Chronology of Education
1989 Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley (April)
1985-87 Technische Universität, Berlin
1982-84 University of California, Berkeley
1979-81 M.A. (with distinction) University of Florida, Gainesville
Honors and Awards
Major Awards
2006 Fulbright Award, Research Fellow in Berlin
1996-97 Fulbright Award, Research Fellow in Berlin
1992 DAAD Summer Stipend for Research in Berlin ($2,400)
1985-86 German Academic Exchange Fellow (DAAD)
Other Awards
2005 Foreign Travel Grant ($600.00) for IVG conference in Paris.
2002 COH Career Development Award ($3,000)
2000 Foreign Travel Grant Award ($650.00) for ISSEI conference
in Bergen, Norway
1998 U of A Foreign Travel Grant Award ($600.00), conference in Haifa, Israel
1995 Humanities Research Initiative Grant ($3,000.00)
1994 Provost's Author Support Fund ($200.00)
Office of the Vice President for Research, Small Grants ($3,644.00)
1993 FOH Mini-Grant for research in Berlin ($1,200)
U of A Foreign Travel Grant ($700), symposium in Essen, Germany
1990 Women's Studies Advisory Council Summer Stipend Award ($1,500)
1984 Frank Steinway Award for best essay by a graduate student
1983 DAAD Stipend
Interdisciplinary Summer Seminar in German Studies, UC Berkeley
1982-83 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award in German, UC Berkeley
Publications
Scholarly Books
Willing Seduction: The Blue Angel, Marlene Dietrich and Mass Culture. New York: Berghahn Books (forthcoming).
Recasting Autobiography: Women's Counterfictions in Contemporary German Literature and Film. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1994.
Edited Scholarly Book
Writing against Boundaries: Gender, Ethnicity and Nationality in the German-speaking Context. (Co-edited with Helga Kraft). Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2003.
Textbooks
Auf deutsch: Kompetenz durch kommunikatives Lernen First Year German Textbook. (Co-authored with Helga W. Kraft). Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1990.
Auf deutsch: Instructor's Manual and Testing Program. (Co-authored with Helga W. Kraft). Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1990.
Auf deutsch: Arbeitsbuch. (Co-authored with Helga W. Kraft). Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1990.
Chapters in Books
“Elfriede Jelinek’s Das Lebewohl: An Austria Tragedy.” Elfriede Jelinek: Writing Woman, Nation, and Identity. A Critical Anthology. Edited by Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger and Matthias Konzert. Madison, New Jersey: Fairleigh Dickinson Press, (forthcoming).
“Faschismus und Krieg in Die Sonntagskinder: Einbruch in die private Sphäre.” “Faschism and War in Sunday’s Children: Erupting the private Sphere.” Eine Welt aus Sprache: Zum Werk von Gerlind Reinshagen. Edited by Therese Hörnigk and Helga Kraft. Berlin: Theater der Zeit, 2007: 102-115.
“Cigarettes, Advertising, and the Weimar Republic’s Modern Woman.” In The Text as Spectacle: Visual Culture in Twentieth-Century Germany. Edited by Gail Finney. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006: 134-153.
“Tom Tykwer’s Run Lola Run and the Usual Suspects: The Avant-Garde, Popular Culture and History.” In German Pop Culture: How American is it? Edited by Agnes C. Müller. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2004: 165-179.
“Murderous Boundaries: Nation, Memory and Austria's Fascist Past in Elfriede Jelinek's Stecken, Stab und Stangl.” In Writing against Boundaries. Edited by Barbara Kosta and Helga Kraft. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2003: 81-98.
“Die Strasse als Ort unordentlicher Beziehungen: Joe Mays Asphalt.” “The Street as the Space of Messy Relationships: Joe May’s Asphalt.” In Raumkonstruktionen in der Moderne: Kultur-Literatur-Film. Edited by Sigrid Lange. Bielefeld: Aisthesis Verlag, 2001: 227-240.
“Väterliteratur, Masculinity and History: The Melancholic Texts of the 1980s.” In Conceptions of Postwar German Masculinity. Edited by Roy Jerome. Albany, N.Y.: SUNY, 2001: 219-242.
“It Takes Three To Tango or Romance Revised: Jutta Brückner's One Glance and Love Breaks Out.” In Triangulated Visions. Edited by Ingeborg Majer-O'Sickey and Ingeborg van Zadow. Albany, N.Y.: SUNY Press, 1997: 81-93.
“Critical Interventions: German Women Writing after 1945,” (with Helga Kraft). In Beyond 1989. Re-reading German Literature since 1945. Edited by Keith Bullivant. Providence, R.I.: Berghahn Books, 1997: 69-88.
“Rape, Nation and Remembering History: Helke Sander's Liberators Take Liberties.” In Gender and Germanness. Edited by Patricia Herminghouse and Magda Müller. Boston: Berghahn, 1997: 217-234.
“Representing Female Sexuality: On Jutta Brückner's Film Years of Hunger.” In Gender Perspectives in German Cinema: Feminist Interventions. Edited by Sandra Frieden et al. Providence, R.I.: Berg, 1993: 241-252.
“Das Angstbild der Mutter: Versuchte und verworfene Selbstentwürfe” In Mütter-Töchter-Frauen: Weiblichkeitsbilder in der Literatur. (Mothers-Daughter-Women: Images of Women in Literature). Edited by Helga Kraft and Elke Liebs. Stuttgart: Metzler, 1993: 215-241. [revised, co-authored with Helga W. Kraft)
“Muttertraumen/Masochismus: Waltraud Anna Mitgutschs Die Züchtigung und Elfriede Jelineks Die Klavierspielerin,” In Mütter-Töchter-Frauen: Weiblichkeitsbilder in der Literatur. Edited by Helga Kraft and Elke Liebs. Stuttgart: Metzler, 1993: 243-265.
“Persönliche Geschichte bei Christa Wolf und Helke Sander: eine Revision historischen Denkens. In “das Weib wie es seyn sollte.” Edited by Beate Rattay. Bamberg: Reihe Fussnoten, 1986: 85-91.
Journal Articles
“Transgressive Daughters and Modernity: Irmgard Keun's Gilgi, eine von uns.” German Quarterly (Summer, 1995): 271-286.
“Inscribing Erika: Mother-Daughter Bond/age in Elfriede Jelinek's Die Klavierspielerin. Monatshefte 86. 2. (Summer, 1994): 218-34.
“Employed Bodies: The Female Servant in Works by Marieluise Fleisser.” German Studies Review (February 1992): 47-63.
“Mother-Daughter Relationships: Problems of Self-Determination in Novak, Heinrich and Wohmann.” German Quarterly 46 (1983): 74-88.
Encyclopedic Entries
“Gilgi, eine von uns.” The New History of German Literature. Harvard University Press, 2005: 775-779.
“Autobiography.” Encyclopedia of German Literature. Fitzroy Chicago: Dearborn Publishers, 2000.
“Elfriede Jelinek.” Encyclopedia of German Literature. Fitzroy Chicago: Dearborn Publishers, 2000.
“Helke Sander.” Women Filmmakers and Their Films. New York: St James Press, 1998.
“New Subjectivity.” The Feminist Encyclopedia of German Literature. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1997.
Interviews
With screenwriter Fatima El-Tayeb on Alles wird gut (dir. Angelina Maccarone). Women in German Yearbook 18 (2002): 31-44.
With filmmaker Jutta Brückner. In collabortation with Richard McCormick. Signs 21. 2 (Winter 1996): 343-373.
Reviews
Jürgen Trimborn, Leni Riefenstahl: A Life. Translated by Edna McCown. New York: Faber and Faber, 2007. In Women’s Review of Books (2007).
Vibeke Rützou Petersen, Women and Modernity in Weimar Germany: Reality and Representation in Popular Fiction. New York: Berghahn Books, 2001. In Women in German Newsletter (2004).
Kim Sichel, Germaine Krull: Photographer of Modernity. In Women's Review of Books (April 2000).
Michaela Holdenried, ed. Geschriebenes Leben: Autobiographik von Frauen. Berlin: Erich Schmidt, 1995. In Monatshefte (2001).
Frederiksen, Elke and Martha Wallach, eds,Facing Fascism and Confronting the Past: German Women Writers from Weimar to the Present. Albany, N.Y.: SUNY, 2000. In Women in German Newsletter (2001).
Katharina von Ankum, ed., Women in the Metropolis. Berkeley, CA.: California UP, 1997. In Gender and Culture (1999).
Maria Tatar, Lustmord: Sexual Murder in the Weimar Republic. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1995. In Women's Review of Books (October, 1995).
Gudrun Kohn-Waechter, Das Verschwinden in der Wand: Destruktive moderne und Widerspruch des weiblichen Ichs in Ingeborg Bachmanns "Malina". Stuttgart: Metzler,1992. In Argument (Spring, 1995).
Katharina Aulls, Verbunden und gebunden: Mutter-Tochter Beziehungen in sechs Romanen der siebziger und achtziger Jahre. In Women in German Newsletter (Fall 1994).
Scholarly Presentations
Colloquia and Guest Lecture
“Die Aktualität des “Blauen Engels:” Deutschlands Versöhnung mit Marlene Dietrich.” University of Leipzig (2006, invited).
“German-Turkish Cinema: Beyond Nation.” Hamilton College (2006, invited).
“Marlene Dietrich, Mass Culture and German National Identity.”Department of German Studies Colloquium Series (2005).
“Women and Surrealism.” Center for Creative Photography. Tucson (2004, invited).
“August Sander and the New Objectivity,” Center for Creative Photography. University of Arizona (2002, invited).
“Run Lola Run and the Usual Suspects: The Avant-Garde, Love and History.” University of North Carolina, Greensboro (2002, invited).
"On Joseph von Sternberg's The Blue Angel." University of Potsdam, Germany (1996, invited).
“Screen Memories: Gender and German Cinema.” Hamilton College (1995, invited).
“History, Gender, and Literature.” Women's Studies Feminist Theory Series, University of Arizona (1993, invited).
“The Forbidden Films: DEFA's Hidden Past.” Forbidden Films Series, University of Arizona (1992).
“Where women are true they break things: Feminist Film Making in the FRG.” Hamilton College (1990, invited).
"Autobiographie und weibliche Identität: Entwürfe eines Selbsts.” Freie Universität Berlin (1989, invited).
"Overcoming Traditions of Silence: Autobiographical Writing by Women.” University of Arizona (1989, invited).
Seminar
“Sounds of Seduction: The Blue Angel. Kennedy Institute Berlin (2006, invited).
“Marlene Dietrich, The Blue Angel and Contemporary Germany.” Women’s Studies, University of Arizona (2006, invited).
Symposia
“Krieg und die private Sphäre: Gerlind Reinshagens Sonntagskinder.” Brecht-Haus Berlin, (2006, invited)
“The City and the Female Body in Lola rennt.” German Studies Symposium on “German Pop Culture,” University of South Carolina (2001, invited).
“Die Strasse als Ort des Begehrens und unanständige Begegnungen.” Jena, Germany (2000, invited).
“Elfriede Jelinek's Stecken, Stab und Stangl: Nation and Memory.” Columbia University, Deutsches Haus (1998, invited).
“Notes on Postunification: The Tug of National Identities.” Eighth Biennial North Carolina German Studies Symposium, Wake Forest (1997, invited).
“Culture in the Foreign Language Classroom.” Foreign Language Symposium, Tucson, (1993, invited).
“Grammar and Communicative Approaches to Teaching Grammar.” Foreign Language Symposium, Tucson (1989, invited).
“Persönliche Geschichte: Autobiographie und Identität.” Frauen-Literatur-Geschichte Symposium, Universität Bamberg (1986, invited).
Conferences
“In the Mix: Fatih Akin’s Crossing the Bridge: The Sounds of Istanbul.” Crossing Bridges: Transcultural German Studies Conference (2007, submitted).
“Elfriede Jelinek’s Das Lebewohl: An Austria Tragedy.” American Association of Teachers of German (2005, submitted).
“Verdoppelte Perspektiven: An den Grenzen stossen in Emine Sevgi
özdamars Der Hof im Spiegel.” Internationale Vereinigung für Germanistik IVG-Paris (2005, submitted).
“The Actuality of The Blue Angel: Dietrich, German National Identity and Mass Culture.” University of Texas, Austin, Southwest Consortium Conference (2005, invited).
“The Blue Angel: Mass Media and German Identity.” Film and Literature Conference. Tallahassee, Florida (2004, submitted).
“The Blue Angel: Two Versions of the Same Song.” Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities (2003, submitted).
“Josef von Sternberg’s The Blue Angel: Philistine meets Mass Culture.” German Studies Association (2002, submitted).
“Modernity, Advertising and the Female Smoker.” Modern Languages Association (2001, submitted).
“History, Memory and Self-Disclosure: Monika Maron’s Pawel’s Briefe: Eine Familiengeschichte.” Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (2001, submitted).
“Aufarbeitung oder Selbstbetrug: Christa Wolf. 'Hierzulande Andernorts'.” IVG-Vienna (2000, submitted).
“Power, Violence and Subjectivity: Herta Müller's Herztier.” German Studies Association (1999, submitted).
“Elfriede Jelinek's Stecken, Stab und Stangl: Nation and Memory.” German Studies Association (1998, submitted).
“Stecken, Stab und Stangl: Murderous Boundaries and Elfriede Jelinek's Response to Racism.” ISSEI Haifa, University, Israel (1998, submitted).
“Cultural Knowledge: Stereotypes and their Sources.” American Association of Teachers of German (1994, submitted).
“German Dreams and The New German Cinema.” Wake Forest College, North Carolina (1994, invited).
“Undisclosed Histories: Helke Sander's BeFreier & Befreiter.” German Studies Association Conference (1994, submitted).
“Transgressive Daughters: Keun's Gigli and Baum's Helene.” American Association of Teachers of German (1993, submitted).
“Is There Culture in This Classroom?: The FL Classroom as ‘Contact Zone.’” TESOL Conference, Madrid, Spain (1993, invited).
“The Modern Woman: A Motherless Child: Irmgard Keun's Gilgi, eine von uns. German Studies Association (1992, submitted).
“Masochistic Connections: Waltraud Anna Mitgutsch's Die Züchtigung.” Power, Passions and Persons Conference, Berkeley (1992, submitted).
“A Peeping Jelinek: The Masochistic Gaze in Jelinek's Works.” Modern Languages Association (1991, submitted).
“Those Terrible Twos: Second Year Language Acquisition.” American Association of Teachers of German (1991, submitted).
“The Collision of Powerlessness: Delayed Separations in Waltraud Anna Mitgutsch's Die Züchtigung.” German Studies Association (1991, submitted).
“Germany, Pale Mother: A Cinematic Triptych of the Past.” University of Florida, German Department (1991, invited).
“Women's Views: Film Making in Germany.” University of Florida, Women's Studies (1991, invited).
“Inscribing Erika: The Mother-Daughter Bond in Elfriede Jelinek's Die Klavierspielerin.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association (November 1990, submitted) / University of Arizona (1991, invited.)
“The Collapse of Dreams: Female Servants in Works by Marieluise Fleisser.” German Studies Association / University of Arizona Colloquium (1990, submitted and invited respectively).
“Mother's Voice, Daughter's Death in Elfriede Jelinek's Die Klavierspielerin.” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference (1990, submitted).
“The Poetics of Experience: Christa Wolf’s Kindheitsmuster.” American Association of Teachers of German (1989, submitted).
“Training TAs and Tutors for Communicative and Contextual Instruction.” American Association of Teachers of German (1988, submitted).
“Issues of Gender: Considerations when writing or choosing a German language textbook.” American Association of Teachers of German (1987, submitted).
Select Service and Outreach
National
Executive Committee of German Studies Association (2006-present)
Taskforce for Interdisciplinary Studies for the German Studies Association (2007-present)
Conference Program Coordinator for 20th Century German Literature and Culture for German Studies Association (GSA) (2004)
Organizer of the annual conference of the Coalition of Women in German in Arizona (2000-2003)
Editorial board member of the Women in German Yearbook (2001-2007)
Women in German Dissertation Prize Committee (2005)
Fulbright National Screening for German Teaching Assistants (2001-2002, 2004)
Women in German President Selection Committee (2002)
Regional Representative to the Modern Language Association Delegate Assembly (1994-1997)
MLA Committee on Honors and Awards (Scaglione Prize in Germanic Studies, 1994)
National Endowment of the Humanities Grant Selection Committee (Washington D.C., 1993)
Department of German Studies Committees:
Graduate Advisor: (1995-1996; 2001-2007)
Graduate Committee (1991-1996; 1997-2006, chair)
Executive Committee (1999-2002; 2002-2006)Coordinator, German Film Series (1992-2006).
Ad-Hoc Committee for Transcultural German Studies joint Ph.D. with Leipzig (chair, 2003)
Director of Heidelberg Summer Abroad Program (1999-2001)
Initiated Department of German Studies Summer Abroad Program in Heidelberg (1999).
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