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Nicholas Vazsonyi Curriculum Vitae updated: 9/7/2019 Nicholas Vazsonyi curriculum vitae Department of Languages, Literatures & Cultures University of South Carolina Columbia, South Carolina 29208-0001 office: 803.777.9734 / mobile: 803.447.1442 vazsonyi@sc.edu https://sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/artsandsciences/dllc/our_people/vazsonyi_nicholas.php CURRENT FACULTY POSITION: 2011 – Current Jesse Chapman Alcorn Memorial Professor of German & Comparative Literature ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE: 2013 – Current Chair, Department of Languages, Literatures & Cultures University of South Carolina (R1, Flagship State University) RESPONSIBILITIES: 5 budget lines; 69 FTE faculty; 5 full-time staff; 11 language programs; 7 BA, 5 MA/MAT, & 2 PhD programs; T&P Dept. Chair vote; Language Lab oversight; annual faculty & staff performance review; strategic planning; hiring & retention; curriculum development & assessment; alumni & donor newsletter; supporting Development Office; Regular dept, staff, senior staff & “town hall” meetings; managing student complaints and faculty conflict resolution. ACHIEVEMENTS: Led overhaul of basic language courses curriculum to new “flipped/blended” model; managed 10% budget cut while increasing support for faculty and grad student travel; led faculty committee to draft a new departmental strategic plan; successfully lobbied for 10 tenure- track searches over six-year period; improved departmental communication; devised and implemented web-based student-centered class override request system, eliminating student and parent complaints by 100%; increased FTE faculty from 66 to 69, and student enrollments from avg. 5,000 to 8,000 per semester. Currently highest credit-hour producer in the College. 2004 – 2009 Graduate Director, Department of Languages, Literatures & Cultures, University of South Carolina ACHIEVEMENTS: Managed 7 graduate degree programs; worked with incoming Dean to develop new budgeting model; created 3 ranks of graduate TA based on experience and performance (formerly there had only been one); Streamlined MA and PhD exam dates (formerly each program had their own schedule); developed scheduling spreadsheet to eliminate course conflicts, so grad students no longer had to choose between two classes; created graduate committee to work together as a department on admissions and awarding support packages; managed grad program during budget crisis of 2008/9. vazsonyi · curriculum vitae 2002 – 2006 Director, German Studies Program, Dept of Languages, Literatures & Cultures, University of South Carolina ACHIEVEMENTS: Overhauled undergrad. and graduate programs, deleting old, adding new, renumbering courses, creating sequence of courses, etc; lobbied Dean to elevate basic courses director position from instructor with MA to visiting asst. prof. with PhD; position eventually became tenure-track; managed crisis with new faculty member with serious behavioral issues 2001 – 2003 Director, USC Fulbright Fellowships & Chair of Fulbright Selection Committee, University of South Carolina DUTIES: Recruited, mentored and coached students for Fulbright application process; recruited faculty campus-wide to serve on evaluation committees; organized and chaired evaluation meetings; communicated committee evaluations to Fulbright Association. KEY ADMINISTRATIVE TRAINING / SERVICE EXPERIENCE: 2019 – current Member, Faculty Advisory Committee (Provost Committee) Advising and reporting to Faculty Senate and Provost on general university matters 2016 – 2017 Member, Dean’s Non-Tenure-Track Working Group DUTIES: Task force to research and evaluate working conditions and morale of non-TT faculty in College of Arts & Sciences and submit suggestions to Dean for implementation of improvements. 2014 – 2015 Fellow, Pipeline for Academic Leadership Year-long professional development seminar with monthly all-day workshops to train for university leadership, by Provost invitation only, including 360° review. Feb 2014 Participant, Council of Colleges of Arts & Sciences (CCAS) Seminar for Department Heads/Chairs, Alexandria, VA Multi-day workshop for new Department Chairs covering organizational, personnel, policy, time- management issues. Featured brainstorming, case studies, & role-playing activities 2013 – 2016 Member, Academic Planning Council, College of Arts & Sciences DUTIES: elected member of Dean’s faculty advisory committee; weekly meetings with Dean to advise on running of the College; included departmental reviews, new program initiatives, College strategic planning, fund raising initiatives, role of College within the university, etc. 2012 – 2013 Chair, Departmental Tenure & Promotion Committee DUTIES: Identify and contact outside evaluators for promotion candidates; coordinate and chair meetings of tenure & promotion committee; advise candidates during promotion process; ensure timely completion of departmental obligations in promotion calendar, etc., 2 vazsonyi · curriculum vitae EMPLOYMENT HISTORY 2013-current University of South Carolina, Columbia Department Chair Languages, Literatures & Cultures 2011-current University of South Carolina, Columbia Jesse Chapman Alcorn Memorial Professor of Foreign Languages 2010-current University of South Carolina, Columbia Professor of German & Comparative Literature 2001-2010 University of South Carolina, Columbia Associate Professor 1997-2001 University of South Carolina, Columbia Assistant Professor 1994-1997 Vanderbilt University, Nashville Visiting Assistant Professor 1993-1994 UCLA Extension, Humanities Div. Instructor 1990-92 University of California, Los Angeles Teaching Fellow 1984-90 Telemusic, Inc. Artistic Director Documentary Film Production EDUCATION 1990-1993 University of California, Los Angeles Ph. D. Germanic Langs. 1986-1988 University of California, Los Angeles M. A. German 1979-1982 Indiana University, Bloomington B. A. German summa cum laude 1976-1978 Westminster School, London 8 O’ Levels (Oxford & Cambridge Board) 3 vazsonyi · curriculum vitae PUBLICATIONS BOOKS Richard Wagner. Die Entstehung einer Marke. Bd. 7. Wagner in der Diskussion. Trans. Michael Halfbrodt. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2012. [reviews to date in: klassik.com, Das Orchester, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Klassiek Centraal (Netherlands); Literaturkritik.de; Der Tagespiegel, Versorgerin (Austria); Germanistik] Richard Wagner: Self-Promotion and the Making of a Brand. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Paperback 2012. [reviews to date in: Whats On Stage.com, Opera, Wall Street Journal, Wagner Notes, Musical Times, WagnerSpectrum, The Wagner Journal, Opera News, Die Musikforschung, Cambridge Opera Journal, Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association, Classical Voice North America, Mcana Web Journal, Nineteenth-Century Music Review, German Studies Review, extensive mention in: Los Angeles Times] Lukács Reads Goethe: From Aestheticism to Stalinism. Columbia, SC: Camden House, 1997. [reviews to date in: TLS, Choice, German Quarterly, Journal of English & Germanic Philology, Germanistik, Seminar, Monatshefte, Journal of European Studies, Austrian History Yearbook] EDITED BOOKS The Cambridge Companion to Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen. Eds. Mark Berry & Nicholas Vazsonyi. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (In production, Planned 2020) Music Theater as Global Culture: Wagner’s Legacy Today. Eds. Anno Mungen, Nicholas Vazsonyi, Julie Hubbert, Ivana Rentsch, Arne Stollberg. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2017. The Cambridge Wagner Encyclopedia. Ed. Nicholas Vazsonyi. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. [reviews to date in: the-wagnerian.com; entartetemusik.blogspot.com; wagnerspectrum; BBC Music Magazine; Classical Music “Editor’s Choice”; Opera; Notes; Cambridge Opera Journal] Wagner’s Meistersinger: Performance, History, Representation. Ed. Nicholas Vazsonyi. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2003. Paperback edition 2004. [reviews to date in: Wagner Notes; BBC Music Magazine; Gramophone; Opera; Choice; Music & Letters; TLS; German Quarterly; Opera Quarterly; Musical Times; Monatshefte; WagnerSpectrum] Searching for Common Ground: Diskurse zur deutschen Identität 1750-1871. Ed. Nicholas Vazsonyi. Cologne & Weimar: Böhlau, 2000. [reviews in: German History, Comparativ, German Studies Review, Monatshefte] 4 vazsonyi · curriculum vitae ARTICLES & CHAPTERS 34. “Die Weimarer Idee und das »Ereignis« Bayreuth,” Wagner – Weimar – Eisenach. Wechselwirkungen und Spannungsfelder zwischen Kultur und Politik, ed. Helen Geyer (Bielefeld: Transcript, Planned 2020) 33. “Wagner in China: Negotiating the National, the Universal, and the Global,” Digitalizing the Global Text: Philosophy, Literature, and Culture, ed. Paul Allen Miller (Columbia, University of South Carolina Press, 2019): 69-82. 32. “Warning: Consuming Wagner Can be Hazardous to your Health – Tristan und Isolde and Death in Venice,” The Wagner Journal 12.3 (2018): 62-69. 31. “Bayreuth: Capital and Anti-Capital,” Other Capitals of the Nineteenth Century: An Alternative Mapping of Literary and Cultural Space, ed. Richard Hibbitt (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017): 205-22. 30. “Introduction: History and Nationalism,” Music Theater as Global Culture: Wagner’s Legacy Today. Eds. Anno Mungen, Nicholas Vazsonyi, Julie Hubbert, Ivana Rentsch, Arne Stollberg. (Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann: 2017): 15-24. 29. “The Play’s the Thing: Schiller, Wagner, and Gesamtkunstwerk,” Gesamtkunstwerk: Foundations, Articulations, and Inspirations, Eds. Margaret Menninger & Anthony Steinhoff (New York: Berghahn, 2016): 21-38. 28. “A German in
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