Dissertation
Title: "Wilhelm Raabe's Der Hungerpastor and Charles Dickens's David Copperfield: An Intertextual Study of Two 'Bildungsromane'."
Supervisor: Charles Genno
Outside Reader: Jeffrey L. Sammons, Yale University
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Publications
Books:
"Representation, Subversion, and Eugenics in Günter Grass’s The Tin Drum.” Rochester, N.Y.: Camden House, 2004, 192 pages. Reviewed in The German Quarterly (Spring 2005): 254-55 and German Studies Review 28.2 (2005): 455-56.
"Wilhelm Raabe's Der Hungerpastor and Charles Dickens's David Copperfield: Intertextuality of Two 'Bildungsromane'." North American Studies in Nineteenth-Century German Literature. N.Y., Berlin, Vienna: Peter Lang, 1997, 191 pages. General Editor: Jeffrey L. Sammons. Reviewed in the Jahrbuch der Raabe-Gesellschaft 1998, 142-47.
Refereed Journal Articles:
“Freezing Sacred Man: Myth, Philosophy, and Medicine’s Practice of ‘Curing’ Undesirables,” in preparation for Literature and Medicine.
“Wandering in the Field of Lethe: A Heideggerian Reading of W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz,” forthcoming in Gegenwartsliteratur: Ein Germanistisches Jahrbuch, ed. P.M. Lützeler.
“Orientalizing Germany: Cultural Hybridity in Rafik Schami’s Die Sehnsucht der Schwalbe and Sieben Doppelgänger.” Seminar 41:3 (September 2005): 275-88.
“Brecht’s Clowns and the Nazis’ Officialization of Popular Culture.” Communications vol. 32 (June 2003): 62-67.
“On the Awful German Fairy Tale: Breaking Taboos in Representations of Nazi Euthanasia and the Holocaust in Günter Grass's Die Blechtrommel, Edgar Hilsenrath's Der Nazi & der Friseur, and Anselm Kiefer's Visual Art.” The German Quarterly vol. 75.4 (Fall 2002): 422-439.
“Translating a Greek Myth: Christa Wolf's Medea in a Contemporary Context.”Neophilologus 85 (2001): 415-428.
"Arno Schmidts Das steinerne Herz und Wilhelm Hauffs Das kalte Herz, oder: wie ein biedermeierliches Märchen gegen den Strich gekämmt wird." Der Bargfelder Bote (edition text + kritik, February 2000):
3-17.
"Into the Heart of Darkness: Switzerland, Hitler, Mobutu and Joseph Conrad in Urs Widmer's novel
Im Kongo." The German Quarterly 71.4 (Fall 1998): 329-342.
"The Boy with the Old Face: Thomas Hardy's Antibildungsroman Jude the Obscure and Wilhelm Raabe's Bildungsroman Prinzessin Fisch." German Studies Review XXI.2 (May 1998): 221-240.
"Sophie von La Roche's Geschichte des Fräuleins von Sternheim as an Answer to Samuel Richardson's Clarissa." Lessing Yearbook 29 (1997): 87-105.
Book Chapters:
“World-historical Visions in Grass’s Der Butt and other Novels of Magic Realism,” in preparation for volume The Cambridge Companion to Günter Grass, ed. Stuart Taberner, Cambridge UP.
“Blasphemy and Sacrilege in the Novel of Magic Realism: Grass, Bulgakov, and Rushdie,”forthcoming in: Negotiating the Sacred II: Blasphemy and Sacrilege in the Arts, ANU E Press.
„Grenzgänge zwischen den Kulturen im Werk Rafik Schamis und Emine Sevgi Özdamars Adam,” forthcoming in: Jens; Hahn, Hans-Joachim; Puchalski, Lucjan; Swiatlowska, Irena (eds.): Transitraum Deutsch. Literatur und Kultur im transnationalen Zeitalter. Wroclaw: ATUT
“Teaching Race in Günter Grass’s The Tin Drum,” forthcoming in the MLA series Teaching World Literature, volume on “Teaching The Tin Drum,” ed. Monika Shafi.
“Send in the Clowns: Carnivalizing the Heil-Hitler Salute in German Visual Culture,” in
The Text as Spectacle: Visual Culture in Twentieth-Century Germany, ed. Gail Finney, (Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2006), 235-48.
"Holocaust Satire im Exil: Soma Morgensterns Die Blutsäule und Edgar Hilsenraths Der Nazi & der Friseur"in Hitler im Visier, ed. Victoria Hertling, Wulf Koepke, Jörg Thuneke (Wuppertal: Arco, 2004), 125-40.
"Adolf Muschg's Der Rote Ritter and Switzerland's Return to the Middle Ages." Medieval German Voices in the 21st Century, Ed. Albrecht Classen (Amsterdam: Rodopi Press, 2000), 211-226.
"Robert Schindel's Novel Gebürtig in a Postmodern Context" in Towards the Millennium: The Austrian Novel 1971-96, Ed. Gerald Chapple (Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag, 2000), 219-241.
"On Despotic Mothers and Dethroned Patriarchs: Barbara Frischmuth's Über die Verhältnisse and Robert Menasse’s Selige Zeiten, brüchige Welt" in Barbara Frischmuth in a Contemporary Context, Ed. Renate Posthofen (Riverside: Ariadne Press, 1999), 203-223.
"The Paradox of the European Union and Postmodern Literature in Germany and Austria" in The New Europe at the Crossroads, vol. 1, Ed. U. Beitter (New York & Bern: Peter Lang, 1999), 1-15.
"The Fragmentation of Totality in Robert Menasse’s Selige Zeiten, brüchige Welt" in Transforming the Centre, Eroding the Margins, Ed. Dagmar Lorenz and Renate Posthofen (Columbia, SC: Camden House, 1998), 215-226.
"Die deutsche Wiedervereinigung und der Monolog in Die Birnen von Ribbeck von Friedrich Christian Delius" in Schreiben im heutigen Deutschland: Fragen an die Vergangenheit, Ed. U. Beitter (New York and Bern: Peter Lang, 1998), 67-83.
Fiction:
Published Poetry and Prose:
Poems: “Im Wald”, “am vierten juli”, “Zwischenruf,” in: Trans-Lit 2: The Journal of the Society for Contemporary American Literature in German, XII/2, Fall 2006, 93-4.
Prose: “Wie ich fast Amerikaner wurde (Auszug),” in: Trans-Lit 2: The Journal of the Society for Contemporary American Literature in German, XII, 2006, 46-51.
Poem: “Blush of Milkweed,” in: Prairie Poetry, an online journal, February issue, viewable at http://www.prairiepoetry.org/poetry04/index0204.html.
Short Story Ballymore. In Trans-Lit: The Journal of the Society for Contemporary American Literature in German XI 1&2, Sommer & Winter 2002, 61-66.
Poem: “Sie sagte mir ihr Name sei Jerrilynn,” in Trans-Lit: The Journal of the Society for Contemporary American Literature in German, X, 1&2, Summer/Winter 2001, 8.
Prose essay: "Aus Fabians Kindheit im norddeutschen Kurort" in Trans-Lit: The Journal of the Society for Contemporary American Literature in German, X, 1 & 2, Winter/Summer 2000,9-17.
Poems: "Der grüne Buddha," "Pisang - Malaiische Bananen," "Die Kakerlake," "Die Harley Dudes," and "Kansas" in Trans-Lit: The Journal of the Society for Contemporary American Literature in German, IX, 4, Winter 1999, 18.
Poem: "Kalifornien im März 1999" in Trans-Lit: The Journal of the Society for Contemporary American Literature in German, VIII, 3, Sommer 1999, 33.
Prose essay: "Ansichten aus der Atlasritze Amerikas" in Trans-Lit: The Journal of the Society for Contemporary American Literature in German, VII, 2, Winter 1998, 40.
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Book Reviews
“Zwischen Utopia und neuer Welt: Die USA als Imaginationsraum in Arno Schmidts Erzählwerk,“ Stefan Höppner, Ergon 2005, forthcoming in IRAS, Internet Review Arno Schmidt.
“Confronting the Good Death: Nazi Euthanasia on Trial, 1945-1953,“ Michael S. Bryant, U of Colorado P 2005, forthcoming in Human Rights Review.
“Alice Schmidt Tagebuch aus dem Jahr 1954“ by Alice Schmidt, Suhrkampf Verlag, 2004. Review for IRAS, Internet Review Arno Schmidt.
“Changing Europe: Identities, Nations, and Citizens,”ed. David Dunkerley, Lesley Hodgson, Stanislaw Konopacki, Tony Spybey, Andrew Thompson, Routledge 2002. Journal of Contemporary European Studies, vol. 11.2 (2003), 292.
“Der männliche Habitus,” ed. Holger Brandes, Leske und Budrich 2001. Debatte. Review of Contemporary German Affairs, vol. 11.2 (2003), 216f..
“Starker Toback, voller Glockenklang: Zehn Studien zum Werk Arno Schmidts,”ed. Jörg Drews and Doris Plöschberger, Aisthesis Verlag, 2001, in IRAS, Internet Review Arno Schmidt.
"Richard Wagner und die Juden," ed. by Dieter Borchmeyer, Ami Maayani, and Susanne Vill, Metzler Verlag, 2000. German Studies Review XXV.2 (May 2002): 394-395.
"Socialist Darwinism: Evolution in German Socialist Thought from Marx to Bernstein," by Richard Weikert, International Scholars Publications, 1999. Reviewed for German Studies Review XXV.1 (February 2002):131-133.
"Friedrich Gerstäcker: Struktur und Gehalt," by Anton Zangerl, Peter Lang, 1999. Reviewed for German Studies Review XXIV.1 (February 2001): 170-172.
"When I Was A German: An Englishwoman in Nazi Germany" by Christabel Bielenberg, introduced by Klemens von Klemperer, University of Nebraska Press, 1998. Reviewed for Post-Identity, vol. 3.1(summer 2001): 100-103.
"Ideology, Mimesis, Fantasy" by Jeffrey L. Sammons, University of North Carolina Press, 1998. Reviewed for German Studies Review XXIII.1 (Feb. 2000): 136-137.
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Courses Taught
Undergraduate-level Courses at KSU:
- German 1 through 4 (first two years of German)
- German Readings: Border Crossings in German Culture
- German History of the 20th Century
- European Literature in Translation
- German Culture and Civilization
- German Literature in Translation
- Advanced German Conversation
- German Composition
- Business German
- Introduction to 19th Century German Literature
- Introduction to 20th Century German Literature
- From Fascism to Multiculturalism: A Survey of German Culture in the Twentieth Century
- Italian 1 through 4 (first two years of Italian)
- Italian for Students of Architecture
- Italian for Travellers
Graduate-level Courses at KSU:
- Transitraum Eurocity: The Migrant in Contemporary German Fiction (Spring 07)
- Der Außenseiter in der deutschen Literatur des 19. Jahrhunderts
- War and Remembrance
- Race, Film, and Fiction
- The Novel of Magic Realism: From Grimmelshausen to Rushdie
- Traveling in German Culture: 18th to 20th Century
- German Literature and Culture in Second Language Acquisition
- German History and Culture through Film
- Paradigms of Literary and Cultural Theory
- German Fiction into Film
- The Grimm Aftermath: Folk Culture and Nazi Germany in German Literature
- The Contemporary German Novel
- German Literature and the Holocaust
- Women in German Literature from the 18th to the 20th Century
- German Realism: Raabe, Fontane, Storm
- German Romanticism
Independent Study Courses/Tutorials at KSU:
- Bakhtin in 20th Century German Culture
- German-Jewish Writing in the Bukowina (thesis project)
- Christa Wolf and the Rewriting of Patriachal Myths
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Interests
- academic: German culture and literature; comparative literature;
- Italian, French, and most recently Persian; culture and history of the Middle East with a specific focus on Iran and Afghanistan; creative writing
- personal: my family, world travel, and the great outdoors
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