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Department of Germanic Languages
University of North Carolina
438 Dey Hall, CB# 3160
Chapel Hill NC 27599
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EDUCATION:
1995-2002: Washington University in Saint Louis, Ph.D, German Literature
1993-1995: Washington University in Saint Louis, M.A., German Literature
1996-1997: DAAD Fellow, Humboldt Universität, Berlin
1989-1993: University of Vermont, B.A., German Literature
1990-1991: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich
CURRENT BOOK PROJECT:
"Visions of Violence: German Avant-Gardes after Fascism." Under review.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
2002 fall - present: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1994 - 2002: Washington University in Saint Louis
PUBLISHED WORK:
ARTICLES
"Peter Weiss and the Exilic Body." modernity/modernism. 14.2 (Spring 2007). Forthcoming.
"Feels Like Teen Spirit: Teaching Cultural Difference through The Body, Affect, and Gender." Women in German Yearbook 23 (2006). Forthcoming.
"Escape from Germany: Disappearing Bodies and Postmodern Space in Christian Kracht's Prose." German Quarterly. 79.1 (Winter 2005/6): 50-70.
"Roll over Beethoven, Chuck Berry, Mick Jagger, etc.: Rock, Identity and the Illusion of Progress in the West German Literary Imagination." Sound Matters: Essays on the Acoustics of German Culture. Eds. Nora M. Alter and Lutz Koepnick. London and New York: Berghahn, 2004.183-196.
"Proverbs and Self-Imposed Subjugation in Oskar Maria Graf's Anton Sittinger." Proverbium 11 (1994): 125-142.
BOOK REVIEWS
The Cambridge Companion to the Modern German Novel. By Graham Bartram, ed. Gegenwartsliteratur: Ein germanistisches Jahrbuch 5 (2006): Forthcoming.
Unser Hitler: Der Hitler-Mythos im Spiegel der deutschsprachigen Literatur nach 1945. By Marcel Atze. H-Net. <http://h-net.msu.edu/>. May 2005.
The Language of Silence: West German Literature and the Holocaust. By Ernestine Schlant. The German Quarterly 76.4 (Fall 2003): 463-464.
The Janus Face of the German Avant-Garde: From Expressionism toward Postmodernism. By Rainer Rumold. The German Quarterly 76.3 (Summer 2003): 343-344.
Mail-Orders: The Fiction of Letters in Postmodern Culture. By Sunka Simon. Gegenwartsliteratur: Ein germanistisches Jahrbuch 2 (2003): 357-359.
Alexander Kluge: The Last Modernist. By Peter C. Lutze. Monatshefte 94.2 (2002): 269-270.
TRANSLATION
"Exile: Multiculturalism is a Stimulant." By Paul Nizon. Trans. Richard Langston. World Literature Today (1995): 474-76.
CONFERENCE PAPERS
INVITED PRESENTATONS
"Non-Spaces in Ulm, around Ulm, and all around Ulm: 'Seeing' Bare Life in 1964." Indiana University. Leser Lecture. April 7, 2006.
"Analog Futures from a Digital Past: Twenty-First Century Shock." After the Digital Divide: German Aesthetic Theory in the Age of New Media. Washington University in St. Louis. April 1, 2006.
"1967: The Year Art Died." Rutgers University. April 18, 2005.
"Escape from Germany: (Post-) National Identity after 1989 in the Contemporary German Fiction." Vanderbilt University. January 27, 2004.
CONFERENCE PAPERS & PARTICIPATION
"Odysseus versus the Lotus-Eaters: Didacticizing the Literary Space of Politics in 1968." ACTFL/AATG Conference. Nashville, TN. November 17, 2006.
"Sebald and Kluge: On the Power of Emotions." German Studies Association. Pittsburgh, PA. September 30, 2006.
"Theory as Obstinacy: Pollesch in the Simulacrum." Modern Language Association Annual Convention. Washington, DC. December 30, 2005.
"Nazis in Vegas: Enraptured Fascist Bodies on Screen at the Millennium." German Studies Association Annual Conference. Milwaukee, WI. October 1, 2005.
"Peter Weiss's Exilic Body." Works in Progress Series. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. September 7, 2005.
"Automated Limbs: Traumatic Legacies of Surrealism Work of Peter Weiss." Modern Language Association Annual Convention. Philadelphia, PA. December 29, 2004.
Co-Chair. "Beyond Marriage: Feminist Interventions." Women in German Conference. Butler State Park, KY. October 23, 2004.
"Schingensief's Peep Show: The Politics of the Postmodern Phantasmagoria." German Studies Association Annual Conference. Washington, D.C.. October 8, 2004.
Co-Chair. "Autobiographical Writing in 18th Century German Literature." American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Conference. Boston, MA. March 26, 2004.
"Feels like Teen Spirit: Affect, Youth Culture and the Challenges of Teaching Cultural Difference in Contemporary German Literature." ACTFL/AATG Conference. Philadelphia, PA. November 18, 2003.
"Kill Your Textbook? Teaching Cultural History and the Problems of Commercial Textbooks." Foreign Language Association of North Carolina. Winston-Salem, NC. October 24, 2003.
"Label Fetishism or Camp?" Women in German Conference. Butler State Park, KY. October 18, 2003.
"French (Object) Lessons: Border Crossings, the Crisis of the Subject and the False Promise of Violence in New Realism." German Studies Association Annual Conference. New Orleans, LA. September 20, 2003.
"Against Chinese Happiness: Decadence and Post-Identity in Christian Kracht's 1979." Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. University of Kentucky. April 25, 2003.
"Theorizing Violence in the Age of West German Counter-Terrorism." Sites of Engagement: The State of the Public Sphere in an Age of Globalization. Rutgers University. March 1, 2002.
"Trapped in a Circuit of Violence: Trauma in Alexander Kluge's Early Prose." Midwest Modern Language Association Annual Conference. Cleveland, OH. November 1, 2001.
"Violence as Media Critique in Rolf Dieter Brinkmann's Late Collages." South Atlantic Modern Language Association Annual Conference. Atlanta, GA. November 1999.
"Dangerous Soundtracks: Veit Harlan's Anders als du und ich." Midwest German Studies Graduate Student Conference. University of Chicago. April 1998.
"Fremd im eigenen Land': Constructions of Blackness and the Quest for Legitimacy in German Hip Hop Culture." Modern Language Association Annual Conference. Chicago, IL. December 1995.
"'Auf einen guten Bissen gehört ein guter Trunk / Leib und Seele kommen zusammen': Scientific and Proverbial Knowledge in the Historia von D. Johann Fausten." Regional Central Renaissance Conference. St. Louis, MO. November 1995.
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