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Research Topics

• German Language
• Monster Studies
• Early Modern and medieval literature and culture
• Gender- and Queer Studies

Education

• BA Universit盲t Postdam (Germany)
• MA Freie Universit盲t Berlin
• PhD University of British Columbia

Biography

Steve Commichau was born and lived for most of his life in Berlin, Germany, before moving to Canada for a PhD project. He joined the department at the beginning of 2026. His research interests include medieval- and early modern studies, monstrosity, and gender- and queer studies. After studying in Postdam and Berlin, Germany, his 2025 dissertation at UBC Vancouver examined reports of hauntings in early modern German-speaking lands with an emphasis on the ghost as both a medium and a media event, and on questions of embodiment, gender, and social positionality in encounters with the undead. His most German qualities include baking bread and decrying the subpar quality of North American chocolate.

His instruction includes classes on beginners- and advanced German, Fascism, and monstrosity in German film.

Publications

鈥淒isruptive Bodies and Disembodiments in an Early Modern Haunting.鈥� Weibliches Abenteuer/Female Adventure: Literarische Konfigurationen Zwischen Mittelalter und Moderne, eds. Daniela Fuhrmann and Gaby Pailer. K枚nigshausen & Neumann, 2024. 125鈥�52. (Peer-Reviewed)

鈥淧erpetual Escape: The Impossibility of Containment in Angela Steidele鈥檚 Rosenstengel.鈥� In/Securities: Queer Life Narratives of Early Modern Times, eds. Daniela Fuhrmann and Gaby Pailer. Lausanne: Peter Lang, 2024. 143-157. (Peer-Reviewed)

鈥淎kte und Objekt als Einblick in die gelebte Realit盲t der Fr眉hen Neuzeit,鈥� medioscope (Universit盲t Z眉rich), April 2023, .