Matthew Childs

Board Member 

mchilds5@uw.edu

Matthew Childs is a PhD Candidate in the Department of German Studies at the University of Washington. He specializes in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century German literature and philosophy as well as the environmental humanities. 

He is currently working on the forms and functions of literary representations of catastrophe in nineteenth-century German literature and their relations to socio-historical context in which they were created. 

Matthew is presently teaching courses on academic writing, debate, and American culture at the University of Münster’s Sprachenzentrum (Language Center).