Amy-Diana Colin
Associate Professor

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PhD, Comparative Literature, Yale University

On Leave for AY 2008-2009

1409 Cathedral of Learning
412-624-5909
adc@pitt.edu

Areas of Research and Teaching Focus

• Theories of Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies
• Coexistence Studies
• Gender Studies; European literatures from the late 19th century to Word War II
• Lyric poetry and theories of the lyric
• Fin-de-siécle Vienna, Berlin, and Paris
• Post World War II German writing
• German-Jewish women's literature

Courses Taught Recently

• Money, Beauty, and Seduction: Psychograph of a Century in European Culture
• Multiculturalism in Contemporary German Literature
• From Threshold to Threshold: Europe 1900-2000
• Vienna 1900-2000
• Lyric Poetry from European Symbolism to Contemporary Poetic Experiments
• German-Jewish Women Writers from Henriette Herz and Rahel Varnhagen to Rose Ausländer and Hilde Domin

For more information about my Teaching Message, Teaching Experience, and Evaluations of my Courses, see web site: http://www.pitt.edu/~adc/

Publications

Books and Editions (Selection)

Marginalizations: Patterns of Injustice and Discrimination, collection of essays. UNESCO Publications in cooperation with the City for the Cultures of Peace: International Interdisciplinary Institute, Inc., forthcoming. Editor and contributing author; among the contributors are Joseph Dan, Lars Enwall, Bernd Fischer, Henry Louis Gates, Miri Kubovy, Judith Ryan, and others.
• Formes et dynamiques de l'exclusion, collection of essays. UNESCO Publications in cooperation with the City for the Cultures of Peace: International Interdisciplinary Institute, Inc., forthcoming. Editor and contributing author; collaboration with Marie-Claire Hoock-Demarle on the editorial work. Among the contributors are Michael Lützeler, Sylvie Courtine Denamie, Patrick Imbert, and others.
• Im Gegenlicht des Todes: Poetik der Vielvölkerkoexistenz und jüdischen Identität in der Bukowina (In the Counter-Light of Death: Poetics of Multi-Ethnic Coexistence and Jewish Identity in the Bukovina), Munich: W. Fink Verlag, forthcoming 2006.
• Exclusions/Inclusions: Economic and Symbolic Displacements in the Americas,“ co-edited volume with P. Imbert and D. C. Durante. Ottawa: Legas, 2005.
• Versunkene Dichtung der Bukowina: Anthologie deutschsprachiger Lyrik, anthology and handbook of poetry, co-edited with the Shoah poet Alfred Kittner (1907-91). Munich: W. Fink Verlag, 1994.
• Bridging the Abyss: Reflections on Jewish Suffering, Anti-Semitism, and Exile. Co-editor and contributing author. Munich: W. Fink Verlag, 1994.
• Paul Celan: Holograms of Darkness, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991.
• Argumentum e Silentio. International Paul Celan Symposium, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1987.

Articles (selection)

• Czernowitz as Nodal City in Rewriting Literary History: A Case Study on East-Central Europe , ed. Marcel Cornis-Pope, George Grabowicz, Tomislav Longinovic, John Neubauer, and Svetlana Slapsak. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing House, forthcoming 2006/2007.
• „Fighting Against Hatred, Racism, and Anti-Semitism Through Education,“ Exclusions/Inclusions: Economic and Symbolic Displacements in the Americas,“ co-edited volume with P. Imbert and D. C. Durante. Ottawa: Legas, 2005, 77-85.
• Essays on Paul Celan, Alfred Kittner, and Immanuel Weißglas in Holocaust Literature, ed. Lillian Kremer. New York: Routledge Press, 2002.
• Jüdische Autorinnen der Bukowina im zwanzigsten Jahrhundert, An der Zeiten Ränder: Czernowitz und die Bukowina—Geschichte—Literatur—Verfolgung—Exil , ed. C. Cordon und H. Kusdat. Vienna: Verlag der Theodor Kramer Gesellschaft, 2002.
• Paul Celan—eine plurale Identität: Bukowiner Jude, Europäer, Weltbürger, in Paul Celan: Unverloren. Trotz Allem, ed. B. Hain and H. Gaisbauer, Vienna: Mandelbaum Verlag, 2000.
• "Geheimnis und Mord in Arthur Schnitzler's Therese: Chronik eines Frauenlebens," Schleier und Schwelle:Geheimnis und Neugierde , ed. Aleida und Jan Assmann. Munich: Fink Verlag, 1999.
• "1904—Bertha Pappenheim established the Jewish Women's League," Yale Handbook of Jewish Culture in Germany, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997.
• "Writing from the Margins: German-Jewish Women Poets from the Bukovina," Studies in Twentieth Century German Literature, ed. James Rolleston, Winter 1997.
• Multikulturalismus und Prinzip der wechselseitigen Anerkennung in der deutsch-jüdischen Literatur der Gegenwart, Multikulturelle Aspekte der deutschen Gegenwartsliteratur. Ed. M. Lützeler. Frankfurt/Main: S. Fischer Verlag, 1996.

Awards/Honors (selection)

• Research grants from the Canadian government (2002-2005), the Institue for Human Sciences, Vienna, Austria (1998), and the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris, France (1997).
• Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship (1991-93); Research Fellowship of the Leo Baeck Institute (1992).
• The Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award 1992.
• The Society for the Humanities Fellowship at Cornell University (1988-89).
• Jewish Memorial Foundation Fellowship (1986)
• Grant for Individual Studies and Research from the National Endowment for the Humanities (1984-85).
• Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Yale University (1984-85).

Other (selection)

Research Professor at and Board Member of the Moses Mendelssohn Center, University of Potsdam, Germany
Non-Resident Fellow of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, Harvard University
• Book Series Editor, Humanities For Human Rights.
• Member of the Senior Academic Research Board of the Canadian research project, Transnational discourses in economics (2002-)
• Directeur d'Etudes, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (1997)
• Guest Professor, University of Paris 7-Denis Diderot (1997)
• Guest Professor, Moses Mendelssohn Center, Potsdam University (1992-92)
• Board Member of the Salomon Ludwig Steinheim Institute for German-Jewish History, Duisburg University (1987-91)
• Member of the International PEN (1988-)
• Visiting Scholar, Cambridge University, 1987