Dr. Jennifer Askey Assistant Professor of German Dissertation Area of Emphasis Publications Conferences (selected) Courses Taught Interests	Contact: jaskey@ksu.edu Eisenhower Hall 127 (785) 532-1925 Education: Ph.D. 2003, Germanic Languages & Literatures Washington University in St. Louis M.A. 1996, Germanic Languages & Literatures Washington University in St. Louis B.A. 1993, Political Economy and German Newcomb College of Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
Dissertation “ Reading as Women, Reading as Patriots: Nationalism, popular literature, and girls’ education in Wilhelminian Germany” Dissertation Director: Dr. C. Lynne Tatlock Area of Emphasis 19th-century children’s and adolescent literature, literature by women, post-WWII German-Jewish literature. Top Publications Forthcoming, “Growing into a Nation: Queen Luise and the Lessons of Nationalism in Adolescent Fiction for Girls” in Women Against Napoleon, Eds. Waltraud Maierhofer and Gertrud Roesch. “I Read it Secretly: Clara Viebig’s Struggle with Naturalism.” Excavatio. 15.3-4 (2001). “Authority and Community in Theodor Storm’s Draußen im Heidedorf. Examining the Narrator and the Sexton.” Seminar. A Journal of Germanic Studies. 35.1 (1999) Top Conferences (selected) Upcoming, Organizer and Moderator, “Vor dem Erwachen: Conceptions of Childhood and Young Womanhood, 1700-1900,” to be presented at AATG/ACTFL National Convention, Nashville, November 2006. Top Courses Taught German language at all levels German Cultural Studies Intro to German Literature: Literatur der Kindheit (2006) Graduate Seminar: Gender and Nation in 19 th-century Germany (2006) Top Other Interests Steering Committee, Women in German, 2005-2008 Top