| 1971-72 | University of Cincinnati - Postdoctoral Fellow |
| 1965-67; 1969-71 | Indiana University (Bloomington), Ph.D. |
| Summer 1965 | Swedish Institute (Uppsala, Sweden) |
| 1963-1965 | University of Chicago (Illinois), M.A. |
| 1962-1963 | University of Erlangen (Germany) |
| Summer 1961 | Institute for European Studies (Vienna) |
| 1958-1962 | Oberlin College (Oberlin, Ohio), B.A. |
PROFESSIONAL
APPOINTMENTS| Summer 1985, 1986, 1990, 1993, 1995, 1999, 2000 | Visiting Professor Deutsche Sommerschule von New Mexico (Taos) |
| 1983-present | Professor, University of Arizona |
| 1977-83 | Associate Professor, University of Arizona |
| 1973-77 | Assistant Professor, University of Arizona |
| 1972-73 | Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Illinois (Urbana) |
| 1969-71 | Associate Instructor and Lecturer, Indiana University |
| 1967-68 | Lecturer, University of Hamburg (Germany) |
MAJOR FIELDS| Music and German Literature |
| German Literary Cabaret |
| German Lyric Poetry |
| Linguistic and Computational Approaches to Literature |
| Metrics and Versification |
FELLOWSHIPS,
GRANTS, HONORS, AWARDS| 2011 | Faculty Research Development Grant for research on German literary-political cabaret and on Knittelvers at the German National Literature Archive in Marbach |
| 2010 | Nominated for the UA Honors College Outstanding Faculty Award |
| 2009 | Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship for Research at the University of Leipzig |
| 2007 | Alexander von Humboldt Grant for Research at the German National Literature Archive in Marbach and Guest Lecture in Berlin on German Cabaret Fulbright Grant for German Studies Seminar in Berlin and Bruxelles on Germany’s Role in the European Union Grant for Loyola College Berlin Seminar on Contemporary German Literature |
| 2006 | Foreign Travel Grant for conference on The Romantic Spectacle, Roehampton University, London |
| 2005 | Alexander von Humboldt Grant for Research at the German National Literature
Archive in Marbach and Guest Lecture at the University of Leipzig Foreign Travel Grant for conference of the International Association of Teachers of German, Graz, Austria |
| 2004 | Foreign Travel Grant for conference on Cultural Memory, Hybridity and Identity in German discourses since 1990, Dublin, Ireland |
| 2003 | Alexander von Humboldt grant for Research at the German National Literature
Archive in Marbach and the Academy of Arts in Berlin Foreign Travel Grant for Conference on Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, Berlin, Germany |
| 2002 | Foreign Travel Grant for International Symposium on Erich Kästner, Sydney, Australia |
| 2001 | Alexander von Humboldt Grant for Guest Lectures at German Universities on German Literary Cabaret and on Metrical structures in German Prose and for Research at the German National Literature Archive in Marbach |
| 2000 | 2000 Foreign Travel Grant for conference of the International Association of German Studies (IVG) in Vienna, Austria (declined) |
| 1999 | Foreign Travel Grant for Conference on Metrics and Versification University of Vechta, Germany |
| 1998 | Vice President for Research, grant for summer project on Literary-Political Cabaret J. William Fulbright Grant for German Studies Seminar on “Deutschland und Mitteleuropa” (Bonn, Berlin, Leipzig, Dresden, Prague) |
| 1997 | Nominated for College of Humanities Innovative Teaching Award Faculty Development Grant to integrate CD, laserdisc and DVD technology into General Education course on Music and German Literature Alexander von Humboldt Grant for Research in Berlin and Leipzig |
| 1996 | Faculty Development Grant "Integrating Multimedia Technology into German
Literature Courses" Alexander von Humboldt Grant for Research at the German National Literature Archive in Marbach and the Academy of Arts in Berlin Foreign Travel Grant for International Conference on Literary and Linguistic Computing, Bergen, Norway Humanities Research Grant for work on German Literary-Political Cabaret |
| 1995 | Sabbatical Leave for research on German literary-political cabaret |
| 1994 | Nominated for a College of Humanities Innovative Teaching Award |
| 1992 | Foreign Travel Grant for International Conference on German Language and
Literature in Baden-Baden, Germany J. William Fulbright Grant for Summer Seminar on German Studies (declined) |
| 1991 | Travel Award from the National Endowment for the Humanities to participate in meeting of the Text Encoding Initiative, Oxford, England |
| 1990 | Travel Award from the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing to participate in the Combined International ALLC and Association for Computers
and the Humanities Conference in Siegen, Germany Alexander von Humboldt Travel Grant to participate in the Eighth Conference of the International Association for Germanic Studies, Tokyo, Japan University of Arizona Foreign Travel Grant for Conference on German Language and Literature in Tokyo, Japan |
| 1989 | Steinfeld Mini-Grant for research on German Kabarett Nominated for a University of Arizona Excellence in Teaching Award |
| 1988 | Sabbatical Leave for computer-aided research at the University of Bonn and for
research on German Kabarett Alexander von Humboldt Travel grants for research at the Deutsches Kabarett-Archiv (Mainz) and the Deutsches Literatur-archiv (Marbach) Alexander von Humboldt travel grant to participate in Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Freiburg, Germany |
| 1987 | University of Arizona Humanities Grant for continuation of research in German archives Goethe-Institute Grant to participate in seminar in Berlin on "Deutsche Literatur im Unterricht" |
| 1986 | Foreign Travel Grant for International AATG Conference on “Erlebte Literatur” Berlin, Germany (declined) |
| 1985 | Alexander von Humboldt Travel Grant to participate in Seventh Conference of the International Association for Germanic Languages and Literatures, Göttingen, Germany University of Arizona Humanities Grant for research in German archives on Knittelvers and Kabarett |
| 1984-85 | University of Arizona Foundation Grant to complete a lemmatized concordance to Johann Wolfgang Goethe's Faust, erster Teil |
| 1983 | Grants from the American Council of Learned Societies and the Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung to participate in international colloquium on "Rhythmics in Language, Literature and Music", Bielefeld, Germany |
| 1981-82 | Alexander von Humboldt Research Grant to resume computer-assisted studies of German literature, Institut für Kommunikationsforschung und Phonetik and Germanistisches Seminar, Bonn University Fulbright Travel Grant for computer-assisted research at the University of Bonn |
| 1980-81 | University of Arizona Foundation Grant to complete a lemmatized concordance to the Lyric Verse of Conrad Ferdinand Meyer |
| 1979-80 | Alexander von Humboldt Research Grant for computer-assisted prosodic and phonological studies of German literature, Institut für Kommunikationsforschung und Phonetik and Germanistisches Seminar, Bonn University |
| 1979-80 | Sabbatical Leave for computer-aided prosodic and phonological studies of German Literature |
| 1977 | Fulbright Grant for Summer Seminar on German Studies, Bonn and Berlin |
| 1973-74 | American Council of Learned Societies Grant for computer-aided study of German verse |
| 1971-72 | Charles Phelps Taft Postdoctoral Fellowship in German, University of Cincinnati |
PUBLICATIONS
| Verskonkordanz zu Goethes "Faust, Erster Teil." Indices zur deutschen Literatur 18, ed. by H. Schwerte, W. Lenders and H. Schanze Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1986. With Steven Sondrup. 825 pp. |
| Konkordanz zu den Gedichten Conrad Ferdinand Meyers. Mit einem Versmaß- und Reimschemaindex. Indices zur deutschen Literatur 16, ed. by H. Schwerte, W. Lenders and H. Schanze. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1982. With Steven Sondrup. 601 pages. |
| Goethe's Knittelvers: A Prosodic Analysis. Bonn: Bouvier Verlag, 1975. 213 pages. |
| Deutsche Knittelverse aus Fuenf Jahrhunderten: Eine Auswahl. 1997. 134 pages. |
„Revision and expansion of articles on „Prosodic Feature Analysis of Verse” and “German Knittelvers.” New edition of the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (forthcoming) |
“Kommunikation im deutschsprachigen Kabarett.” Ed. By Zhu Jianhua. (forthcoming in Alltags- und Fachkommunikation in der globalisierten Welt. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2012). |
“Die Pfeffermühle: A German Cabaret in Exile.“ (forthcoming in Festschrift für Heidi Tewarson, Königshausen und Neumann, 2012) |
“Prosodic and Dramatic Tension in the Blank Verse Dramas of Heinrich von Kleist.” Kleist and Modernity. Ed. by Tim Mehigan and Bernd Fischer. Camden House, 2011, pp. 167-183. |
“Prosodic Feature Analysis of German and English Hexameter Verse.” In: Frontiers in Comparative Prosody. Ed. Mihhail Lotman. (Bern: Peter Lang, 2011), 289-311. |
“The Metrical Relations XO and OX in German and English Verse.” In: Current Trends in Metrical Analysis. Ed. Christoph Küper. (Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2011), 29-44. |
„Gedichte und Lieder im Unterricht.“ IDV-Magazin 82: Beiträge der IDT 2009 Jena/Weimar (July 2010, Vol. 2), 372-382. (www.idvnetz.org) |
| “Alban Berg’s Wozzeck: A Re-Creation of Büchner’s Woyzeck.” In: Georg Büchner: Neue Perspektiven zur internationalen Rezeption. Ed. by Dieter Sevin. Berlin: Erich Schmidt, 2007. Pp. 273-284. |
| Review Article: Annette Blühdorn, Pop and Poetry – Pleasure and Protest: Udo Lindenberg, Konstantin Wecker and the Tradition of German Cabaret. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2003. In: Lied und populäre Kultur / Song and Popular Culture: Jahrbuch des deutschen Volksliedarchivs (Freiburg, 2005) Pp. 195-199. |
| “Brecht’s and Weill’s view of Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny: Musical-Textual Tensions” Madison: Brecht-Jahrbuch 29 (2004), 182-192. |
| “Metrical Structures as Stylistic Features in German Literary Prose.” In: Linguistik International: Meter, Rhythm and Performance. Ed. By Christoph Kueper. Frankfurt/Main: Peter Lang, 2002. Pp. 385-398. |
| “Die Anfänge des literarischen Kabaretts in Berlin.” In: Die freche Muse: Literarisches and politisches kabarett von 1901-1999. Ed. Sigrid Bauschinger. Tübingen: Francke Verlag, 2000. Pp. 21-37. |
| “Integrating Computer and Multimedia Technology into German Literature Courses.” In: Interdigitations: Essays for Irmengard Rauch. Ed. G. Carr, W. Harbert and L. Zhang (Bern: Peter Lang, 1999), 615-626. |
| "Early Literary Cabaret and Modernism in Berlin", In: Politics in German Literature, Ed. B.Bjorklund and M. Cory (Camden House, 1998), 117-131. |
| "Lexicality and the Versification of Johann Heinrich Voss: Observations on Prosodic Feature Analysis", In: Insights in Germanic Linguistics, Ed. Irmengard Rauch and Gerald Carr. (Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1995), 47-66. |
| "Encoding Verse Texts, "Computers and the Humanities 29 (1995), 99-111 (with David Robey). |
| "Post-Renaissance German: Computer-aided Approaches." Literary and Linguistic Computing 10 (1995), 299-301. |
| "Prosodic Aspects of German Hexameter Verse", Poetics Today 16 (1995), 523-545. |
| "Base Tag Set for Verse" (Chapter 9). In: Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange (TEI P3). Ed. C.M. Sperberg-McQueen and Lou Burnard. (Chicago and Oxford: Text Encoding Initiative, 1994), 251-268 (co-author). |
| "German Cabaret Songs in the Weimar Republic." In: Dimensions, ed. by P. Pabisch and I. Stoehr. Krefeld: van Acken (1993), 258-268. |
| "Der deutsche Knittelvers - alt und neu," Akten des VII. Kongreßes der internationalen Vereinigung für germanische Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft, Göttingen 1985. (Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1986), 153158. |
| "Phonological Patterning in Twentieth Century German Verse and Prose." Descriptio Linguistica. (Tübingen: Narr, 1986), 261-282. |
| "Computer-aided Textual Analysis of Post-Renaissance German." Bulletin of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing I (1986), 188-189. |
| "Computer-assisted Research in German Language and Literature since the Mid-Seventies," German Quarterly 58 (1985), 409-422. |
| "Phonological Aspects of German Verse and Literary Prose - Exemplified by Rainer Maria Rilke's Work," Siegener Periodikum zur empirischen Literaturwissenschaft 3 (1984), 119-140. |
| "Phonological Patterning in English and German Verse: A Computer-assisted Approach," Quantitative Linguistics 14 (1982), pp. 114-146. |
| "Prosodic Approaches to Twentieth Century Verse," Journal of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, Vol.2, No. 1 (1981), pp. 34-4O. |
| "Phonology and Style: A Computer-assisted Approach to German Verse," Computers and the Humanities 15 (1981), pp. 199-210. |
| "Phonologie und Stil: eine computerunterstützte Untersuchung." In: Silben, Segmente, Akzente. Ed. Theo Vennemann. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1982 (German version of „Phonology and Style“) |
| "Prosodische Aspekte des Blankversdramas: Eine Untersuchung zu sechs Dramen von Goethe, Schiller, Kleist, Grillparzer und Hebbel" in: Literaturwissenschaft und empirische Methoden, ed. by Helmut Kreuzer und Reinhold Viehoff (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Rupprecht, 1981), pp. 143-59. |
| (Abbreviated version in: Akten des VI. internationalen germanistischen Kongreßes, Basel 1980. Bern: Peter Lang, 1980). |
| “A Prosodic-Phonological Dictionary for Automatic Transcription of Large Corpora of German Verse," Sprache und Datenverarbeitung 4 (1980), pp. 10-13. |
| "A Survey of Computer-assisted Research in Modern German Language and Literature," Computers and the Humanities 11 (1977), pp. 279-287. |
| "Generative Prosody and English Verse," Poetics 6 (1977), pp. 111-153. (discussed in: Derek Attridge, The Rhythms of English Poetry, London, 1982). |
| "Phonological Patterning in German Verse," Computers and the Humanities 1O (1976), pp. 5-20. |
| "Teaching Foreign Literature in English Translation: A Reply," Die Unterrichtspraxis (1975, No. 1), pp. 98-101. |
| "German Derivational Suffixes: A Contribution to the Magnuson-Ryder Theory of Prosody," Language and Style 7 (1973), pp. 27-38. |
ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLES| "Knittelvers", Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Third Edition, 1993, p. 671. |
| "Freie Rhythmen", Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Third Edition, 1993, p. 427. |
| "Freie Verse", Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Third Edition, 1993, p. 428. |
| "Distinctive Feature Analysis of Verse", Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Third Edition, 1993, pp.299-300. |
| "Wolfdietrich Schnurre": Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern European Literature, Second Edition, 1980, pp. 724-25. |
| "Dieter Hoffmann": Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern European Literature, Second Edition, 1980, p.366. |
BOOK REVIEWS| Steven Sondrup and Randall Jones, Konkordanz zu Faust II. Monatshefte 84 (1992), 514-516. |
| Christoph Küper, Sprache und Metrum. German Quarterly (1990), pp. 518-520. |
| P.K. Ackermann, Ed. Bertolt Brecht: Die Dreigroschenoper Boston: Suhrkamp/Insel. Die Unterrichtspraxis 17 (1984), 389-90. |
| Heinz Piontek. Alive or Dead. Translated by Richard Exner. Translation Review 3 (1979), p.48-51. |
| Jörg-Ulrich Fechner, Facsimile edition of Klopstocks Oden und Elegien. Lessing Yearbook 8 (1976), pp. 264-65. |
| Fritz Schlawe, Neudeutsche Metrik. Lessing Yearbook 7 (1975), pp. 242-45. |
TRANSLATIONS| Richard Exner, "Briefe und andere Gedichte". Dimension 14 (1981), pp. 162-167. (With Marie Helt). |
| Werner Bucher, "Motto 1974 und andere Gedichte". Dimension 10 (1977), pp. 80-88. |
| Dieter Hoffmann, "Am Klavier und andere Gedichte". Dimension 10 (1977), pp. 409-418. |
| Manfred Bieler, Der Hauptmann von Kapern (short story), Dimension 6 (1973), pp. 172-185. |
| Manfred Bieler, Jeronim (radio play), Dimension 4 (1971), pp. 43-89. |
WORK IN PROGRESS| German Literary-Political Cabaret since 1945 |
| A History and Critical Anthology of German Knittelvers |
SOFTWARE FOR TEXTUAL ANALYSIS| FRAME: A Program for Phonological Analysis of Literary and Non-literary texts. PC Version. Includes program, sample text files in German, English, Spanish and French, and documentation. With Royce Robbins. Tucson, 1991. Revised 1995 and 2000. |
| FRAME: A User's Manual. With Royce Robbins. Tucson, 1991. Revised 1995 and 2000. |
INVITED LECTURES AND SEMINARS| 2012 | “Metrical, Lexical and Semantic Aspects of German Knittelvers.” German Studies Colloquium, University of Arizona |
| 2010 | “Kommunikation im deutschen Kabarett.” International Colloquium (Humboldt-Kolleg) on Alltags- und Fachkommunikation in der globalisierten Welt, Tongji University, Shanghai, China, May “Recent Changes in German Prosody.” Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Roundtable. Univ. of Berkeley, Berkeley, April |
| 2009 | Keynote Speaker: “The Metrical Relations XO and OX in German and English Verse.” International Conference on “Metrik und Rhythmus.” University of Vechta, Germany “Das deutschsprachige Kabarett am Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts.” Österreichisches Institut, Warsaw, Poland, May „Das deutsche Kabarett im Exil in den dreißiger Jahren.“ Institute for German Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland, May |
| 2008 | Plenary Speaker: “Prosodic Analysis of German Hexameter Verse.” International Conference on Frontiers in Comparative Metrics. Universities of Tallinn and Tartu, Estonia Prosodic Aspects of German and English Blank Verse, University of Tallinn, Estonia German and English Hexameter Verse, University of Tallinn, Estonia German Knittelvers, University of Tallinn, Estonia |
| 2007 | „Erika Manns Pfeffermühle: Ein Kabarett im Exil.“ Colloquium at the German National Literature Archive in Marbach |
| 2006 | “Alban Berg’s Wozzeck and Buechner’s Woyzeck.” German Studies Colloquium University of Arizona |
| 2005 | “Das Kabarett in Deutschland in den 1990er Jahren,” University of Leipzig |
| 2004 | „Brechts and Weill’s Views of Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny. German Studies
Coloquium, University of Arizona „Kulturelle Grenzverwischungen: Das Kabarett in Deutschland am Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts,“ Deutsche Sommerschule von New Mexico, Taos |
| 2003 | „Das Kabarett am Ende der Weimarer Republik und Anfang des dritten Reichs.“ Universität Leipzig, Germany “German Cabaret and Kander and Ebb’s Musical ‘Cabaret.’” Wagner College, Staten Island, New York |
| 2001 | “Das literarische Kabarett in Berlin am Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts.” Universität
Hildesheim, Germany “Literarisches und politisches Kabarett in der Weimarer Republik.” Universität Bonn and Universität Bern, Switzerland “Metrical and Phonological Aspects of German Literary Prose” Universität Köln, Germany “Metrische Strukturen in Der Tod in Venedig.” Universität Bern, Switzerland |
| 2000 | “German Cabaret in the Weimar Republic.” UA Presents Pre-performance lecture for the musical “Cabaret.” University of Arizona, Tucson “German Literary-Political Cabaret in the Weimar Republic.” Annual Max Kade Lecture. Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio |
| 1999 | “Early German Literary Cabaret at the Turn of the Century. “ University of Massachusetts, Amherst |
| 1998 | “Cabaret in Nazi Germany.” UA Drama Department Pre-performance lecture. University of Arizona, Tucson |
| 1997 | “Das literarisch-politische Kabarett in Berlin.” University of Cologne, Germany |
| 1996 | "Das literarische Kabarett in der Moderne." University of Graz, Austria |
| 1995 | "Berliner Kabarett," Deutsche Sommerschule von New Mexico, Taos Ski Valley "Die Pfeffermühle - A Cabaret in Exile," Die Atlantische Brücke: Symposium on German Studies, Taos Ski Valley |
| 1993 | "Musik als Satire: Die Dreigroschenoper," Deutsche Sommerschule von New Mexico, Taos Ski Valley |
| 1990 | "Kurt Tucholsky und das deutsche Kabarett," Deutsche Sommerschule von New Mexico, Taos Ski Valley |
| 1988 | "Das literarische Kabarett der zwanziger Jahre in Deutschland," Studium Universale lecture, University of Bonn, Germany "Phonologische Aspekte deutscher literarischer Prosa," University of Essen, Germany "German Literary Cabaret," Annual Max Kade Lecture, Dept. of German and Russian, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio |
| 1987 | "Phonological Aspects of German Literary Prose," University of California
at Santa Barbara Seminar: "Recent Computer-Aided Research in German Language and Literature," Santa Barbara "Berlin Cabarets in the Weimar Republic," Wellesley College Seminar: "Bertolt Brecht und Kurt Tucholsky," Wellesley College |
| 1986 | ”Bertolt Brecht und das deutsche Kabarett,” Deutsche Sommerschule von New Mexico, Taos |
| 1985 | ”Musik und Sprache in Goethes Balladen, “Deutsche Sommerschule von New Mexico, Taos |
| 1983 | "Musik und Sprache in der Dreigroschenoper von Kurt Weill und Bertolt Brecht,"Deutsche
,.Sommerschule von New Mexico, Taos Invited Participant: Colloquium on Rhythmics in Language, Literature and Music at the Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre Forschung, Bielefeld, Germany |
| 1982 | "Phonological Aspects of English Verse," Internationales Zentrum, Universität Münster "Phonological Patterning in English and German Verse," Department Germaanse Filologie, Universiteit Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium "Phonologie und Stil: Eine computerunterstützte Untersuchung an deutscher Lyrik," Germanistisches Seminar, Universität Bonn "Phonological and Stylistic Aspects of German Verse," Sponsored by the Instiuto di Linguistica Computazionale Consiglio Nazio nale delle Recerche Pisa and the Fulbright Commission in Italy. Pisa, Italy |
| 1981 | "Phonological Aspects of German Verse: A Computer-assisted Approach," Sponsored by the
Department of Germanic Languages and Literature and the Department of Computer Science. University of California at Santa Barbara Seminar: "Prosodic Aspects of German Blank Verse Drama", Dept. of Germanic Languages and Literature, Santa Barbara |
| 1977 | "Generative Aspects of German Lyric Verse," Germanistisches Seminar, Universität Köln |
ACADEMIC CONFERENCES| 2012 | “Schumanns Encounter with Goethe’s Faust.” Music in Goethe’s Faust – Goethe’s Faust in Music, International Conference in Honous of Nicolas Boyle. National University of Ireland Maynooth, April 20-22. “Linguistic Aspects of German Knittelvers.” Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Roundtable, Berkeley, California, March 23-24. |
| 2011 | “Theater and Politics: Erika Mann’s Pfeffermuehle”. Annual Conference of the German Studies Association, Louisville, Kentucky, September 22-25. “German Knittelvers in the Twentieth Century.” Annual Convention of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Scottsdale, Arizona, October 6-8. Session Chair: German Literature since 1900 – I and II. Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Scottsdale, October 6-8. |
| 2010 | “Prosodic and Dramatic Tension in the Blank Verse Dramas of Heinrich von Kleist.” International Symposium on “Kleist und die Moderne.” Univ. of Otago, Dunedin, NZ, September |
| 2009 | “Prosodic, Lexical and Semantic Aspects of German Knittelvers.” Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Snowbird, Utah. “Gedichte und Lieder im Deutschunterricht.” Internationale Deutschlehrertagung, Schiller-Universität Jena, Jena, Germany |
| 2008 | “Prosodic Feature Analysis of German Hexameter Verse.” International Conference on Frontiers in Comparative Metrics, Tallin and Tartu, Estonia “Transcultural German Studies.” Panel on Revamping the Foreign Language Department and Curriculum. Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association. Reno, Nevada “Mozart’s Don Giovanni and Hoffmann’s Don Juan. German Studies Association, St. Paul, Minnesota “Distinctive Feature Analysis of German Literature.” Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Roundtable, University of California, Berkeley. “Erika Mann’s Cabaret Die Pfeffermuehle in Exile.” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington. |
| 2007 | “The City in Early Twentieth Century German Poetry and Painting.” International Conference on Transcultural German Studies, University of Arizona, Tucson. Participant in Panel Discussion on “Anti-Plagiarism Services and Copyright Infringement.” Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Calgary, Alberta, Canada |
| 2006 | “Georg Buechner and Alban Berg: Literary and Musical Approaches to Woyzeck.” International Conference on Literature and Culture, University of Hawaii, Honolulu “Romantic Idealism in E.T.A. Hoffmann’s Don Juan.” Conference on the Romantic Spectacle. Roehampton University, London “The Portrayal of the City in the Lyric Poetry of Georg Heym” Biennial Conference of the Humanities and Technology Association, Borough of Manhattan College, New York |
| 2005 | German Cabaret since Reunification.” Annual Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho “Kabarettt und Kabarettlieder im Deutschunterricht,” Internationale Tagung der Deutschlehrerinnen und Deutschlehrer, Graz, Austria |
| 2004 | “Memory and Identity in German Literary Cabaret since 1990,” University College, Dublin, Ireland “Early German Literary Cabaret,” Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Boulder CO Moderator, Session 23: “Portrayal of the Elderly in Austrian and German Literature,” German Studies Association, Washington, D.C. |
| 2003 | “Brecht’s and Weill’s Views of ‘Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny’: Musical-Textual Tensions.” Annual Conference of the International Brecht Society, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany |
| 2002 | “Prosodic Feature Analysis and German Literary Prose.” International Conference on Humanities and Technology. Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, Indiana “Erich Kaestner and German Literary Cabaret.” International Symposium on Erich Kaestner, Goethe Institute and University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. |
| 2001 | “Metrical and Phonological Structures in Der Tod in Venedig.” University of Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, Kentucky |
| 2000 | “Early German Literary Cabaret in Berlin.” University of Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, Kentucky |
| 1999 | “Metrical Structures in Thomas Mann’s Novellas,” International Conference on Meter, Rhythm and Performance, University of Vechta, Germany (invited) |
| 1998 | “Metrical and Phonological Structures as Stylistic Features in German Literary Prose,” Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Roundtable, Univ. of California, Berkeley |
| 1996 | "Integrating Multimedia Technology into Third Year German Courses," Joint conference of the Association for Literary and Lingusitic Computing and the Association for Computers and the Humanities, University of Bergen, Norway. |
| 1995 | "Das Kabarett-Chanson in der Weimarer Republik," Ninth World Congress of the Association for Germanic Studies, Vancouver, B.C., Canada |
| 1994 | "Linguistic Approaches to German Literature," Berkeley/Michigan Germanic Linguistics Roundtable, Berkeley "Computer-Aided Approaches to Prosodic Styles in German Literature," Modern Language Association, San Diego |
| 1993 | Organizer: General Linguistics Discussion Group [Special Topic: Sound and Sense in Poetry and Literary Prose], Modern Language Association, Toronto. |
| 1992 | "Lexicality and the Prosody of Johann Heinrich Voss," Berkeley/Michigan Germanic Linguistics Roundtable, Berkeley. "French Influences on German Literary Cabaret," American Association of Teachers of German, Baden-Baden, Germany. |
| 1991 | "FRAME: A Program for the Phonological Analysis of Literary Texts. 18th ALLC and 11th ACH Conference on Computers and the Humanities, Tempe (With Royce Robbins) |
| 1990 | Chaired sections on "Neural Text", "A Hypertext Environment for Lexical Information Systems" and "Deduction of Implicit Information in a Text Understanding System" at the 17th Conference of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing and the 10th International Conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities, Siegen, Germany "Phonologie und literarischer Stil: Aspekte des deutschen Verses und literarischer Prosa" Eighth World Conference of the Association for Germanic Studies, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1989 | "Cabaret Songs in Berlin in the 1920's: Brecht and Tucholsky," Symposium on German Literature and Music, University of Houston "A Computer-Aided Study of Sound and Rhythm in Twentieth Century German Literary Prose, “ Combined 16th International ALLC and 9th ACH Conference on Computers and the Humanities, Toronto "German Literary Cabaret and Weimar Culture," German Studies Association, Milwaukee "Sound and Rhythm in Turn-of-the-Century German Literary Prose," American Association of Teachers of German, Boston "A Prosodic Approach to German Poetic Meter," Modern Language Association, Washington |
| 1988 | "A Computer-Aided Approach to Phonology and Style," Societas Linguistica Europea, Freiburg, Germany |
| 1987 | Computer Aided Literary Analysis," Conference on the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature," Winnepeg "Computer-Aided Linguistic Analysis of Literature," Internationaler Linguistenkongreß, Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin, GDR "Berlin Cabaret during the Twenties," Schreiben in der Großstadt: Internationales Kolloquium, Montreal "German Cabaret and the Literary Avantgarde in Berlin," Association of Teachers of German, Atlanta |
| 1986 | "Computer-aided Stylistic Analysis and Literary Interpretation," Modern Language Association, New York |
| 1985 | "Phonology and Genre: A Computer-assisted Approach to German Literature," International Conference on Computers and the Humanities, Provo "Der deutsche Knittelvers - alt und neu," Siebter Kongreß der internationalen Vereinigung für germanische Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft, Göttingen, Germany |
| 1984 | “Computer-assisted Research in German Language and Literature," German Studies Association, Denver "Phonological Patterning in the Poetry and Prose of Rainer Maria Rilke," Midwest Modern Language Association, Bloomington "Phonological Patterning in Twentieth Century German Prose," International Conference on Structural Linguistics, Antwerp, Belgium |
| 1983 | Organizer and Leader: Panel Discussion on Computer-assisted Approaches to Germanic Languages and Literature, Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, San Francisco "Phonological Aspects of German Literary Prose," Sixth International Conference on Computers and the Humanities, Raleigh, North Carolina |
| 1982 | "Prosodic Aspects of the Theater of Heinrich von Kleist: A Computer-assisted Approach." Seventh International Symposium on Literary and Linguistic Computing, Pisa, Italy |
| 1981 | "Phonological Aspects of German Free Verse." Congrés International D'Informatique et Sciences Humaines, Liège, Belgium Prosodische Aspekte der Blankversdramen Kleists und Goethes." Workshop über Philologische Anwendungen der Linguistischen Datenverarbeitung, Tübingen, Germany "Editing Techniques for Converting Machine-Readable Orthographic Texts to Phonological and Prosodic Form," International Meeting of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, Oxford, England "Phonologie und literarischer Stil," Vierte Jahrestagung der deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, Cologne, Germany |
| 1980 | "Prosodic Approaches to Twentieth Century German Verse," Fifth International Conference on Literary and Linguistic Computing, Cambridge, England "A Prosodic-Phonological Dictionary for the Transcription of Large Corpora of German Verse." Second International Conference on Data-Bases in the Humanities and the Social Sciences. Madrid, Spain "Phonologische Aspekte des deutschen Blankversdramas." Sechster Kongreß der internationalen Vereinigung für germanische Sprach und Literaturwissenschaft, Basel, Switzerland "A Computer-assisted Approach to the sonnets of Bertolt Brecht and Georg Trakl," Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Denver "Technical, Editorial and Economic Aspects of a Computer-generated Concordance to the Complete Lyric Verse of Conrad Ferdinand Meyer," Modern Language Association, Houston, Texas |
| 1979 | "Verse-forms as Signs: Semiotic Aspects of German Poetic Meter." Second International Conference on Semiotics, Vienna, Austria |
| 1978 | "A Comparative Study of Phonological Patterning in German and English Verse." Fifth International Congress of Applied Linguistics, Montreal, Quebec, Canada "Phonology and Genre: A Computer-assisted Approach to Poetic Style." Philological Association of the Pacific Coast, University of Washington, Seattle "A Report on Literary and Linguistic Computing in Germany," Modern Language Association, Chicago |
| 1977 | "Phonological Equivalence in English Verse," Modern Language Association, New York |
| 1976 | "Observations on German Knittelvers." Symposium on Language and Literature. Arizona State University, Tempe Prosodic Characteristics of German Blank Verse Drama." Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Santa Fe "Generality and Flexibility in Computer-assisted Studies of Language and Literature," Modern Language Association, New York |
| 1975 | "Phonological Patterning in German Verse," Second International Conference on Computers and the Humanities, Los Angeles |
EDITORIAL WORK| 1999-2005 | Reader for German Quarterly |
| 1995-2001 | Reviewer and Editorial Consultant, Computers and the Humanities |
| 1986-2000 | Editorial Board, Journal of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing |
| 1983-2000 | Editorial Consultant for Post-Renaissance German Texts, Journal of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing |
| 1984-1991 | Editorial Consultant, Eidos: International Prosody Bulletin |
| 1983-1985 | Editorial Consultant, Die Unterrichtspraxis |
| 1979-1990 | Bibliography Committee, Computers and the Humanities |
| 1980-1981 | Editorial Board, Computers and the Humanities |
| 1982-1996 | Editorial Board, SPIEL: Zeitschrift für empirische Literaturwissenschaft |
FOREIGN LANGUAGE COMPETENCE| German: all skills | |
| Spanish: reading, writing, listening; some speaking | |
| French: reading; some writing, listening and speaking | |
| Swedish: reading, some writing listening and speaking | |
| Danish and Norwegian: reading | |
| Medieval German: reading |
HUMANITIES COMPUTING EXPERIENCE| Experience in production of concordances and indices, in computer-aided stylistic analysis, prosodic and phonological analysis of literature, metrics and versification |
| Professional contacts and participation in international conferences on humanities computing |
| Work on Text Encoding Initiative – Working Group on Verse Texts |
TEACHING EXPERIENCE| Language | Elementary and Intermediate German Intermediate and Advanced German Reading Intermediate and Advanced German Conversation Oral Expression and Written Composition Advanced Grammar and Stylistics German Reading for Honors Literary Translation German Reading for the Sciences and Humanities |
| Literature and Culture | Honors courses on German literature and culture Independent Study courses on various topics in literature, language and culture Kafka and Schopenhauer European Literary-Political Cabaret The Poetry of Bertolt Brecht Goethe's Lyric Poetry Studies in Genre German Romanticism General Education Courses on twentieth century German literature and culture German Literature and Cabaret from 1880 to 1933 German Literature during the Weimar Republic Music and German Literature: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Linguistic and Computer-assisted Approaches to Literature Introduction to German Literature Topics in German Literature: Multimedia Section History of German Literature Nineteenth Century German Literature German Literature from 1848 through Naturalism German Lyric Poetry: Sixteenth to Eighteenth Century German Lyric Poetry: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Genre as a Category for Organizing Experience: Lyric and Dramatic Verse German Versification Methods and Materials for Literary Research Approaches to Literary Criticism Scandinavian Literature in English Translation Scandinavian Reading for Honors Independent Study Courses on Various Topics |
UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI| Graduate Colloquium on German Lyric Poetry |
DEUTSCHE SOMMERSCHULE VON NEW MEXICO (TAOS)| Seminar: Goethes Lyrik | |
| Seminar: Brechts Lyrik | |
| Seminar: Literarisches und politisches Kabarett in Deutschland | |
| Seminar: Musik und deutsche Literatur |
ADMINISTRATIVE AND SERVICE POSITIONS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA
SINCE 1982 MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS| German Studies Association Internationale Vereinigung für germanische Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft International Brecht Society Kurt Tucholsky-Gesellschaft Friedrich Schiller-Gesellschaft Association for Computers and the Humanities |
| Modern Language Association American Association of Teachers of German American Association of University Professors Alexander von Humboldt Association of America Fulbright Association of America |
| Arizona Foreign Language Association Arizona Chapter, American Association of Teachers of German Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association |
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