{"id":5198,"date":"2025-02-05T21:28:19","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T20:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uni-freiburg.de\/ucf\/?page_id=5198"},"modified":"2025-04-09T08:15:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T06:15:34","slug":"ryan-plumley","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/uni-freiburg.de\/ucf\/college\/ryan-plumley\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Ryan Plumley"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<div\n\tclass=\"bl-@container\/teaser-person \n\t\tbl-bg-pure-white bl-text-identity-black dark:bl-bg-pure-white dark:bl-text-identity-black\t\tbl-relative bl-self-stretch\n\t\tbl-min-w-full md:bl-min-w-[660px] xl:bl-min-w-[310px] wp-container-content-9cfa9a5a\"\n\tdata-role=\"teaser-contact\">\n\n\t<div class=\"\n\t\tbl-flex bl-flex-col bl-h-full\n\t\t@[500px]\/teaser-person:!bl-flex-row\n\t\t@md\/teaser-person:!bl-flex-row\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/uni-freiburg.de\/ucf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/Ryan-Plumley-portrait-web.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait of Ryan Plumley, 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Beginning as an engineering student, he switched in his second year to major in History and started learning German. He continued his education with an M.A. and Ph.D. from Cornell University (Ithaca, USA) where he combined research fields in Modern European History, Philosophy, and German Studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>2012\u2013present&nbsp;Lecturer and Coordinator for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/uni-freiburg.de\/ucf\/las\/curriculum\/#culture-and-history\">Culture and History<\/a>, University College Freiburg<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2009\u20132011 Visiting Faculty, European College of Liberal Arts, Berlin (now Bard College Berlin)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2009 PhD in History, Cornell University. Dissertation: \u201cThe Romantic Subject of Textuality: German Literate Culture in the Late Eighteenth Century.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<section\n\t\t\tdata-tab=\"67265aed-4bf1-419b-9585-e4f0d4c5390a\"\n\t\t\tdata-tab-part=\"tab-content\"\n\t\t\tdata-tab-index=\"1\"\n\t\t\tid=\"teaching\"\n\t\t\tclass=\"bl-hidden is-layout-flow bl-scroll-m-[154px] @md\/tab-block:bl-scroll-m-[118px] first:*:bl-mt-0\"\n\t\t\taria-expanded=\"false\">\n\t\t\t\n\n<p>I enjoy teaching courses where both the students and I are challenged to grapple with a perplexing text or art work, to practice an unfamiliar skill, or to inhabit an unaccustomed perspective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the classroom, I see my role as helping others to learn by structuring their exploration and analysis of challenging and complex materials, especially philosophical and literary texts but also visual culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At UCF, I have taught the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Core<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Community, Migration, Identity (Research and Presentation Seminar)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Public Sphere in the Digital Age (Research and Presentation Seminar)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Humans and Other-Than-Humans (Research and Presentation Seminar)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Culture &amp; History<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Introduction to Culture &amp; History<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Theory of History<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Political Pedagogues: German Intellectual Culture Around 1800<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>An Intellectual History of Feminist Thought<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Freud and Psychoanalysis<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Reading: History, Theory, Practice<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Reading Ecology<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Electives and Excursions<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Beer Brewing: Craft and Taste<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Greece Excursion: Culture, History, Environment<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Memory and Memorialization in Berlin<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Nature and Culture (Research Design Seminar)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<section\n\t\t\tdata-tab=\"67265aed-4bf1-419b-9585-e4f0d4c5390a\"\n\t\t\tdata-tab-part=\"tab-content\"\n\t\t\tdata-tab-index=\"2\"\n\t\t\tid=\"university-service\"\n\t\t\tclass=\"bl-hidden is-layout-flow bl-scroll-m-[154px] @md\/tab-block:bl-scroll-m-[118px] first:*:bl-mt-0\"\n\t\t\taria-expanded=\"false\">\n\t\t\t\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>2024 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frias.uni-freiburg.de\/en\/events\/frias-conferences\/frias-conference-popular-culture-and-democracy\">Pop Culture and Democracy, FRIAS Conference<\/a>, Panel Moderator<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2020 \u201cLiberal Education and Interdisciplinarity: Friends or Foes?\u201d Liberal Education Talk Leuphana University, L\u00fcneburg<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2019 \u201cPerspektiven auf 20 Jahre <em>Vagina Monologues<\/em>. 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