CURRICULUM VITAE
Katherine Mary Faull
Comparative Humanities Program
Department of Foreign Language Programs
Bucknell University
Lewisburg, PA 17837
faull@bucknell.edu
Employment
2002-present Professor
of German and Humanities, Bucknell University
1993-2002 Associate Professor of German,
Bucknell University
1987-1993 Assistant Professor
of German, Bucknell University
Education
1983-1987 Princeton
University, German Literature Ph.D. 1988
1982-1983 King's College,
University of London M.A. 1983 (History of the German Novel)
1978-1982 King's College,
University of London B.A. (Hons.) 1982 (German/Russian)
Publications, Papers and Grants
Books
Masculinities,
Senses, Spirit, ed. Katherine Faull,
in Aperus
(2011) Bucknell University Press
Translation and
Culture, ed. Katherine M. Faull, Bucknell Review (47:1) Lewisburg:
Bucknell University Press, 2004
Katherine Faull, Moravian
Women's Memoirs: their Related Lives 1750-1820 (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press,
1997)
Anthropology
and the German Enlightenment: Perspectives on Humanity, ed. Katherine M. Faull,
Bucknell Review (38:2) Lewisburg:
Bucknell University Press, 1995
Articles/Chapters
Faull, Katherine.
Charting the Colonial Backcountry: Joseph Shippens
Map of the Susquehanna River The Pennsylvania
Magazine of History and Biography. Vol. 136, No. 4 (October 2012): 461-465.
Print.
Faull, Katherine. Instructions for Body and Soul:
Eighteenth Century Moravian Care of the Self, The Hinge: International Theological Dialog for the Moravian Church
18:2 (Spring 2012): 3-28; responses 29-38. Print.
http://issuu.com/moravianseminary/docs/hinge_18.2
Faull, Katherine. "From Friedenshtten
to Wyoming: Johannes Ettwein's Map of the Upper
Susquehanna (1768) and an Account of His Journey." Journal of Moravian
History. (2011): 82-96. Print.
Faull, Katherine, and Jeannette Norfleet.
"The Married Choir Instructions (1785)." Journal of Moravian
History. (2011): 69-110. Print.
Faull, Katherine M. Temporal Men
and the Eternal Bridegroom:
Moravian Masculinity in the 18th Century in Masculinities, Senses, Spirit, ed.
Katherine Faull, in Aperus
(2010) Bucknell University Press
Faull, Katherine M. You Are the
Savior's Widow:" Religion/sexuality and Bereavement in the
Eighteenth-Century Moravian Church." Journal of
Moravian History. (2010): 89-115. Print.
Faull, Katherine M. Speaking and
Truth-Telling: Parrhesia in the 18th
century Moravian Church in Self
Community World, eds. Heikki
Lempa and Paul Peucker
(Lehigh University Press, 2010): pp. 204-230. Print.
Faull, Katherine. "Mapping a
Mission: the Origins of Golkowsky's 1768 Map of Friedenshtten, Pennsylvania." Journal
of Moravian History. (2009): 107-116. Print.
Faull, Katherine. "Girl Talk: the Role of the
"speakings" in the Pastoral Care of the
Older Girls' Choir." Journal of Moravian History. 6 (2009): 77-99.
Print
Goebel, Rolf J, Jane V. Curran, Christophe Fricker, and Katherine Faull. "The Role of Translation
in German Studies, Responses." The German Quarterly. 81.4 (2008):
489. Print.
Das Sprechen
von Kindern:
Herrnhutische Seelsorge
an den grossen Mdchen im 18. Jahrhundert Unitas Fratrum 57/58
(2006): 183-196.
Christs other Self: Gender, Religion, and the Body in the 18th
Century Moravian Church Covenant
Quarterly (2004): 28-39.
The Life of Johann Georg Jungmann
(1720-1808): Faith and Providence
in the Eighteenth Century Atlantic World
in The Distinctiveness of Moravian
Culture: Essays and Documents in
Moravian History in Honor of Vernon H. Nelson on his Seventieth Birthday,
ed. Craig D. Atwood and Peter Vogt (Nazareth, Pa.: Moravian Historical Society,
2003), pp. 173-202.
Essays on "Novalis,"
"Georg Bchner" and "Christa
Wolf" in Encyclopedia of Literary
Translation, ed. Olive Classe (London: Fitzroy
Dearborn, 2000)
Faull, Katherine M. "Relating Sisters' Lives:
Moravian Women's Writings from 18th Century America." Transactions of
the Moravian Historical Society. 31 (2000): 11-27. Print.
"Self-Encounters: Two Eighteenth-Century African
Memoirs from Moravian Bethlehem" in Crosscurrents:
African-Americans, Africa and Germany in the Modern World, eds. C. Aisha Blackshire-Belay,
Leroy Hopkins, and David MacBride (New York: Camden House, 1998), 29-52;
reprinted in Michael J. Drexler and Ed White, Beyond Douglass: New Perspectives on Early
African-American Literature, Aperus: Histories Texts Cultures. Lewisburg: Bucknell
University Press, 2008 (selected as a Choice Outstanding Book for 2009)
Immanuel Kant, "Physical Geography", trans.
Katherine Faull, in Race and the Enlightenment:
A Reader, ed. Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze, (Oxford: Blackwell, 1997), 58-64
"Faith and Imagination: Nikolaus
Ludwig von Zinzendorf's Anti-Enlightenment Philosophy of Self" in Anthropology and the German Enlightenment:
Perspectives on Humanity, ed. Katherine M. Faull, Bucknell Review, 38:2 (1995): 23-56
"Beyond Confrontation? The Early Schleiermacher
and Feminist Moral Theory" New Atheneum/ Neues Athenaeum 4
(1994): 41-65
"Captured by Indians: Mariane's
Story" Humanities (Jan./Feb.
1994): 21-4
"Schleiermacher - A Feminist? Or How to Read
Gender-Inflected Theology," in Schleiermacher
and Feminism: Sources, Evaluations, and Responses, ed. Iain G. Nicol (Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen
Press, 1992), pp. 13-32
"The American Lebenslauf: Women's Autobiography
from eighteenth-century Moravian Bethlehem, Pa" Yearbook of the Society for German-American Studies 27 (1992):
23-48
In Press
Schleiermacher and Transcendentalist Truth-Telling:
Ethics, Gender and Speech in 19th century New England in Schleiermachers Influence On American
Thought And Religious Life (1835-1920), eds.
Terrence Tice and Jeffrey Wilcox, (Eugene, OR: Wipf
and Stock)
Performing Translation:
The [Dangerous] Mobilities of Cultural Identity in Early Modern Texts and Performance: Studies
in Honor of Susan L. Fischer, ed. Barbara Mujica
(Bucknell University Press)
The Experience of the World as the Experience of the
Self: Smooth Rocks in a River
Archipelago in Re-Imagining Nature:
Environmental Humanities and Ecosemiotics. Ed.
Alfred K. Siewers. Aperus
series. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, forthcoming 2013.
Under Review
Masculinity in
the 18th Century Moravian Mission Field: Contact and Negotiation Journal of Moravian History
Book Reviews
Faull, Katherine.
Pious Pursuits: German Moravians in the Atlantic
World. (review) Journal
of Southern History; May 2010, Vol. 76 Issue 2, p. 417.
Faull, Katherine
M. "Jesus Is Female: Moravians and the Challenge of Radical Religion in
Early America (review)." The Catholic Historical Review. 94.4
(2008): 854-855. Print.
Faull, Katherine
M. "[review Of] Community of the Cross: Moravian Piety in Colonial
Bethlehem." The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography.
130.1 (2006): 113-114. Print.
Faull, Katherine. "German Theater Before 1750. Edited by Gerald Gillespie, Foreword
by Martin Esslin. Pp. Xxix+244 (the German Library,
8). New York: Continuum, 1992. Hb. $29.50." Translation
and Literature. 5 (1996): 237-241. Print.
Books In Progress
Cultures at
the Confluence: The Moravian Mission Diary at Shamokin Pennsylvania 1742-55, an edition and translation to appear in the Bucknell
University Press series Stories of the Susquehanna
Speaking of
the Body: Physical Theology in the Eighteenth Century Moravian Church, edition and translation by Katherine Faull to appear
in the series Pietist, Moravian, and Anabaptist
Studies, Penn State
University Press
Academic Awards, Fellowships and Grants
2012 The Conservation Fund (with Alf Siewers), $25,000 for Susquehanna River research (student
interns and faculty stipends)
2011-12 John
Ben Snow Foundation, (with Alf Siewers), $15,000 for
Summer writers institute
2009-11 National Endowment for the Humanities,
Collaborative Research Grant, Cultures at the Confluence, $100,228
2008 John
Ben Snow Foundation, (with Alf Siewers), $16,000 Summer
Writers Institute
2008 Degenstein Foundation, (with Alf Siewers)
$12,000 for summer interns
2002-5 National
Endowment for the Humanities, Collaborative Research Grant, $55,000
2002 Life Member in residence, Clare Hall,
Cambridge University
2002 Visiting Scholar, Centre for Advanced
Research in Theological Studies, School of Divinity, Cambridge University
2002-3 Sabbatical
funded at 75% salary, Bucknell University (returned)
2001 Scholarly
Development Grant, Bucknell University
2000 Curriculum
Development Grant, Bucknell University
1998 Curriculum
Development Grant, Bucknell University
1997 Scholarly
Development Grant, Bucknell University
1996 Life
Member in Residence, Clare Hall, Cambridge University
1995 Summer
Grant, Instructional Technology Initiative, Bucknell University
1994-5 Visiting
Fellow, Clare Hall, Cambridge University
(Sabbatical funded at 75% salary, Bucknell University)
1992-4 National
Endowment for the Humanities, Translations Division, $50,000 grant
1992 A.W.
Mellon Stipend in Literary Theory, Bucknell University
1991 Scholarly
Development Grant, Bucknell University
1989 Scholarly
Development Grant, Bucknell University
1983-86 Princeton
University, Graduate Fellowship
1984 Princeton
University, Summer Research Grant
1983 British
Council Scholarship at Humboldt University, East Berlin (deferred)
1982 University
of London Bithell Prize for Modern German Literature
1982 Department
of Education and Science Scholarship for postgraduate study
1980 British
Council Scholarship, Humboldt University, East Berlin
1979 British
Council Scholarship, Politechnicheskii institut, Leningrad
Peer reviewed conference papers
Intercultural communication and
ethnic identity: Pietism and the public/private 4th International Pietism Congress, University of Halle,
Germany, August 28-30, 2013.
Women, Migration and Mission, Envisioning the "Old
World": Heinrich Melchior Mhlenberg and the
Imperial Projects in Pennsylvania, McNeil Center for Early American
Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Nov.
29-Dec. 1, 2012.
Faull, Katherine and David DelTesta, Bucknell University, Red River, Black River, the
Susquehanna River too: Student-Faculty Collaborations in the Spatial Humanities
at Bucknell GIS and Spatial Thinking in
the Undergraduate Curriculum, November 17, 2012, Bucknell University.
Faull,
Katherine and Alf Siewers, Stories
of the Susquehanna: Digital Humanities, Spatial Thinking, and Telling the historia of the
Environment. NITLE
Webinar October 9, 2012, 2:00pm - 3:00pm.
(http://www.nitle.org/live/events/145-stories-of-the-susquehanna-digital-humanities)
Raum, Rasse,
und Mnnlichkeit: gender
im Nordamerikanischen Herrnhuter Missionsfeld des 18. Jh. Gender im Pietismus, Netzwerke
und Geschlechterkonstruktionen, Interdisziplinres Zentrum fr Pietismusforschung der
Martin-Luther-Universitt Halle-Wittenberg; in Verbindung mit den Franckeschen Stiftungen zu Halle, October 2011
"Translating
the Holocaust: the Ethics of Memoir" Holocaust
writing and translation, Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies,
Institute for Advanced Studies, University of London, February 24, 2011.
The Experience of the World as the Experience of the Self: The
Environmental Subject of Moravian Pietism Moravian
Conference on History and Music, Bethlehem, PA, October 15, 2010.
Why Translation? on panel The
Disciplinary Challenges of Translation Studies, Modern Language Association Philadelphia, December 27-30, 2009
Truth-telling, ethnicity, and
identity: Germans and Indians on the Susquehanna, German Studies Association
Meeting, San Diego, CA October 4-7, 2007.
You are the Saviours
Widow: Religion, Sexuality and Bereavement in the 18th Century
Moravian Church The Widow, July 7-9,
2007, University of Swansea, Wales, UK
Europeans and the Susquehanna: A
Vision of Nature From the Branches to
the Confluence: The Upper Susquehanna River Basin and its Communities,
September 23, 2006, Bucknell University
Imagining and Learning: Utopian Visions in Early
Moravian Communities Self, Community,
World: Liberal Arts and Moravian
Education, April 21-23, 2006, at Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA
Male
Wombs: The Mutable Gender of the Moravian Christ American Historical Association/ American Society for Church History,
January 6-8, 2006, Philadelphia, PA
Temporal Men and the Eternal
Bridegroom: Moravian Masculinity in
the 18th Century 28 September-1 October 2005, German Studies Association, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
"Christ's Other Self: Body, Gender and Religion
in 18th Century Moravian Thought," American
Society for Church History, 1-3 April 2004, Harrisburg PA
Die Jugend spricht: Die Rolle der Kommunikation in der Seelsorge der Brdergemeine im 18. Jahrhundert: Fachtagung: Ergebnisse Historischer Kindheitsforschung,
Leucorea, Wittenberg, Germany, 8-9 November, 2002
Bekehrung und Begnadigung: die Seelsorge
der groen Mdgen in der amerikanischen Herrnhuter Kirche im 18. Jahrhundert Internationaler Kongre fr Pietismusforschung,
Halle, Germany, August 28-Sept. 1, 2001
"Cultural Encounters of Moravian and Native
American Women in the 18th Century" "Deutsche
und Indianer--Indianer und
Deutsche: Cultural Encounters in Three Centuries, Dartmouth College, May
13-16, 1999
"'Eine fruchtbare Rebe dem Weinstock seyn': Die Frauenseelsorge der Chorarbeiterinnen
im 18. Jahrhundert" Schwestern unter Brdern. Die Stellung der Frau in
der Brdergemeine Unitts-Archiv,
Herrnhut, Germany, June 11-14, 1998
"Self-Encounters: German and African
Autobiography in Colonial America" Crosscurrents:
African-Americans, Africa and Germany in the Modern World, an International
Symposium co-sponsored by the Max Kade Institute, The
State University of Pennsylvania and Center for African American and African
Studies, October 1-2, 1994
"Living with the Eternal Bridegroom: Gender and
Religion in Eighteenth Century Moravian Bethlehem" 18th Annual Symposium of the Society for German-American Studies,
Penn State University, April 13-17, 1994
"Women's Memoirs and the Communal
Experience" 3rd International
Communal Studies Association meeting at New Harmony, Indiana, October
14-17, 1993
"Comparing World Views: Eighteenth-Century Rural
Germans and Americans." Paper presented to Sixteenth Annual Symposium of the Society for German-American
Studies, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, April 30-May 3, 1992.
"The Gender of Art or, What
did Novalis see in Sophie?" Paper presented to American Association of Teachers of German,
Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., November 23-25, 1991.
"Schleiermacher and Feminist Ethics" Paper
presented to International Schleiermacher Symposium, Humboldt University,
Berlin, Germany, June 1991.
"German
Narratives, American Lives: Women's Writing from Eighteenth-Century Moravian
Bethlehem" Paper presented to Fifteenth
Annual Symposium of the Society for German-American Studies, Washington
D.C., April 25-27, 1991.
Organizer of "Writing on the Wall: Feminist
Perspectives on German Unification", Women in German sponsored session,
Modern Language Association meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 1991.
Respondent to Robert Perkins, "Schleiermacher,
Kierkegaard, and Schlegel's Lucinde" at American
Academy of Religion, Southeastern Division Regional Meeting, Atlanta, Ga, March 15-17, 1991.
Respondent to panel on "Social Issues" at
"Transformations in Eastern Europe," an interdisciplinary conference
co-sponsored by the Central Susquehanna Consortium and the Institute for
European Studies, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA, March 1-2,
1991.
Co-organizer of conference "Transformations in
Eastern Europe," co-sponsored by the Central Susquehanna Consortium and
the Institute for European Studies, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster,
PA, March 1-2, 1991
"Entering the Single Sisters' House: Women in
Moravian Bethlehem, PA" Paper presented on Panel "Opening Closed
Communities: Documenting Cultural Diversity in Pennsylvania." American Association of State and Local
History, Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., September 7-9, 1990.
"Moravians and Native Americans", Jeanette
Barres Zug Lecture, Historic Bethlehem Rededication of Nain House, September
15, 2012.
Conversations at the Confluence: Negotiators,
Moravians, and Native Americans Danville Iron Heritage Festival, July 21,
2012.
Instructions for Body and Soul: Moravian Pastoral
Care in the 18th Century 2011 Moses Lectures, Moravian Seminary,
October 13, 2011.
Instructions for
18th-Century Moravian Women" Lecture, Moravian
Archives, Bethlehem, July 12, 2011.
The Influence of Moravian Traditions on Grider's Major Subjects: lecture as part of a series of
lectures the Arkell Museum, Canojaharie,
NY in conjunction with the exhibition Drawn to the Same Place: Fritz Vogt and
Rufus Grider 1885-90, May 9, 2011.
Eighteenth Century
Moravian Mapping and Twenty-First Century Technology Lecture at Moravian
Archives, Bethlehem, October 27, 2009.
Topographies of Contact Lecture as part of
Cultures at the Confluence Focus Year (2008-9) Bucknell University, February
26, 2009.
Friedenshtten: The Jewel of the Susquehanna Annual
Meeting of the Wyalusing Community Corporation, May
10th. 2007
Temporal
Men and the Eternal Bridegroom:
Moravian Masculinity in the Eighteenth Century Invited Speaker, Program
in Womens and Gender Studies, History, German Honors Society, Wake Forest
University, Winston Salem, NC, October 18, 2005
Entering
the Single Sisters House: The Lives
of 18th century Moravian Women Keynote Speaker, Wachovia Historical Society,
Winston-Salem, NC, October 18, 2005
Genius in Translation: Julia Kristevas Desire in Language and her Love of the Foreign
Bucknell University, Humanities Institute, Sept. 13, 2005
The Course of Autobiography: Teaching a
Hermeneutics of Life Writing Moravian College, March 29, 2005
Moravian
Marriage Invited Speaker, Friends Day, Moravian Archives, Bethlehem, PA, April
27, 2003
Christs
Other Self: Gender, the Body and Religion in the 18th Century Moravian Church Seminar on Gender and
Religion, School of Divinity, Cambridge University, March 10, 2003
Schleiermacher, Faith and Gender
Methods, Sources and Norms Seminar, School of Divinity, Cambridge University,
February 24, 2003
"Celebrating the Sisters: the Lives of Moravian
Women in Eighteenth Century Bethlehem," Keynote Speaker, Historic
Bethlehem Inc, September 2000
"Personal Conversion and Individual Redemption:
The Spiritual Care of Young Women at Linden Hall, Lititz, Pennsylvania"
Talk for the Annual Meeting of the Lutheran Historical Society and Moravian
Historical Society in Lititz, Pa, April 29, 2000
"Relating Sisters' Lives: Moravian Women's
Writings from Eighteenth Century America" Moravian Historical Society,
Vespers, October 7, 1999
"Zinzendorf and Pluralism" Moravian
Theological Seminary, Bethlehem, Pa, April 27, 1995
"Identifying Stories: Race, Gender and the
Autobiographical Act" Clare Hall, Cambridge University, November 28, 1994
"Moravian Memoirs" Keynote Speaker, Archives
of the Moravian Church, Bethlehem, PA, April 24, 1994
"Living History/Writing Her Story: Memoirs from
18th Century Moravian Bethlehem" Bloomsburg University, March 7, 1994
"Conversations
with my Friend: Lives of Faith in Eighteenth-Century Pennsylvania."
Keynote address to Mid-Atlantic Germanic Society, Winchester, VA, April 11, 1992.
Administrative Experience
Co-Chair,
Middle States Steering Committee, Bucknell University, 2011-14.
Academic
Coordinator, Residential Colleges, Bucknell University, 2010-13
Senior
Fellow, Languages and Cultures Residential College, 2012-13
Faculty
Representative, Budget Review Task
Force, Bucknell University, 2010-11 (team awarded Maxwell Award for excellence
in Administration)
Chair, Department of Foreign Language Programs
(2005-2009)
o
Initiated
strategic planning in department; wrote proposal to Curriculum Committee of
College and Arts and Sciences for a Languages and Cultures requirement;
initiated and wrote a proposal to DoE for Title VI grant to Internationalize
Pre-professional Programs at Bucknell; conducted 8 reviews of non-tenured
faculty; conducted three reviews of tenured faculty; conducted one promotion
review; started Arabic language program; successfully initiated Arabic
Fulbright FLTA position; mediated personnel issues in language program; oversaw
budget; hired numerous tenure track and temporary faculty.
Elected
Faculty Representative, University Committee on Planning and Budget 2008-9
Bucknell
in London Committee (2006-2010)
o
Participant in
restructuring of program; initiated outreach to University of London colleges
for study opportunities for students;
Director, Program in Comparative Humanities (2001-6);
(2012-14)
o
Hiring committee
for Johnson Chair in Comparative Humanities; course schedule; wrote guidelines
for review and tenure; represented program at admissions day, parents day,
orientation day events; advised 5 Honors and departmental theses;
Acting Director, Program in Womens and Gender Studies
(2004-5)
Organized and led strategic planning workshop in May
2005; convened regular meetings with Steering Committee to approve courses for
the majors, organize on-campus speakers
Advisory Board, Womens and Gender Studies, Bucknell
University, 2000-2006
o
Participated in
reviews of untenured faculty; revised major and minor requirements; revised
review procedures; consulted on programming and co-sponsorship of speakers and
campus events; represented WGS program at Parents Weekend, Admissions Day,
Orientation events; oversaw budget;
Acting Chair, Classics Department (Fall 2003)
o
Hired visiting
assistant professor of Classics for Spring 2004; mentored two new untenured
faculty hires; planned curriculum;
Director, German Studies Program, Bucknell University,
1991-6, 1999-2001
o
Responsible for
course schedule; advising of majors and minors; advising of German club; Admissions
Day, Orientation sessions, Parents weekend
Committee on
Complementary Activities (semester replacement) 2001
Committee on
Faculty and Academic Personnel (1991-3):
o
subcommittee on
feasibility of phased retirement scheme (subsequently adopted); annual calculation
of salary and merit increments;
Campus
Representative to Fulbright Commission (1990-3)
Curriculum
Committee, College of Arts and Sciences (1988-1991)
Committee on
Academic Freedom and Tenure (1988-1991)
Academic
Leadership
Co-founder of Humanities
Institute, Bucknell University, 1992
Co-Director, Humanities
Institute, Moving Meanings:
Studies in Translation
Keynote
Speaker, Julie Kristeva (Paris), 2005-6
Director, Humanities
Institute, Translation and Culture
Keynote
Speaker Lawrence Venuti, Temple University, Spring
2002
Director, Humanities
Institute, "Telling Stories: Narrative Strategies in the Humanities"
Keynote
speaker, Professor Natalie Zemon Davis, Princeton
University, 1993-4:
Organizer, NEH summer seminar
at Bucknell University,
Introduction
to Translation Studies Summer 2004
Organizer, NEH summer seminar, Bucknell University,
Integrating Islam into the Core Humanities Courses Summer
2007
Founder and first Senior Fellow, Languages and
Cultures Residential College, Fall 2008
Organizer, Summer Susquehanna River Writers Workshop,
funded through a grant from the John Ben Snow Trust, Summer 2009 (with Alf Siewers)
Co-organizer with Alf Siewers,Cultures
at the Confluence Focus Year 2008-9 (team awarded Maxwell Prize for Excellence
in Administration)
Community
Leadership and Service
Member, Board of Directors, Moravian Archives, Bethlehem , PA (2010-)
Member, Board of Directors, Northumberland County
Historical Society, Sunbury Pa (2010-)
Advisor, Susquehanna Greenway. Lewisburg, PA. 2008-
Advisor, Eastern Delaware Nations, Wyalusing, PA,
2007-
Advisor and historical consultant, Friends of John
Smith Trail, Annapolis, Maryland, 2008-
Consultant, Chesapeake Conservancy (2009-)
Teaching Interests
Environmental Humanities;
Autobiography; Native American Studies; Literary and Cultural Theory;
Translation Studies; Religion and Gender; Race and Gender Studies; German
Literature since 1750; German Intellectual History; Western Humanities
Teaching Experience
German Studies
Introductory First year
German (with multimedia technology); Intermediate German ;
Advanced Composition and Conversation; Business German; Jenseits
der Mauer: DDR Kultur und Literatur 1949-1999; Study of German Literary Forms; The
Short Story; Comparative German Cultures; Drittes
Reich und Exilliteratur; Art and the Psyche: German
Literature of Modernism; Literature of the GDR; Concept of Genius in German
Literature 1750-1945; Die Wende--DDR Herbst 1989 ; Gender and Autobiography in German Literature:
1750-1992; Enlightenment and Romantic German Literature
Freshman Seminar:
"Living in Community: Experiments in Social Organization"
Freshman Seminar: Epics and
Ethics
Freshman Seminar: How we do
things with words
IP Course (with Alf Siewers): Susquehanna Country
Capstone Experience:
"Gender and Autobiography"
Capstone Experience:
Introduction to Translation Studies
Myth, Reason, Faith (Western
Humanities from Homer to Medieval Period)
Art, Nature, Knowledge (Western Humanities from Renaissance to 19th
Century)
Nihilism, Modernism, Uncertainty (Western Humanities
from Nietzsche to Post-Colonialism)
Studies in Autobiography Advanced
seminar for majors (also Womens and Gender Studies)
Introduction to Translation Studies Advanced seminar for
majors
History of Sexuality Advanced
seminar for majors (also Womens and Gender Studies
Women, Gender, Enlightenment Advanced seminar for
majors in Comparative Humanities and Womens and Gender Studies
Nature and the Enlightenment Advanced seminar on European, Colonial American and
Native perspectives on nature in the region of the Susquehanna River
June 2005 Special Collections,
University of Bristol Library
June 2005 Gemeindearchiv,
Niesky, Germany
Dec. 1992 Archives of the British Province of
the Moravian Church, London
April 1990 Archiv
der Brder-Unitt, Herrnhut,
Germany
January 1990 Schleiermacher
papers in archives of the Academy of Sciences, Berlin
Dec. 1989 Manuscript room in British Library,
London
July 1989- Moravian Archives, Bethlehem, PA
July 1984 National Literature Archives,
Marbach, West Germany
Editorial and Other Professional Experience
Editorial Board, Journal
of Moravian History
Managing Editor, Philosophia Africana (2008-)
Editorial
Board, Bucknell University Press (1991-1999, 2006-9)
Editorial Board, Talking
About Teaching (1987-1992)
Book
Reviewer, German Quarterly, Pennsylvania
Magazine of History and Biography, Catholic Historical Review, Literature and
Translation, Journal of the History of Sexuality
Reader, Journal
of the History of Sexuality
Reader, German
Quarterly
Editorial
Advisory Board, Philosophia Africana (1998-2008)
Outside evaluator,
NEH Translations (Collaborative Research) division
Reader,
PMLA (1992- )
Reader, Communal Societies (1995-)
Reader,
Bucknell University Press (1989- )
Technical
Translator (German) for Mobil Corporation (1984)
Translator (German and
Russian) for Yorkshire Television, UK (1983)
Interpreter (French,
German, Greek) in Olympia, Greece (1981)
Co-Producer and
Presenter of Children's Radio Show Calico Pie,
BBC Radio Bristol (1971-1976)
Co-Presenter of
Children's TV Series "Why Don't You...."
BBC TV (1974)
German:
native fluency
English:
native fluency
Russian:
excellent reading and good oral ability
French:
very good speaking and reading ability
Latin:
reading knowledge
Ancient
Greek: reading knowledge
Modern
Greek: Basic
Arabic:
Basic
December 2012