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CURRICULUM VITAE

Gabriele Maria Ancilla Wickert Professor of German and International Studies 2900 Purchase Street Purchase, NY 10577 [email protected]

Education PhD 1980, U. Massachusetts/Amherst (German Literature) MA 1972, SUNY at Albany (German Literature) BA 1968, University of Rochester (English Literature)

Teaching Assistant, Associate and Full Professor of German, Manhattanville College, 1976--present o Chair of German Department, 1976-2014

o Chair of World Languages and Literatures, 2014 -

Associate and Full Professor of International Studies, Manhattanville College, 1984--present o Chair of International Studies, 1988-91, 1993-95, 2005-2012.

Courses All levels of German language Introduction to German Literature and Culture Romanticism in German Literature and Music German Expressionism Hero and Heroine in German Drama Comparative Literature and Culture The Revolt of Modern Theater Literature and Society of the GDR Literature and Revolution East European Literature The Writer in Exile World Cultures through Literature And Film Art and Politics of German Cinema War in Contemporary Literature and Film

Grants and Fellowships IREX grant to Prague, Czech Republic: Spring/Summer, 1993 Manhattanville faculty research award: Spring 1988 Fulbright grant to West Berlin: 1987-88 IREX grant to East Berlin/GDR: 1983-84 NEH Summer Seminar grants: 1980, 1983, 1987, 1990, 1994

Professional Development Georgetown University summer program for teachers of German: Dillingen, Germany, 2003 WCIS-sponsored faculty seminar on “Comparative Gender Issues in World Literature”: Fall, 1992 WCIS-sponsored faculty seminar on “Gender Issues in Japanese Literature”: Spring, 1992 Berlin Seminar on “Politics & Education in the FRG/GDR”: Summer, 1982 Rassias teaching training workshop: January, 1982 GDR summer seminars for foreign Germanists: 1981 (Karl-Marx-Stadt) and 1982 (Weimar) Goethe-Institute summer seminar for German teachers: Göttingen, Germany, 1981

Publications Book Held und Volk in Heinrich von Kleists Dramen. Peter Lang, 1983.

Juried Articles “GDR Writers and the Revolution”, in East Central Europe, 18/1 1991. “The End of Exile: A Retrospective of GDR Writers who left for the FRG”, in GDR Monitor, May 1991. ‘The USA in GDR Adventure Novels”, in East European Quarterly, Fall 1887. “Aristocratic Courtesan and Bourgeois Innocent in German Melodrama”, in Monatshefte, Spring, 1984.

Book Chapters “Postcommunist Antifeminism”, in Reading a Woman’s Perspective. Marymount College, 1994 “Freud’s Heritage: Fathers and Daughters in German Literature, 1750-1850”, in In the Shadow of the Past: Psychology Portrays the Sexes. Columbia Univ. Press, 1985.

Translation Russische Avantgarde. Eine Ohrfeige dem Öffentlichen Geschmack. Catalog to accompany 2006 exhibit at the SNZ Galleries, Wiesbaden.

Administration Acting Provost and Dean of Faculty, Manhattanville College, July 2004-2005. Dean of Studies, Manhattanville College, 1995--2003. Director, Westchester Consortium for International Studies, 1991-93. Director, Study Abroad, Manhattanville College, 1984-87, 1993-95.