Dr. Geoffrey C. Howes
Professor
Telephone: (419) 372-7139
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Degrees:
1985, Ph.D., Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan
1978, A.M., German Literature, University of Michigan
1977, B.A., German, Michigan State University
Positions:
At BGSU
2002- Professor, German, Russian and East Asian Languages
1993-2002 Associate Professor, German, Russian and East Asian Languages
1986-1993 Assistant Professor, German, Russian and East Asian Languages
At the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
1985-86 Visiting Instructor, German
Teaching:
German language, levels I-graduate
Contemporary Germany and German Culture and Civilization, undergraduate
and graduate levels
German and Austrian literature and culture, level III-graduate
German-American Heritage
Advanced German-English Translation
Recent Scholarship:
“’Hell is not interesting, it is terrifying.’ A Reading of the Madhouse Chapter in Robert Musil’s The Man without Qualities.” Journeys into Madness: Mapping Mental Illness in ‘Vienna 1900.’ Ed. Gemma Blackshaw and Sabine Wieber. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books, 2010. (forthcoming)
“’The Bestiality of Decency’: Communal Cruelty in Erich Hackl’s Abschied von Sidonie.” Modern Austrian Prose: Interpretations and Insights. Volume II. Ed. and Intro. by Paul F. Dvorak. Riverside, CA: Ariadne Press, 2011. (forthcoming)
“Wahnsinn und Literatur in Wien um 1900.” Madness and Modernity: Kunst und Wahn in Wien um 1900. [Transl. Walpurga Schrems.] Exhibition Catalog. Im Auftrag des Wien Museums herausgegeben von Gemma Blackshaw and Leslie Topp. Wien: Christian Brandstätter Verlag, 2010, 144-53.
Susanne Ayoub, “Maughter & Dother” (“Muchter & Totter”). Translated by Geoffrey C. Howes. Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review (Spring/Summer 2010), 54-55.
Peter Rosei, Metropolis Vienna (Wien Metropolis). A Novel. Translated by Geoffrey C. Howes. Copenhagen and Los Angeles: Green Integer Press, 2009.
