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BOOKS
 

The Literary Reputation of Else Lasker-Schüler: Criticism 1901-1993.  Columbia, S. C.: Camden House, 1994. Part of the Literary Criticism in Perspective series, this book discusses the historical develop­ment of criticism and scholarship on Lasker-Schüler and indicates its effect on the reputation and understanding of that author. 176 pp.

Negation and Utopia: The German Volksstück from Raimund to Kroetz. New York, San Francisco, Bern, Baltimore, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Wien, Paris: Peter Lang, 1993. The book contains a theoretical introduction, extensive bibliography, and individual chapters on plays by the following authors: Ferdinand Raimund, Johann Nestroy, Ludwig Anzengru­ber, Ludwig Thoma, Marieluise Fleißer, Ödön von Horváth, Bertolt Brecht, and Franz Xaver Kroetz. 299 pp.

   
ARTICLES (recent):
 

"Rainer Werner Fassbinder." Encyclopedia of Modern Drama. NY: Columbia UP. (2007)


"Marieluise Fleißer." Encyclopedia of Modern Drama. NY: Columbia UP. (2007)


"Franz Xaver Kroetz." Encyclopedia of Modern Drama. NY: Columbia UP. (2007)

“Chaos within Identity: Else Lasker-Schüler’s Drama IchundIch.” Journal of the Association for the Interdisciplinary Study of the Arts. 9.1 (2003): 11-24. (refereed)

“The Teacher as Pupil—the Reader as Author: Inverted Didactics in Ödon von Horváths Jugend ohne Gott.” Modern Austrian Literature. 33. 3/4 (2000 [©2001]). 109-28. (refereed)

“Else Lasker-Schüler.” Encyclopedia of German Literature. Chicago and London: Fitzroy-Dearborn, 2000. 632-34.

“Zauberstücke.” Encyclopedia of German Literature. Chicago and London: Fitzroy-Dearborn, 2000. 1025-26.

“The Play’s the Thing: Subject, Author, and History as Drama in Ichund­Ich.” Else Lasker-Schüler. Ansichten und Perspektiven/Views and Reviews. Ed. Ernst Schürer and Sonja Hedgepeth. Tübingen: Francke Verlag, 1999.­ 169-84. (refereed)

“Representing the People: Darstellung and Vertretung in Else Lasker-Schüler’s Drama Die Wupper.” The Germanic Review 69 (1994): 7-13. (refereed)

"Ludwig Anzengruber." Nineteenth-Century German Writers 1841-1900. Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 129. Detroit, London: Gale Research Inc., 1993. 3-10.


"Sarah Kirsch: ‘Naturschutzgebiet.'" Die Mauersegler. Annäherungen an die deutsche Lyrik. Ed. Ernst-Ullrich Pinkert. Arbejdspapirer (Aalborg University Denmark) 17 (1992): 30-32.


"Ferdinand Raimund and Ödön von Horváth: The Volksstück as Negation and Utopia." The German Quarterly 64 (1991): 325-38. (refereed)


"The Teacher as Failure — The Text as Teacher: Hermann Broch's ‘Die vier Reden des Studienrats Zacharias.'" West Virginia University Philological Papers 36 (1990): 68-76. (refereed)

   
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
 

“Else Lasker-Schüler: Online Bibliography/Bibliografie” (International WWW-Database Bibliography on Else Lasker-Schüler) with Markus Hallensleben,  now maintained at the University of British Columbia. Click here to view it.                

   
REVIEWS (recent):
 

Fischer, Barbara and Thomas C. Fox ed. A Companion to the Works of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. South Atlantic Review (forthcoming 2008).

Lorenz, Dagmar C. G., ed. A Companion to the Works of Arthur Schnitzler. South Atlantic Review 70, No. 1 (2005): 169-72.

Broch, Hermann and Annemarie Meier-Graefe. Der Tod im Exil. Briefwechsel 1950-51. South Atlantic Review 68, No. 1 (2003): 110-12.

Bower, Kathrin M. Ethics and Remembrance in the Poetry of Nelly Sachs and Rose Ausländer. South Atlantic Review 66, No. 3 (2001): 127-29.

Blickle, Peter. Maria Beig und die Kunst der scheinbaren Kunstlosigkeit. Monatshefte 93 (2001): 251-52.

   
PAPERS READ, CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION (recent):
 

“Online Database Bibliographies: Advantages, Challenges, and Proposals for New Directions.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association Convention, Roanoke, VA, 12-14 November 2004.

“Chaos within Identity: Else Lasker-Schüler’s Drama IchundIch.” International Conference on Chaos and Order in Literature and the Visual Arts, Atlanta, 8-10 November 2002.

“‘Homöopathische Didaktik’: Nestroy’s Attempts to Reform False Teaching.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association Convention, Atlanta, November 1997.

“Umkehrung der Didaktik in Ödön von Horváths Jugend ohne Gott (‘Youth and Authority: The Textual Inversion of a Didactic Relationship in Ödön von Horváth’s Jugend ohne Gott’). XX International Congress of the Fédération Internationale des Langues et Littératures Modernes. Regensburg, Germany, 12-17 August 1996.

   
HONORS, GRANTS, ACTIVITIES
 

2007: Outstanding Service Award, College of Arts & Sciences

2004: Conducted research at the Deutsches Literaturarchiv, Marbach am Neckar, June

2001: Grant from USA Research Committee for research in Germany and Switzerland (funded)

1998: Attended 12th Annual Loyola Seminar in Berlin, “Schreiben im heutigen Deutschland,” June 22-27

1996: Named Dean’s Lecturer, College of Arts & Sciences

1991-92: Grant from USA Research Committee for research in Germany and France (funded)

   
 
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