Chadwick T. Smith

Chadwick T. Smith currently teaches in the German department at New York University and has previously taught at Rutgers University and Barnard College. His research focuses on 19th and 20th century German literature; science, technology and society; and media studies, publishing widely on Vilém Flusser and Friedrich Kittler. From 2013-15, Chadwick Smith was an Associate Director at NYU’s Trauma and Violence Transdisciplinary Studies program, working with academics from clinical psychology and the humanities to find innovative ways of addressing questions of violence. Chadwick Smith is a professional translator whose work includes Sigrid Weigel’s Walter Benjamin: Images, the Creaturely, and the Holy (Stanford University Press) and The Science of Literature by Helmut Müller-Sievers (deGreuyter). He is now also an MLA Connected Academics fellow and is endeavoring to help in the effort to develop career paths that leverage humanistic training for a broader range of occupations in the public humanities and the private sector.