Ryan Nordle
PhD Student, Max Kade Fellow
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About
Ryan Nordle (he/him) is a PhD student in the Department of Germanic Studies, generously supported in the 2025–2026 academic year by the Max Kade Fellowship. He began his PhD as a student in the English department at UIC but transferred to the German department in order to continue his focused study of German Idealism, Marxist theory, and Freudian psychoanalysis. His research is rooted in cultural theory and interpretation at the intersection of psychoanalysis and cinema studies and is driven by questions of temporality in the formation and experience of subjectivity, the narrative style national identity, and the political valence of boredom.
Notable Honors
2025–2026, Max Kade Fellow, University of Illinois Chicago and Max Kade Foundation
2025, Max Kade Travel Grant, University of Illinois Chicago and Max Kade Foundation
2025, Bridges Scholarship, University of Illinois Chicago
Selected Presentations
LACK iii Conference: Psychoanalysis and Separation, “The Freudian Ethics of Psychoanalysis,” Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, May 2019