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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
Ph.D., German Literature, June 2004
University of California, Los Angeles
Dissertation: Klaus Mann and Suicide in a Larger Historical Context
Dissertation Advisor: Professor Kathleen Komar
Master of Arts, German Literature, May 1998
University of Vermont, Burlington
Master Thesis: Schuld und Sühne in Heinrich von Kleists Michael Kohlhaas and Annette von Droste-Hülshoffs Die Judenbuche
Master Thesis Advisor: Professor Wolfgang Mieder
Junior Year Exchange Program, August 1995-May 1996
Middlebury College, Middlebury VT
Zwischenprüfung in Germanistik, June 1995
Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz, Germany
Grundstudium in Germanistik, Amerikanistik, Anglistik,
Deutsche Volkskunde, October 1993-June 1995
Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz, Germany
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
January 2005-July 2006: Director of the Basic Language Program, Supervisor for German Teaching Assistants -
Division of German Studies,
Department of Modern and Classical Languages, University of Kentucky
August 2004-present: Lecturer in German - Division of German Studies,
Department of Modern and Classical Languages, University of Kentucky, Lexington
August 2004-May 2005: Advisor in the Honors Program Journal/Journey Project
Honors Program - University of Kentucky, Lexington
June 2004-August 2004: Instructor and Assistant Theater Director in German -
The German School, Middlebury College
June 2003-August 2003: Assistant Theater Director in German -
The German School, Middlebury College
February 2003-May 2003: Visiting Lecturer in German -
Department of German, Middlebury College
September 2002-December 2002: Teaching Assistant Consultant -
Office of Instructional Development,
Department of Germanic Languages and Literature, UCLA
June 2001-June 2002: Research Assistant -
Professor Andrew Hewitt, Chair Department of Germanic L&L
November 2000-November 2002: Editor-in-Chief -
New German Review. A Journal of Germanic Studies, UCLA
November 1999-December 2002: Research Assistant -
Getty Research Institute for the Arts and Humanities
September 1998-June 2002: Teaching Associate/Fellow -
Department of Germanic Languages and Literature, UCLA
October 1998-June 1999: Co-Coordinator of the German Club -
Department of Germanic Languages and Literature, UCLA
September 1997-May 1998: Student Coordinator of the German House -
Department of German, University of Vermont
August 1995-May 1996: Teaching Assistant, Student Coordinator of the German Club -
Department of German, Middlebury College
PAPERS PUBLISHED
Allan Woodman,"The Lampshade Vendor." Trans. Teut Deese, Christina J. Wegel, Kryztof Urban, Wolfgang Nehring, as "Der Lampenschirmverkäufer." New German Review 18 (2002-2003): 97-98.
Rev. of The Role of Political and Sexual Identity in the Works of Klaus Mann, by James Robert Keller. New German Review 17 (2001-2002): 147-150.
Rev. of Images of Germany: Perceptions and Conceptions, Peter M. Daly, Hans Walter Frischkopf, Trudis E. Goldsmith-Reber, and Horst Richter (Eds.). New German Review 15/16 (1999-2001): 106-108.
" ‘Der Aufbruch der Phrase zur Tat’: Sprichwörtliche Vergewaltigungen und vergewaltigte Sprichwörter in Elfriede Jelineks Roman Lust." Proverbium 16 (1999): 391-408.
" ‘Der Bock blieb stehen mitten zwischen den Gleisen’: Die Tierwelt als Indikator des Tragischen in Gerhart Hauptmanns novellistischer Studie Bahnwärter Thiel." New German Review 13 (1997-1998): 47-56.
PAPERS PRESENTED
"Outrunning Men: Fast Cars, Fast Sex, Fast Women. Powerless Masculinity in Klaus Mann’s Fiction." Panel: "A New Masculinity in the Weimar Republic." 121st MLA Convention. Washington, D.C. December 27-30, 2005.
"’Was ich selbst verlebt und verloren gemeint…’: Mystification of the Unthinkable in Stefan Zweig’s Verwirrung der Gefühle." Panel: "Mysticism in Modernity: Uniting a Shattered World through Science, Literature, and Art." 39th ACTFL Convention. Baltimore, MD. November 17-20, 2005.
"Theater Performance in the German Curriculum. A Workshop." 39th ACTFL Convention. Baltimore, MD. November 17-20, 2005.
"’Die Souffleuse lebt’: Subjectivity and Selfhood in Kerstin Specht’s play Die Schneeköniginnen." Eine Komödie. Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. Lexington, KY. April 21-23, 2005.
"’… mit dem ekelhaften Schlagwort décadence’: Moments of Decadence and Death in Klaus Mann’s novel Der fromme Tanz." Panel: "Manifestations of Decadence." NEMLA Convention. Cambridge, MA. March 31-April 2, 2005.
"The Powerful, the Lost, and the Homosexual. Klaus Mann’s Berlin in Fact and Fiction." Panel: "Faces of Berlin: Identity and the Metropolis." NEMLA Convention. Pittsburgh, PA. March 3-7, 2004.
"Bitter ist die Verbannung. Bitterer noch ist die Heimkehr’: Klaus Mann’s ‘American’ Essays on War." Twenty-Eighth Annual Colloquium on Literature and Film: The Evolution of War and its Representation in Literature and Film. West Virginia University, Morgantown. September 18-21, 2003.
"’In Vino Veritas: Homoeroticism in Goethe’s West-Östlicher Divan." Sixth UC Colloquium on Early Modern Central Europe. University of California, Berkeley, April 28-20, 2001.
PANEL ORGANIZED
"Theater and Action: Using Performance in the German Classroom. A Workshop." Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. Lexington, KY. April 21-23, 2005.
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