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Education

1987-90 Ph.D., Department of Germanic Languages, University of Texas at Austin (December 1990). Major fields of concentration: 20th-century prose, literary theory, Age of Goethe, 18th to 20th-century aesthetics and philosophy.

1983-84 M.A., Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Oregon in Eugene. Fields: Storm and Stress, Kafka.

1975-81 Staatsexamen (German M.A. in German and American Literature), Universität Tübingen / FRG

Professional Experience

May 2008-Present, Professor in the Department of German and Scandinavian at the University of Oregon in Eugene.

Sep 1999-May 2008, Associate Professor in the Department of German and Scandinavian at the University of Oregon in Eugene.

Sep 1996-Sep 1999, Assistant Professor in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Oregon in Eugene.

Aug 1992-Aug 1996, Assistant Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg.

Honors and Awards

2004-2008 Rippey Innovative Teaching Award

Spring 2003 Finalist, Best Essay in German Studies Review

Spring 1989 Robert T. Clark Award: Most Distinguished Graduate Student Essay on Literary Criticism. Department of Germanic Languages, UT-Austin.

Publications

Books

Published

Der Kalte Krieg in der Literaturkritik: Der Fall Martin Walser. New York: Peter Lang, 1992.

Accepted

"Narcissism and Paranoia in the Age of Goethe.” Manuscript (84 000 words) accepted pending revisions by U Delaware Press in October 2006.

Articles

"Martin Walser und der Sinn des Lesens: Zur Ästhetik von Tod eines Kritikers." Gegenwartsliteratur 2 (2003). 311-336.

"The Presence of the Past: Martin Walser on Memoirs and Memorials." German Studies Review 25 (2002): 1-22.

"Self-Perfection - Narcissism - Paranoia: Ludwig Tieck's Der blonde Eckbert." Colloquia Germanica 34.3/4 (2001): 237-255.

"Tracing the Freudian Subject: Paranoia, Gender, and Bourgeois Aesthetics in Goethe's Torquato Tasso." Seminar 36.3 (2000): 289-309.

"Narcissism and Male Desire in Sturm und Drang-Drama: Johann Anton Leisewitz's Julius von Tarent." Lessing Yearbook 31 (1999): 91-109.

"History, Ideology, and False Consciousness in Ödön von Horváth's 'Das Fräulein wird bekehrt.'" German Studies Review 20.3 (1997): 305-321.

"Love, Narcissism, and History in Heinrich Böll's Das Brot der frühen Jahre and Ansichten eines Clowns." Seminar 33.2 (1997): 149-163.

"Between Self-Assertion and Self-Denial: Gender and Ideology in Eighteenth-Century Domestic Tragedy." Lessing Yearbook 27 (1995): 39-62.

"Copying Kafka's Signature: Martin Walser's Die Verteidigung der Kindheit." The Germanic Review 69.2 (1994): 79-91. Reprint in: Contemporary Literary Criticism 183 (2004).

"Dorle und Wolf diesseits und jenseits des Atlantik: Zur Rezeption der deutsch-deutschen Novelle in den Vereinigten Staaten und der Bundesrepublik." Colloquia Germanica 26.4 (1993): 337-355.

Book Chapters

"Kafka-Metamorphosen: Martin Walsers frühe Erzählungen und ihre Folgen." Seelenarbeit an Deutschland. Eds. Stuart Parkes and Fritz Wefelmeyer. New York: Rodopi, 2004. 11-33.

“Colonising the Bourgeois Subject: Self and Other in Sturm-und-Drang Drama.” Body Dialectics in the Age of Goethe. Eds. Holger Pausch and Marianne Henn. New York: Rodopi, 2003. 269-91.

"Neukoloniale Herrschaft und postkoloniales Selbstbewußtsein: Martin Walsers Variationen eines Würgegriffs." Schriftsteller und Dritte Welt. Studien zum postkolonialen Blick. Ed. Paul Michael Lützeler. Tübingen: Stauffenburg, 1998. 109-129.

"Das Ich, der finstere Despot: Nero läßt grüßen oder Selbstporträt des Künstlers als Kaiser." Leseerfahrungen mit Martin Walser. Eds. Heike Doane and Gertrud B. Pickar. Munich: Fink Verlag, 1995. 217-230.

"German Unification as Utopia: Martin Walser's Schiller." New Critical Perspectives on Martin Walser. Ed. Frank Pilipp. Columbia, S.C.: Camden House, 1994. 106-119.

Translation

“Experiences While Drafting a Sunday Speech,“ introduction to and translation of Martin Walser, "Erfahrungen beim Verfassen einer Sonntagsrede" (Frankfurt/M: Suhrkamp, 1998). Dimension (2) 7.2/3 (2005): 169-181.

Encyclopedia

Articles Invited contribution to The Literary Encyclopedia and Literary Dictionary [http://www.litencyc.com] on J.W. Goethe’s Götz von Berlichingen. October 2005.

Invited contribution to The Literary Encyclopedia and Literary Dictionary on J.W. Goethe’s Torquato Tasso. October 2005.

Textbooks

1992 Lernexpress II. A workbook for a BBC Language series. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt, 1992.

1987 Co-author of Deutsch Direkt! A first-year German textbook. Saint Paul, MN: EMC, 1987.

Book Reviews

“Matthias Lorenz. ‘Auschwitz drängt uns alle auf einen Fleck’: Judendarstellung und Auschwitzdiskurs bei Martin Walser. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2005.” Gegenwartsliteratur 5 (2006).

“Hill, David. Ed. Literature of the Sturm und Drang. The Camden House History of German Literature Vol. 6. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2003.” German Quarterly 77.4 (2004): 496-97.

“Jablkowska, Joanna. Zwischen Heimat und Nation — Das deutsche Paradigma? Zu Martin Walser. Tübingen, Germany: Stauffenburg, 2001.” Gegenwartsliteratur 3 (2004): 323-325.

"Richard T. Gray, Stations of the Divided Subject: Contestation and Ideological Legitimation in German Bourgeois Literature, 1770-1914." Germanic Notes and Review 28.1 (Spring 1997) 78-80.

"Peter Uwe Hohendahl, Prismatic Thought. Theodor W. Adorno." Seminar 33.1 (1997): 87-89.

"Angelika Führich, Aufbrüche des Weiblichen im Drama der Weimarer Republik." Seminar 32.1 (1996): 83-85.

"Frigga Haug, Beyond Female Masochism. Memory-Work and Politics." Germanic Notes and Reviews 25.2 (1994): 23.

"David Roberts, Art and Enlightenment: Aesthetic Theory after Adorno." German Studies Review 26.2 (May 1993): 392-394.

Work in Progress

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Grants Awarded

Spring 2006 DAAD Travel Grant for a Research Visit in Germany in Spring 2007 on “What is Human(e)? Eighteenth-Century Humanism and Today’s Bio-Ethical Challenges.

Summer 1997 New Faculty Development Grant.

Spring 1994 Arts and Sciences Travel Grant, VPI & SU: "Between Self-Assertion and Self-Denial: Gender Representations of the German Middle Class."

Summer 1989 Forschungsstipendium der Deutschen Schillergesellschaft, Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach a.N.

Presentations

“Herder on Human Unity.” Presented at the Thirtieth Annual German Studies Association Conference (September 29, 2006 in Pittsburgh, PA). Session Organizer.

“Friedrich Schiller’s Subjective Universalism.” Presented at the 121 MLA Convention (December 30. 2005 in Washington, D.C.)

“Anthropology in Early Schiller.” Presented at the Twenty-Eighth Annual German Studies Association Conference (October 9, 2004 in Washington, D.C). Session Organizer.

“Cloning the Bourgeois Subject: Narcissism and Paranoia in the Age of Goethe.” Work-In-Progress Presentation at the University of Oregon (November 19, 2003).

"Der schöpfende Narziss: Martin Walser als Leser und Autor." Presented at the Twenty-Sixth Annual German Studies Association Conference (October 5, 2002 in San Diego California).

"Kafka-Metamorphosen: Martin Walsers frühe Erzählungen und ihre Folgen." Presented at an International Conference on German Author Martin Walser, entitled "Seelenarbeit an Deutschland." Institute of Germanic Studies. University of London (May 2, 2002).

“Colonizing the Bourgeois Subject: Self and Other in Sturm-und-Drang Drama." Presented at the Twenty-Fifth Annual German Studies Association Conference (October 5, 2001 in Washington, D.C.).

"Martin Walser on Memoirs and Memorials." Presented at the Twenty-Third Annual German Studies Association Conference (October 8, 1999 in Atlanta, Georgia).

Lecture (invited): "Variations of a Stranglehold: Martin Walser's Report on Trinidad and Tobago." Read in absentia at a symposium sponsored by the German Department of Washington University in Saint Louis, entitled "The Third World Through European Eyes" (March 29, 1997 in St. Louis, Missouri).

Commentary (invited): "The Postcolonial View: German Authors and the Third World." Presented at the Twentieth Annual German Studies Association Conference (October 12, 1996 in Seattle, Washington).

Lecture (invited): "Paranoia and Masculinity in Goethe's Torquato Tasso." Sponsored by the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Oregon (February 6, 1996 in Eugene, Oregon).

"Paranoia und Erzählhaltung: Martin Walsers 'Nero läßt grüßen.'" Presented at the 45th Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference (October 6, 1995 in Radford, Virginia).

"Between Self-Assertion and Self-Denial: Gender and Ideology in Eighteenth-Century Domestic Tragedy." Presented at the 1995 Joint Meeting of the American Association of Teachers of German (AATG) and the Internationaler Deutschlehrerverband (IDV) (August 6, 1995 in Palo Alto, California).

Lecture (invited): "Gender and Politics in Cold-War Fiction: Heinrich Böll's Discourse of Love in Das Brot der frühen Jahre and Ansichten eines Clowns." Sponsored by the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Oregon (May 19, 1995 in Eugene, Oregon).

Respondent for panel (invited): "Lessing's Families: Absent Mothers, Single Fathers, and Siblings as Lovers?" at the Thirty-sixth Annual Convention of the Midwestern Foreign Language Association (November 12, 1994 in Chicago, Illinois).

"History as Genealogy: Ödön von Horváth's Das Fräulein wird bekehrt." Presented at the Eighteenth Annual German Studies Association Conference (October 2, 1994 in Dallas, Texas).

"Ontology and Its Discontents: The Persistence of Neo-Platonism in Germany's Feminist Literary Discourse." Presented at the Forty-Second Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference (October 10, 1992 in Blacksburg, Virginia). Session Organizer: "Bourgeois Conventions and Gender Perspectives: Masculine Voices in German Literature and Criticism."

Demonstration: Video in Language Teaching. "Lernexpress: Turning Young People on to German." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Teachers of German (July 20, 1992 in Baden-Baden, FRG).

Commentator for the session on Martin Walser's new novel Verteidigung derKindheit at the Fifteenth Annual German Studies Association Conference (September 28, 1991 in Los Angeles, California).

"German Unification as Utopia: Martin Walser's Schiller." Presented at the Fourteenth Annual German Studies Association Conference (October 6, 1990 in Buffalo, New York).

"Reception and Ideology: Martin Walser." Presented at the Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. (March 29, 1989 in Lexington, Kentucky).

"Deutsch Direkt! A first-year German textbook for a BBC film series." Presented at the AATG Conference (November 23, 1986 in Dallas, Texas).