curriculum vitae PATRICIA ANNE SIMPSON 139 N. 11th St. apt. 501 Lincoln, Nebraska
Permanent: 8 E. Beall Street Bozeman, Montana 406.579.4981 [email protected]
Education: 1988: Ph.D., Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Yale University 1985: M. Phil., Yale University 1984: M.A., Yale University 1980: A.B., English Literature and German Civilization, Smith College
Academic Positions: 2016-: Chair and Professor, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, University of Nebraska in Lincoln Program Faculty, Women’s and Gender Studies 2017-: CourseShare Coordinator, UNL for the Big Ten Academic Alliance and synchronous/non-synchronous sharing of LCTLs 2012-2016: Professor of German Studies: German Studies Section Coordinator, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Montana State University, Bozeman 2006-12: Associate Professor of German Studies, Montana State University 2002-06: Assistant Professor of German, Montana State University 1999-02: Visiting Assistant Professor, Modern Foreign Languages, Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio. 1998-99: Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Languages and Literature, University of Utah, Salt Lake City 1998: Adjunct Assistant Professor, German Department, Hunter College, City University of New York 1989-96: Assistant Professor, Germanic Languages and Literatures, Associate of Program in Comparative Literature, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 1988-89: Lecturer, German Department, Yale University 1984-88: Acting Instructor of German, Yale University
Select Academic Grants and Awards: 2015-16: Recipient, MSU’s Cox Family Award for Creative Scholarship and Teaching: for “demonstrable union of superior research with excellence in upper-division/graduate instruction” 2015: MSU College of Letters and Science Meritorious Research Award 2 2014: Goethe Society of North America Essay Prize 2012-13: Scholarship & Creativity grant to conduct research on European immigrants in South America 2011-12: Sabbatical, MSU: Conducted research in Argentina, Brazil, Spain, Mauritius, and India. 2011: German Historical Institute Research Fellowship ($3,800) to conduct research in archives in Philadelphia, including at the Horner Memorial Library and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania (23 May- 20 June 2011). 2011: Short-term Professional Development Award: to conduct research on European-South American immigration and fascism; to further Spanish language skills ($3,400). 2011: Research fellowship, German Historical Institute, to conduct library research in Philadelphia’s Horner Library on toys, war, and play in 19th-century German-American immigrant texts. 2011: Fulbright-Hays Award to participate in Brazil Seminar (1-30 July, $16,450) 2011-12: Scholarship and Creativity Award ($14,500), to conduct research on the immigration in the European Union. 2009-10: Scholarship and Creativity Award ($11,440), to conduct research on Vietnamese and German migration and economic ties, and pre- migration policies; field research in Vietnam. 2009: Short-term Professional Development Grant to conduct research on Turkish and German migration, Istanbul 24 May-6 June 2009. 2009: Award for Excellence, MSU-Alumni and Bozeman Chamber of Commerce. 2008-10: Co-Editor, Women in German Yearbook. 2007: CLS Short-term professional development award to complete research in German and Swiss archives for a book project on Play. 2007: CLS Research Award to complete research on Turkish-German migration by conducting field research in Istanbul. 2007: Scholarship and Creativity Grant: “New German Street,” (course release, Spring semester). 2006: Fall: BEST Award, one course release. 2005: Fulbright Recipient: To participate in German Studies Seminar on Contemporary Literature, Berlin, Hamburg, Leipzig: 7-26 June 2005. 2003-04: MSU, College of Letters and Science Research and Creativity Grant. MSU, Vice President for Research, Scholarship and Creativity Grant, to fund course release and research, Spring 2004. 1995-96: Sawyer Fellow, Advanced Studies Center, postdoctoral fellowship/ seminar participant, “Social Movements and Social Change in a Globalized World,” organized by Professors Michael Kennedy and Mayer Zald, International Institute, University of Michigan. 1995-96: Research Partnership, with Gita Rajan (graduate student, German 3 Department), to provide graduate student support in the form of a research assistantship. 1994: DAAD Seminar Participant, Cornell University, “Theorizing the Public Sphere,” conducted by Peter Uwe Hohendahl. 1994: Global Partnership Award, Institute for the Humanities, with Adjai Paulin Oloukpona-Yinnon, Université de Bénin, one semester fellowship to cooperate on an ongoing research project on German colonial aesthetics and contemporary “Migrantenliteratur”; involved a co-taught graduate/ undergraduate seminar on project. 1992-93: LS&A Award for Excellence in Teaching 1992-93: Fellow, Institute for the Humanities: Recipient of the John Rich Faculty Fellowship, research on utopian expressions in East German culture, specifically rock music of the 1980s. 1991: Center for Research on Teaching and Learning Postdoctoral Fellowship to do research on Afro- and Turkish-German Literature for development of undergraduate seminar in English. 1990: Rackham Faculty Fellowship for archival research in Poland, the GDR, and the FRG. 1986-87: DAAD-Direktstipendium, Dissertation research, Freie Universität, West- Berlin. 1982-86: Yale University Fellowship. 1981-82: DAAD-Kontaktstipendium, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg, West Germany (awarded through University of Massachusetts, Amherst) 1980-81: Suhrkamp-Verlag Fellowship.
Major Grants: Principal Investigator and Project Director: Department of Education Title VI Grant for Undergraduate Instruction in International Studies and Foreign Languages $173,000 over two years, plus no-cost extension, with in-kind matching funds from MSU (total $353,000).
Refereed Books: Reimagining the European Family: Cultures of Immigration This volume examines the effects of recent patterns of immigration on the representation of the family in Europe, with a focus on common trends that are becoming legible throughout the European Union, including the decline of the male bread-winner, the effects of two-parent careers on the family, the role of women at home and in the public sphere, and the increasing reliance on immigrant labor to supplement the roles of carer/nurturer at home. Examples are drawn from contemporary film, music, and literature, but also are framed by social science scholarship and demographic studies to situate their cultural arguments in a larger context (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).
Cultures of Violence in the New German Street 4 In recent years, the reality of violence in an otherwise placid post-war Germany has had an impact on cultural production, from literature to film and popular music. This book argues that the representation of violence among German “subcultural” identities is specifically inflected by contested notions of gender, ethnicity, and national identity (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2011).
The Erotics of War in German Romanticism This monograph examines the ways in which the historical event of war informed theories of violence, gender, and desire in the literature and philosophy of late 18th and early 19th century German culture. Chapters focus on Hegel, Goethe, Hölderlin, Kleist, Bettina Brentano-von Arnim, and Karoline von Günderrode (Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2006). Reviews on amazon.com, Eighteenth-Century Studies, GSR, Goethe Yearbook, and Monatshefte.
Refereed Edited Volumes: Co-editor, with Helga Druxes (Williams College), Digital Media Strategies of the Far Right in Europe and the United States The essays in this volume focus on the way right-wing political and cultural extremists use popular music, sports events, political rallies, but also comic books/graphic novels, YouTube, social media, and other means of mechanical and digital reproduction to form virtual and face-to-face communities and disseminate their political message. While right-wing movements can be fiercely local, we are also interested in commonalities among the different nationalist projects in Europe and North America. Recent studies tend to focus on the relative isolation of extremist activists and activities—until an act of terrorism or a public trauma occur—at which point the popular culture and the personality of the perpetrator and (usually) his cultural practices come into the foreground. The purpose of this collection is to compile a variety of perspectives on how right-wing extremists are using popular media to advance their platform now (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2015).
Co-editor, with Elisabeth Krimmer (UC, Davis), Religion, Reason, and Culture in the Age of Goethe (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2013). CHOICE Rank: Essential.
Co-editor, with Elisabeth Krimmer (UC, Davis), Enlightened War: German Theories and Cultures of Warfare from Frederick the Great to Clausewitz. (Rochester: Camden House, 2011).
Co-editor, with Evelyn K. Moore (Kenyon College), The Enlightened Eye: Goethe and Visual Culture. Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik 62 (Amsterdam: Rodopi [Brill], 2007). Review in GSR.
Special Issues of Refereed Journals: 5 Guest co-editor, with Helga Druxes. Special Issue of German Politics and Society On “Plurals of Pegida: New Right Populism and the Rhetoric of the Refugee Crisis,” with an introduction and contributions from Helga Druxes, Patricia Anne Simpson, David Coury, Beverly Weber, Karolin Machtans, and Farid Hafez. 121: 34, Vol. 4 (Winter 2016).
Guest Editor, Special issue of Michigan Germanic Studies (XXI, No. 1/2: Spring/Fall, 1995), “Gegenwartsbewältigung”: The GDR after the Wende, with contributions from Holger Teschke, Peter Rossman, Ulrike Poppe, Birgit Teschke, Therese Hörnigk, Marilyn Sibley Fries, Christiane Zehl Romero, Ute Brandes, Barton Byg, Phil McKnight, and Marc Silberman, in memory of Marilyn Sibley Fries.
Refereed Book Chapters: “Allegories of Resistance: The Legacy of 1968 in GDR Visual Cultures” Celluloid Revolt: Screen Cultures and the Long Sixties, eds. Marco Abel and Christina Gerhardt (Rochester, NY: Camden House, forthcoming).
“Transatlantische Afrikabilder (1840-1911) aus postkolonialer Sicht“ [Transatlantic Images of Africa (1840-1911) from a Postcolonial Perspective], in Postkolonialität denken – Spektren germanistischer Forschung in Togo, eds. Obi Assemboni, Anna Babka und Axel Dunker [Thinking the Postcolonial: Spectrums of German Studies Research in Togo] (Vienna: Praesens, 2017), 253-265.
“German is the New Green? Language, Environmentalism, and Cultural Competence,” co-authored with Marc James Mueller, abstract accepted for MLA volume on Foreign Language Teaching and the Environment, edited by Charlotte Melin (forthcoming 2019).
“Pure Hate: The Political Aesthetic of Prussian Blue,” in Simpson and Druxes, 229- 248.
“Provocations for the Future,” in Women in German Yearbook Volume 30 (2014): 225-235.
“Die Toten Hosen, Rammstein, Azad, and Massiv: German Rock and Rap Go Global for Social Justice,” co-authored with Jill E. Twark, in Envisioning Social Justice in Early Twenty-First Century German Culture, edited by Axel Hildebrandt and Jill E. Twark (Rochester NY: Camden House, 2015), 88-118.
“Enlightened Streets: Public Art and International Anti-Violence Campaigns,” in Return to the Street, edited by Sophie Fuggle and Thomas Henri (London: Pavement Books, 2015), 143-168. 6
“Religion, Reason, and Culture in the Age of Goethe,” co-authored with Elisabeth Krimmer, Introduction to Religion, Reason, and Culture in the Age of Goethe (Rochester: Camden House, 2013), 1-18.
“Sacred Maternity and Secular Sons: Hölderlin’s Madonna As Muse,” in Religion, Reason, and Culture in the Age of Goethe (Rochester: Camden House, 2013), 187-206. Awarded GSNA Essay Prize.
“Enlightened Warfare in Eighteenth-Century Germany,” co-authored with Elisabeth Krimmer, Introduction to Enlightened War: German Theories and Cultures of Warfare from Frederick the Great to Clausewitz (Rochester: Camden House, 2011), 3-18.
“Gretchen’s Ghosts: Goethe and the Literature of Refuge,” in Goethe’s Ghost: Reading and the Persistence of Literature, eds. Simon Richter and Richard Block Rochester: Camden House, 2013), 168-185.
“Industrial Humor and Rammstein’s Postmodern Politics,” in Rammstein on Fire: New Perspectives on the Music and Performance, eds. John Littlejohn and Mike Putnam (Jefferson, NC: McFarland Books), 9-29.
“6 December 2007: Indie Film Fuer den unbekannten Hund [For the unknown dog] Seeks Space for Marginalized Male Heroism,” in A New History of German Cinema, eds. Michael Richardson and Jennifer Kapczynski (Rochester: Camden House, 2012). 613-621.
“’Miking’ the New German Street,” in Word on the Street, eds. Elisha Foust and Sophie Fuggle (London: Institute for Germanic and Romance Studies, 2011), 265-83.
“Recoding the Ethics of War in Grimms’ Fairy Tales,” in Enlightened War: German Theories and Cultures of Warfare from Frederick the Great to Clausewitz (Rochester: Camden House, 2011), 151-171.
“Degrees of History in Contemporary Narratives,” in German Literature in a New Century: Trends, Tradition, Transition, eds. Katharina Gerstenberger and Patricia Herminghouse (New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2008), 78-98.
“Cultures of Violence in the New German Street,” in The Meaning of Culture, ed. Martin Kagel (Hanover: Wehrhahn Press, 2009), 217-225.
“The Power of Particularities: Gender and Nation in the Phenomenology of Spirit and The Philosophy of Right,” in Identity and Difference, ed. Phil Grier (Albany: SUNY Press, 2007), 177-200. 7
“Battle Rhymes: Measures of Masculinity,” in Mediating Germany: Popular Culture Between Tradition and Innovation, ed. Gerd Bayer (New Castle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2006), 18-36.
“The Enlightened Eye: Visual Culture in the Age of Goethe,” Introduction, with Evelyn K. Moore, in The Enlightened Eye: Goethe and Visual Culture, 12-22.
“Visions of the Nation: Goethe, Ernst Moritz Arndt, and Karl Friedrich Schinkel,” in The Enlightened Eye: Goethe and Visual Culture, 127-163.
“Retro-Nationalism: Rock Music in the Former German Democratic Republic,” in Rock ‘n Roll and Nationalism: A Multinational Perspective, eds. Mark Yoffe and Andrea Collins (New Castle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2005), 54-80; 154-161.
Reprinted in 2007-2010 Course Reader, University of California, Irvine, Humanities Core Course. Will be assigned reading for approximately 4000 students over a period of three years.
“Born in the Bakschischrepublik?: Rock Made in the GDR,” in Transformations of the New Germany, ed. Ruth Starkman (New York: Palgrave/MacMillan, 2005), 89-111.
“Soundtracks: GDR Music from ‘Revolution’ to ‘Reunification’,” in The Power of Intellectuals in Contemporary Germany, ed. Michael Geyer (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001), 227-248.
“The Syntax of Surveillance: The Language of Silence and Solidarity,” in The Power of Intellectuals in Contemporary Germany, ed. Michael Geyer (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001), 160-182.
“Erica Pedretti,” in Women Writers in German-Speaking Countries, ed. Elke P. Frederiksen and Elizabeth G. Ametsbichler (New York and Westport: Greenwood Press, 1998), 367-373.
“In Citing Violence: Gestus in Brecht, Benjamin, and Kafka,” in Jewish Writers, German Literature: The Uneasy Examples of Nelly Sachs and Walter Benjamin. Timothy Bahti and Marilyn Sibley Fries,eds. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1995), 175-203.
“Letters in Sufferance and Deliverance: The Correspondence of Bettina von Arnim and Karoline von Günderrode,” in Bettina von Arnim: Gender and Politics, ed. Elke P. Frederiksen and Katherine R. Goodman (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1995), 247-277. 8
“Dystopian Socialism: The Postmodern Topography of East German Poetry,” in Heterotopia. Postmodern Utopia and the Body Politic, ed. Tobin Siebers (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1994), 122-148.
“’Wo die Ironie erscheint’: Tieck in den Jahrbücher-Rezensionen” [“’Where Irony Appears’: Tieck in the Journal-Reviews”], in Die “Jahrbücher für wissenschaftliche Kritik”. Hegels Berliner “Gegenakademie”, ed. Christoph Jamme (Stuttgart: Frommann-Holzboog, 1994), 301-320.
“Orchids and the Mother Tongue: Reading Turkish-German Stories,” in The German Mosaic. Cultural and Linguistic Diversity in Society, ed. Carol Blackshire- Belay (New York and Westport: Greenwood Press, 1994), 45-57.
“Entropie, Ästhetik und Ethik im Prenzlauer Berg” [“Entropy, Aesthetics, and Ethics in the Prenzlauer Berg”], in Machtspiele. Literatur und Staatssicherheit, ed. Klaus Michael and Peter Böthig (Leipzig: Reclam Leipzig, 1993), 50-59.
“Die Sprache der Geduld: Produzierendes Denken bei Elke Erb” [“The Language of Patience: Producing Thought in Elke Erb”], in Zwischen gestern und morgen, ed. Ute Brandes (Berlin: Lang, 1992), 263-276.
Articles in Refereed Journals: “’die gewalt’ge Heldenbrust’: Gender and Violence in Goethe’s Iphigenie auf Tauris,” Goethe Yearbook (forthcoming).
“Pegida as a European Far-Right Populist Movement,” Simpson and Druxes, Special Issue of German Politics and Society (Winter 2016), 1-16.
“Mobilizing Meanings: Translocal Identities of the Far Right Web,” in German Politics and Society, Special Issue on “Rhetorics of the Far Right: The Plural of Pegida,” eds. Simpson and Druxes (Winter 2016), 34-53.
“Berlin Without Borders: Urban Anthems in 21st Century Popular Music,” special issue on Berlin, Seminar (November 2015): 301-314.
“Looking Back at Orpheus: Opera and Cultural Integration,” Journal of International Music Education, 31:4 (September 2013): 442-453.
“Reconfiguring Gender Roles in Russian-German Imaginary Families,” Moravian Journal of Film and Literature (Prague), 2.2 (Spring 2011): 5-24.
“Brechtian Specters in Contemporary Fiction,” Brecht Yearbook 29 (2007), 389-404.
9 “Manche Menschen werden Brüder: Popular Music and New Fraternities,” German Politics and Society (Summer 2005): 54-75.
“Germany and Its Discontents: The Skeptiker’s Punk Corrective.” Eds. Chris Lorey and John Plews, Special Issue of Journal of Popular Culture, Comparative Studies in the World’s Civilizations, 34.3 (Winter 2000 [2001]): 129-140.
“Seeing Things: Erica Pedretti’s Valerie oder Das unerzogene Auge,” Monatshefte 85:1 (Spring 1993): 55-70.
“Feminisms in the Fatherland,” Cross Currents 12, ed. Ladislav Matejka (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993): 204-217.
“Theater of Consciousness: The Language of Brecht’s Body Politic,” The Brecht Yearbook 17 (1992): 214-232.
“The Production of Meaning in Jurek Becker’s Schlaflose Tage,” Seminar 27,2 (May 1991): 153-168.
“Revolutionary Reading: The Circulation of Truth in Brecht’s Leben des Galilei,” The Brecht Yearbook 15 (1990): 165-184.
“Freya Klier: With and Without the Wall,” Michigan Feminist Studies (Fall 1990): 68- 74.
“Telling Secrets, Telling Truths: Lessing’s Theory of Language in Ernst und Falk: Gespräche für Freimäurer,” M/MLA 23:2 (Fall 1990): 17-25.
“State of the Art: Alternative Theater in the GDR,” Modern Drama 31:1 (March 1990): 129-138.
“Crossing Bridges and Borders,” Performing Arts Journal 11:1 (May 1988): 39-44.
Invited Chapters/Encyclopedia Database Entries (Edited): “Brecht Sings of Sexual Dependency or Overcoming Opera,” in Journal of Humanity, publication of Nieuwe Vide Artspace Haarlem, The Netherlands. Catalogue to accompany a project about opera/theater and Bertolt Brecht (Winter 2017), .
“Albert Schoenhut,” 9000-words, with images and documents; entry on the German American toymaker; “Immigrant Entrepreneurship: German-American Business Biographies, 1720 to the Present,” vol. 3, edited by Giles R. Hoyt. German Historical Institute, Washington, DC (published August 2015). To be reprinted in full in a catalogue for toy exhibition in Schoenhut’s hometown of Göppingen, Federal Republic of Germany.
10 “Daniel Kehlmann,” The Literary Encyclopedia, eds. Robert Clark, Emory Elliott and Janet Todd. London: The Literary Dictionary Company Limited, August 2007. Also four entries on his major works: Beerholms Vorstellung, Mahlers Zeit, Ich und Kaminski, Der fernste Ort, and Die Vermessung der Welt.
“Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,” The Literary Encyclopaedia, Eds. Robert Clark, Emory Elliott and Janet Todd. London: The Literary Dictionary Company Limited, December 2003.
“Marxist Theories,” in The Feminist Encyclopedia of German Literature, ed. Friederike Eigler and Susanne Kord (New York and Westport: Greenwood Press, 1997), 306-307.
Select Reviews: Silvy Chakallakal, Die Welt in Bildern: Erfahrungen und Evidenz in Friedrich J. Bertuchs Bilderbuch für Kinder. Goethe Yearbook (2017): 299-300.
Susan Buck-Morss, Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009). For Comparative Literature Studies, June 2011.
Krechel, Ursula. Voices from the Bitter Core, trans. Amy Kepple Strawser, in Metamorphoses, ed. Thalia Pandiri, 18:2 (Fall 2010), 261-65.
Maierhofer,Waltraud, Gertrud M. Rösch, and Caroline Bland, eds. Women Against Napoleon: Historical and Fictional Responses to his Rise and Legacy. Frankfurt: Campus Verlag, 2007, in The German Quarterly 83:4 (2010): 508- 09.
Andrew Bowie. Aesthetics and Subjectivity from Kant to Nietzsche. Second Edition. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2003. Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain, 55-56 (2007): 188-94.
Gail K. Hart, Friedrich Schiller: Crime, Aesthetics, and the Poetics of Punishment. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2005. Pacific Coast Philology, 42 (2007), 127-30.
Silke-Marie Weineck’s The Abyss Above: Philosophy and Poetic Madness in Plato, Hölderlin, and Nietzsche (Albany: SUNY Press, 2002), (German Studies Review, Spring 2004).
Lorna Marten’s The Promised Land? Feminist Writing in the Former GDR (Albany: SUNY Press, 2001), The German Quarterly 76.2 (Spring 2003): 257-258. 11
David Farrell Krell’s The Recalcitrant Art, German Quarterly 75.4 (Fall 2002): 460- 461.
Michael Hager’s Deutsch im Berufsalltag, Nectfl Review (Winter 2001).
David B. Dollenmayer et al., Neue Horizonte, Fifth Edition (Introductory German Textbook) Nectfl Review, 49 (2001): 79-80.
Roswitha Skare and Rainer B. Hoppe’s edited volume, Wendezeichen? Neue Sichtweisen auf die Literatur der DDR, in German Quarterly, 73.2 (Spring 2000): 232-233.
Rudy Koshar’s Germany’s Transient Pasts: Preservation and National Memory in the Twentieth Century, in German Quarterly, 73.1 (Winter 2000): 114-16.
Joachim Lehmann’s Die blinde Wissenschaft: Realismus und Realität in der Literaturtheorie der DDR and Dieter Sevin’s Textstrategien in DDR-Prosawerken zwischen Bau und Durchbruch der Berliner Mauer, German Quarterly, 71.1 (Winter 1998): 102-103.
Review article, “Hölderlin, Revisited,” on Uwe Beyer’s Neue Wege zu Hölderlin, Mark Grunert’s Die Poesie des Übergangs. Hölderlins späte Dichtung im Horizont von Friedrich Schlegels Konzept der “Transzentalpoeise”, and Geert Lernout’s The Poet as Thinker: Hölderlin in France, Colloquia Germanica, Band 30 (1997): 251-258.
Michael Schenkel’s Fortschritts- und Modernitätskritik in der DDR-Literatur: Prosatexte der achtziger Jahre, The German Quarterly, 64:9 (Fall 1996): 464- 465.
Peter J. Burgard’s Nietzsche and the Feminine, Michigan Germanic Studies.
Horst Althaus’s Hegel und Die heroischen Jahre. Eine Biographie [Hegel and the Heroic Years. A Biography], The Journal of Modern History, 67:1 (March 1995): 107-109.
Theodore Ziolkowski’s The Institutions of German Romanticism, The Germanic Review LXIX: 2 (Spring 1994): 92-93.
J. Hillis Miller’s Versions of Pygmalion, Literary Research/ Recherche Littéraire, 19 (Winter 1992): 38-39.
Donald Phillip Verene’s Hegel’s Recollection, Modern Language Notes (Winter 1986): 1270-1273. 12
Works in Progress: Monographs in Progress: Play Worlds: Texts and Toys of Model Childhood in Transatlantic Modernity This monograph begins in seventeenth-century Germany, proceeds through an analysis of eighteenth-century pedagogical theory; and then follows these developments into nineteenth-century gendering of play through maternal and paternal parenting roles. The debates about childhood, family, and play extend into the realm of religious orthodoxy, education, and even conversion. The religious discourses morph into an immigration narrative as individuals, ideas, and texts accompany Germans to the New World from the religious communities in the eighteenth to the wave of post-revolutionary exodus in the nineteenth century. The influence is legible in morally motivated discourses about adequate play spaces, the construction and protection of playgrounds, and also in the production of toys. This book carefully considers the extensive influence German theories exerted on transatlantic practices of play, along with the philosophical foundations of pedagogical institutions of early childhood learning (book proposal in circulation.)
The German Colonial Unconscious: Transatlantic Travel and Migration Narratives This monograph approaches comparative migration and post-colonial studies from an historical perspective that opens up new possibilities for understanding pressing contemporary issues of migration, mobility, and globalization. Specifically, it explores German-language sources about labor, the brief period of German colonial expansion, and immigration to Latin America from the mid-19th to the mid-20th centuries.
Select Translations: Kinderkreuzzug. A libretto for an opera by Stefan Hakenberg, to be staged in Berlin, Alaska, and possibly Bozeman, with the help of young musicians, German students, and singers.
Konrad Weiss, “On the Power and Frailty of Utopias,” trans. Frauke E. Lenckos and Patricia Anne Simpson, in Envisioning Eastern Europe, ed. Michael D. Kennedy (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1994), 46-54.
Alev Tekinay, “Du machst dich, Mädchen” (“You’ve Made It, Girl”), Michigan Quarterly Review (Winter 1993), 29-35.
Uwe Kolbe, “Sisyphos,” Cross Currents (May 1986): 241.
Invited Guest Lectures: “Mitbürger, Migranten, Muslime? The Local and Global in German-German 13 Islamophobia,” SSHRC Research Workshop, Toronto (18-19 October 2017).
“Goethes Spielzeuge” [Goethe and Toys, Goethe at Play], invited guest lecture in the public lecture series, Goethe Museum, Schloss Jägerhof, Düsseldorf (17 May 2017).
“Provincial Anxieties: Germans without Borders?” position paper for Midwest Historians Workshop “Doing Global History Locally,” University of Iowa, 28-30 September 2016.
“Berlin Without Borders: Urban Anthems in the 21st Century.” UC Davis, 25 May 2015.
“Goethe in Song.” Lecture-Recital at MSU School of Music. Elizabeth Croy, soprano. 11 February 2015.
“Beispielhafte Bekehrungen: Interkontinentale Kolonialkulturen, 1840-1932,” a lecture on “Exemplary Conversions: Intercontinental Colonial Cultures” to be presented at the conference organized by the Humboldt-Stiftung and international scholars, „Germanistik als Sprach- Kultur- und Geschichtswissenschaft. Der 'neue deutsche (Kolonial)roman' in kulturwissenschaftlicher, interkultureller und postkolonialer Perspektive.“ Université de Lomé, Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines in Lomé, Togo, 12-16 April 2014.
“Race, Religion, and Revolution: German-American Images of Africa, 1840-1932.” Williams College, Williamstown, MA. 19 February 2014.
“Walter Benjamin, Photography, and the Aesthetic of Realism,” University of Mauritius, 17 September 2011.
“Homelands: Rap and the Map of National Identities,” 7-8 June, Moscow. Invited by the Moscow School for Social and Economic Thought, Eurasian Studies Institute, sponsored by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation.
Editorial Workshop, “Word on the Street.” Institute for German and Romance Studies, University of London. London, 10 July 2008.
Film Introduction: Bozeman Film Festival, “The Lives of Others,” 16 October 2007.
“Cultures of Violence in the New Germany,” Invited lecture, University of Georgia Athens, “The Meaning of Culture: German Studies in the 21st Century,” 28-29 March, 2008.
“Money and Markets in Contemporary Germany,” Honors Seminar, April 2006. 14
“German Music and Masculinity,” Auburn University, 15 April 2004.
“The Politics of Turkish-German Culture,” Aspen Pointe (Bozeman, MT), 22 October 2002.
“Retro-Nationalism in the Former German Democratic Republic,” Case Western Reserve University, Max Kade Lecture (Cleveland, Ohio), 3 April 2002.
“Cultural Hyphenation in Turkish-German Literature: The Postmodern Fairy Tale,” Michigan State University, 22 March 2002.
“Music and the Politics of Identity in the Former GDR,” University of Notre Dame, Dept. of History, European Studies Center, 17-18 November 1994.
“Post-Wall Rock: Resistance or Anarchy in the Bundesrepublik?,” Comparative Studies in Social Transformation, University of Michigan, 30 March 1994.
“Playing Dead in J.M.R. Lenz’s Die Freunde machen den Philosophen”, University of Pennsylvania, Max Kade lecture series, 28 January 1993.
“The Politics of Identity in Turkish-German Literature,” University of Michigan, Dearborn, 17 November 1993.
“Staging Dissent in Eastern Europe,” guest lecture at the Theatre Department, U. of Michigan, Flint, February 1990.
Conference Papers: “Third Cinema and the Second World: Solidarity and Socialism in Chilean Documentaries,” presented in panel “Deconstructing the Authentic” (also the organizer) at Visible Evidence XXIV, Buenos Aires, 2-6 August 2017.
“PEGIDA and the Politics of Negation,” Modern Language Association (MLA) Conference, Philadelphia, 5-8 January 2017. The panel, “All About Language: PEGIDA and Opponents,” was part of the Presidential Theme series on “Boundary Conditions.”
“Playthings: Goethe’s Favorite Toys,” paper presented at the German Studies Association Conference (GSA), San Diego, 30 September-2 October 2016.
“The Migration of Modernism: Visual Cultures of Critique in Postwar Argentina,” to be presented at the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) conference, in a series of three panels, “In the shadow of the Axis: hyphenated Germans, Italians, Jewish, and Japanese in post-war Latin America.” New York, May 15 2016.
“Mobilizing Meanings: Translocal Identities of the Far Right Web.” German Studies Association (GSA), Washington, DC. 1-4 October 2015. Revising for the Special Issue of German Politics and Society.
“Immigration, Integration, and the Rights of Citizens: German Colonies in 19th- Century Chile,” paper presented at the annual Congreso Internacional de Americanistas (ICA), 12-17 July 2015.
“Epistemologies of Evil: The Act of Killing and Post-Realist Documentary,” Visible Evidence XXI, New Delhi, 11-14 December 2014.
“The world is within us”: World War II, Mennonite Identity, and Religious Practice in Paraguay,” at the GSA annual conference, 30 September-3 October, 2014.
“Between Travel and Truth: 19th-Century German-Argentine Media and Immigration,” German Studies Association (GSA) conference, Denver, CO (4-6 October 2013).
“Goethe, World Literature, and the Imperial Unconscious,” lecture to be presented at the Goethe Society of India’s conference on comparativism, 27 February-2 March, 2013, Nehru University, New Delhi (withdrawn, due to lack of funding).
“Public Art and International Anti-Violence Campaigns,” sabbatical presentation, MSU. 26 November 2012.
“The “Other” Germany: Cultural Nations and Anti-Fascist Identities in Argentina,” German Studies Association, 6-8 October 2012. Also Panel Organizer, “Intercultural Fantasies: German-speaking Europe and Latin America.”
“Enlightened Streets: Public Art and Anti-Violence Campaigns,” Goldsmiths, London, 27-28 June 2012.
“The Syntax of Desire in Hegel and Goethe,” MLA, Los Angeles, January 2011.
“Internationalizing the Curriculum,” paper presented at Fulbright Alumni Assoc. Conference, International Education Task Force Round Table, report on Title VI UISFL Grant activity, Buenos Aires, 6-10 November 2010.
“Sacred Maternity and Secular Sons: Hölderlin’s Madonna as Muse,” GSA, Oakland, 6-9 October 2010.
“Freud’s Psychoanalytic Cosmopolitanism,” Social Theory Forum VII, April 2010. 16
“Reconfiguring the Aesthetic in Contemporary German Photography,” MLA, Philadelphia, 27-30 December 2009.
“Telling Tokyo Stories,” GSA, Washington, D.C. 6-9 October 2009.
“Crossing Town, Crossing Borders: International Awareness and Community Outreach.” CIBER, Kansas City, 2-4 April 2009.
“Epistemologies of the Playroom,” MLA, San Francisco, 27-30 December 2008.
“Paternity and Play,” Goethe Society of North America Conference, Pittsburgh, 6-9 November 2008.
“Instruments of Violence and Virtue in Lessing and Bodmer,” GSA, St. Paul, 2-5 October 2008.
“Terrors of the Negative,” presented at the MLA, 27-30 December 2007.
“Polke’s Dots: Art in the Foreign-Language Classroom,” MEA/MALT, Belgrade, MT 18-19 October 2007.
“Goethe, Adorno, and the Gender of Refuge,” 4-7 October 2007 GSA. San Diego.
“Hidden Folds: Gottfried Schadow’s ‘Die Prinzessinnengruppe’,” in session “Romancing the Stone” on sculpture and desire, ASECS, Atlanta 2007.
“Entitled to Play? Gender and Games in the 18th Century,” MLA, Philadelphia, 27-30 December 2006.
“Homage to Humor: Rammstein’s Postmodern Politics,” paper presented at 30th Annual GSA conference, Pittsburgh, 28 September-1 October 2006.
“Brechtian Specters,” paper presented at “Brecht and Death” conference of the International Brecht Society, Augsburg, 21-25 July 2006.
“The Erotics of War in Goethe’s ‘Kriegsglück’,” Goethe Society of North America Panel at the annual German Studies Association (GSA) conference, Milwaukee, 29 September- 2 October 2005.
“Edges of Empire: Ceremonial Hatred in Schnitzler’s Der Weg ins Freie, Modern Austrian Literature and Culture Association (MALCA), Missoula, MT, 22-24 April 2005.
“The Gender of Laughter in Lenz’ Die Freunde machen den Philosophen,” 17 International Lenz Society, ASECS, Las Vegas, 28 March-1 April 2005.
“The Power of Particularity,” presented at the Hegel Society of America conference, UCLA, 22-25 October 2004.
“Weaponizing the Sublime: War in Goethe’s Autobiographical Writing,” RMMLA, Boulder CO, September 2004.
“Karoline von Günderrode: On War,” GSA, October 2004, Washington, D.C..
“The Gender of Hope,” GSA, New Orleans, 18-20 September 2003.
“Retro-Nationalism: Rock Music in the Former GDR,” GSA, San Diego, 4-6 October 2002.
“Romantic Jokes: Freud Reads Jean Paul,” at the GSA, San Diego, 4-6 October 2002.
“Rock Music and German Nationalism,” presented at the Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference, Tampere, Finland, 28 June-2 July 2002.
Keynote Session: Paper presented at the Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, session on “Crossing Borders: German Studies in the Global Context” on “The End of Innocence: German Literature and Colonialism,” Lexington, Kentucky, 19-21 April 2002.
“Freud’s Symbolic Aesthetics and the Anxiety of Analysis,” presented at the “Interpretation of Dreams/Dreams of Interpretation” conference, U. of Minnesota, Institute for the Humanities, 4-9 October 2000.
“Goethe and the Ends of Violence,” GSA, Salt Lake City, October 1998.
“Hyphenating German Culture,” Modern Language Association, Division of 20th Century Literature, (MLA), Washington, D.C., December 1996.
“Hatred(s),” 19th- and Early-20th-Century German Literature, “Ceremonial Hatreds in Arthur Schnitzler’s The Road Into the Open.” MLA, Washington, D.C., December 1996.
“Music and the Politics of Identity,” paper presented; co-organizer (with Professor Edward Larkey) of session on “Rock and the Politics of Identity in the Former GDR,” GSA, Chicago, 21-24 September 1995.
“McDeutschland: or ‘You Know, They’re Out of the Shrimp’,” paper on German reception of American corporate culture with attention to cultural translation, presented for panel “Bad Influence: Americans in Germany,” at the American 18 Association of Teachers of German (AATG) meeting, Stanford University, 4-7 August 1995.
“Protective Custody: Crime, Gender, and Germany in Minority Film and Literature,” Post-Projections II, University of Toronto, 9-12 March 1995.
“German Geographics: Marginal Literatures Past and Present,” with Adjai Paulin Oloukpona-Yinnon, Global Partnership presentation, Institute for the Humanities Ann Arbor, 15 April 1994.
“’Deutschland, alte Mutter’: Ideology and Identity in Inge Müller’s Poetry,” MLA, New York, 27-31 December 1992.
“Lyrical Identity and Poetic Geography,” GSA, Minneapolis, 1-4 October 1992.
“The Syntax of Surveillance: Gert Neumann’s Prose,” presented at Chicago Conference on the responsibility of intellectuals, University of Chicago/Goethe-Institute, Chicago, 1-4 May 1992.
“Suspended Sentence: Playing Dead in J.M.R. Lenz’s Die Freunde machen den Philosophen,” ASECS, Seattle, 22-25 April 1992.
“In Citing Violence: Gestus in Brecht, Benjamin, and Kafka,” Conference on the Jewish Diaspora and German Literature, Ann Arbor, 12-14 February 1992.
“The Shipwreck of Language: Hölderlin’s Linguistic Economy,” Lessing Society Meeting, MLA, New Orleans, December1991.
“Where the Truth Lies: Clandestine Language in Gert Neumann’s Prose,” MLA, San Francisco, December 1991.
“The Promise of Consciousness: Brecht’s Reading Material,” International Brecht Symposium, Augsburg, December 1991.
“’Wo Ironie erscheint’: Tieck in den Jahrbücher-Rezensionen,” colloquium on Hegel’s Gegenakademie, Bad Homburg (Federal Republic of Germany), October 1991.
“Surrounded by Silence in the Prose of Gert Neumann,” GSA, Los Angeles, September 1991.
“Science Fiction: Freud’s Case Studies and the Novella,” paper presented at the International Conference on Narrative Literature, Nice (France), June 1991.
“Tragic Thought from Hegel to Nietzsche,” annual conference of the Institute for the History of the Study of European Ideas, Leuven (Belgium), September 1990. 19
Art and the Public in the GDR: panel presentation for opening of GDR art exhibit, U. of Michigan Art Museum, Ann Arbor, February 1990.
“Strategic Suffering in Hrotsvitha von Gandersheim’s Sapientia,” Kalamazoo Medieval Conference, Kalamazoo, MI, May 1990.
“Songs of Experience: Stephan Krawczyk’s Lieder,” MLA, Washington, D.C., December 1989.
“Taking Oaths and Breaking Words in Lenz’s Der Hofmeister,” Midwest MLA (MMLA), Minneapolis, November 1989.
“Narrating the Seen and Unseen: Erica Pedretti’s Valerie oder Das unerzogene Auge,” Northeast MLA (NEMLA), Wilmington, DE, March 1989.
“The Politics of Persuasion: Scenes of Decision in Goethe’s Iphigenie,” MLA meeting of the Goethe Society, MLA, New Orleans, December 1988.
“Independent Theater in the GDR,” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference (April 1988) and GDR Conference, Conway, NH, June 1988.
“Telling Secrets, Telling Truths: Lessing’s Theory of Language in the Gespräche für Freimäurer,” read in absentia at ASECS for Lessing Society, Lexington, KY, April 1988.
“Letters in Sufferance and Deliverance: The Enclosures of Karoline von Günderrode,” MLA, New York, December 1986.
Select Conference and Conference Panel Organizer/Commentator: Panels and Roundtable Co-organizer, with Elisabeth Krimmer: Female Leadership GSA, San Diego, 28 September-2 October 2016 Female Leadership (1): “Reimagining Female Leadership in Politics and Business” Female Leadership (2): “Reimagining Maternity, Matrimony, and Artistic Agency” Female Leadership (3): “Female Leadership in Today’s Academy”
Panel Organizer, “Rhetorics of the Far Right: The Plural of PEGIDA,” with Helga Druxes, GSA 2015. Panel selected as topic of Netzwerk discussion.
Invited Speaker, “Grant-Writing Bootcamp,” July 2014. Organized by Suzanne Christopher, MSU, Health and Human Development.
Invited Speaker, “Grant-Writing Bootcamp,” July 2013. Organized by Suzanne 20 Christopher, MSU, Health and Human Development.
World Languages and Cultures: Outreach Workshop, MSU and Bozeman School District 7, 15 participants; supported by funding from Title VI Grant, 16 April 2011.
Invited Commentator for “Gender and Warfare around 1800,” panel organized by Julie Koser for the GSA, Oakland, CA, October 2010.
Co-organized (with Katharina Gerstenberger and Karen Remmler) Series of Three Panels on postwar Japanese and Western Society for German Studies Association, Milwaukee, WI: September 2009: Germany-Japan 1: “Visualizing Space: Germany and Japan in the Global Imagination” Germany-Japan 2: “Popular Cultures: Germany, Japan, and the Transnational Imaginary” Germany-Japan 3: “History and Memory: The Cases of Germany and Japan”
Organizer, International Studies Workshop, MSU Bozeman, 8 September 2008. Inaugural event to launch Title VI grant project. With Bozeman High School Outreach/engagement component.
Session Organizer and Chair, International Lenz Society panel, ASECS 2007: “Pedagogies: Theory and Practice in 18th-Century Germany.”
Invited Respondent, International Lenz Society Panel, American Society for Eighteenth- Century Studies (ASECS), Montreal, 21-24 April 2006. Invited to organize session in 2007.
Session Organizer: German Literature Before 1900: Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA), Coeur d’Alene, ID, 20-22 October 2005.
Session Organizer: “German Orientalisms in the 18th Century,” ASECS, Boston, 24- 28 March 2004.
Invited Commentator: “Gender and Class Conflict in Early 19th Century Literature” (GSA 2003).
Invited Commentator: Section on “Storm and Stress and Cultural Studies,” GSA, San Diego, 4-6 October 2002.
Co-organizer (with Professor Edward Larkey) of session on “Rock and the Politics of Identity in the Former GDR,” GSA, Chicago, 21-24 September 1995.
Introduced and moderated reading by Emine Sevgi Özdamar, Kemal Kurt, and Alev Tekinay, for “US/German Minority Discourse,” Deutsches Haus/New York University, 13 21 October 1995.
Organizer of J.M.R. Lenz Circle/Seminar: “Absolute Power and Absolute Virtue. Gendered Models of Drama in the Storm and Stress,” ASECS, Providence, RI, 23-26 April 1993.
Co-organizer, “Utopian Revisions: Nationalism and Civil Society in Eastern Europe,” international conference sponsored by the Institute of the Humanities; respondent to papers by Konrad Weiss and Richard Wagner (Ann Arbor, 29-30 October 1992).
Co-organizer and Moderator: Gegenwartsbewältigung: Coming to Terms with the Present,” interdisciplinary conference on the GDR after the “Wende” University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, October 1990)=.
Other Honors, Commissions, Awards, and Publications: 2016: Reading, Las Puertas art space, Albuquerque, NM. Poetry reading to accompany performance of arias from Orfeo for mezzo-soprano and piano, Tara Venditti (voice). 27 November 2016. 2012: Publication of three poems in Literary Mama, under the title: “How to Waltz in Six Easy Steps.” 2008: Librettist and dramaturgy for new opera, Schau nicht zurück, Orfeo! Commissioned by the Bundesamt für Migration und Flüchtlinge and Internationales Kammermusik-Festival, Nürnberg. Choruses for the 3-act opera were written in conjunction with a school integration project in Nürnberg, Schweinfurt, and Bamberg. Approximately 150 pupils, ages 10-16, participated in workshops in March 2009, and their work was incorporated into the final libretto. The opera premiered at the Internationale Gluck-Festspiele, July 2010. 2009: Researcher, Solving for X: How Numbers Matter in the Fight for Human Rights, dir. Theo Lipfert. Conducted research on human rights violations in Kosovo, Guatemala, and Liberia. See Lehrer Newshour of 25 March 2011, for first major reference. 2007: Acting Credit: “Certain Green,” a film by Theo Lipfert, winner of the Gold Medal and Director’s Choice Award at Park City Film Music Festival. 2002: Recipient, as member of Kenyon College Senate (2001-02) of The Margaret C. Curry, R.N-Helen Ann Campbell, R.N. Award. 2002: Short Story, “Flamingo in Berlin,” appeared in Wandler: Zeitschrift für Literatur, Nr. 29 (Winter 2001/02): 120-121. 2000: “Cheap Wine” and “Orpheus: Vacant” (poems), Traffic Report, Summer 2000. 1998: Poem, “Stain” exhibited with painting by Suzan Woodruff in her solo show “Tarantella,” University of Arizona Art Museum, November 1998. 1998: “Voices, Vegetables,” poem published in Traffic Report, published by 18th Street Arts Complex, Santa Monica, CA. 1998: Invited Participant in Poetry Reading, The Ear Inn, New York City, 22 February (organized by Martha Rhodes, FourWay Books). 1997: One-month poetry residency and fellowship at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, February. 1988: Phoenix Poetry Prize, awarded annually to local poets in New Haven (four winners that year). Reading, May 1988.
Teaching Experience: University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Spring 2017: MODL 498/898: “Zirkuskulturen” (Circus Cultures) Fall 2017: GERM 952: “Natur, Umwelt und Kultur im Anthropozän” (Nature, Environment, and Culture in the Anthropocene)
Online: ML 100: Introduction to World Cultures (six-week summer session, 18 enrolled students)
Adult Education: Wonderlust Course, “Cultures of Hate: The Sites and Sounds of Europe’s Radical Right,” September-October, 2014.
Undergraduate Curriculum: This list represents a selection of new and revised courses. For a complete list, contact the candidate.
Montana State University: Select Spring 2014: Course Coordinator, ML 100: Introduction to World Cultures. Added two modules to the team-taught curriculum: “The Arabic-Speaking World” and “Global Perspectives on Indigenous Peoples.” Also Spring 2013. Fall 2012: German 360: German Myths: The Lorelei, Faust, and Vampires. Spring 2011: German 270: Introduction to German Studies (taught in English): Course is designed to introduce students to the history and culture of philosophy, theory, and literature in German-speaking Europe from the Enlightenment to the European Union. Spring 2011: GRMN 450: German Comedy, German Humor. Advanced language and culture seminar on the tradition of German humor, satire, and comedy. Fall 2010: German Myths: The Lorelei, Faust, and Vampires. Spring 2009: Introduction to Issues in International Studies, pilot course taught in conjunction with the Title VI grant. Fall 2008: MLG 360 (Faust Myth); Women’s Studies 201 (Feminist Theories). Spring 2008: Texts and Critics; MLG 320: 20th-Century Literature. Fall 2007: MLG 315 (Literature before 1900) and Women’s Studies 201 (Introduction to Feminist Theories and Methodologies). Spring 2007: Capstone Seminar, “Violence in Contemporary Germany.” Fall 2006: MLG 102 and the Faust Myth. Spring 2005: Capstone Seminar: “Historical Narratives, Contemporary Identities”: 23 MLG 301: History of German Culture and Civilization Fall 2004: MLG 219, 220: MLG 360 (Faust in Germany, revised to include considerations of the Faust myth in England, Germany, Russia, France, and the USA from the Middle Ages to the Present). Spring 2004: Course release, with continued administrative responsibilities. Fall 2003: German 351: Advanced Conversation, Composition, and Grammar II 219 (Intermediate German) and 220 (German Language and Culture). Spring 2003: History of German Culture and Civilization (301); German 220. Fall 2002: German 101 (two sections), Introductory German; 219 Intermediate German.
Graduate seminars: “19th Century Literature” (University of Utah, Spring 1998); “Late 19th-Century Literature and Thought” (Ann Arbor, Spring 1999): “Berlin as Cultural Construction Site” (Ann Arbor, Comparative Literature, Fall 1995); Language and Technology (on Heidegger’s theory of technology and contemporary science fiction, Ann Arbor, Comparative Literature, Winter 1995); Literature and Politics of 19th-Century German Social Theory (co-taught with Kathleen Canning, Department of History, Ann Arbor, Fall 1994): Writing Home: The Geography of German Cultural Identity (with Adjai Paulin Oloukpona-Yinnon, Global Partnership, Institute for the Humanities, Ann Arbor, Winter 1994): and assorted seminars on literary theory from the 18th century to the present; psychoanalysis and literary theory, offered both in the Program for Comparative Literature and Germanic Languages and Literatures.
Undergraduate seminars: Theory and Theater of Bertolt Brecht; Violence and Civilization; Multicultural Germany?; New German Cinema; Uncanny Love; Survey of German Literature from 1720-1968 (Kenyon College); Literature and the History of Ideas, 1750- 1920; German Cultural History (University of Utah); German Fairy Tales (Hunter College); Postwar German Literature and Culture; Narratives from 1900-1950; Honors Concentration Proseminar on “Culture and the Critique of Violence” (first German Studies proseminar in Honors Program, Fall 1995); Honors proseminar on the J.M.R. Lenz Tradition (including works by J.M.R. Lenz, Georg Büchner, Bertolt Brecht, and Peter Schneider); German Women Writers (Winter 1992); Diversity in German Culture (Fall 1991); Politics and Literature (Fall 1990); Survey from Middle Ages through the Enlightenment (Fall 1989); “Writing the Other: Female Figuration in Romanticism” (Ann Arbor).
German language courses: All levels of grammar, conversation, and composition, using modified communicative approach, enhanced cultural content.
Yale College Seminar, Instructor, 2 semesters: “Structuralism and the Rise of Deconstruction” (with Roger Blood, Spring 1988): “Germanies: Cultural Myths/Political Realities” (with Eric Denton, Fall 1985); and Teaching Assistant for Peter Demetz, Introduction to Literary Theory (Spring 1985).
24 Teaching and Research Interests: German Language and Culture (all levels); International Cultural Studies; Environmental Humanities; Contemporary German Culture; Popular Culture; European and German Classicism and Romanticism; Literary Theory and Cultural Studies.
Languages: German, near-native fluency; intermediate; Spanish, C1; French; Middle High German, reading knowledge; Latin, reading knowledge.
Administrative Experience: National and International Service 2018-22; Co-editor, Goethe Yearbook 2015-: Editorial Board, Book Series (Boydell & Brewer), “Women and Gender in German Studies,” Series Editor, Elisabeth Krimmer. 2011-2016: Editorial Board, Women in German Yearbook 2008-11: Co-editor, Women in German Yearbook 2007-10: Appointed Executive Secretary of the Goethe Society of North America; responsibilities include conference planning for the GSNA as an Affiliate Organization of the Modern Language Association, the German Studies Association, and the American Association for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Also organizer of some nominating committees and special elections; Voting member of the GSNA Board; responsible for Board meetings at conferences. 2007-: Editorial Board, Women in German Yearbook 2007-10: Elected member of Executive Board of the German Studies Association 2007-10: Delegate to the Assembly, Modern Language Association, Division of 18th- and Early 19th-Century German Literature
University of Nebraska, Lincoln 2016-2017: Chosen to participate in Departmental Executive Officer Workshops, Big Ten Academic Alliance: Chicago, 5-8 October 2016; ongoing 2017
Montana State University, Bozeman 2015: Chosen to participate in workshop, Developing Excellence in Academic Leadership (DEAL) 2015: Chair, MLL Promotion and Tenure Committee 2015: Elected Outside Member, School of Music Promotion and Tenure Committee 2014: Member of Committee, Freshman Global Experience Initiative 2009-11: Member, University Promotion and Tenure Committee 2003-14: German Section Coordinator: Activities include hosting 25 DAAD West-coast representative Hanni Geist for student, faculty, and staff information sessions (March 2014); co-sponsoring campus visit for Cuban human rights activist (April 2014); German Table, Oktoberfest Fundraiser, MSU Library Display Case, curated photographs (Kelly Gorham) and documents and memorabilia from the period of German unification (Oct. 2010). 2012: Participant in Training for Association of Departments of Foreign Languages (ADFL) Chairs 2008: Outreach: International Awareness Class, Middle School 2008-09: Chair, German Search Committee 2008-09: Mandarin Search Committee 2008: Japanese Search Committee 2007-08: College Promotion and Tenure Committee 2007: German Search, Committee Chair 2007: Member, Carah Ronan’s Masters Thesis committee, Film and Natural History: “Sherpa, Sherpa” 2007: Office of International Programs, Fulbright Interview Committee Study Abroad Interview Committee 2006-07: French Search Committee 2006-11: Women’s and Gender Studies Minor Committee Film Studies Minor Reading Group Member Steering Committee, Women’s Faculty Caucus 2003-07 Faculty Advisor, German Club 2004-05: Assessment Committee, Chair 2005-06: UTEC 2003-04: Spanish Search Committee 2002-03: Library Representative
Kenyon College 2001-02: Co-director, KILM Program (Kenyon Intensive Language Model); trained and appointed Apprentice Teachers in methods and innovative techniques of peer teaching at the undergraduate level. 2001-02: Member of the Senate 2001-02: Co-Director, Kenyon Intensive Language Model. Responsibilities include training Apprentice Teachers (AT); observing AT classes; organizing training workshops for colleagues, Language Fellows, and ATs. 1999-2000: Advisory Board, Program in Women’s and Gender Studies
University of Michigan 1995: Honors Program Advisor 1995: Graduate Advisor, Dept. of Germanic Languages & Literatures 1994-95: Member, Departmental Search Committee 1994: Acting Honors Program Advisor 1994-95: Member, Non-Faculty Practices Committee 1993-94: Member, German 2000, Departmental German Studies Advisory 26 Committee 1993-94: Member, Departmental Executive Committee 1993-94: Member, Founding Committee, Advanced Studies Center of the International Institute, University of Michigan 1993-94: Member, Steering Committee, Advanced Studies Center, International Institute 1993: LS&A Nominating Committee 1991-92: Member Non-Faculty Practices and Curriculum Committees, German Department 1990-92: Program Committee, Comparative Literature 1991-92: Senate Assembly 1990-91: Member, Departmental Executive Committee
Yale University 1986: Assistant to Director, Yale Alumni Fund 1984-85: Member Board of Directors, Yale Alumni Publications 1983-85: Graduate Student Representative on AYA (Association of Yale Alumni) Committee on the Graduate and Professional Schools 1982-83: Vice President, Graduate-Professional Student Senate and Editor of YGP, graduate-professional student newspaper 1982-83: Coordinator, Graduate Women’s Association
Professional Memberships and Affiliations: Latin American Studies Association (LASA); Internationale Vereinigung der Germanisten (IVG); American Association of Teachers of German (AATG); German Studies Association (GSA); Goethe Society of North America (GSNA); Women in German (WIG); Modern Language Association (MLA).
*Confidential dossier available upon request from: Yale University / Graduate School Dossier Service / P.O. Box 208236 Yale Station /New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8236: tel. 203.432.8850
Current References:
1. Dr. Chad M. Gasta Chair, Department of World Languages and Cultures Professor of Hispanic Studies Director, International Studies Program Co-Director, Languages and Cultures for Professions Iowa State University 3201 Pearson Hall Ames, IA 50014 27 Phone: (515) 294-0918 [email protected] language.iastate.edu/gasta
2. Dr. Elisabeth Krimmer Professor of German Department Chair of German and Russian University of California, Davis 213 Sproul Hall
Department Phone: 530-752-1219 Email: [email protected]
3. Dr. Evelyn K. Moore, Professor Emerita, Kenyon College Residence: PO Box 359 Beverly Shores, IN 46301
Email: [email protected] Phone: 219-879-3360
4. Dr. Helga Druxes Professor of German 144 Hollander Hall Dept. of German and Russian Williams College 85 Mission Park Drive Williamstown, MA 01267 Office: 413- 597-3316 Home: 802-447-7002 Fax: 413-597-3316 [email protected]