Lucas Riddle specializes in issues in contemporary Germany, focusing on postmigrant literature, film, humor, and pop culture. His current book project, tentatively titled Laughing Back: Minoritarian Humor and Empowerment in Contemporary German Literature, examines how humor is used in encounters with exclusionary notions of belonging and Germanness in works by minoritized authors. His scholarship appears in Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies and in the edited volume Germany from the Outside: Rethinking German Cultural History in an Age of Displacement from Bloomsbury’s New Directions in German Studies series. He earned his PhD in 2021 from the University of Illinois Chicago, was an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Bowdoin College, and has also taught at DePaul University in Chicago.
