Curriculum Vitae PATRICIA ANNE SIMPSON 139 N. 11Th St. Apt. 501 Lincoln, Nebraska Permanent
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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,