CURRICULUM VITAE

 

Katherine Mary Faull

 

 

Comparative Humanities Program

Department of Foreign Language Programs

Bucknell University

Lewisburg, PA 17837

 

Current Appointment

Director, Program in Comparative Humanities

Professor of German, Bucknell University


Employment
2002-present    Professor of German, 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)


Dissertation
The Embodiment of the Absolute: Theories of the Feminine in the Works of Schleiermacher, Schlegel, and Novalis.  Dissertation director: Theodore Ziolkowski


Academic Awards, Fellowships and Grants

2002-4             National Endowment for the Humanities, Collaborative Research Grant, $55,000

2003                                Life Member in residence, Clare Hall, Cambridge University

2003                                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

 


Publications


Books

 

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

 


“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.

 

"Personal Conversion and Individual Redemption: The Spiritual Care of Young Women at Linden Hall, Lititz, Pennsylvania" Lutheran Historical Society Bulletin, 2000


Essays on "Novalis," "Georg Büchner" and "Christa Wolf" in Encyclopedia of Literary Translation, ed. Olive Classe (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000)


"Relating Sisters' Lives: Moravian Women's Writing from Eighteenth Century America" in Transactions of the Moravian Historical Society, 31 (2000): 11-27


"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


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 Progress

 
“Instructions for Body and Soul: Pastoral Care in Eighteenth Century Bethlehem, Pennsylvania—edition and translation of original manuscripts

 

 

Papers/Presentations
Conference Papers

 

"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 Brüdergemeine im 18. Jahrhundert:  Fachtagung:  Ergebnisse Historischer Kindheitsforschung, Leucorea, Wittenberg, Germany, 8-9 November, 2002

 

“Constructing Spirituality: Gender, Nation, and the Body in the Atlantic Moravian World of the Eighteenth Century” German Moravians in the Atlantic World, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem NC,  4-6 April, 2002

 
“Bekehrung und Begnadigung:  die Seelsorge der „großen Mädgen“ in der amerikanischen Herrnhuter Kirche im 18. Jahrhundert“  Internationaler Kongreß für 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 Brüdern. Die Stellung der Frau in der Brüdergemeine Unitäts-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.


"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.

 

 

Invited Talks

 

“Moravian Marriage” Invited Speaker, Friends Day, Moravian Archives, Bethlehem, PA, April 27, 2003

 

“Christ’s 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.

 

 

Teaching Interests
Subject Areas

 

Literary Theory

Translation Theory

Religion and Gender

Race and Gender Studies

Cultural Studies

German Literature since 1750

German Intellectual History

Western Humanities

 

Teaching Experience
(Courses in German)

Introductory

First year German (with multimedia technology)

Intermediate German

 

Intermediate

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

 

Advanced

Art and the Psyche

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

 

General Education Courses

Freshman Seminar: "Living in Community: Experiments in Social Organization"

Capstone Experience: "Gender and Autobiography"

 

Comparative Humanities Program

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)

 

Academic Service

Acting Chair, Classics Department (Fall 2003)

 

Director, Program in Comparative Humanities (2001- )

 

Director, Humanities Institute Program, “Translation and Culture” Keynote Speaker Lawrence Venuti, Temple University, Spring 2002

 

Advisory Board, Women’s and Gender Studies, Bucknell University, 2000-

 

Director, German Studies Program, Bucknell University, 1991-6, 1999-2001

 

Co-founder of Humanities Institute, Bucknell University, 1992

 

Director of Humanities Institute, Bucknell University, 1993-4: "Telling Stories: Narrative Strategies in the Humanities" Keynote speaker, Professor Natalie Davis, Princeton University.

 

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

 

Archival Experience

 

Dec. 1992        Archives of the British Province of the Moravian Church, London

April 1990        Archiv der Brüder-Unität, 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

 

            Book Reviewer, German Quarterly

            Editorial Advisor, African Philosophy

            Book Reviewer, Literature and Translation

            Outside evaluator, NEH Translations (Collaborative Research) division

            Reader, PMLA (1992- )

            Reader, Communal Societies (1995-)

            Editorial Board, Bucknell University Press (1991-1999)

            Editorial Board, Talking About Teaching  (1987-1992)

            Reader, Bucknell University Press (1989- )

            Technical Translator (German) for Mobil Corporation (1984)

Translator (German and Russian) for Yorkshire Television (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)

 

Languages

German and English: native fluency

Russian: excellent reading and good oral ability

French: very good speaking and reading ability

Latin and Ancient Greek: reading knowledge

 

References

 

Dr. James Rice

Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs

Bucknell University

Lewisburg, PA 17837

 

Professor Donald Durnbaugh

Archivist and Professor Emeritus

Juniata College

1700 Moore Street

Huntingdon, PA 16652

 

Professor Jeannine Blackwell, Dean

The Graduate School

University of Kentucky,

Lexington, KY 40506-0027

859-257-1759

 

December 2003