Dissertation: “Sexual and Textual Politics Reconsidered: Heinrich von Kleist’s Amphitryon and Marquise von O. and Their Adaptations of the 1960s.”

MA University of Toronto

BA (Honours) Trinity College, University of Toronto

Teaching

Undergraduate Courses

1. Language: Introductory German Interactive Telecourse BGSU-Firelands Campus; Intermediate German I and II; Beginning Honors; Advanced German Composition and Conversation.

2. Culture: German Civilization and Culture from 800-1945; Introduction to Study Abroad; Women and the Third Reich (cross-listed with Women’s Studies); Contemporary Austria. Geographies of Germany-Multicultural Literature in Germany of the 1980s and 1990s.

3. Literature: Introduction to German Literature, 18th & 19th Centuries; German Theatre Workshop- Peter Weiss’ Marat/ Sade.

4. Language-across-the-curriculum course: a German component for

Nazi Germany (History) and a component for Modern European History.

Graduate Courses:

Introduction to German Studies; Teaching College German; Phonology for Teachers of German; Lecture Survey Course: German Literature of the 18th Century; Lecture Survey Course: German Literature from 1600-1800; Advanced Composition; Women and the Third Reich. Multiculturalism in the German Context; Jewish-German Writers in the Context of Multicultural Discourse in Germany.

Books:

Book-length Study of Second and Third-Generation Jewish German Writers (in progress and co-authored with Margy Gerber)

Articles:

“Identity, History and Space in Josef Haslinger’s Vaterspiel and Anna Mitgutsch’s Haus der Kindheit.” Submitted to M. Lamb-Faffelberger and Pam Saur, Eds. Visions and Visionaries in Contemporary Austrian Literature and Film, Austrian Culture Series, Peter Lang, 2003.

“Exile and the Construction of Identity in Barbara Honigmann’s Trilogy of Diaspora” Special issue of Comparative Literature Studies: Intra-National Comparisons, ed. Paul Michael Lützeler, 2003.

“The Intermediate College German Language Course in the 1990s.” With Birgit Roller. Unterrichtspraxis, Fall 1996.

“Black Poetry and Poetry on Blacks: Three Voices from the Caribbean-Political Lyrics in Colombia: Two Approaches to Erich Arendt’s Exile Cycle Tolu .”Part II. In From Ode to Anthem: Problems of Lyric Poetry. Ed. R. Grimm and J. Hermand. Madison: U of Wisconsin Press, 1989.

Papers & Presentations

“Countering Ethnocentrism: Jewish German Fiction of the Second Generation” Twenty-Seventh Colloquium on Literature and Film: Race and Racism in Literature and Film, 10-12 October 2002, West Virginia University.

“Remembering the Holocaust: The Politics of Postmodern Characterization in Doron Rabinovici’s Papirnik and Suche nach M.” at Austrian Writers Confront the Past 1945-2000, Philadelphia, 12-14 April 2002.

“Exile and the Construction of Identity in Barbara Honigmann’s Autobiographical Fiction.” 117^th Annual MLA Convention, 27-30 December 2001.

“Identity, History and Space in Josef Haslinger’s Vaterspiel and Anna Mitgutsch’s Haus der Kindheit.” Annual Conference on Austrian Literature and Culture: Visions and Visionaries in Literature and Film of Modern Austria, Lafayette College, Easton, PA, 18-20 October 2001.

“Post-wall Jewish-German Writing: Cultural Hybridity in Barbara Honigmann’s and Anna Mitgutsch’s Texts.” Writing Europe 2001: Migrant Cartographies Cultural Travellers and New Literatures, Leiden, Netherlands, 22-24 March 2001.

“Biography as Drama: Elisabeth Reichart’s Sakkorausch” at 23^rd Annual Colloquium on Literature and Film, University of West Virginia, October, 1998.

"'Other' Identities in Austrian Fiction of the 1990s: Ethnicity and Gender in Works by Mitgutsch and Reichart." German Studies Association Conference, Seattle, October, 1996

"Feminism and the Jewish Subject in Gertrud Kolmar's Weibliches Bildnis." 29th Annual Meeting of ACTFL, Anaheim, 18-20 November 1995.

"To Write, To Remember: Ruth Klüger's weiter leben: Eine Jugend." Faces of Austria: The Second Republic at 50, Austrian Cultural Series at BGSU, 12 October, 1995.

"Construction of Identity and Experiences of Persecution in Women's Holocaust Memoirs: Ruth Klüger's weiter leben: Eine Jugend." Eighteenth Annual German Studies Association Conference, Dallas, 29 September-2 October 1994.

"Female Friendship and the Fantastic: A Study of Gendered Friendship in Geschlechtertausch." Midwest Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Minneapolis, 4-7 November 1993.

"Der Nationalsozialismus im Landeskundeunterricht am Amerikanischen College." International Organization of Women Professors Meeting, University of Salzburg, 11 March 1993.

"Events into Icons: Strategies for Teaching National Socialism in a German Culture Course." American Association of Teachers of German Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., 22-26 November 1991.

"Impotence and the German War Hero: Ernst Toller's Hinkemann." M/MLA Annual Conference, Chicago, 12-15 November, 1991.

"Heinrich von Kleist's Amphitryon: A Carnival Anti-Myth." Kentucky Foreign Languages Conference, University of Kentucky, 26-28 April, 1991.

"Teaching Theory Through Practice: Proficiency-Oriented TA Training at BGSU." Ohio Foregn Language Association Annual Meeting, 7-9 March 1991.

“Women in the GDR After November 1989." BGSU Feminist Forum, 5 December 1990.

"Marginalized Women in the GDR After November 1989." Annual Women in German Conference, New Haven, Minnesota, 18-21 October 1990.

“Österreich im Kontext der Europäischen Union.” Vassar College and College of William and Mary Summer Program in Münster, Germany, 15 June 2001.

“Hochschulreformen in Österreich heute.” College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, 21 and 24 September 2001.

“Der interkulturelle Ansatz in der Grundstufe an der BGSU” and “Multikulturelle Literatur in Deutschland.” Summer Humanities Workshop for Teachers of German, Bowling Green State University, June, 2000.

Community service:

Toledo Area Pride Center Steering Committee Member, 2002-