Evan Parks

Dr. Evan Parks is the Director of Education for The Bronfman Fellowship. Evan’s research treats modern European literature and culture, especially the entanglement of German and Jewish intellectual traditions. He is also interested in correspondences between Jewish diaspora writers and Hebrew literature. Evan is a Visiting Scholar at NYU’s Center for the Humanities, and is currently completing a book that explores tensions between the post-Shoah poet Paul Celan and his philosophical readers, especially Hans-Georg Gadamer, Theodor W. Adorno, and Jacques Derrida. 

As an educator, Evan is interested in the intersection of liberal education and Jewish learning. He taught at Columbia University’s Department of Germanic Languages and  Core Curriculum, where he was a finalist for the University’s highest teaching honor, the Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching. Evan served as Faculty for the Bronfman Fellowship for four years (2019, 2021, 2023, and 2024).

Evan received his Ph.D. in German and Comparative Literature from Columbia University and holds a B.A. in European Cultural Studies from Brandeis University. He was a 2020-21 Fellow with the Leo Baeck Institute London. Originally from Atlanta, Georgia, Evan was a Bronfman Fellow in 2005. He lives in Manhattan with his partner Eliana and daughter Selah.