Harry L. Roddy
Education
B.S.E., Mechanical Engineering
Tulane University 1989
M.A., Germanic Languages
The University of Texas at Austin 1993
Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin 2004
Research Interests
- Twentieth Century German Literature;
- Film Studies;
- Expressionist and Postwar Lyric Poetry;
- Rolf Dieter Brinkmann
Publications
Journal Articles
"Reinventing the Vaterland: The Poetry of Nadja Küchenmeister, Daniela Danz and Farhad Showghi" (in preparation)
"The Yellow Flower of Norway: Trauma and Repetition in Hans Henny Jahnn's Perrudja."
The German Quarterly 88.3 (2015): 317-333.
"The 'Mass Ornament' at Play in Rolf Dieter Brinkmann's Oberflächenbeschreibungen." South Atlantic Review 75.1 (2010): 1-20.
"Unsere Rockgruppe geht auf Tournee!: Introducing Longer Narrative Writing toSecond-Year Students." Unterrichtspraxis 42.1 (2009): 69-74.
"A Revolutionary Critique of Individualism: Heiner Müller's Mauser in Texas,"Monatshefte, 92, No. 2 (Summer 2000): 184-98
"The Metastructural Significance of Those Center Stripes: or, What's Really Going
on in David Lynch's Lost Highway?" The Image of the Road: Selected
Papers, 2005 Conference (Pueblo, CO: Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery, 2005): 22-6.
Book Reviews
Krasnodebski, Zdzislaw, Stefan Garsztecki and Rüdiger Ritter, Eds., Last der Geschichte? Kollektive Identität und Geschichte in Ostmitteleuropa (Hamburg: Dr. Kovac, 2008) Sarmatian Review (in preparation)
Krasnodebski, Zdzislaw & Stefan Garsztecki, Eds., Sendung und Dichtung: Adam Mickiewicz in Europa (Hamburg: Krämer, 2002) Sarmatian Review, XXV, no. 2 (April 2005): 1127-28.
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Teaches all levels of German language, literature and culture courses.