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EDUCATION:
PhD Princeton University1983
MA Princeton University 1980
BA University of Toronto 1978
TEACHING:
2006 (spring) Visiting Professor of German, University of Minnesota
2002 (spring) Charlotte M. Craig Distinguished Visiting Professor of German, Rutgers University
1999 (to present) Full Professor of German and Comparative Literature, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
1990-99 Associate Professor of German and Comparative Literature, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
1990 (spring) Visiting Associate Professor, Princeton University
1988-89 Associate Professor of German, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
1983-88 Assistant Professor of German, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
1981-83 Teaching Assistant, Princeton University
FELLOWSHIPS AND PRIZES:
Humboldt Fellowship, Institute for the Arts and Humanities Fellowship, DAAD, 1985
SAMLA Prize for Best Book, 1995 CAUTG Prize for Best Article Published in Seminar
BOOKS:
Melancholia's Dog: Reflections on Our Animal Kinship. University of Chicago Press, October, 2006. Pp. 216.
The Queer German Cinema. Stanford: Stanford University Press, Spring 2000. Pp.314.
Ed. Outing Goethe and His Age. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. Pp. 297.
Delayed Endings: Nonclosure in Novalis and Hölderlin. Athens GA: University of Georgia Press, 1987. Pp. xiv + 249. Winner of the 1985 South Atlantic Modern Language Association Award Competition.
ARTICLES IN JOURNALS:
“I Married My Dog’: On Queer Canine Literature,” forthcoming in a special of Feminist Theory on “Queering the Non/Human.” 24 pp. and reprinted in Queering the Non/Human, ed. Noreen Giffney, Aldershot: Ashgate Press, 2007.
"A Higher Language: Novalis on Communion with Animals." German Quarterly 76 (2003): 426-442.
" The Problem of Agency in the Digital Era." Rutgers German Studies Occassional Papers Series (2003, no. 1): 1-16.
"Zarah Leander and Transgender Specularity." Film Criticism 23 (1999) (Special Issue on Douglas Sirk/Detlef Sierck): 74-93.
"'The Crystal Revenge': The Hypertrophy of the Visual in Novalis and Tieck." Germanic Review 74 (1999): 214-218.
With Gerd Gemünden and Klaus Phillips. "From Taboo Parlor to Porn and Passing: An Interview with Monika Treut." Film Quarterly 50 (1997): 2-12.
"Comparative Gender: Rosa von Praunheim's and Monika Treut's Cross-Cultural Studies." Spectator: Journal of Film and Television Criticism 15 (1994): 50-59.
"Ephemeral Inscriptions: Winder's and Handke's Testimony to Writing." Seminar 31 (1995): 217-228. Winner of the first Canadian Association of University Teachers of German Prize for the best article published in Seminar.
"Inside Out: Robert Musil's Die Portugiesin." Modern Austrian Literature 26 (1993): 91-106.
"Hearing Woman's Voices in Heinrich von Ofterdingen." PMLA 107 (1992): 1196-1207.
Co-authored with Xavier Vila. "Witnessing Narration in Wings of Desire." Film Criticism 16 (1992): 53-65.
"Desiring Eyes." Modern Fiction Studies. Special Issue on Peter Handke. 36 (1990): 355-67.
"Ears Looking at You!: E. T. A. Hoffmann's Der Sandmann and David Lynch's Blue Velvet." South Atlantic Review 54 (1989): 7-21.
"The Misrepresentation of Self: Goethe versus Werther." Mosaic 22 (1989): 15-28.
"The Temporality of Landscape: Romantic Allegory and C. D. Friedrich." Studies in Romanticism 28 (1989): 69-93.
"The Vanishing Canvas: Notes on German Romantic Landscape Aesthetics." German Studies Review 11(1988): 259-76.
"Reassessing Romantic Reflexivity: The Case of Novalis." Germanic Review 63 (1988): 77-86.
"Titanism and Narcissism: The Lure of the Transparent Sign in Jean Paul." Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift 60 (1986): 44-58.
"Signs of the Future: Reading (in) Lavater's Aussichten." Seminar 22 (1986): 1-19.
"'Spurlos . . . verschwunden': Peter Schlemihl und sein Schatten als der verschobene Signifikant. " Aurora 45 (1985): 189-204.
"Philosophic Chiliasm: Generating the Future or Delaying the End?" Eighteenth-Century Studies 19 (1985): 1-20.
"The Bounds of the Infinite: Self-Reflection in Jean Paul's Rede des todten Christus." German Quarterly 57 (1984): 183-96.
ARTICLES IN BOOKS:
"The Post-Pop Hauntings of Bjørn Melhus." After the Avant-Garde. Ed. Randall Halle and Reinhild Steingröver. Forthcoming Camden House. 28 pp.
"The New Media Artist and the Matrix: Telemediation and the Virtual World of Bjørn Melhus." Forthcoming in the Conference Proceedings of Between the Local and the Global: Revisiting the Sites of German Cinema.
"'It’s not often that I want a man’: Reading for a Queer Marlene.” Dietrich Icon, ed. Gerd Gemünden and Mary Desjardins. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007. 239-58.
"Drag, Cloning, and The Home Shopping Network: Björn Melhus and American TV / Drag, Cloning, und das Home Shopping Network: Bjørn Melhus und das amerikanische Fernsehen ” Bjørn Melhus, ed. Wulf Herzogenrath and Anne Buschhoff. Bremen: Hauschild, 2002. 22-33
"Scheirl’s Hermaphroditic Cinema: From Super 8 Girl Games (1985) to Dandy Dust (1998)." [Cyborg.nets/z] Catalogue on / Katalog zu "Dandy Dust" (Hans Scheirl, 1998). Ed Andrea B. Braidt. Vienna: np, 1999. 54–65.
"Labor Pains: Romantic Theories of Creativity and Gender." "The Spirit of Poesy" Essays on Jewish and German Literature and Thought in Honor of Geza von Molnar. Ed. Richard Block and Peter Fenves. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2000. 74-88.
"Lesbian Film." The Feminist Encyclopedia of German Literature. Ed. Friederike Eigler and Susanne Kord. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1997. 169-71.
"Homosexuality/Homoeroticism/Homosociality," The Feminist Encyclopedia of German Literature. 241-43.
"Lesbian Theories," The Feminist Encyclopedia of German Literature. 283-84.
"Postmodernism." The Feminist Encyclopedia of German Literature. 410-412.
"Wenders' Windshields." The Cinema of Wim Wenders: Image, Narrative, and the Postmodern Condition. Ed. Roger F. Cook and Gerd Gemünden. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. 1997. 222-39.
"Introduction." Outing Goethe and His Age. Ed. Alice Kuzniar. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. 1-32.
"Cross-Gendered Cross-Cultural Studies and the German Program." The Future of Germanistik in the United States: Changing Our Prospects. Ed. John A. McCarthy and Katrin Schneider. Knoxville TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 1996. 122-30.
"Stones that Stare, or, The Gorgon's Gaze in Ludwig Tieck's Der Runenberg." Mimetic Desire: Theories of Narcisissm and German Literature/Culture. Ed. Jeffrey T. Adams and Eric Williams. Columbia SC: Camden House, 1995. 50-64.
"Double Talk in Twin Peaks." Full of Secrets: Critical Approaches to TWIN PEAKS. Ed. David Lavery. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1994. 120-29.
"Suture in /Suturing Literature and Film: Handke and Wenders." Intertextuality: German Literature and Visual Art from the Renaissance to the Twentieth Century. Ed. Ingeborg Hoesterey and Ulrich Weisstein. Columbia SC: Camden House, 1993. 201-17.
"The Paradigm of the Kantian Sublime in the Idealist Reception of the Revolution." Geist und Gesellschaft: Zur deutschen Rezeption der Französischen Revolution. Ed. Eitel Timm. Munich: Fink, 1990. 49-56.
"Kant and Herder on the French Revolution." The French Revolution and the Age of Goethe. Ed. Gerhart Hoffmeister. Olms: Hildesheim, 1989. 15-30.
INVITED GUEST LECTURES:
"Shame, Creatureliness, and the Dogs of Kafka and Mann." University of Waterloo, March 2007, and University of California at Davis, May 2007.
"Whose Melancholy? On the Muteness of Humans and Animals." Iowa State University, April 2006, University of Waterloo, March 2007, and University of California at Berkeley, May 2007.
"Facing Shame." Keynote Address at the annual German Graduate Student Conference on "Confronting Danger." University of Minnesota, April, 2006.
"The Problem of Agency in a Digital Era: From Media Artist Michael Brynntrup to Run Lola Run." The Charlotte M. Craig Distinguished Lecture. Rutgers University, March 2002.
Keynote speaker, Canadian Association of University Teachers of German, Toronto May 2002.
"Romanticism's Animals: The Zooicentric Poetics of Friedrich von Hardenberg." University of Minnesota, February 2002.
"A Higher Language: Communication with Animals," and "Melancholia in C. D. Friedrich." NEH Summer Institute on "Nature, Art, and Politics after Kant: Reevaluating Early German Romanticism." Colorado State University, July 2001.
"Virtual Selves and Prosthetic Genders: From the Experimental Shorts of Brynntrup and Melhus to Run Lola Run." Cornell University. October 2000.
"Queer Theory and Feminist Filmmaking." Keynote Speaker, Feminale, 10th International Women’s Film Festival. October 2000.
"Fassbinder’s Labyrinthine Genders." University of Toronto. January 2000. Harvard University. March 2000.
"Dyke Noir Animation." Whitman College, Walla Walla WA. March 1999. University of Pennsylvania. April 1999. New York University. February 2000.
"Fassbinder for a Queer Nineties." International Conference "Fassbinder Lives! Rediscovering the Cinema of Rainer Werner Fassbinder." British Film Insitute and Goethe Institute, London. January 1999.
"A Gay Melancholia: Michael Stock’s Prince in Hell" and "Hypervisuality in German Romanticism." First Lieselotte Dieckmann Guest Lecturer, Washington University. November 1996.
"Queer Paradigms 1800/1900." Keynote Speaker. Graduate Symposium on "Paradigm Shifts in German Culture." Indiana University. November 1996.
"Hypervisuality in German Romanticism." Plenary Speaker. Conference on "Romanticism in Theory." Copenhagen. June 1996.
"Gender Inverts and Cross-Dressers: Reading for a Queer Weimar Cinema." University of Rochester. November 1995.
"Queerying the Nation: The Project of De-Nationalizing German Studies via Gender Studies." Duke University. April 1995.
"Labor Pains: The German Romantics’ (Re)Production of Art." University of Washington. April 1993.
" ‘And he came inside me’ Possession, Ventriloquism, and Gender in Twin Peaks." Positions Lecture Series, UNC. November 1991.
"David Lynch, Freud, and E.T.A. Hoffmann." UNC Greensboro. October 1990.
"Lacan on the Gaze." Princeton University. Spring 1990.
"Kant, Herder, and the French Revolution." Queen's University. March 1988.
"Contemporary Critical Theory: Semiotics and Goethe’s Werther." Mellon Regional Faculty Development Program. Vanderbilt University. June 1987.
"The Misrepresentation of Self: Goethe versus Werther." University of Virginia. January 1986.
REVIEWS (42, not listed)
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
Reader for journals: Seminar, German Quarterly, European Romanic Review, South Atlantic Review, Colloquia Germanica, Germanic Review, German Studies Review, Women in German Yearbook, Cultural Studies, 18th-Century Fiction, The Goethe Yearbook.
Reader for presses: Palgrave (3 mss.), University of Texas Press, University of Minnesota Press (2 mss.), Stanford University Press (3 mss.), Wayne State University Press (5 mss.), University of California Press 3 (mss.), Penn State University Press, Duke University Press, SUNY Press, UNC Press, Columbia University Press, Cornell University Press, University of Washington Press.
External Referee for Graduate Programs in German: University of Waterloo.
Tenure and Promotion Reviews:
To the rank of Associate Professor: Williams College, Bryn Mawr College, Syracuse University, University of North Carolina at Greenville, University of Missouri at Columbia, University of California at San Diego, University of Rochester (2x), Amherst College, McMaster University, University of Utah, University of Maryland, Drake University, North Carolina State University, Purdue University, Davidson College, Dartmouth College, Washington University (2x), Indiana University, New York University (2x), Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Michigan, Rutgers University (3x), University of Washington, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
To the rank of Full Professor: Washington University, University of Minnesota, University of Florida, University of Rochester, Iowa State University, University of Arizona, University of Vermont, University of California at Urvine (2x), McMaster University, University of Arizona.
Other:
Member, Editorial Board, German Quarterly (1996-2000, 2003-present).
Member (2004-) of the MLA Executive Committee for the Division on Film.
Member, German Studies Association Article Prize Committee (1995).
Member (1991-95) and Chair (1994) of the MLA Executive Committee for the Division on 18th- and early 19th-century German Literature.
Foreign Language Book Review Editor, South Atlantic Review (1988-1990).
Sessions Director, 19th Century Sessions (all fields), GSA 1989 Conference.
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