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EDUCATION
Princeton University, Germanic Languages and Literatures

Ph.D. (1997)
Dissertation: "Sie haben mich nach und nach verstümmelt": The Wounded Body and the Literary Self in Works of Goethe, Hölderlin, and Büchner.
Advisor: Professor Stanley Corngold
M.A. (1992)
Freie Universität Berlin, Institut für allgemeine und vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
Dissertation Research (1993-94)
Carleton College, German
B.A. magna cum laude (1990)

PUBLICATIONS

"De-composing the Public Sphere in Kleist's Prinz Friedrich von Homburg." Submitted for publication, 1999.
"Mediation and Domination: Paternity, Violence, and Art in Brentano's Godwi," forthcoming in Paternity and Friendship: Festschrift for Stanley Corngold. Ed. Gerhard Richter. UNC Press. 2000.
"'Was nemlich mehr sei, das Ganze oder das Einzelne': Hölderlin's Hyperion as an Unresolved Crisis," German Life and Letters, vol. 51, no. 1 (January 1998), 1-14.
"The Inevitability of Rhetorical Violence: Georg Büchner's Danton's Death," Modern Language Studies, vol. 26, nos. 2 and 3 (Spring and Summer 1996), pages 99-110.

CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS

"Lavater's Physiognomy: Reproducing Bodies, Reproducing Culture." American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (April 2000).
"Goethe, Hölderlin, and the Crisis of Cultural Identity," Goethe Society Convention, Toronto (November 1999).
"Goethe, Hölderlin, and the Task of German Culture: Effacing or Redeeming a National Character?" German Studies Association (October 1999).
"Enlightened or Obedient Soldiers? Kleist's Prince Frederick of Homburg, and Kant's 'What is Enlightenment?'" American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (April 1999).
"'Töten koennt ihr, aber nicht lebendig machen': Literalizing the Rhetoric of Dissection in Schiller and Hölderlin," German Studies Association (October 1998).
Respondent for Panel: "Literature, Critique, and 19^th Century Cultural Studies," German Studies Association (October 1998).
"From Institutional Violence to Self-Injury: J.M.R. Lenz's Der Hofmeister," American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (April 1998).
"Wounded Autonomy in Büchner's Danton's Death," Invited Lecture, Duke University (March 1998).
"Desiring Mothers: German Romanticism and the Regulation of Female Desire," Modern Language Association (December 1997).
Respondent for Panel: "Another Enlightenment: Dialectics, Culture, and the Body," German Studies Association (September 1997).
"High Speed Communication Breakdown: Kleist's 'Entwurf einer Bombenpost,'" Pennsylvania Foreign Languages Conference (September 1997).
"The Inevitability of Rhetorical Violence: Georg Büchner's Danton's Death," NEMLA Conference (April 1996).

PROJECTS

(Book) "They Have Wounded Me by Degrees:" The Wounded Body and the Literary Representation of Self in Early 19^th Century Germany (Projected).
(Book) "Die Wunde Deutschland": Literary Division Before and After Reunification. Interviews initiated in 1989 with East German Authors (Jurek Becker, Jürgen Fuchs, Wolfgang Hilbig, Sarah Kirsch, Uwe Kolbe, Angela Krauß, Günter Kunert, Erich Loest, Katja Lange-Müller, Monika Maron, Hans-Joachim Schädlich, Klaus Schlesinger) on cultural division between the two Germanies (Projected).
(Web-site) Deutsch üben im Internet. On-line cultural activities for beginning and intermediate German students (http://www.colby.edu/german/deutsch_ueben), Colby College (Summer 1999).
(Computer Module) Co-author with Professor Michael Jennings, multi-media computerized introduction to German Culture (1770-1800), Princeton University (1991-93).
(Manual) German Teaching Assistant Manual, Carleton College (1989).

TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS

Hölderlin and Romanticism, Goethezeit
Kleist and Büchner, Early 19th Century
Kafka and Weimar Germany, Early 20th Century
Post-War Germany and the GDR
Violence and the Body in Literature, Philosophy, and Culture
German Intellectual History

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

University of Pittsburgh, Fall 2000-Present
"Bodies of Prose / Prose Bodies," Topics in German Prose, Upper-Division Undergraduate Seminar, Fall 2000.
"German Literature and Culture: 1800-1900," Graduate Seminar, Fall 2000.
Colby College, Fall 1998-Spring 2000
"Romanticism: The Absolute in the Fragment," Senior Seminar, Spring 2000.
"Romantic Outsiders: Hölderlin, Kleist, and Büchner," Independent Study, Fall 1999.
"The Crisis of Modernity: The Assault on Identity," Early 20^th Century German Culture in translation, January 1999.
"Intermediate German," 1998-2000.
Duke University, Fall 1997-Spring 1998
"Romantic Outsiders: Representations of Violence in Hölderlin, Kleist and Büchner" Graduate Seminar, Spring 1998.
"Post-War German Identity," Sixth Semester German, Fall 1997.
"German Composition and Conversation," Fifth Semester German, 1997-98.
Princeton University, Fall 1992-Spring 1996
"European Short Fiction," Freshman Literature and Writing, Spring 1996.
"Intermediate German," 1995-96.
"German for Reading Knowledge," Graduate Summer Language Course, 1996, 1996.
"Forms of Short Fiction," Upper-Division Comparative Literature, Fall 1994, Fall 1995.
"Introductory German," 1992-93.
Carleton College, Fall 1990-Spring 1991
Beginning German Drill Sessions, 1990-91.

PROFESSIONAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIVITIES

MLA ad hoc Committee on the Professionalization of Graduate Students (2000-2002)
Departmental Library Liason, University of Pittsburgh (2000-Present)
Departmental Library Liaison, Colby College (1999-2000)
Departmental Textbook Reassessment Committee, Colby College (1998-99)
Developed and led Writing-in-Progress Workshop for graduate students, Princeton (1994-96)
Conducted weekly German table, Princeton (1992-93, 1995-96)
Graduate Student Union Representative for German Department, Princeton (1992-93)
Summer Internship at Rowohlt Publishing House, Reinbek bei Hamburg (1992)
Graduate Student Departmental Representative, Princeton (1991-92)
Organized and led graduate Theory Colloquium in German Department, Princeton (1990-91)

ACADEMIC HONORS, GRANTS, AND FELLOWSHIPS

Mellon Grant from Colby/Bates/Bowdoin (CBB) Consortium for development of internet-based cultural activities (1999)
DAAD Grant for Research and Study in Berlin (Freie Universität) (1993-94)
Max Kade Foundation Travel Grant (1992)
Princeton Council on Regional Studies Grant for Summer Latin Study (1991)
Phi Beta Kappa (1990)
Dana Award for Personal Achievement (1990)
Richter Fellowship for Summer Research in Germany (1989)

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Modern Language Association
German Studies Association
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

LANGUAGES

German-near-native fluency
French-proficiency
Russian-intermediate level
Latin-reading knowledge

REFERENCES

Professor Stanley Corngold, Princeton University
Professor Michael Jennings, Princeton University
Professor Jamie Rankin, Princeton University
Professor James Rolleston, Duke University
Professor James McIntyre, Colby College
Complete dossier available upon request from Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, 230 East Pyne Building, Princeton, NJ 08544-5264. Tel: (609) 258-4141.