Skye Shannon Savage

Project Coordinator
Working Group: Motherhood and Technology
Email: s.savage@columbia.edu

Skye Shannon Savage is a doctoral student in the Germanic Languages Department. Their research focuses broadly on the medical humanities in both the 20th and 18th centuries. They are currently writing a dissertation on authors Unica Zürn and Ingeborg Bachmann and their relation to post-war medical discourses, entitled The Performativity of Diagnosis: Medicine, Fascism, and Identity in Post-War Germany. They have previously presented research on Karl Philipp Moritz and his work with Deaf learners and their impact on his pedagogical theories.

In addition to their academic work in the department, they are extremely active in teaching development at the university, having held multiple positions at the Center for Teaching and Learning. They currently serve as a Teaching Consultant where they provide peer support for fellow graduate instructors seeking to improve their teaching. They have also conducted research in adult second-language acquisition and metalinguistic knowledge in the university foreign language classroom. Prior to beginning studies at Columbia, Skye served as an English teacher for a Denver-area refugee resettlement non-profit.