She became a Comparative Literature and English professor at SUNY Buffalo before moving to New York University as a Professor of German from 2000 to 2002. She was a Visiting Professor in the Department of German and the Humanities Center at Johns Hopkins University in 1998. Jacobs served as the Birgit Baldwin Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Yale University from 2002 until her retirement in 2017. [1] [2]

Jacobs is a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship. [3] She has been a Camargo Foundation Fellow, Whitney Humanities Center Fellow, ACLS Fellow, [4] Honorary Guest Professor of Beijing Normal University and Fellow at Internationales Kolleg Morphomata, University of Cologne. [5]

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  2. "People: Department of Comparative Literature". Yale University. Retrieved September 12, 2022.
  3. "Fellows: Carol F. Jacobs". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved September 12, 2022.
  4. "Carol Jacobs". ACLS. Retrieved September 12, 2022.
  5. "Fellows: Carol Jacobs". University of Cologne. Retrieved September 12, 2022.