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German Studies Program
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
ph (803) 777-1157
fax (803) 777-0132

EMPLOYMENT:

2001- University of South Carolina, Columbia Assistant Professor
Dept. of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
1999-2001 University of South Carolina, Columbia Visiting Assistant Professor
Dept. of Germanic, Slavic & E. Asian Langs.
Program in Comparative Literature
1998-1999 University of South Carolina, Columbia Lecturer
Program in Comparative Literature
 

Department of English

1997-1998 University of Georgia, Athens Full-time Instructor

Department of Germanic & Slavic Langs.

1994-1997 Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN Teaching Assistant

Department of Germanic & Slavic Langs.

EDUCATION:

1997 Vanderbilt University Ph.D. in German

Nashville, Tennessee

Advisors: John A. McCarthy (Vanderbilt U, German & Comparative Lit.)

Frank Trommler (U of Pennsylvania, German & Comp. Lit)

1993 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität M.A. in German and

München, Germany Comparative Literature

PUBLICATIONS:

Book:

Lyrik “made in USA”: Vermittlung und Rezeption in der Bundesrepublik. [Internationale For-schungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft 36]. Amsterdam/ Atlanta: Rodopi, 1999.

reviewed in: Canadian Review of Comparative Literature 26.2 (1999): 295-298, by Holger Pausch

Deutsche Bücher 2-3 (2000): 181-84, by Gerhard P. Knapp

The German Quarterly 74.1 (2001): 96-7, by Heinz D. Osterle

German Studies Review 24.3 (2001): 654-5, by Hartmut Heep

Edited Book:

German Pop Culture: How “American” is it? Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, [forthcoming Spring] 2004.

Articles:

“Local/ Global: Migration and Integration in Özdamar's Karawanserei and in Morrison's Beloved.” [submitted for The New Europe at the Crossroads].

“Introduction.” German Pop Culture: How “American” is it? Ed. Agnes C. Mueller. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press [forthcoming Spring] 2004, 1-20.

“Der Aphorismus im Geschlechterdiskurs des 18. Jahrhunderts.” Akten des X. Internationalen Germanistenkongresses Wien 2000 “Zeitenwende -- Die Germanistik auf dem Weg vom 20. ins 21. Jahrhundert”. Ed. Peter Wiesinger. Bd. 6. Bern: Lang, 2002, 267-272.

“Brinkmanns US-Poetik im postkolonialen Diskurs.” COMPASS. Mainzer Hefte für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft 4 (2001): 71-95.

“Blicke, westwärts: Rolf Dieter Brinkmann und die Vermittlung ‘amerikanischer’ Lyrik.” Rolf Dieter Brinkmann: Blicke ostwärts westwärts. Beiträge des 1. Internationalen Symposions zu Leben und Werk Rolf Dieter Brinkmanns. Eds. Gudrun Schulz and Martin Kagel. Vechta: Eiswasser, 2001. 190 206.

“Poesie, Pop, Postmoderne: Veränderungen der westdeutschen Lyrik durch Brinkmanns U.S.-Poetik.” Amerikanischer Speck, englischer Honig, italienische Nüsse: Rolf Dieter Brinkmann zum 60. Ed. Gunter Geduldig. Eiswasser Sonderband (I/II 2000): 90-98.

“Heißenbüttel, Helmut.” Encyclopedia of German Literature. Ed. Matthias Konzett. Chicago and London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000. 440-41.

In: Encyclopedia of the Essay. Ed. Tracy Chevalier. London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1997.

The following entries: “Theodor W. Adorno,” 4-7; “Max Bense,” 83-84; “Peter Hamm,” 374-75; “Christa Wolf,” 901-02.

“Der Schriftstellerberuf als ‘Dienstleistung’ an der Öffentlichkeit? – Gespräch mit Matthias Politycki zum Selbstverständnis des Autors im zeitgenössischen Literaturbetrieb.” New German Review 12 (1996-1997):15-25.

Translation:

Chevalier, Tracy. Das dunkelste Blau. München: dtv, 1999. (Original: The Virgin Blue. London: Penguin, 1997.)

Book Reviews:

The Image and Influence of America in German Poetry since 1945, by Gregory Divers, German Studies Review XXV, No. 3 (2002): 646-647.

Thomas Mann’s Joseph and His Brothers, by William E. McDonald; and: Erscheinungsformen des Androgynen bei Thomas

Mann, by Klaus Peter Luft, German Studies Review XXIV, No. 2 (2001): 411-413.

PRESENTATIONS:

“Memories of Migration in Germany and the US: Intersections between Özdamar's Karawanserei and Morrison's Beloved.” German Studies Association Conference. New Orleans, LA, September 18-21, 2003.

“Local/Global: Migration and Integration in Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s Das Leben ist eine Karawanserei.” The New Europe at the Crossroads. Berlin, Germany, June 30-July 3, 2003.

“Introduction.” German Pop Culture: How “American” is it? German Studies Symposium, University of South Carolina, April 5-7, 2001.

“Der Aphorismus als grenzüberschreitende Gattung im Geschlechterdiskurs des 18. Jahrhunderts.” 10. Weltkongress der Internationalen Vereinigung für germanische Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft. Sektion 11. Vienna, Austria, 10-16 September 2000.

“Pop, Beat, Underground: Rolf Dieter Brinkmann und die Vermittlung amerikanischer Gegenwartslyrik.” Lecture at the University of Mainz, invited by the Department of Comparative Literature. Mainz, Germany, 24 May 2000.

“Brinkmann und die New York Poets: Produktive Vermittlung amerikanischer Lyrik in der Bundesrepublik.” Plenary speaker at the international symposium of the Rolf-Dieter-Brinkmann-Gesellschaft. Vechta, Germany, 15-18 May 2000.

“The Beat Generation Abroad. Shaping the German Canon.” SAMLA Conference. Atlanta, GA, 4-6 November 1999.

“American Poetry, German. Brinkmann’s Cultural Mediation.” Workshop for Graduate Students at the German Department of the University of Georgia. Athens, GA, 29 October 1999 [invited].

“Influences of Contemporary US-American Poetry on German Writers.” Intersections 1996: Franco-German Discourses Conference. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 22-24 March 1996.

“Die Rezeption zeitgenössischer US-amerikanischer Lyrik in deutschsprachigen Anthologien.” AATG/IDV Conference. Stanford University, 4-8 August 1995.

“Reshaping Literary Identity by ‘the Other’?: Rolf Dieter Brinkmann as Mediator of Contemporary American Poetry in Post-War Germany.” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. Lexington: Univ. of Kentucky, 20-22 April 1995.

“Der Autor als ‘sozial freischwebende Intelligenz’? Zum Selbstverständnis des Schriftstellers im 19. Jahrhundert, gezeigt an Theodor Fontane.” German Studies Assoc. Conference. Dallas, Texas, 29 Sept.- 2 Oct. 1994.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

Language & Writing:

• First to fourth year German language and culture, composition & conversation (incl. Business German)

• German for Reading Knowledge for graduate students

• English Composition for Freshmen (USC and Honors College)

• Directed senior theses (2) for Honors College students (Spring 2001)

Literature, Culture & Theory:

• Intro to World Literatures: “Around the World in 40 Days” (Comp. Literature / English)

[readings incl. Ancient Egyptian poetry, Chinua Achebe, Arabian Nights, and Boccaccio]

• Intro to Comparative Literature (Comparative Literature)

[theory readings include texts by Freud, de Saussure, Marx, Butler, Irigaray, Sedgwick, Foucault,

Lyotard, Said, DuBois, Bhabha, Bourdieu]

• Great Books of the Western World: “Beyond Good and Evil” (Honors College / Comparative Literature / English)

[Machiavelli, de Sade, Goethe, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, Lawrence, Camus, Nabokov, Arendt]

• What is Postmodernism? (German / Comp. Lit. and English / Comparative Literature)

[Foucault, Lyotard, Beckett, Süskind, Morrison, Nabokov, Greenaway, Warhol]

• Food in Film and Literature(Comparative Literature)

[Babette’s Feast; Like Water for Chocolate; Eat Drink Man Woman; Tampopo; The Big Night; The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover]

• Contemporary German Literature & Culture (German; senior level)

[Böll, Wolf, Frisch, Bachmann, Schulze, Nadolny, Özdamar; selected poetry; Film: Lola rennt]

• Graduate Seminar: Current Theories and Methods in German Studies (newly designed)

• Graduate Seminar: Recent and Contemporary German Literature [newly designed course; emphasis on gender and multi-ethnicity]

• Graduate Seminar: Postmodernism (crosslisted GERM and CPLT)

• Special Graduate Seminar: American Poetry in Germany ( “Hauptseminar” at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany; offered in the English department and crosslisted with German and Comparative Literature; June 2002)

• “Contemporary German Culture” (guest lecture in GERM 280, survey of German culture and civilization; USC, spring 2001 & spring 2002)

• “Popular Culture and Wladimir Kaminer.” (respondent for guest appearance by Prof. Ribbat, University of Bochum, in CLPT/RUSS 580, Fall 2003)

GRANTS, FUND RAISING, AWARDS:

2002 invited to meeting of U.S. and European affiliates of the Max Kade Foundation in NYC (Oct. 10-11, 2002)

2002 CLASS Award for summer research in Germany ($4000)

2002 USC travel grant for faculty exchange with the Ruhr-Universität Bochum to teach special intensive graduate seminar (“Hauptseminar”): American Poetry in Germany

2000-2001 director/ fund raiser: German Studies Symposium 2001 at USC: “German Pop Culture: How ‘American’ is it?” Raised $24,200.00, half from extramural sources (DAAD, Max Kade Foundation, and Goethe Institute).

Spring 2000 organizer/ fund raiser: Tour of readings for distinguished German writer Matthias Politycki to USC, U of Georgia, U of Tennessee, Duke U, U of North Carolina, co-sponsored by Goethe Institute Atlanta.

Summer 1996 Vanderbilt University Dissertation Enhancement Grant

(funded travel to Germany to conduct interviews with authors and publishers)

1994- 1997 Vanderbilt University: Teaching Assistantship

SERVICE:

The Profession:

2003-2006 elected, MLA Delegate to the Assembly, Region South

2002 Nominated for election to MLA Delegate Assembly, Region South

2002 outside reviewer for The German Quarterly

2000-2001 director, 2001 German Studies Symposium: “German Pop Culture: How ‘American’ is it?” April 5-7, 2001 at USC (idea, conception, planning, and fundraising for major international symposium with prominent academics, writers, and critics from Germany, Canada, and the U.S.)

2002-2005 member, SAMLA Studies Award committee

2000-2001 chair and organizer, SAMLA “German Literature after 1933” session

1999-2000 secretary, SAMLA “German Literature after 1933” session

USC:

graduate advisor, German Studies Program

chair, book orders for faculty in Germanic, Slavic & East Asian

2003 representative, web site design for German Studies Program

2002- 2003 member, committee on website for the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

1999-2001 member, Comparative Literature Advisory Committee, Comparative Literature Program, USC

Subcommittee for Library Acquisitions, chair (00)

Subcommittee for Graduate Studies, member (99-00)

Subcommittee for Courses and Curriculum, member (99-00)

2001-2002 member, Fulbright campus evaluation committee, USC

2000- affiliated faculty, Women’s Studies Program, USC

2001 member, Courses and Curriculum committee, College of Liberal Arts, USC

1999-2001 member, Marketing Committee, Dept. of Germanic, Slavic & East Asian Languages, USC (member 99-00, chair 00-01)

1999-2001 faculty coordinator, Foreign Languages in Elementary Schools (FLES), German Program, USC

1999-2000 member, Interview Committee for Bamberg Exchange Students, German Program, USC

Other:

1998-2000 Columbia Film Society: Nickelodeon Theater

Education and Outreach Committee, chair

Board of Directors & Executive Committee, member

Film Selection & Programming Committee, member

1997-98 reader and freelance copy editor, Camden House Publishers

(Columbia, SC)

1996-97 poetry editor, The Vanderbilt Review, Vanderbilt University

LANGUAGES:

German [native], English [near-native], French [fluent],

Italian [reading & some speaking], Latin [reading knowledge]

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:

American Association of Teachers of German (AATG)

American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA)

Delta Phi Alpha (German National Honors Society)

German Studies Association (GSA)

Internationale Vereinigung für germanistische Sprach- und

Literaturwissenschaft (IVG)

Modern Languages Association (MLA)

South Atlantic Modern Languages Association (SAMLA)