CURRICULUM VITAE
Academic Positions:
2007- Professor of German Studies
Director, German Studies Program 1998-1999, 2001-2004, 2005-
1997-2007 Associate Professor of German Studies, Bucknell University
1991-97 Assistant Professor of German, Bucknell University
1987-91 Teaching Assistant, Department of German, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1985-87 Teaching Assistant, Department of German, University of Alberta, Edmonton
Education:
1991 Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, German Literature
1987 M.A., University of Alberta, Edmonton, German Literature
1985 M.A. (Magister Artium), Universität zu Köln
Major: English Literature, Minors: German Literature, Education
Publications:
Please see the publications section of the website.
Conference Participation:
Nature Matters: Materiality and the More-Than-Human in Cultural Studies of the Environment
York University, October 25-28, 2007 in Toronto, Ontario
”Doomsday or Democracy: Dystopian Visions of the Future“
Literatur, Kultur, Umwelt: Ecocriticism. Eine Standortbestimmung, March 10-12, 2004 in Münster, Germany
"Alle reden vom Wetter: Zur Darstellung der Klimakatastrophe in deutscher und nordamerikanischer Literatur"
Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association (MLA), December 27-30, 2002 in New York, NY "Life Reform and World Trade"
52nd Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 22-25, 1999 in Lexington, KY
"Pazifismus, Zionismus, Sozialismus: Zum Geschichtsbewußtsein bei Max Brod"
Österreichische Gesellschaft für Politikwissenschaft, Symposium: Der Naturbegriff in der politischen und wissenschaftlichen Kontroverse, November 14-15, 1997 in Vienna, Austria
"Zwischen Fortschrittswahn und Ökophobie: Zum Naturbegriff in der deutschen Gegenwartsliteratur"
50th Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 17-20, 1997 in Lexington, KY
"'Verschwunden, verbrannt, verhökert': Ökonomische Ästhetik und Naturerfahrung"
4th International Arnold Zweig Symposium, Duke University, September 27-29, 1996 in Durham, NC
"Antifaschismus in Arnold Zweigs 'Der Typus Hitler' (1943/47)"
20th Annual Conference of the Society for Utopian Studies, October 19-22, 1995 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
"Ecological Utopianism: Robert Havemann's Response to The Limits to Growth"
Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association (MLA), December 27-30, 1994 in San Diego, CA
"(De)Colonizing Views of East Africa and Polynesia"
18th Annual Conference of the German Studies Association (GSA), September 29-October 2, 1994 in Dallas, TX
"Morgen: Ökologiekonzepte bei Robert Havemann"
Conference of the Central Pennsylvania Consortium: "The 'Fin de SiPcle' Phenomenon in Europe and America: Decadence and Decline or Innovation and Renewal?" April 16, 1994 at Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA
"Parallels and Discontinuities: The Environmental Discourse in Europe and North America around 1900 and Today"
Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of University Teachers of German (CAUTG), May 30-June 1, 1993 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
"'Von Männern, Mord und Müsli': Über den jüngsten deutschsprachigen Krimi von Frauen"
Annual Meeting of the American Association of Teachers of German (AATG), July 19-22, 1992 in Baden Baden, Germany
a. "Vorschläge für ein 'grünes' Europa: Ökologische Aspekte in der Literatur der frühen Jugendbewegung"
b. Moderator of Session: "Fin de SiPcle: European Contexts"
15th Annual Conference of the German Studies Association (GSA), September 26-29, 1991 in Los Angeles, CA
"Hoher Meißner 1913: Zur Ästhetik einer 'gelebten Utopie'"
21st Annual Wisconsin Workshop in Madison, WI, October 12-14, 1990: Re-Reading Wagner
"Transgression and Affirmation: Gender Roles, Moral Codes, and Utopian Vision in Wagner's Operas"
International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, MI, May 10-13, 1990
"Siegfried as Idol? The Function of the Hero in Recent West German Adaptations of the Nibelungenlied"
Invited Speaker:
Die Naturfreunde, Landesverband Berlin/Gruppe Friedrichshagen, Berlin-Müggelheim, May 29, 2005
"'Anders wirtschaften, anders leben'. Curt Grottewitz und die ökologische Nachhaltigkeit"
Helle Panke e.V., Berlin, June 8, 2004
"Trübe Aussichten: Die Klimakatastrophe in der Gegenwartsliteratur und die Konsequenzen"
Institut für Germanistik, Universität Potsdam, June 11, 2003
Ringvorlesung: Juden und Judentum in der deutschsprachigen Literatur
"Prag-Moskau-Paris. Max Brods Beitrag zur Verteidigung der Kultur"
Kulturhistorischer Verein Friedrichshagen (Berlin), June 6, 2003
"Literatur der Jugendbewegung: Gertrud Prellwitz"
Groupe de Recherche sur l'Autriche et l'Allemagne, Université de Haute Bretagne Rennes-II, France, Symposium:
Der Kult um Jugend und Kindheit in Deutschland 1870-1933, March 7-9, 2002
"Der Schein der schönen Jugend. Zu Gertrud Prellwitz' erzählerischem Werk"
Kulturhistorischer Verein Friedrichshagen (Berlin), June 13, 2001
"Am Beispiel Hans Paasche: Die frühe Wandervogelbewegung und ihre Literatur"
Department of Geography (course: Global Environmental Change), Bucknell University, November 29, 2000
"Global and Local Solutions to Environmental Problems"
Die Naturfreunde, Landesverband Berlin/Gruppe Friedrichshagen, June 5, 2000, Rathaus/City Hall Köpenick
"Gesamtansichten der Natur. Zum Wirken von Dr. Curt Grottewitz"
32nd Annual Wisconsin Workshop in Madison, WI, April 27-30, 2000: Heroes and Heroines in German Culture
"Of No Commercial Value: The Green Hero Curt Grottewitz (1866-1905)"
Environmental College, Bucknell University, October 31, 1996
"Why Vote 'Green'?"
Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, October 19, 1995
"Ecological Consciousness in Utopia: William Morris, Ernest Callenbach, Robert Havemann"
Institut für deutsche Sprache und Literatur, Universität zu Köln, Germany, June 13, 1995
"Günter Grass und die ökologische Bewegung"
Institut für deutsche Literatur, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany, June 8, 1995
"Günter Grass und die ökologische Bewegung"
25th Annual Wisconsin Workshop in Madison, WI, November 11-12, 1994: Günter Grass
"Anleitung zum Engagement. Über das ökologische Bewußtsein in Grass' Werk"
The Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, October 26-30, 1994: Aldo Leopold: His Land Ethic and Influence in Germany and the U.S.
"'Learn to Read the Land': German Influences on Leopold's Concept of the Land Ethic"
Institut für deutsche Sprache und Literatur, Pädagogische Hochschule Freiburg, Germany June 23, 1994
"Utopie und Ökologie bei Günter Grass"
MMI Preparatory School, Freeland, PA, March 17, 1994
"Why Learn a Second Language?"
Lycoming County Peace Council, Williamsport, PA, February 11, 1992 "The Greens in Germany"
Work in Progress:
Max Brod; Americanization and Anti-Americanism in the West-German Peace Movement; Concepts of Nature in the Weimar Republic; Utopian Thought in the Works of Hoimar von Ditfurth
Courses Taught:
German Language (all levels)
Berlin: Yesterday and Today (intermediate-level language)
Life is a Fairy Tale. The Brothers Grimm and Beyond
Conversation and Composition
Advanced Conversation and Composition
From Revolution to Unification: Aspects of German Literature (in English)
Cultural History of 19th Century Germany: From the French Revolution to WWI
History and Culture of the Weimar Republic (1918-1933)
Crime and Criminology in German Literature and Film
20th Century German Drama
Introduction to German Literature (Genres and Methods of Interpretation)
Cultural History of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1945 to the Present
20th Century German Literature
The Cold War in Germany
Inventing Modern Europe (in English)
Green Utopias (in English)
Independent Studies:
German Short Stories
German and North American Concepts of Ecology after 1945
Issues in Biodiversity in Yellowstone National Park
The Cold War and German Culture
Honors Theses Directed:
Literature, Environmental Consciousness, and the Future of Democracy: A Comparison between Germany and the U.S. (Advisor, 2007, in German)
The Question of German National Identity (Reader, 2001, for Department of History)
Beyond Brecht (Reader, 1999, for Department of English)
Political, Cultural and Literary Reactions to Neo-Nazi Activities in Germany since Unification (1997, for Inter-national Relations Program)
Animal Rights and Environmental Ethics (Reader, 1996, for Environmental Studies Program)
Memberships:
American Association of Teachers of German (AATG)
European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture, and the Environment (EASLCE)
Ernst-Toller-Gesellschaft e.V., Neuburg/Donau
German Studies Association (GSA)
Modern Language Association (MLA)