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Nicholas Vazsonyi
German Faculty
Associate Professor

Phone: (803) 777-2935 
Fax:     (803) 777-0132 
E-mail: vazsonyi@sc.edu

 Education

B.A.: Indiana University, 1982, summa cum laude
M.A.: University of California, Los Angeles, 1988
Ph.D.: University of California, Los Angeles, 1993
 
 Teaching Interests

Culture & Civilization 
Enlightenment & Romanticism
German Identity Formation 
Music/Opera 
Film
 
 Research Interests

German identity formation
Richard Wagner
Goethe
Georg Lukács 
 
 Selected Publications

BOOKS

Richard Wagner: Self-Promotion and the Making of a Brand. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (under contract; planned 2010).

Ed. Wagner's Meistersinger: Performance, History, Representation. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2003. Paperback edition 2004.

[essays by: Peter Schneider, Harry Kupfer, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Lydia Goehr, Lutz Koepnick, David Dennis, Peter Höyng, Klaus van den Berg, Thomas Grey, Hans Vaget, Eva Rieger]

Ed. Searching for Common Ground: Diskurse zur deutschen Identität 1750-1871. Cologne & Weimar: Böhlau, 2000. 

[essays by: Hans Peter Herrmann, Hinrich Seeba, Bernd Fischer, Martin Kagel, Otto Johnston, Jost Hermand, Ehrhard Bahr, Horst Lange, Lynne Tatlock, Andreas Schumann, Conrad Wiedemann, Peter Höyng, Jonathan Skolnik, Lorie Vanchena, Mary Sue Morrow, Hans R. Vaget, David Dennis]

Lukács Reads Goethe: From Aestheticism to Stalinism. Columbia,  SC: Camden House, 1997.

ARTICLES & CHAPTERS:

“Beethoven Instrumentalized: Richard Wagner’s Self-Marketing & Media Image,” Music & Letters. 89.2 (May 2008): 195-211 Advance Access published on December 7, 2007. doi:10.1093/ml/gcm089.

“Selling the Ring: Wagner’s ‘Enterprise’,” Inside the Ring, Essays on Wagner’s Opera Cycle, Ed. John Louis DiGaetani (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2006): 51-68.

Bluebeard’s Castle: The Birth of Cinema from the Spirit of Opera,” Hungarian Quarterly 46.178 (Summer 2005): 132-144.

"Marketing German Identity: Richard Wagner's Enterprise," German Studies Review 28.2 (May 2005): 327-346.

“The Wagner Industry and the Politics of German Culture,” The Intersections of Politics and German Literature: A Festschrift in Honor of Ehrhard Bahr. New German Review 19: Special Issue (2003-2004): 103-116.

"Hegemony Through Harmony: German Identity, Schiller, and the Ninth Symphony," Sound Matters: Essays on the Acoustics of German Culture. Eds Nora M. Alter & Lutz Koepnick, Oxford & New York: Berghahn, 2004. 33-48.

Die Meistersinger: Performance, History, Representation,” Wagner’s Meistersinger: Performance, History, Representation. Ed. Nicholas Vazsonyi. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2003. 1-20.

"Goethe in Moscow: Georg Lukács's 'Anti-Fascist' Readings 1933-1945." Goethe im Exil 1933-1945: Deutsch-Amerikanische Perspektiven. Eds Frank Baron & Gert Sautermeister. Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2002. 199-215.

"Bluebeard's Castle: Staging the Screen - Screening the Stage," Arcadia 36.2 (2001): 344-362.

"Einleitung: Searching for Common Ground?" Searching for Common Ground: Diskurse zur deutschen Identität. Ed. Nicholas Vazsonyi. Cologne & Weimar: Böhlau, 2000. 1-20. 

"Georg Lukács." Encyclopedia of German Literature. 2 Vols. Ed. Matthias Konzett. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000. 2:661-64.

"Richard Wagner." Encyclopedia of German Literature. 2 Vols. Ed. Matthias Konzett. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000. 2:968-71.

"Montesquieu, Friedrich Carl von Moser and the 'National Spirit Debate' in Germany (1765-1767)." German Studies Review 22.2 (1999): 225-246. 

"Of Genius and Epiphany: Schlafes Bruder, Das Parfum, and Babette's Feast." Studies in 20th Century Literature 23.2 (1999): 331-351. 

"Liszt, Goethe and the Faust Symphony." Journal of the American Liszt Society 40 (1996): 1-23. 

"A Wall of Silence?: The Case of Christa Wolf." The Berlin Wall: Representations and Perspectives. Eds. Ernst Schürer, Manfred Keune, Philip Jenkins. New York: Peter Lang, 1996. 181-90. 

"Searching for 'The Order of Things': Does Goethe's Faust, Part II Suffer from the 'Fatal Conceit'?" Monatshefte 88.1 (1996): 83-94. 

"Deflated Hybris--Uncertain Telos: The Humbling of Faust and the Revival of Merlin." Merlin versus Faust: Contending Archetypes in Western Culture . Ed. Charlotte Spivack. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 1992. 41-64. 

"Schiller's Don Carlos: Historical Drama or Dramatized History?" New German Review 7 (1991): 26-41. 

"Goethe's Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre: A Question of Talent." The German Quarterly 62.1 (1989): 39-47. 

BOOK REVIEWS FOR

Music & Letters
American Historical Review
German Quarterly
Colloquia Germanica

German Studies Review
Monatshefte
Das Achtzehnte Jahrhundert
The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography 

FILM/VIDEO CASSETTE SERIES

Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms. (1 hr. videocassettes). Produced by Telemusic, Inc. MPI, 1989.

 

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