CURRICULUM VITAE
CHRISTOPHER J. WICKHAM, Ph.D.
Dept. of Modern Languages and Literatures University of Texas at San Antonio San Antonio, TX 78249-0644 (210) 458 7340 [office] [email protected]
CURRENT POSITION 2009-present: Professor of German and Humanities University of Texas at San Antonio
ACADEMIC TRAINING 1968-72: University of Reading 1972: B.A.(Hons) German and Linguistics, University of Reading 1972-76: Universität Regensburg, Germany 1974: M.Phil.(with distinction) German, University of Reading 1976-82: University of Wisconsin-Madison 1982: Ph.D.(magna cum laude) German Literature
APPOINTMENTS HELD 1982-85: Assistant Professor, Allegheny College 1985-91: Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago 1991-1997: Assistant Professor, University of Texas at San Antonio 1997-2009: Associate Professor of German and Humanities, University of Texas at San Antonio 2004-13: Associate Dean, College of Liberal and Fine Arts, University of Texas at San Antonio
PUBLICATIONS: (All publications are single-authored unless indicated otherwise) Books Constructing Heimat in Postwar Germany: Longing and Belonging (Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1999).
Monographs Diendorf Kr. Nabburg (Oberpfalz), Phonai Bd. 34 (Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1987), pp. 5-145.
Books Edited "Was in den alten Büchern steht . . .": Neue Interpretationen von der Aufklärung zur Moderne. Festschrift für Reinhold Grimm co-edited with Karl-Heinz Schoeps (Frankfurt/M.: Lang, 1991).
Framing the Past: The Historiography of German Cinema and Television co-edited with Bruce A. Murray (Carbondale: Southern Illinois U P, 1992).
Refereed Journal Articles "Revising Heimat in German Dialect Poetry" in Jahrbuch für Internationale Germanistik XX, Heft 1 (1989), pp. 92-125.
"Heart and Hole--Achternbusch, Herzog and the Concept of Heimat" in Germanic Review 64 (1989), pp. 112-120.
"Representation and Mediation in Edgar Reitz' Heimat" in German Quarterly 64 (1991), pp. 35-45.
"The Business of Survival: Aspects of Economy in Pevny/Turrini's Alpensaga" Modern Language Studies 24:3 (Summer 1994), pp. 55-61.
"postmodern mundart: Zum Schnubiglbaierisch des Felix Hoerburger," Rüdiger Harnisch, Anthony Rowley, Ludwig Eichinger (eds.), "...im Gefüge der Sprachen": Studien zu System und Soziologie der Dialekte. Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik, Beihefte 90 (1994), pp. 218-236. (Refereed) Wickham, curriculum vitae 2
"Oil and Water: The Development of the Portrayal of Native Americans by 19th Century German Painters" Yearbook of German-American Studies 13 (1996), pp. 63-106.
"Vom Wert der Worte: Zu Ernst Jandls 'oberflächenübersetzung'" Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift 57.3 (2007), pp. 365-370.
"Lieder machen Leute: Teaching Postwar German Identity through Song," Die Unterrichtspraxis/ Teaching German 41.1 (Spring 2008), pp. 24-35.
"Postwar Tales of Two Cities: Rubble Films from Berlin and Munich," Film Criticism 38.3 (Spring 2014), pp. 24-47.
Book Chapters and Refereed Conference Proceedings "Bairische Literatur vom 17. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart" in Ludwig Zehetner, Das bairische Dialektbuch (Munich: Beck, 1985), pp. 227-273.
"Heimatdichter as Nestbeschmutzer: Entartete Mundart?" in H. Seliger, ed., The Concept of Heimat in Contemporary German Literature (Munich: iudicium, 1987), pp. 183-97.
"Narrative Strategies of Experience, Fact and Fantasy in Chamisso's Peter Schlemihl" in Christopher J. Wickham and Karl-Heinz Schoeps, eds., "Was in den alten Büchern steht . . .": Neue Interpretationen von der Aufklärung zur Moderne (Frankfurt/M.: Lang, 1991), pp. 229-239.
"Doolsummsä and Berchbläidl: Laughter and Fitzgerald Kusz' Democratization of Poetry through Dialect" in Reinhold Grimm and Jost Hermand, eds., Laughter Unlimited: Essays on Humor, Satire and the Comic (Madison: U of Wisconsin Press, 1991), pp. 89-98.
"Wohin und zurück: Perspectives on Axel Corti’s Jewish Trilogy" in Willy Riemer, ed. After Postmodernism: Austrian Literature and Film in Transition (Riverside, CA: Ariadne Press, 2000), pp. 106- 126.
"Emerenz Meier: Vorläuferin der neuen deutschen Mundartdichtung" in Ludwig Zehetner and Alfred Wildfeuer, eds., Bairisch in Bayern, Österreich, Tschechien (Regensburg: edition vulpes, 2003), pp. 253- 263.
"Erzählter Wald: Notizen zur frühen Erzählkunst von Emerenz Meier" in Albrecht Greule, Rupert Hochholzer and Alfred Wildfeuer, eds., Die bairische Sprache. Studien zu ihrer Geographie, Grammatik, Lexik und Pragmatik (Regensburg: Edition Vulpes, 2004), pp. 201-212.
"Auf den Punkt gebracht: Überlegungen zum Verhältnis Dialekt—Literatur" in Ulrich Kanz, Alfred Wildfeuer and Ludwig Zehetner, eds., Dialekt • Literatur. Zweites Kirchdorfer Symposium zur Dialektologie (Regensburg: edition vulpes, 2006), pp. 9-24.
"Gedrehte Mundart: Zur Sprache in und um Marcus H. Rosenmüllers Film Wer früher stirbt ist länger tot" in Ulrich Kanz and Ludwig Zehetner, eds. Mundart und Medien (Regensburg: edition vulpes, 2009), pp. 307-323.
"Wörterbuch als Kulturbuch: Zum Verhältnis zwischen Lexikon und Lebensweise in Bayern und anderswo" in Ulrich Kanz, Nadine Kilgert-Bartonek, and Ludwig Schießl, eds., Die Heimat auf der Zunge tragen—Mundart als Sprachschatz (Regensburg: edition vulpes, 2012), pp. 13-36.
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"Dialekt und Religion im Schrifttum Georg Achtelstetters" in Elisabeth Frieben, Ulrich Kanz, Barbara Neuber, and Ludwig Zehetner, eds., Dialekt und Religion (Regensburg: edition vulpes, 2014), pp. 135- 158.
Encyclopedia Articles "Munich" in Encyclopedia of German Literature,Vol. 2, Matthias Konzett, ed. (Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000), pp. 728-30. "Adelbert von Chamisso" in Encyclopedia of German Literature,Vol. 1, Matthias Konzett, ed. (Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000), pp. 183-86. "Adelbert von Chamisso" in Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era 1760-1850, Vol. 1, Christopher John Murray, ed. (New York: Taylor & Francis/Fitzroy Dearborn, 2004), pp. 164-66 [Different from above entry] Book Reviews Ludwig Merkle, Bairische Grammatik, in Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik XLIV (1977), pp. 165-9 (Ger., with Ludwig Zehetner).
Gerhard Baur and H-R. Fluck, Warum im Dialekt? in Monatshefte 70 (1978), pp. 460f.
Thomas L. Keller, The City Dialect of Regensburg, in Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguisitik XLVII (1980), pp. 367-70 (Ger.).
Fernand Hoffmann and Josef Berlinger, Die Neue Deutsche Mundartdichtung: Tendenzen und Autoren dargestellt am Beispiel der Lyrik, in Monatshefte 73 (1981), pp. 118f.
Hans-Jörg Kupper, Robert Burns im deutschen Sprachraum, in Monatshefte 74 (1982), pp. 350f.
Roland A. Wolff, Wie sagt man in Bayern, in Monatshefte 74 (1982), pp. 350f.
Hans-Jürgen Schings, Der mitleidigste Mensch ist der beste Mensch: Poetik des Mitleids von Lessing bis Büchner, in Monatshefte 76 (1984), p. 93.
Gabriele Berginz-Plank, Literaturrezeption in einer Kleinstadt: Leseverhalten und Mediennutzung, in Monatshefte 76 (1984), p. 204f.
Fernand Hoffmann, Zwischenland: Dialektologische, mundartphilologische und mundartliterarische Grenzgänge, in Monatshefte 76 (1984), pp. 348-50.
James Franklin, New German Cinema: From Oberhausen to Hamburg, in Film Criticism IX/2 (1984-5), pp. 74-7.
Timothy Corrigan, New German Film: The Displaced Image, in Film Criticism IX/2 (1984-5), pp. 74-7.
F.J. Lamport, Lessing and the Drama, in Monatshefte 77 (1985), pp. 222-4.
Ruth Broda and Erhard Jöst, eds. Wintermärchen in der Provinz: Ein Heine-Zitat und seine Folgen, in Monatshefte 77 (1985), p. 384.
Paolo Chiarini and Walter Dietze, eds., Deutsche Klassik und Revolution: Texte eines literaturwissenschaftlichen Kolloquiums, in Monatshefte 78 (1986), p. 105f.
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Josef Berlinger, Das zeitgenössische Dialektgedicht: Zur Theorie und Praxis der deutschsprachigen Dialektlyrik 1950-1980, in German Quarterly 58 (1985), pp. 642-5.
Klaus Phillips, ed., New German Filmmakers: From Oberhausen through the 1970s, in Film Criticism X/2 (1985-6), pp.36-8.
Renate von Heydebrand, Literatur in der Provinz Westfalen 1815-1945: Ein literarhistorischer Modellentwurf, in Monatshefte 79 (1987), pp. 93-4.
Anne Betten, Sprachrealismus im deutschen Drama der siebziger Jahre, in Journal of English and Germanic Philology 87 (1988), pp. 94-6.
David Wellbery, Lessing's Laocoon: Semiotics and Aesthetics in the Age of Reason, in Monatshefte 79 (1987), pp. 393-4.
Eric Rentschler, ed., German Film and Literature: Adaptations and Transformations, in Film Criticism XII/1 (1987), pp. 28-31.
Timothy Corrigan, ed., The Films of Werner Herzog: Between Mirage and History, in Film Criticism XII/1 (1987), pp. 31-36.
Norbert Mecklenburg, Die grünen Inseln: Zur Kritik des literarischen Heimatkomplexes, in German Quarterly 61 (1988), pp. 557-559.
Charles V.J. Russ, ed., The Dialects of Modern German: A Linguistic Survey, in German Studies Review XIV (1991), pp. 449-50.
Carol A. Blackshire-Belay, Foreign Workers' German: A Concise Glossary of Verbal Phrases, in Die Unterrichtspraxis 25 (1992), p. 249.
Ilse Cauneau, Hören Brummen Sprechen: Angewandte Phonetik im Unterricht Deutsch als Fremdsprache, in Die Unterrichtspraxis 26 (1993), p. 120.
Rüdiger Görner, ed., Heimat im Wort: Die Problematik eines Begriffs im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, in German Quarterly 67 (1994), p. 287-288.
Andrea Kunne, Heimat im Roman: Last oder Lust? Transformationen eines Genres in der österreichischen Nachkriegsliteratur, in German Quarterly 68 (1995), pp. 224-225.
Edgar Papp, Taschenbuch der Literaturwissenschaft, in Die Unterrichtspraxis 30 (1997), pp. 99-100.
Hans Helmut Prinzler, Chronik des deutschen Films: 1895-1994, in Colloquia Germanica 29 (1996), pp. 383-385.
Linda Moehle-Vieregge, Sabrina R. Bird and Christine Manteghi, Surf's Up! Website Workbook for Basic German, in Die Unterrichtspraxis 30 (1997), pp. 237-238.
Peter C. Merrill, Immigrant Artists in America: A Biographical Dictionary, in Yearbook of German- American Studies 32 (1997), pp. 213-216.
Ludwig Zehetner, Bairisches Deutsch. Lexikon der deutschen Sprache in Altbayern, in Journal of English and Germanic Philology 98 (1999), pp. 611-613. Wickham, curriculum vitae 5
Helga Bemann, Joachim Ringelnatz. Leben und Werk des Dichters, Malers und Artisten, in Monatshefte 92 (2000), pp. 242-243.
Peter Blickle, Heimat: A Critical Theory of the German Idea of Homeland, in Monatshefte 95 (2003): pp. 506-508.
Sabine Hake, German National Cinema, in Monatshefte 95 (2003): pp. 699-700.
Monika Drasch, Siegfried Haglmo, Wolfgang Neumann, Eva Sixt, Christa Berndl. Emerenz Meier: Out of Heimat. Musikalische und literarische Lebensbilder zwischen Bayern und Amerika. Erzählungen—Briefe--Gedichtvertonungen. 2 CD. In Literatur in Bayern 83, (März 2006): p. 50-1.
Heidi Schlipphacke, Nostalgia after Nazism: History, Home, and Affect in German and Austrian Literature and Film, in Monatshefte 104 (2012): pp. 462-465.
Performance Review: "Als wir jüngst in Regensburg waren . . ." in Literatur in Bayern, 27. Jahrgang, Nr. 108 (2012): pp. 41-2. [Review of theater production Mei Fähr Lady. Ein Bairisch-Crash-Kurs mit Prof. Ludwig Zehetner, Oct 31, 2011.]
Elena Agazzi and Erhard Schütz, eds., Heimkehr: Eine zentrale Kategorie der Nachkriegszeit. Geschichte, Literatur und Medien, in Monatshefte 105 (2013): pp. 167-170. d) PAPER PRESENTATIONS Conference Presentations "Dialect in Foreign Language Instruction" at regional meeting of AATG (Iowa Chapter) in Cedar Falls, IA, March 1980.
"Dialect Poetry minus Dialect = ?" at the RMMLA convention, Las Vegas, Oct. 1977.
W. Bruce Armstrong, Barry Fulks, Michael Gilbert, Christopher Wickham and Thomas Wolber, "Alptraumfabrik? German Film in the Twenties" Wisconsin Workshop 1979 on "Fascism and the Avant-Garde," U. of Wisconsin-Madison, Oct. 1979.
"The King of France came down the hill, And ne'er went up again: Lessing and French Classicism" at the MLA convention, New York, Dec. 1981.
"Regional Language as Literary Language: The Case of Modern Dialect Poetry" at the MLA convention, Los Angeles, Dec. 1982.
"Modern Dialect Poetry as Gebrauchsliteratur" at the AATG convention, San Francisco, Nov. 1983.
"The Miracle Comes Home: Wirtschaftswunder, Heimat, and Mundartdichtung" at the NEMLA convention, Philadelphia, March 1984.
"Heimatfilm in the Age of Mechanical Destructibility" at the NEMLA convention, Hartford, March 1985.
"Oral Proficiency Testing: What is it and where is it going?" at the Spring Meeting of Western Pennsylvania chapter of AATG, Clarion, April 1985.
"Der plötzliche Reichtum des Hessischen Landboten: Büchner's Der Hessische Landbote in the Light of Schlöndorff's Kombach Film" at the AATG convention, New York, Nov. 1985. Wickham, curriculum vitae 6
"Heimatdichter as Nestbeschmutzer: Entartete Mundart?" paper presented at Symposium on Heimat in Contemporary German Literature, Toronto, April 1986.
"The German Ecological Movement and Liedermacher: Biermösl Blosn" at the PCA conference, Montreal, March 1987.
"Heimat meets Fremde: Representation and Mediation in Edgar Reitz' Heimat" at the NEMLA convention, Boston, April 1987.
"New Heimat for Old: Heimat Concepts in Recent Public Discussion" at the GSA convention, St. Louis, October 1987.
"Bavarian Dialect in the Mass Media" at the PCA conference, New Orleans, March 1988.
"Doolsummsä and berchbläidl: Laughter and Fitzgerald Kusz' Democratization of Poetry through Dialect" 19th Wisconsin Workshop, U. of Wisconsin-Madison, Sept. 1988.
Christopher J. Wickham and Sherry A. Whitmore, "'Two souls, alas, inhabit this my breast': The Dilemma of the Poet-Scientist Adelbert von Chamisso" Dieter Lotze Memorial Symposium on Science and Literature, Allegheny College, Sept. 1988.
"Experience, Fact and Fantasy in Adelbert von Chamisso's Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte" at the NEMLA convention, Wilmington, DE, April 1989.
"Science and Self: Chamisso's Two Accounts of his Voyage around the World, 1815-1818" at the GSA convention, Milwaukee, October 1989.
"Style and Tradition in Artmann's Viennese Poetry" at Fifth Annual Symposium on Twentieth-Century Austrian Literature and Culture, "Form and Style in Contemporary Austrian Literature," at University of California-Riverside, May 3-5, 1990.
"Liedermacher and Heimat" at the SAMLA Convention, Tampa, FL, November, 1990.
"The Business of Survival: Aspects of Economy in Pevny/Turrini's Alpensaga" at conference on "Contemporary Austrian Literature and Film," at University of California, Riverside, May 2-4, 1991.
"Denying the Scholar: Adelbert von Chamisso's Struggle with the Representation of Data and Experience" at the SLS convention, Atlanta, October 9-11, 1992.
"Paradigms of Modernity: Michael Ende's Die unendliche Geschichte as Response to Kafka" at the AATG convention, Chicago, November 20-22, 1992.
"From Dachau to Ausschwitz'n: Half a Century of Cultural Activism in Bavaria" at the AATG convention, San Antonio, November 20-22, 1993.
"On the Elusiveness of Signification in Felix Hoerburger's Poetry" at the NEMLA convention, Pittsburgh, April 8-10, 1994.
"The Development of the Portrayal of Native Americans by 19th Century German Painters" at the SGAS convention, Penn State U, April 14-17, 1994.
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"'Tschüß, Bayernland': On the Survival of a Critical Bavarian Culture" at the GSA convention, Dallas, September 29-October 2, 1994.
"Axel Corti: 'God Doesn't Believe in Us Anymore.' An Introduction" at symposium on Jewish Austrians and Germans: Exile and Contemporary Relations, University of Michigan Dearborn, March 24-25, 1995
"On the Impact of Language and Culture on the Science of Chamisso's Travelogue" at Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Univ. of Kentucky, April 20-22, 1995
"Exploration, Science, and Colonialism: Points of Contact in Chamisso's Accounts of Encounters with 'Primitives' of the Pacific" at South Central Society for Eighteenth Century Studies conference, New Orleans, February 22-25, 1996
"The Filmmaker Axel Corti" at symposium on Austrian Literature and Cinema, University of Delaware, Newark, September, 1996
"From Bodmer to Bierstadt: Constructing the Native American in German Art" at the NEMLA conference, Baltimore, April 17-18, 1998
"'Der Ausgang des Bayern aus seiner selbstverschuldeten Unmündigkeit': Enlightenment and Contemporary Song in Bavaria" at the GSA conference, Salt Lake City, October 9-11, 1998
"Contesting Orthodoxies: Axel Cortis Jewish Trilogy Wohin und zurück" at the AATG/ACTFL conference, Chicago, November 20-22, 1998
"Peter Turrinis Alpensaga und die Heimat-Debatte des späten 20. Jahrhunderts" at the symposium "Imaginiertes Österreich -- Imagining Austria" at the Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaft in Vienna, Austria, Nov. 10-11, 2000.
"Reviewing for Monatshefte" at MLA conference, Washington, DC, December 27-31, 2000.
"German Films in the Classroom" at annual meeting of the South Texas Chapter of the AATG, Marble Falls, TX, Sept. 15, 2001.
"Austrian History, Austrian Cinema: Axel Corti's Welcome in Vienna in the Classroom" at the AATG/ACTFL conference, Washington, DC, November 16-18, 2001.
"Emerenz Meier: Vorläuferin der neuen deutschen Mundartdichtung" at the Michael Kollmer Memorial Symposium on the Dialects of the Bavarian and Bohemian Forests, Kirchdorf im Wald, Germany, April 12-14, 2002.
"The Exile Returns as Conquering Soldier: Collisions of Past and Future in Wolf's Ich war neunzehn and Corti's Welcome in Vienna" at the GSA conference, San Diego, CA, October 2002.
"Grüß Gott – Then What? Taking Work with Regional Language to the Next Level," at the annual meeting of the AATG/ACTFL, Philadelphia, PA, November 21-23, 2003.
"Bayer Beware: Munich for Learners" at the annual meeting of the AATG/ACTFL, Chicago, November 18- 21, 2004.
"Auf den Punkt gebracht. Überlegungen zum Verhältnis Dialekt – Literatur" at the second Kirchdorf Symposium on Bavarian Dialect, Kirchdorf im Wald, Germany, April 8-10, 2005. Wickham, curriculum vitae 8
"Voces populi: Voices in the Satire of Gerhard Polt" at the annual meeting of the GSA, Milwaukee, Sep. 29-Oct. 2, 2005.
"Regional Identity in the Age of Globalization: International Elements in Contemporary Bavarian Song" at the annual meeting of the GSA, Pittsburgh, Sep. 29–Oct. 1, 2006
"The Sophie Choice: Selecting the Right 'White Rose' Film" at the ACTFL/AATG annual meeting in San Antonio, November 16-18, 2007.
"Wordsworth and Jandl: Learning from Surface Translation" at the ACTFL/AATG annual meeting in San Antonio, November 16-18, 2007.
"The Margins Move Center Stage: The Return of the Region in German Cinema" at the Kentucky Foreign Languages Conference in Lexington, KY, April 17-19, 2008.
"Gedrehte Mundart: Zur Sprache in und um Marcus H. Rosenmüllers Film Wer früher stirbt ist länger tot" at the international symposium "Mundart und Medien," Walderbach am Regen, Germany, May 29- 31, 2008.
"Defining Austria: A Woman's Pale Blue Handwriting by Franz Werfel (1941) and Axel Corti (1984)" at the European Film Conference, San Antonio, Sept. 8-10, 2008.
"Wörterbuch als Kulturbuch: Zum Verhältnis zwischen Lexikon und Lebensweise in Bayern und anderswo" at the international symposium "Die Heimat auf der Zunge tragen—Mundart als Sprachschatz," Hetzenbach (Bavaria), March 27-28, 2009.
"Looking Back on Looking Back on Empire: Axel Corti's Filming (1994) of Joseph Roth's Radetzkymarsch (1932)" at the Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, KY, April 16-18, 2009.
"Children of Empire: The Generations of Axel Corti’s and Joseph Roth’s Radetzkymarsch" at the San Antonio Conference on World Cinema, Sept. 25-27, 2009.
"Remembering Exile: Jews in the American Dystopia in Axel Corti's Santa Fé," at the conference on Memory in World Cinema, held in San Antonio, TX, Sept. 24-26, 2010.
"Vitus and Wer früher stirbt ist länger tot: Regional Culture through Film," at ACTFL/AATG meeting in Boston, MA, Nov. 19-21, 2010.
"Memory, Toil, and Rubble: Berlin and Munich Confront the Nazi Past," at the second conference on Memory in World Cinema, held in San Antonio, TX, Sept. 24-25, 2011.
"Zum Verhältnis von Dialekt und Religion im Schrifttum Georg Achtelstetters" at the international symposium "Dialekt und Religion," Walderbach am Regen, Germany, June 9-11, 2012.
"Die Bühne als moralische Anstalt: Aufklärung und das bairische Lied um die Jahrtausendwende," at the international symposium "Dialekt • Bühne," Hetzenbach, Germany, May 30-31, 2014.
"Zwischen gestern und morgen Today: Lessons from the 1947 Rubble Film," at ACTFL/AATG meeting in San Antonio, Nov. 21-23, 2014.
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Abbreviations of Organizations used: AATG – American Association of Teachers of German ACTFL – American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages GSA – German Studies Association MLA – Modern Language Association NEMLA – NorthEast Modern Language Association PCA – Popular Culture Association RMMLA – Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association SAMLA – South Atlantic Modern Language Association SGAS – Society for German-American Studies SLS – Society for Literature and Science
Invited Lectures "Dialect in Foreign Language Instruction" invited lecture at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, Dec. 1976.
"Dialekt im Phonetikunterricht: Probleme bairischer Sprecher beim Erlernen des Englischen" invited lecture at the University of Bayreuth, Germany, June 1978.
"Zur Sprache der Dialektdichtung" Erste Arbeitstagung bayerisch-österreichischer Dialektologen in Bayreuth, Oct. 1980. (Invited)
"Die Neue Deutsche Mundartdichtung," guest lecture at the Deutsche Sommerschule von New Mexico, 1982.
"'Ich bin ein Berliner...I think': The Crisis of German Identity and Heimat since the Early 1960s" guest lecture at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, March 1988.
"Seismograph und Stimulans: Liedermacher und Umwelt in Deutschland" invited lecture at San Francisco State University, March 6, 1990.
"Oil and Water: German Travelers Portray Native Americans" at the Goethe Institut Houston, June 20, 1993.
"The Development of the Portrayal of Native Americans by 19th Century German Painters" presented as a guest lecture at the University of Hull (UK), June 2, 1994.
"foolish emptiness: Semantic Issues in Bavarian Dialect Poetry" at UTSA Linguistics Colloquium, November 17, 1995.
"Image and Hommage: The Native American in 19th-Century German Painting" at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, October 31, 1998. Invited lecture sponsored by the Max Kade Institute for German American Studies and the Department of Art History at the University of Wisconsin.
"Studium in den USA – Studium in Deutschland: Welche Anforderungen werden an Studierende gestellt?" Colloquium presentation before professors of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, on academic expectations for students studying abroad. April 8, 2002.
"Plurizentrisches Deutschland: Identität und Region," invited illustrated lecture presented at the German School, Middlebury College, July 27, 2006.
"Baby Food: Nursery Rhymes and Nutrition," opening remarks and words of welcome delivered at the 4th Interdisciplinary and Multicultural Conference on Food Representation in Literature, Film, and the Wickham, curriculum vitae 10
Other Arts, held at the University of Texas at San Antonio, February 23, 2006.
"Introduction to Michael Verhoeven's Film Der unbekannte Soldat (The Unknown Soldier)," Austin Film Society, Sept. 13, 2007. (Filmmaker Verhoeven present.)
"Figurative Food in English," opening remarks and words of welcome delivered at the 5th Interdisciplinary and Multicultural Conference on Food Representation in Literature, Film, and the Other Arts, held at the University of Texas at San Antonio, February 21, 2008.
"Food and the Dark Side," opening remarks at the 6th Interdisciplinary and Multicultural Conference on Food Representation in Literature, Film and the Other Arts, held at the University of Texas at San Antonio, February 25-27, 2010.
"Times Re-past," opening remarks at the 7th Interdisciplinary and Multicultural Conference on Food Representation in Literature, Film and the Other Arts, held at the University of Texas at San Antonio, February, 2012.
"De gustibus cantandum: Singing about Food," opening remarks at the 8th Interdisciplinary and Multicultural Conference on Food Representation in Literature, Film and the Other Arts, held at the University of Texas at San Antonio, February 28, 2014.
"Bairisch für Anfänger," presentation on Bavarian dialect to prepare audience members for German dialect play Mei Fähr Lady, Munich, October 16, 2014.
"Forschungsbericht Georg Achtelstetter," lecture summarizing research progress delivered to members of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Munich, October 29, 2014.
e) NON-REFEREED PUBLICATIONS "Bairische Orthographie: Ein Beitrag zur Diskussion" Schmankerl 39 (October 1979), pp. 21-22.
"Was Schmankerl-Leser alles mögen" in Schmankerl 50 (1983), pp. 27-30.
Bruce A. Murray and Christopher J. Wickham, "Whither New German Cinema? in KINO: German Film 23 (Summer 1986), pp. 53-5.
"Some Body," letter to the editor, San Antonio Express-News online edition, May 26, 2008.
"Stofferl, Hansi, Michael, wie reimt sich das zusamm . . .?" Invited contribution on international life of Biermösl Blosn, in Christoph and Michael Well, eds., Biermösl Blosn: Tokio – Kapstadt – Hausen. Zürich: Kein&Aber, 2013. Pp. 235-9.
Radio interview for Bayerischer Rundfunk program on Bavarian poet Felix Hoerburger, conducted June 2, 2014. Broadcast date, Sept. 21, 2014.
Radio interview (in six parts) for Bayerischer Rundfunk on Heimat, conducted October 30, 2014. Broadcast date to be determined.