Julia Goesser Assaiante is a Senior Lecturer of German in the Language and Culture Studies Department at Trinity College.  She coordinates the German Major and Minor, the Comparative Literature Major, and she is Co-Director of the Humanities Gateway Program.  She earned her B.A. in German Literature and Political Theory from Princeton University, and completed her Ph.D. in German Literature at New York University in September of 2009.  She has taught all levels of German language instruction, as well as courses on modern German literature, cinema, and philosophy.   Her research interests concentrate on eighteenth and early twentieth-century literature and philosophy, with an emphasis on poetic language, aesthetics, hermeneutics, and currents of anti-Enlightenment thought.

• Body Language: Corporeality, Subjectivity and Language in JG Hamann. New York: Peter Lang, 2011

• Martin Heidegger. Four Notebooks I and II. (Black Notebooks 1947-1950) Co-translated with S. Montgomery Ewegen.  New York: SUNY Press.  Forthcoming December 2026.
• Martin Heidegger. Heraclitus. Co-translated with S. Montgomery Ewegen. London: Bloomsbury Publishing. 2018.
• Martin Heidegger and Karl Loewith. Correspondence 1919-1973/Heidegger and Loewith. Co-translated with S. Montgomery Ewegen.  London: Rowman Littlefield. Forthcoming May 2020. 
• Horst-Jürgen Gerigki. “Dostoevsky and Heidegger: Eschatological Poet and Eschatological Thinker.” Co-translated with S. Montgomery Ewegen. In Heidegger in Russian and Eastern Europe. Rowman and Littlefield. 2017
• Alexander Kluge. “Heidegger in Crimea.” Co-translated with S. Montgomery Ewegen. In Heidegger in Russian and Eastern Europe. Rowman and Littlefield. 2017
• Eva Geulen, “Legislating Education: Kant, Hegel, Benjamin on ‘Pedagogical Violence’, in Cardozo Law Review, Vol. 26, Iss. 3 (Buffalo:William S. Hein, 2005)

• Trinity College Book Completion Grant 2011
• Otto Mainzer Fellowship, 2000-2005 New York University
• Mary Cunningham Humphrey’s Junior German Prize, 1998-1999 Princeton University
• Reh Prize for most outstanding junior paper, 1998-1999 Princeton University
• German Department Award of Excellence, 1997-1998 Princeton University