Education:
Ph.D., German Literature and Critical Thought, Northwestern University, 1998
M.A. Comparative Literature, University of Massachusetts, 1992
B.A.-equivalent- English, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1988
Three years of undergraduate study at the Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, Germany 1984-1987
Dissertation:
Der Mensch -- Metapher: Temporality, Identity, and the Concept of Language in the Works of Friedrich von Hardenberg (Novalis). (1998)
Committee: Géza von Molnár and Peter Fenves (chairs), Helmut Müller-Sievers
Employment:
Assistant Professor of German, Albion College 2004-present
Visiting Assistant Professor of German, Albion College 2003-2004
Visiting Assistant Professor of German, Wabash College 1999-2002
Visiting Assistant Professor of German, University of Notre Dame 1998-1999
Awards, Scholarships and Grant
Faculty Development Grant, Albion College (Spring 2006)
Received funding to participate in a German Script workshop at the Moravian archives in Bethlehem, PA. (June 2006)
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) travel grant
Received funding ( $6,165.60) to take Albion College students to Berlin and
Dresden, Spring Break, 2004. (December 2003)
Wabash College Faculty Development Award
Received funding to attend and present research at the “Women who Dared”
Conference at Mt. Holyoke College (June 2001)
University Fellowship, Northwestern University (Summer 1995)
Research Assistantship, Universität Mannheim, (March-July 1995)
Quadrille Ball Scholarship for Graduate Study in the U.S.:
Awarded by the Quadrille Ball Committee of the
Germanistic Society of America in association with the Institute of
International Education to German nationals in American Ph.D. programs
(1993-1994)
University Fellowship, Northwestern University (1992-1993)
Research Assistantship, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, (1989-1990)
German Academic Exchange Service Full Scholarship (DAAD) for one year of non-degree study in the U.S. (1987-1988)
Teaching Experience
I. Albion College
GER 101 & 102: Elementary German
GER 201 & 202: Intermediate German
GER 289: Introduction to German Film
GER 301 & 302: Advanced German, Composition & Conversation, I & II
GER 306: From Germania to Nation State: German Cultural History from 9 - 1871
GER 307: German Civilization
GER 310: Germany and the Environment: Cultural and Social Perspectives
GER 312: The Invention of Self 1700-1848/Die Erfindung des Ichs:1700-1848
GER 350: German Women Writers
GER 402: Seminar: Charisma, Controversy and Commitment: The Influential role of Women in German Film
GER 402: Seminar: German Writers in Exile
GER 411: Berlin Today: Prep. course for student trip to Berlin
Honors 135H: Great Issues in the Humanities: European Romanticism and American Transcendentalism
LA 101: First Year Seminar: Happily Ever After? The Cultural Impact of German Fairy Tales
II. Wabash College
Ger 101 & 102: Elementary German
Ger 201: Intermediate German (Fall 2001)
C&T 201: Cultures and Traditions, Section G (Fall 2001)
Ger 301: Conversation & Composition (Fall 1999 & 2000)
Ger 302: Introduction to German Literature and Culture
Ger 303: German Literary Studies: Stimmungsbilder: Landscape and Psyche in 19th Century German Literature
Ger 387: Introduction to German Film (Fall 2001)
Ger 401: Advanced German Language: Weimarer Klassik
Ger 478: Special Topics: Individuum und Gesellschaft: Kafka, Hesse und Thomas Mann
III. University of Notre Dame
GE 102: Beginning German
GE 107: Intermediate German
GE180J: “Soul Mates and Confidantes: The Portrayal of Friendship in German Literature” (First Year Seminar)
GE 310: Literary Forms and Composition
GE 472/572: Modern German Short Story: 1945-1990
Publications and Presentations
I. Articles
“ ‘Die Seele sehnte sich hinaus in den Schnee’: The Meaning and Function of Outside Space in Bettine von Arnim’s Die Günderode,” The Sophie Journal: Articles and Resources about German-Speaking Women. (http://sophie.byu.edu/sophiejournal/) April 2008.
“ ‘Wie ist Natur so hold und gut, die mich am Busen hält’: Nature Philosophy and Feminine Subjectivity in the Epistolary Memoirs of Bettine von Arnim,” Schwellenüberschreitungen. Politik in der Literatur von Frauen, 1780-1918. Ed. Elisa Müller-Adams, Caroline Bland. Bielefeld: Aisthesis Verlag, 2007.
“Von Kopf bis Fuß auf Liebe eingestellt: Exploring Feminine Subjectivity in Bettine von Arnim’s Goethes Briefwechsel mit einem Kinde,” Internationales Jahrbuch der Bettina-von-Arnim Gesellschaft. Ed. Wolfgang Bunzel, Uwe Lemm, Walter Schmitz. Berlin: Saint Albin Verlag, 2002: 89-98.
“On Good Behavior: The Reciprocal Relationship of the Monarchy to the Self-Representation of the Subject in Friedrich von Hardenberg’s Glauben und Liebe,” Die Goethezeit: Werke -Wirkung - Wechselbeziehungen. Festschrift für Wilfried Malsch. Göttingen: Verlag von Schwerin, 2001: 174-201.
“Getting Nowhere: Images of Self and the Act of Writing in Franz Kafka’s Der Dorfschullehrer,” New German Review: A Journal for Germanic Studies. Volume 10, 1994: 119-132.
II. Book Reviews
Review of Theodore Ziolkowski, Clio, The Romantic Muse: Historicizing the Faculties in Germany. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004. The German Quarterly, Volume 78, 2 (Spring 2005) 252-253.
Review of David Aram Kaiser, Romanticism, Aesthetics, and Nationalism. Cambridge Studies in Romanticism 34. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Studies in Twentieth Century Literature. Volume 29, Number 1 (Winter 2005).
Review of Anke Gilleir, Johanna von Schopenhauer und die Weimarer Klassik: Betrachtungen über die Selbstpositionierung weiblichen Schreibens. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag AG, 2000. Colloquia Germanica, Band 35, Heft 3/4 (2002): 351-352.
Review of Margaretmary Daley, Women of Letters: A Study of Self and Genre in the Personal Writing of Caroline Schlegel-Schelling, Rahel Levin Varnhagen, and Bettina von Arnim. Columbia, South Carolina: Camden House Press, 1998. Colloquia Germanica, Band 33, Heft 3 (2000): 302-304.
Review of David E. Wellbery, The Specular Moment: Goethe’s Early Lyric and the Beginnings of Romanticism. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. German Studies Review 22, 1 (February 1999): 114-115.
III. Other publications
"Die Christenheit oder Europa" The Literary Encyclopedia. 12 Mar. 2007. The Literary Dictionary Company. 13 March 2007.
IV. In preparation
"Going out on a Limb: Eccentric Self- Representation in Bettine von Arnim’s
Epistolary Memoirs." An article to be submitted to a refereed journal
V. Conference Presentations:
"Placing the Self in Harm's Way: Theories of Mind and Body in Bettine von Arnim's Epistolary Memoirs", 2007 British Association of Romantic Studies/North American Society for the Study of Romanticism Conference, June 26-29, 2007.
"Placing the Self in Harm's Way: Theories of Mind and Body in Bettine von Arnim's Epistolary Memoirs", Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, KY, April 2007.
" ‘Wie ist Natur so hold und gut, die mich am Busen hält’: Nature Philosophy and Feminine Subjectivity in the Letter-Novels of Bettine von Arnim,” Crossing the Boundaries: Writing by German-speaking Women 1780-1918, Sheffield, UK, April 2006.
"Entzweiung mit sich selber: Madness and Creativity in Bettine von Arnim’s Die Günderode,” German Studies Association Conference, Milwaukee, September, 2005.
"Telling Stories: Self-Representation and Narrative Structure in the Early Works of Bettine von Arnim" Narrative Conference, Louisville, KY, April, 2005.
"Growing Pains: The Evolution of the Historical Subject in Novalis’ Christianity or Europe.” Literature and Philosophy after Kant Conference, June 2004.
“Nature as (anti)-Nation: The Construction of Autonomous Space in Bettine von Arnim’s Early Works,” ‘Woman and the Nation’: 18th &19th Century German Women Writers: The University of Notre Dame, May 2004.
“Expressive Acts: Language and Identity in Novalis’ Heinrich von Ofterdingen,” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, Kentucky, April 2004.
“ ‘Die Seele sehnte sich hinaus in den Schnee’: The Meaning and Function of Outside Space in Bettine von Arnim’s Die Günderode,” Time - Space – Gender: 18th & 19th Century German Women Writers: Georgetown University, May 2003.
“Growing Pains: The Evolution of the Historical Subject in Novalis’ Christianity or Europe,” North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, University of Western Ontario, August 2002.
“The Art of Life: The Evolution of Identity in Novalis’ Das Allgemeine Brouillon (The General Outline),” Inventing the Individual: American Conference on Romanticism, Miami University, Ohio, November 2001.
“Nature as the Mirror of Spirit: Images of Self and Other in Bettina von Arnim’s Goethes Briefwechsel mit einem Kinde,” Women who Dared Conference: German Women Writers of the 18th and 19th Centuries, Mt Holyoke College, June 2001.
“Melancholy Utopia: Literary Responses to German Reunification,” European Studies Workshop, Wabash College, August 2000.
“Theory and Genesis of Romantic Art and Art-Criticism,” Invited Guest Lecture in Professor M. Mackenzie’s Art Class: “Neoclassicism to Realism 1750-1860”, Wabash College, March 2000.
“Von Kopf bis Fuß auf Liebe eingestellt: The Construction of Feminine Subjectivity in Bettine von Arnim’s Goethe’s Briefwechsel mit einem Kinde,” German Studies Association Conference, Atlanta, October 1999.
“What’s love got to do with it? Exploring Feminine Subjectivity in Bettina von Arnim’s Goethe Correspondence with a Child,” Wabash Humanities Colloquium, Wabash College, October 1999.
“Representation and Subjectivity in Early German Romanticism,” Wabash College, April 1999.
“Untimely Subjects: The Formation of Individual Identity in Friedrich von Hardenberg’s Christianity or Europe,” University of Notre Dame, January 1998.
“Treading on Goethe’s Toes: Bettine von Arnim’s Goethe Monument and the Construction of Female Subjectivity,” German Studies Association Conference, Bethesda, September 1997.
“Looking Back to the Future: Exploring the Limits of
Representation in Friedrich von Hardenberg’s Christenheit oder Europa,”
MMLA Conference,
Minneapolis, November 1996.
“Igellogik: Friedrich von Hardenberg’s Vermischte Bemerkungen and Romantic Theories of the Fragment,” Midwest Graduate Seminar in German Studies. Goethe Institute, Chicago May 1996.
“Constructing Infinity: The Concept of ‘Unendlichkeit’ in Benjamin’s Der Begriff der Kunstkritik in der deutschen Romantik,” North American Society for the Study of Romanticism Conference, University of Maryland, Baltimore, July, 1995.
“A Never-ending Story: The Concept of Reflection in Novalis’ Die Lehrlinge zu Saïs,” Graduate Studies Colloquium, Northwestern University, October, 1994.
“Multiple Voices: Herder’s Style and Its Relation to Content in Abhandlung über den Ursprung der Sprache,” Midwest Graduate Seminar in German Studies. Goethe Institute, Chicago May 1994.
“The Cognizant Moment: Reflection and ‘Darstellung’ in Walter Benjamin’s Der Begriff der Kunstkritik in der deutschen Romantik,“ Benjamin for the Jetztzeit: 1892-1992. Duke University, February 1992.
Service at Albion:
Member, Budget, Salary & Benefits Committee 2005-
Member, Ethnic Studies Committee 2004-2006
Member, Common Reading Experience Selection Committee 2004
Faculty Judge for the Distinguished Albion Scholars Program (DASP) 2004
Member of the DASP Selection Committee 2004
SOAR Faculty Advisor 2004
Off-campus program advisor for programs to Heidelberg, Tübingen
and Vienna 2003-present
Academic Advisor for LA101 students and German majors and minors 2004-present
Service to the Department:
I maintain the Foreign Language's Department WebPages 2004-
I organize the Albion College International Film Series 2004-
Professional Development
Participant in German Script Seminar at Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA, June 2006.
Participant in Albion College Microteaching Workshop, February 2004.
Participant in the Great Lakes Colleges Association (GLCA) Workshop on
Course Design and Teaching. Hope College, Holland Michigan, June 2000.
English Native Speaker
German: Near Native
Reading ability in French
Professional Memberships
Modern Language Association (MLA)
American Association of Teachers of German (AATG)
Women in German (WIG)
German Studies Association (GSA)
References:
Peter Fenves, Joan and Sarepta Harrison Professor of Literature, Professor of German, Comparative Literary Studies, and Jewish Studies, Adjunct Professor of Philosophy and Political Science, Northwestern University.
Xenia Harwell, Assistant Professor of Russian and German, Utah State University, Logan UT.
Franziska Lys, Associate Professor of German and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Northwestern University.
Michael Mackenzie, Assistant Professor of Art History, DePauw University.