Andrew C. Wisely

Associate Professor of German Division of German and Russian Department of Modern Languages & Cultures Baylor University Waco, Texas 76798-7391 [email protected] (254) 710-7162

EDUCATION

Washington University (St. Louis): Ph.D. in , 1993

University of Hamburg, 1987-88

Wheaton College (Wheaton, IL): A.B. in German, 1985

DISSERTATION

“If Peace Should Break Out: The Discourse of Honor in the Writings of Arthur Schnitzler.” Egon Schwarz, director.

EMPLOYMENT

Baylor University, 2003-present Anderson University (Anderson IN), 1993-2003

PUBLICATIONS

Books

From Auschwitz to : Medicine, Selection, and Deception in the Career of the SS Physician Dr. Franz Lucas (forthcoming)

Arthur Schnitzler and Twentieth-Century Criticism. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2004. [Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture: Literary Criticism in Perspective]

Arthur Schnitzler and the Discourse of Honor and Dueling. New York: Peter Lang, 1996. [Austrian Culture; vol. 20]

Articles and Book Chapters

“From Humiliation to Humanity: Reconciling Helen Goldmann’s Testimony from the Forensic Strictures of the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial,” S:I.M.O.N. (SHOAH: INTERVENTION. METHODS. DOCUMENTATION), Wiener Wiesenthal Institut für Holocaust-Studien (VWI), forthcoming,

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2021.

“Renewed trauma: Abraham de la Penha’s testimony against Dr. Franz Lucas in the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial,” in Sabine Hildebrandt, Miriam Offer and Michael Grodin, eds., Recognizing the Past in the Present. New Studies on Medicine Before, During, and After the Holocaust. New York: Berghahn, 2020. 241-256.

“Confession that Isn’t: The Fear Claims of Dr. Franz Lucas Between Accusation and Acquittal in the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial (1964-65),” Holocaust Studies 26:4 (2020), 484-509, DOI: 10.1080/17504902.2020.1718921.

“War Against ‘Internal Enemies’: Dr. Franz Lucas’s Sterilization of Sinti and Roma in Ravensbrück Men’s Camp in January 1945,” Central European History 52 (2019), 650-671, DOI: 10.1017/S0008938919000852.

“Verschwiegene Christenheit und entmündigte Hoffnung in Christoph Heins Der fremde Freund/Drachenblut,” in Gregor Thuswaldner and Olaf Berwald, eds., Der untote Gott: Religion und Ästhetik in der deutschen und österreichischen Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts. Cologne: Böhlau, 2007. 191- 203.

“Shalom, not Bigotry: Orthopraxis as Response to Karl Gutzkow’s Wally, die Zweiflerin (1835). Journal of Christianity and Foreign Languages, vol. 7 (Spring 2006): 10-28.

Conference proceedings and Festschrifte

“Desk-Murderers or Dr. Lucas: Superfluity and Culpability in Hannah Arendt’s ‘Auschwitz on Trial,’” in Gerhard Besier, Katarzyna Stoklosa, Andrew Wisely, eds., Totalitarianism and Liberty: Hannah Arendt in the 21st Century. Cracow: Księgarnia Akademicka, 2008. 363-379.

“Ritual-Ersatz in der DDR-Übergangsgesellschaft der 80er Jahre: Christoph Heins Fremder Freund im Kontext der Entmündigung,” in Hans Jörg Schmidt and Petra Tallafuss, eds., Totalitarismus und Literatur. Deutsche Literatur im 20. Jahrhundert – Literarische Öffentlichkeit im Spannungsfeld totalitärer Meinungsbildung. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2007. 173-187.

“Duty or Destiny: Compulsory Dueling in the Works of Arthur Schnitzler,” in Katarzyna Stokłosa and Andrea Strübind, eds., Glaube – Freiheit – Diktatur in Europa und den USA. Festschrift für Gerhard Besier zum 60. Geburtstag. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2007. 755-770.

“Dennoch,” in Jacqueline Vansant and Ursula Seeber, eds., Schwarz auf Weiss. Ein transatlantisches Würdigungsbuch für Egon Schwarz. Vienna: Czernin Verlag, 2007. 38-42.

PRESENTATIONS

“Breaking Rank in the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial: Stefan Baretzki’s Rant against Dr. Franz Lucas on February 18, 1965.” VWI Fellows Methodology Presentation, May 2020.

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“Januskopf Dr. Franz Bernhard Lucas: Opportunism, Deception, and Entanglement in his Criminal Biography.” VWI Fellows Colloquium (comments by Herwig Czech, University of Vienna), April 2020.

“‘Es war eine anstrengende Korrespondenz. . .’: Barbara Just-Dahlmann on the Inefficacy of Hermann Schlingensiepen’s Discourse of Mercy (1962-63).” German Studies Association, Pittsburgh, September 2018.

“Dr. Franz Lucas’s Sterilization of Sinti Roma in Ravensbrück Men’s Camp in January 1945.” Second International Scholars Workshop: Medicine in the Holocaust and Beyond. Western Galilee College (Akko, Israel), May 2017.

“‘I didn’t come here to lie’: Abraham de la Penha’s Testimony against Dr. Franz Lucas on March 26, 1965 in the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial.” The Future of Holocaust Testimonies IV. An International Workshop. Western Galilee College (Akko, Israel), March 2016.

“Breaking Rank to Break the Spell: Baretzki’s Attack on Lucas in Spring 1965 of the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial.” German Studies Association (Denver, CO), October 2013.

“‘Heb auf, was Gott dir vor die Tür legt’: Emmi Bonhoeffer and Helen Goldmann.” NACFLA Conference, Covenant College (GA), March 2013.

“Hermann Langbein as Scribal Witness.” Modern Austrian Language and Culture Association. Washington & Jefferson College (PA), April 2011.

“Mercy and Community in Andreas Gruber’s film Aus lauter Feigheit gibt es kein Erbarmen (With Cowardice There is No Mercy, 1994).” NACFLA Conference, Anderson University (IN), April 2010.

“Ramp Duty under Duress: Franz Lucas, Superfluity, and Arendt’s ‘Auschwitz on Trial.’” The “Good German” in Literature and Culture. Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London, October 2009.

“Fertile Soil for Ideology Critique? Heinrich Schnitzler’s and Peter Beauvais’s Television Productions of Professor Bernhardi in the Early 1960s.” Modern Austrian Literature and Culture Association. Emory University (Atlanta, GA), April 2009.

“Compassion vs. Religion: Anti-ritual Motivations in Schnitzler’s Professor Bernhardi (1912).” NACFLA Conference, Point Loma Nazarene College, April 2009.

“Maternal Engagement: Charitable Biographies of Statelessness in Hannah Arendt’s Men in Dark Times.” Hannah Arendt in the 21st Century: A Global Discourse. International Conference at Baylor University, November 2006.

“Desk Murderers or Dr. Lucas: Moral Culpability in Hannah Arendt’s ‘Auschwitz on Trial.’” Critical Assessment of the Writings of Hannah Arendt, /Walbrzych: Hannah-Arendt-Institut für Totalitarismusforschung e.V. an der Technischen Universität Dresden. 24-30 July 2006.

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“Der lange Nachklang der Ulbrichtschen ‘Zehn Gebote.’ Übergangsrituale in der DDR-Literatur der 80er Jahre.” Totalitarismus und Literatur. International Conference, Hannah-Arendt-Institut für Totalitarismusforschung e.V. an der Technischen Universität Dresden, February 2006.

“The Judge and the Skeptic: ’s Polemic Against Karl Gutzkow’s novel Wally die Zweiflerin (1835),” NACFLA Conference, Azusa Pacific University, April 2003.

“Divine Judgment Turns Bravado: Reflections on Dueling ca. 1900”: Special Event hosted by Austrian Cultural Institute, New York, NY, February 2003.

“The Urge for Continuity: Teleological Disparity in the Autobiographies of Hermann Bahr and Arthur Schnitzler,” NACFLA Conference, Point Loma Nazarene College, April 2000.

“Undermining Male Mor(t)ality: Female Perspectives on Dueling in German Literature 1885- 1918.” War, Violence, and the Structure of Modernity. New York University, October 1993.

“Ritual or Performance? Destroying the Aura of Dueling in Schnitzler’s Fink und Fliederbusch,” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, April 1993.

BOOK REVIEWS

Zeugen der Vergangenheit. H.G. Adler – Franz Baermann Steiner – Briefwechsel 1936-1952. Ed. Carol Tully. Munich: Iudicium Verlag, 2011. Journal of Austrian Studies 46/1 (2013): 109-11.

Imke Meyer, Männlichkeit und Melodram. Arthur Schnitzlers erzählende Schriften. (Wurzburg:̈ Königshausen & Neumann, 2010). German Quarterly 85/1 (Winter 2012): 97-98.

Reigen von Arthur Schnitzler. Sexuelle Szene und Verfehlung in Michael Thalheimers Inszenierung am Thalia Theater Hamburg. Ed. Ortrud Gutjahr. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2009). Modern Austrian Literature 44/1 (Spring 2011): 84-85.

Nikolaj Beier, “Vor allem bin ich ich.” Judentum, Akkulturation und Antisemitismus in Arthur Schnitzlers Leben und Werk (Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2008). German Studies Review 32/2 (2009): 151-52.

Gerd K. Schneider, “Ich will jeden Tag einen Haufen Sternschuppen auf mich niederregnen sehen.” Zur künstlerischen Rezeption von Arthur Schnitzlers “Reigen” in Österreich, Deutschland und den USA (Vienna: Praesens Verlag, 2008). German Quarterly 82/2 (Spring 2009): 257-58.

Melissa De Bruyker, Das resonante Schweigen. Die Rhetorik der erzählten Welt in Kafkas Der Verschollene, Schnitzlers Therese und Walsers Räuber-Roman. (Würzburg: Verlag Königshausen & Neumann GmbH, 2008). Modern Austrian Literature 42/2 (2009): 86-88.

Gerhard Besier, Im Namen der Freiheit. Die amerikanische Mission. (Göttingen 2006) Comparativ - Leipziger Beiträge zur Universalgeschichte und vergleichenden Gesellschaftsforschung (2007). (n.p)

Arthur Schnitzler. Affairen und Affekte. Mit 113 Abbildungen. Ed. Evelyne Polt-Heinzl and Gisela Steinlechner (Wien: Christian Brandstätter, 2006). Modern Austrian Literature 41/1 (2008): 95-97.

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A Companion to the Works of Arthur Schnitzler. Ed. Dagmar Lorenz (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2003). German Quarterly 78/1 (Winter 2005): 116-17.

David Pan, Primitive Renaissance: Rethinking German Expressionism (Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 2001) in Monatshefte für deutschsprachige Literatur und Kultur (Winter 2003): 680-81.

Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Vol. 2 (1927-1934), trans. Rodney Livingstone, ed. Michael W. Jennings (Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1999) in The Historian (Winter 2001) 63/2: 469-70.

Kevin McAleer, Dueling: The Cult of Honor in Germany (Princeton: Princeton UP, 1994). German Quarterly 69/1 (Winter 1996): 76-7.

COMMENTATOR, MODERATOR, LECTURER

Consultant for Dr. Franz Lucas component of project “Lebenswege nach Mauthausen. Wimmelbuch” - with Oksana Dmytruk-Kolarik, Mauthausen Memorial (Austria), October 2020.

Commentator for “Enabling or Restricting? Art and Fiction Articulating Norms (1),” German Studies Association (Atlanta, GA), October 6, 2017. “Writing a Nazi Criminal Biography: The Historian as Detective.” Dept. of Modern Languages and Cultures Faculty Colloquium, Baylor University, March 2015.

Moderator for “Stefan Zweig: An Outsider of Viennese Modernism?” German Studies Association (Denver CO), October 2013.

Moderator for “Between Anti-Historicism and Recollection - Retrieving (Literary) History as Science in ‘Postmodern’ Mass Democracy.” German Studies Association (Pittsburgh PA), September 2006.

Commentator for “Hannah Arendt’s Interpretation of Totalitarianism and Freedom.” German Studies Association (Pittsburgh PA), September 2006.

Panel discussion and post-show commentator for Jonathan Bank’s production of Arthur Schnitzler’s Der einsame Weg. Mint Theater, New York City, February 2003.

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

Research Fellow, Wiener Wiesenthal Institut für Holocaust-Studien, Vienna, Austria. February 1 to July 1, 2020.

Baylor University Arts and Humanities Faculty Research Program Grant ($1600), May 12-20, 2017. German archives.

Baylor University Summer Sabbatical, 2018.

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Baylor University Arts and Humanities Faculty Research Program Grant ($2000), March 6-22, 2014. German archives.

Baylor University Research Leave, AY 2010-11.

Fulbright Travel Grant, 1987-88, University of Hamburg.

REFEREE AND REVIEWER

Modern Austrian Literature German Quarterly Focus on German Studies Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Austrian Science Fund: Humanities/Social Sciences

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2003-present: Associate Professor of German, Baylor University (Waco, TX) Beginning German I and II Intermediate German I and II German Conversation and Composition German for Reading Development Traditions: German Literature 1750-1950 Deutsche Dichter und Denker II German for Reading Knowledge (graduate) The Dresden Experience (Baylor in Germany Summer Program) Survey of German Literature 19th Century Survey of German Literature, 20th Century Autobiography and Confession (Great Texts) Special Topics: German Novella Special Topics: Secular/Religious Germany after 1945 Special Topics: Austria in the Twentieth Century Special Topics: Jewish Figures in Twentieth-Century Viennese Literature Special Topics: The Legacy of National Socialism Special Topics: Fractured Trust: National Socialism and its Aftereffects Special Topics: On Health and Sickness: Texts by and about German Physicians Special Topics: The German Legacy of the Holocaust

1993-2003, Assistant Professor of German, Anderson University (Anderson, IN) Beginning German I and II Intermediate German I and II Conversation and Composition Culture and Civilization Readings in German Literature German Novella

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History and Theory of German Film Survey of German Literature Exploring the World of Language Freshman Liberal Arts Seminar Turn of-the-Century Vienna (1890-1920) (online)

1985-1993, Teaching Assistant, Washington University (St. Louis, MO) Beginning German (drill); Intermediate German (master); German for Reading (master)

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Holocaust Perpetrators and Victims Testimony and Witness Trauma and Memory Legal and Medical Discourses and Ethics Allied and German Postwar Justice Jewish Figures in Austrian Literature Philosophy of Trust 19th – 20th Century German Literature Secular and Sacred Rites of Passage