Martin Schwartz is a PhD candidate in German Studies, earning a certificate in Cinema and Media Studies. He received his M.A. from University of Chicago and is a published playwright. 

Shwartz is a recipient of the 2026 Society of Scholars Summer Fellowship for his dissertation project, "Remediating the Rich Jew: Antisemitism in West German Theatre and Film." This project examines the figure of the Rich Jew, a malign speculator character, over a cross-genre network of postwar texts drawn from film, drama, and public discourse. It also explores these works’ reception in German and Jewish public spheres. Informed by antisemitism theory, media studies, and archival research, this project considers the means by which and ends to which post-Holocaust cultural production reduced Judaism to money, and how the concomitant antisemitism relates to previous forms of Judeophobia.