NEIL H.DONAHUE

Professor of German and Comparative Literature

Director, German Program

Department of Comparative Literature and Languages

Calkins Hall, Room 322, 107 Hofstra University

Hempstead, NY 11549-1070

EDUCATION

RUTGERS UNIVERSITY, New Brunswick, New Jersey

Ph. D. January 1987. Comparative Literature

UNIVERSITÄT TÜBINGEN, Germany

Fulbright Graduate Fellow, 9/1983-2/1985

M. A. September 1983. Comparative Literature

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, New York City, New York

University Graduate Fellow, 1980-81, Comparative Literature

UNIVERSITÄT TÜBINGEN, Germany

German literature. No degree sought, 1979-80.

RUTGERS UNIVERSITY, Cook College, New Brunswick, NJ

B. A. May, 1979. English Literature, Honors

PUBLICATIONS

Books:

Karl Krolow and the Poetics of Amnesia in Postwar Germany.

Rochester, NY: Camden House / Boydell & Brewer, 2002.

Reviewed in:

Choice (March 2003): 1187, by C. L. Dolmetsch.

Literaturkritik.de No. 7 (July 2003) by Kai Koehler.

German Studies Review 27, 1 (February 2004): 214-15, by Francis Michael Sharp.

Arbitrium (2003) by Stephanie Stockhorst.

Germanic Review 77, 1 (2004): 110-11, by Larson Powell.

Gegenwartsliteratur: A German Studies Yearbook 3 (2004): 312-15, by Frederick A. Lubich.

Monatshefte, 98, 1 (2006): , by Claas Morgenraath.

Voice and Void: The Poetry of Gerhard Falkner.

Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Carl Winter, 1998.

Reviewed in:

World Literature Today (Summer 1999) by David Scrase.

German Studies Review 22, 3 (1999): 533-34, by Hans-Peter Söder.

Journal of English and Germanic Philology (Oct. 1999): 606-07, by Jerry Glenn.

Nürnberger Nachrichten (May 6, 1998): 38, by Karl Heinz Stahl.

Forms of Disruption: Abstraction in Modern German Prose.

Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993.

Reviewed in:

Germanic Review (Spring 1995): 80-81, by Ronald Salter.

World Literature Today (Winter 1994), by Theodore Ziolkowski.

German Quarterly (Spring 1996): 218-19, by Walter Sokel.

Choice (November 1993): 460, by Michael Winkler.

Germanistik 35, 2 (1994): 595-96, by Oliver Herwig.

Annals of Scholarship 10, 3-4 (1994): 413-15, by Tamara S. Evans.

Books edited:

A Companion to the Literature of German Expressionism. Camden

House: Rochester, NY, 2005.

Flight of Fantasy: New Perspectives on Inner Emigration in

German Literature,1933-1945. Ed., with Doris Kirchner. New

York: Berghahn, 2003.

---Paperback edition. September, 2005.

Reviewed in:

German Studies Review 28, 3 (2005): 653-54, by Margaret Devinney.

German Quarterly 78, 4 (Fall 2005): 551-552, by Robert C. Reimer.

Invisible Cathedrals: The Expressionist Art History of Wilhelm

Worringer. University Park: Penn State Press, 1995.

Reviewed in:

Monatshefte 90, 1 (Spring 1998) by Barbara Buenger.

German Quarterly 70, 4 (Fall 1997): 406-07, by Tamara Evans.

Modern Language Review 92, 4 (1997): 1019-20, by Raymond Furness.

Gazette des Beaux-Arts (9/1995): 24.

The Burlington Magazine 137, 1110 (1995): 632, by David Carrier.

Germanic Review 71, 1 (1996): 78-80, by Guy Stern.

Art History 19, 2 (1996): 323-4, by Anne Stieglitz.

Articles:

21. “Victor Klemperer as Feminist: His Emancipatory Ideal from

Lou Andreas-Salomé’s novel Ruth (1895).” Work in progress.

20. “Rick Prol – ‘Metamorphosis’.” Catalogue Essay. Maya Stendhal

Gallery, 545. W. 20^th St. New York, NY. Exhibit: September 18–

October 31, 2003.

19. "The Fall of Wallenstein, or the Collapse of Narration: The

Parodox of Epic Intensity in Alfred D`blin’s Wallenstein (1920)."

Companion Volume to Alfred Döblin. Rochester, NY and London:

Camden House / Boydell & Brewer, 2003.

18. "At the Heart of the Matter: Deliberations on Crisis in the Diaries

of Victor Klemperer, 1933-45." Literarisches Krisenbewußtsein:

Ein Perzeptions- und Produktionsmuster im 20. Jahrhundert. Eds. Keith

Bullivant and Bernhard Spies. Munich: Iudicium Verlag, 2001. 105-27.

17. "Gedicht and Gedächtnis: Convergence and Divergence in the Work of Karl

Krolow and Paul Celan. In: Glossen. On-line journal. www.dickinson.edu/departments/germn/glossen/heft 11 June 2000.

16. "Oskar Loerke als Karl Krolows Vorbild." Drittes Marbacher

Loerke-Kolloquium, 1997. Ed. Reinhard Tgahrt. Mainz: v. Hase &

Koehler, 2000. Forthcoming.

15. "Wilhelm Worringer." Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, ed. Michael Kelly.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. 482-83.

14. "The Intimacy of Internationalism: The Poetry of Joachim Sartorius."

Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature. 21, 1 (1997): 243-65.

13. "Adorno's Philosophy of Poetry after Auschwitz from a Postwall Perspective."

In: Revisiting Zero Hour 1945: The Emergence of Postwar German Culture,

eds. Stephen Brockmann and Frank Trommler. (Washington DC: American

Institute of Contemporary German Studies, 1996): 57-70.

12. "Dollars and Sense: On the Value of Poetry in Gerhard Falkner's

Über den Unwert des Gedichts (1993) / Gedicht und Genicht."

Sprache im technischen Zeitalter. 33, 134 (June 1995): 189-99.

11. "Unjustly Framed: Politics and Art in Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari."

German Politics and Society. (Summer 1994): 76-88.

-- Also, an earlier, shorter version in French translation as

"Le Cas Otto Gross et ses Liens avec L'Avant-Garde Cinémato-

graphique Berlinoise: Le Caligari de Wiene." In: Nervure:

Journal de Psychiatrie 7, 1 (February, 1994): 52-56.

10. "Age, Beauty and Apocalypse: Yasunari Kawabata's The Sound of the

Mountain (1954) and Max Frisch's Der Mensch erscheint im

Holozän (1979)." In: Arcadia: Zeitschrift für Vergleichende

Literaturwissenschaft. 28, 3 (1993): 291-306.

9. "Through the Prism of the Prison: Gerhard Falkner's Jack Henry Abbott Poems."

In: Orbis Litterarum 48 (1993): 341-357.

8. "From Worringer to Baudrillard and Back: Ancient Americans and (Post)Modern

Culture in Weimar Germany." In: Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift 4 (1992): 765-782.

-- Also included in Invisible Cathedrals (135-155). See above.

7. "Fear and Fascination: Rilke's Use of Georg Simmel in The Notebooks

of Malte Laurids Brigge." In: Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature

16, 2 (Summer 1992): 197-219.

6. "Scents and Insensibility: Patrick Süskind's New Historical Critique of

'Die Neue Sensibilität' in Das Parfum (1985)."

Modern Language Studies 22, 3 (1992): 36-43.

5. "Gerhard Falkner and the Lyrical Redemption of Language in the Eighties."

In: Germanic Review 67, 2 (1992): 69-76.

4. "Ethics in Action and the Failure of Speculation in Robert Musil's

Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törleß (1906)." In: Studies in Modern

and Classical Languages and Literatures 3 (1991): 13-19.

3. "Analysis and Construction: The Aesthetics of Carl Einstein."

German Quarterly 61, 3 (1988): 419-36.

2. "An East-West Comparison of Two War Novels: Alfred Andersch's

Die Kirschen der Freiheit and Shohei Ooka's Fires on the Plain."

In: Comparative Literature Studies 24, 1 (1987): 58-82.

1. "Beating Time in Prose." Enemy News: Newsletter of the Wyndham

Lewis Society. Twickenham, England. (Spring, 1980): 17-19.

Scholarly Reviews:

12. Brockmann, Stephen. Literature and German Reunification. Cambridge, UK

and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. In World Literature Today.

11. Del Caro, Adrian. The Early Poetry of Paul Celan: In the beginning was the word.

Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State UP, 1997.

German Studies Review. 23, 2 (May 2000):376-77.

10. Barner, Wilfried, ed. Geschichte der deutschen Literatur von 1945

bis zur Gegenwart. Munich: Beck, 1994. World Literature Today.

9. Pinthus, Kurt, ed. Menschheitsdämmerung. Dawn of Humanity: A Document of

Expressionism. Trans. and intro. Joanna M. Ratych, Ralph Ley, and

Robert C. Conard. Columbia, SC: Camden House, 1994.

German Quarterly 68, 4 (1995): 471-72.

8. Schlant, Ernestine & J. Thomas Rimer, eds. Legacies and Ambiguities: Postwar

Fiction and Culture in West Germany and Japan. Washington, DC: The Woodrow

Wilson Center Press; Baltimore and London; The Johns Hopkins UP, 1991.

German Quarterly 66, 2 (1993): 271-72.

7. Hoffmeister, Gerhart, ed. European Romanticism: Literary Cross-Currents, Modes,

and Models. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1990.

European Romantic Review 3, 1 (1992).

6. Mabee, Barbara. Die Poetik von Sarah Kirsch: Erinnerungsarbeit und Geschichtsbewußtsein.

Amsterdam/Atlanta: Rodopi, 1989.

German Studies Review (1991).

5. Hoesterey, Ingeborg. Verschlungene Schriftzeichen: Intertextualität von

Literatur und Kunst in der Moderne/Postmoderne. Frankfurt a.M.: Athenäum, 1988.

Germanic Review 67, 1 (1992): 46-7.

4. Michaels, Jennifer E. Franz Jung: Expressionist, Dadaist, Revolutionary and Outsider.

New York: Peter Lang, 1989.

Germanic Review 66, 4 (1991): 188-89.

3. Dierick, Augustinus P. German Expressionist Prose: Theory and Practice.

Toronto: U of Toronto Press, 1987.

Germanic Review 64, 4 (1991): 182.

2. Rasch, Wolfdietrich. Die literarische Décadence um 1900. Munich: Beck, 1986.

Germanic Review 63, 2 (1988): 111-12.

1. Krull, Wilhelm. Prosa des Expressionismus. Stuttgart: Metzler, 1984.

Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies. (1995).

Literary Reviews (in World Literature Today):

30. Meckel, Christoph. Suchbild: Meine Mutter. Munich: Hanser,

2002. 77, 3-4 (2003): 116.

29. Exner, Richard. Night / Die Nacht. Trans. Alan MacDougal and

Roger Lydon. Keizer, OR: Eden Publishing, 2001. (Summer 2002)

28. Lehr, Thomas. Frühling. Novelle. Berlin: Aufbau, 2001.

(Summer 2002).

27. Kolbe, Uwe. Vineta. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1998.(Autumn 1999)

26. Exner, Richard. Gedichte. Stuttgart: Radius, 1998.(Autumn 1999)

25. Czernin, Franz Josef. naturgedichte. Munich: Hanser, 1996.

(Spring 1997)

24. Drawert, Kurt. Wo es war. Frankfurt a. M.: Suhrkamp, 1996.

(Autumn 1996)

23. Bydlinski, Georg. Wintergras. Mödling/Wien: edition umbruch,

1995. (Autumn 1996)

22. Happel, Lioba. Der Schlaf überm Eis. Frankfurt a. M.:

Schöffling, 1995. (Spring 1996)

21. Draesner, Ulrike. Gedächtnisschleifen. Frankfurt am Main:

Suhrkamp, 1995. (Spring 1996)

20. Schmidt, Kathrin. Flußbild mit Engel. Frankfurt am Main:

Suhrkamp, 1995. (Spring 1996)

19. Krolow, Karl. Die zweite Zeit. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp,

1995. (Spring 1996)

18. Sartorius, Joachim, ed. Atlas der neuen Poesie. Reinbek bei

Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1995. (Autumn 1995)

17. Zschorsch, Gerald. In den Straßen: Gedichte aus Frankfurt.

Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1995. (Spring 1995)

16. Krolow, Karl. Etwas brennt: Gesammelte Prosa. Frankfurt a. M.:

Suhrkamp, 1994. (Spring 1995).

15. Grünbein, Durs. Falten und Fallen. Frankfurt a. M.: Suhrkamp,

1994. (Spring 1995).

14. Kolbe, Uwe. Nicht wirklich platonisch. Frankfurt a. M.:

Suhrkamp, 1994. (Winter 1995).

13. Drawert, Kurt. Fraktur: Lyrik, Prosa, Essay. Leipzig: Reclam,

1994. (Winter 1995).

12. Nakitsch, Marian. Flügelapplaus. Frankfurt a. M.: Fischer,

1994. (Autumn 1994).

11. Falkner, Gerhard. Über den Unwert des Gedichts: Fragmente und

Reflexionen. LCB/DAAD: Text und Porträt. Berlin & Weimar:

Aufbau, 1993. (Fall 1994).

10. Maiwald, Peter. Wortkino: Notizen zur Poesie. Frankfurt a. M.:

Fischer, 1993. (Fall 1994)

9. Hettche, Thomas. Inkubation. Frankfurt a. M.: Suhrkamp, 1992.

(Fall 1993).

8. Papenfuß-Gorek, Bert. NUNFT. Göttingen: Steidl Verlag, 1992.

(Summer 1993).

7. Sartorius, Joachim. Der Tisch wird kalt. Cologne: Kiepenheuer

& Witsch, 1992. (Summer 1993).

6. Krolow, Karl. Ich höre mich sagen. Frankfurt a. M.: Suhrkamp,

1992. (Summer 1993).

5. Söllner, Werner. Der Schlaf des Trommlers. Zürich: Ammann

Verlag, 1992. (Spring 1993).

4. Modick, Klaus. Das Licht in den Steinen. Frankfurt a.M.:

Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt, 1992. (Winter 1993).

3. Biermann, Wolf. Alle Lieder. Cologne: Kiepenheuer & Witsch,

1991. (Summer 1992).

2. PROE. Sonderband. Berlin: Druckhaus Galrev, 1991. Sascha

Anderson, Stefan Döring, Gerhard Falkner, Durs Grünbein,

Thomas Kling, Bert Papenfuß-Gorek, Peter Waterhouse, with

illustrations by A. R. Penck. (Spring 1992).

1. Holton, Milne, and Kühner, Herbert, ed. Austrian Poetry Today.

New York: Schocken Books, 1985; and Waldrop, Rosmarie, and Watts, Harriet, eds.

The Vienna Group. NY: Station Hill Press, 1985.

St. Mark's Poetry Project Newsletter. (November 1985).

CONFERENCES

29. “History and Hedonism: Looking for Christoph Meckel.”

Commentator to Panel of “Making Words Say What They Mean.”

German Studies Association. Pittsburgh, PA. September 28-October 1, 2006.

28. “Forms of Lyrical Collectivity in Expressionism: Overcoming the Autonomous Self.”

German Studies Association. Washington, DC. October 6-10, 2004.

Panel organizer and moderator.

27. “Victor and Eva at the Movies: The Dialectic of Cinematic Escapism and Weimar

Society in the Mandarin Class." Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA)

Cambridge, MA 3/6-9, 2003.

26. “Victor’s Secret: Eva Klemperer Between the Lines." German Studies Association.

San Diego, CA. Oct. 2002.

25. "At the Heart of the Matter: Victor Klemperer’s Diaries, 1933-1945."

Northeast Modern Language Association. Hartford, Conn. April 2001.

24. "The Poetry of Gerhard Falkner." Introductory lecture to reading at

Northeast Modern Language Association, Hartford, Conn. April 2001.

23. Symposium Co-director. "Inner Emigration in German Literature, 1933-1945."

Hofstra University, October 15-16, 1999.

22. "A Walk on the Wild Side or 'Inner Emigration': Karl Krolow's Pornography

in his Bürgerliche Gedichte (1970)." Northeast MLA (NEMLA), Pittsburgh, April 16-17, 1999.

21. "Gedicht and Gedächtnis: Convergences and Divergences between Karl Krolow and Paul Celan."

German Studies Association, Salt Lake City, October 8-10, 1998.

20. "Karl Krolow as 'Inner Emigrant'." German Studies Association,

Washington, DC. Sept. 25-28, 1997.

19. Moderator. Panel on "Traditions of Contemporary German Poetry."

NEMLA conference. Montréal, April 19-20, 1996.

18. "Contemporary German Modernism in the Poetry of Durs Grünbein."

German Studies Assoc. conference, Chicago, Sept. 21-24, 1995.

17. "Dollars and Sense: On the Value of Poetry in Gerhard Falkner's

Über den Unwert des Gedichts." (NEMLA) April 8-10, 1994.

16. "Postwar or Postmodern?" Paper as Commentator. Panel on "(Anti)

(Post)Modernist Narratives." German Studies Association,

Washington, DC. October 7-10, 1993.

15. "Age, Beauty and Apocalypse in Yasunari Kawabata's The Sound of the Mountain

(1954) and Max Frisch's Der Mensch erscheint im Holozän (1979)."

American Comparative Literature Assoc. Bloomington, In. March 25-28, 1993.

14. "'Slumming' as Fact, Fashion and Fiction." Panel Chair. City in

Literature. NEMLA. Philadelphia, PA. March 25-27, 1993.

13. "Idiom, Ideology and Identity in Contemporary German Poetry: Gerhard Falkner

and Bert Papenfuß-Gorek." German Studies Assoc. Minneapolis, MN. October 1-4, 1992.

11."Through the Prism of the Prison: Gerhard Falkner's Jack Henry Abbot Poems

in the Context of the New Historicism." Kentucky Foreign Language conference,

Lexington, April 23-25, 1992.

11. "Gerhard Falkner and the Prenzlauer Berg Group." Panel Chair.

Section on Modern German Poetry. NEMLA conference. Buffalo, NY.

April 3-5, 1992.

10. Conference Organizer and Moderator: "Art History or 'Sublime

Hysteria'?: The Ideas of Wilhelm Worringer." Hofstra University. April 26, 1990.

8. "The Poetry of Gerhard Falkner and the Lyrical Redemption of Language

in the Eighties," and "The Threat of Sensuality: Commentary on Elias Canetti."

German Studies Assoc. Buffalo, NY. October 4-7, 1990.

9. "Scents and Insensibility: Patrick Süskind's New Historical Critique of

'Die Neue Sensibilität' in Das Parfum (1985)." NEMLA. Toronto, April 6-8, 1990.

7. "Politics and Art in Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari." Questioning

Authority in Text and Film. Southeast Conference on Foreign

Languages and Literatures. Rollins College, Winter Park, FL.

February 23-25, 1990.

6. Moderator. Panel on "Literary Politics between the Wars."

Conference on "Cultural Contacts between German- and Yiddish-

Speaking Jews." Columbia University. March 31-April 1, 1990.

5. "Ethics in Action: The Failure of Speculative Thinking in

Musil's Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törleß (1906)." German

Literature and Ethics panel. Southeast Conference on Foreign

Languages and Literatures. Rollins College, Winter Park, FL.

Feb. 23-25, 1989.

4. "The Prose of German Expressionism." Moderator. Modern Language

Association. New Orleans, LA. Dec. 30, 1988.

3. "Fear and Fascination in the Big City: Rilke's Use of Georg

Simmel." NEMLA. Providence, RI. March 24-25, 1988.

2. "Eclipsed by History: the Post-World War II Recovery of

'Expressionist Prose'." Conference on "Literature and History." Yale University. April 18-19, 1986.

1. "The Solution to Silence: The Emergence of Abstraction in

Hofmannsthal's Ein Brief." Presented in German in two sessions

to Professor Richard Brinkmann's Doktorandenkolloquium.

Tübingen, Germany. February 1985.

INVITED LECTURES (and Discussions)

29. “The Diaries of Victor Klemperer.” Rockville Centre Public

Library, Rockville Centre, NY, November 8, 2006.

28. “The Diaries of Victor Klemperer.” Wayne State University,

Junior Year in Munich Program (JYM), Munich, Germany. June 8, 2006.

27. “Postwall Poetics: German Literature after Reunification.”

Symposium:CriticalConjunctions: Modernities,Postmodernities, and Cultural Globalization: The Role of the Intellectual. Hofstra University, April 22-23, 2004.

26. Postwall Poetics: German Literature after Reunification.

Symposium: Comparative Literature in the Age of Globalization. Rutgers University, NJ. October 24, 2003.

25. "’Poemland Insecurity’: Introduction to the Poetry of Miguel

Zapata." Border Crossing: Beyond the Patria, Hofstra

University, April 2003.

15-24. At the Heart of the Matter: Desperate Deliberations in the Diaries of

Victor Klemperer, 1933-1945.

Hofstra University, December 1, 1999.

Penn State, April 24, 2000.

Williams College, April 17, 2000.

Hofstra University, Herman Prize Lecture, October 25, 2000.

West End Synagogue, November 8, 2000.

Barnard College, Spring, 2001.

Swarthmore College, Spring 2001.

Sarah Lawrence College, Spring 2001.

University of Rhode Island, Fall 2001.

University of Washington, Seattle, WA, October 14, 2005.

14. "Oskar Loerke als Vorbild Karl Krolows" Penn State, April 24, 2000.

13. "The Quintessence of Crisis in the Diaries of Victor Klemperer, 1933-1945."

Symposium. University of Florida, April 1-4, 2000.

12. Organizer, Lecture series. Perspectives on German-Jewish Modernity in the

20th-Century. Hofstra University, Fall 1999.

10. Radio Interview (N. Donahue & Connie Jentzsch with Gerhard Falkner).

"'ich - bitte antworten' - Der Lyriker Gerhard Falkner."

Feature, DeutschlandRadio Berlin:"Werkstatt."

10. "Oskar Loerke als Vorbild Karl Krolows." 3. Marbacher Loerke-Kolloquium,

April 3-5,1997. German Literature Archive, Marbach, Germany.

9. "Postwar Poetry from a Postwall Perspective: Adorno's

Philosophy of Poetry." American Institute of Contemporary

German Studies. Washington, DC. May 12, 1995.

8. "The Poetry of Gerhard Falkner." Introduction to poet and his

work, with a reading by the poet at Princeton University.

November 17, 1994.

7. Discussant/Translator. "The Poetry of Gerhard Falkner."

International Translation Workshop. Barnard College, NY.

November 11-12, 1994.

6. Invited Participant: "German Cultural History: A

Symposium." Harvard University. Center for European Studies.

April 28-30, 1994.

5. "Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks: A Genealogy of Decline." Great

Books Series. Hofstra University. September 13, 1993.

4. "Ancient Americans: Weimar Anxieties in Wilhelm Worringer's

Ägyptische Kunst (1927)." First Lecture in Series on "Politics

and Aesthetics in Weimar Culture," Center for European Studies,

Harvard University. October 24, 1991.

3. "Politics and Art in Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari." In film

series "Psychoanalysis and Cinema," Film Department, Columbia

University. February 3, 1989.

2. "Politics and Art in Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari." Deutsches

Haus, Columbia University. March 4, 1988.

1. "Method, History and Literary Analysis: An Exemplary East-West

Comparison of Two War Novels." Rutgers Comparative Literature

Graduate Colloquium. March 31, 1986.

TRANSLATIONS

5. Reinhold Grimm "In the Thicket of Inner Emigration." In:

Donahue, Neil and Doris Kirchner, eds. Flight of Fantasy: New

Perspectives on Inner Emigration in German Literature, 1933-

1945. New York and London: Berghahn Books, 2003.

4. Falkner, Gerhard. Excerpts from Über den Unwert des Gedichts

and two poems. Special Issue on Contemporary German Poetry.

Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature. 21, 1 (1997): 267-74.

3. Bushart, Magdalena. "Changing Times, Changing Styles: Wilhelm

Worringer and the Art of his Time." In: Invisible Cathedrals:

The Expressionist Art History of Wilhelm Worringer. Penn State

Press, 1995.69-85.

2. Kurz, Gerhard. "Nietzsche, Freud and Kafka." In: Reading Kafka:

Prague, Politics and the Fin-de-Siècle, ed. Mark Anderson. New

York: Schocken / Random House, 1989.

1. Stach, Reiner. "Kafka's Egoless Woman: Otto Weininger's Sex and

Character." In Reading Kafka: Prague, Politics and the Fin-de-

Siècle, ed. Mark Anderson. New York: Schocken, 1989.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Organizer-Moderator. Chairs’ Caucus: Forum on Academic

Administration. NEMLA convention, 2003-5.

Fulbright National Screening Panel, 2002.

Director of German, Executive Board (elected office), Northeast

Modern Language Association (NEMLA) Spring 2000-2004

Referee of article submissions to:

Twentieth Century Literature (Editorial Board, 1993-2003)

Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature

German Quarterly

Germanic Review

Religion and Literature

German Studies Review

Referee of book manuscripts:

SUNY Press, Penn State Press, Longman Publishers, Norton,

University of North Carolina Press, Camden House

Tenure/Promotion reviews at:

Pomona College

University of Rhode Island

Barnard College

Oakland University

Penn State

Queens College-CUNY

Carnegie Mellon University

University of Florida

University of Utah

ACADEMIC HONORS

2002 Alexander von Humboldt short-term grant (Arbeitsbesuch)

2000 Peter E. Herman Literary Award ($500) for essay on

Victor Klemperer's Diaries

1996-97 Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship,

Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany

1993 Stessin Prize for Best Scholarly Publication, Hofstra

University ($1,000). For Forms of Disruption.

1992-93 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship

1990 German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). Summer Research

grant, Berlin and Munich.

1987 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer

Institute at Harvard U. for the Study of Avant-Gardes.

1985-86 Louis Bevier Graduate Fellowship, Rutgers University.

1983-85 Fulbright-Hays grant, Fulbright Graduate Fellow.

1981-83 Teaching Assistantship, Rutgers, Comparative Literature

1980-81 New York University Fellow, Comparative Literature

1978-79 George H. Cook Honors Scholar, Cook College, Rutgers.

LANGUAGES

German: near native fluency (speaking, reading, writing)

French: speaking, reading, writing knowledge

Spanish: reading knowledge

ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE

2003-4 Task Force on Foreign Languages

1/1999- Chairperson, Department of Comparative

8/2005 Literature & Languages

1998 Chair, Faculty Personnel Board

Chair, Departmental Personnel Committee

1997-98 Chair, Departmental Personnel Committee

Faculty Personnel Board representative (HCLAS)

Chair, Task Force on Area Studies in HCLAS

Chair, Ad Hoc Tenure Committee

1993-5 Chair, Curriculum Proposals Committee, Hofstra College of

Liberals Arts and Sciences (HCLAS)

Faculty Personnel Board (HCLAS)

Executive Committee (HCLAS)

1994 Acting Chair (on short-term substitute basis) of CLL

1988- Director of the German Program, Hofstra University

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

1999- Professor of German and Comparative Literature

1993- Associate Professor, Hofstra University

German and Comparative Literature

1987-88 Assistant Professor, German, Columbia University

1987 Assistant Professor, Comparative Literature,

Rutgers University (spring semester only)

1986 Rutgers College, English Composition

1986 Comparative Literature, Rutgers College (summer courses)

1985-86 English Composition, Livingston-Rutgers Colleges

1985 Comparative Literature, Rutgers (summer courses)

1981-82 Teaching Assistant, Comparative Literature, Rutgers

COURSES TAUGHT

At Columbia University: German

Elementary German

Vision in Modern German Prose (in German)

Modern German Poetry (in German)

Nineteenth-Century Poetic Realism (Graduate, in German)

At Hofstra University:

Elementary Language & Intermediate Language

Advanced Level: Contemporary German Culture; Readings,

Conversation, Composition.

German 100-106: Advanced Grammar Review

Masterpieces Cycle: (In German)

The Drama of German Classicism and Romanticism

Introduction to German Modernism (Interdiscip.)

Novellas of German Poetic Realism

Novellas of German Romanticism

German Poetry from Goethe to the Present

Expressionism in Verbal and Visual Arts

Postwar to Postwall German Literature

Survey of German Literature, 1750-1900.

Victor Klemperer’s Tagebücher 1933-45.

Comparative Literature / Literature in Translation

At Hofstra University:

The Faust Myth in European and American Literature and Culture.

World Literature and the Anatomy of Cultural Difference.

Beauty and Sadness in Japanese Literature & Culture.

The Literary Text and the Photographic Imagination: Traditions

of Realism and Naturalism in the 19th and 20th Centuries.

Postwar to Postwall German Literature from 1945 to the present.

Thomas Mann’s Magic Mountain.

Graduate M.A. Humanities:

German Expressionism in Word and Image.

Poetry, Poetics, and Artistic Practice in Modernism.

Figuring Kafka: Traditions of Fantastic Realism in World Literature

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