Book Reviews
Review of Untimely Beggar: Poverty and Power from Baudelaire to Benjamin. By Patrick
Greaney. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. German Quarterly 82. (Spring
2009).
Review of From Goethe to Gide: Feminism, Aesthetics and the French and German Literary
Canon 1770–1936. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2005. Ed. Mary Orr and Lesley
Sharpe. German Quarterly 80.1 (Winter 2007).
Review of two scholarly books on Heinrich von Kleist (Erika Berroth's Heinrich von Kleist.
Geschlecht—Erkenntnis—Wirklichkeit and Jochen Schmidt's Heinrich von Kleist. Die Dramen
und Erzählungen in ihrer Epoche.) Monatshefte 97.1 (Spring 2005).
"Forcibly Removed from the Womb." Collages & Bricolages 15 (2002). A Review of TheFantastic
Ordinary World of Lutz Rathenow.
Presentations
"Cross-Cultural Utopias in Kleist'sEarthquake in Chile." VII Alexander von Humboldt,
Claudio Gay & Ignacio Domeyko Conference. Santiago, Chile. January 2014.
"Strengthening Language Programs: Collaborative Models of Distance Education." ACTFL
(American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages) Conference, November 2013
"Holy Families and the Ambiguity of Violence in Kleist's Das Erdbeben in Chili and
Die Heilige Cäcilie oder die Gewalt der Musik." GSA (German Studies Association) Conference,
October 2013
"Interdependence of Urban and Pastoral Structures in Kleist's Das Erdbeben in Chili."
NASSR (North American Society for the Study of Romanticism), August 2012.
"The Metamorphoses of Desire in Goethe's Römische Elegien." Goethe Society of North
America Conference, Fall 2011.
"Masks and Metamorphoses: The Transformation of Classical Tradition in Goethe's Roman
Elegies." Invited lecture in the Contexts for Classics series, University of Michigan,
November 2010.
"Gendered Performance in Goethe's Römische Elegien." NEMLA (Northeast Modern Language
Association) Conference, Spring 2010.
"Overcoming Language Challenges of Open Source Appropriate Technology for Sustainable
Development in Africa." Third International Environmental Congress, April 2009.
"Teaching Foreign Languages and the Environment." NEMLA (Northeast Modern Language
Association) Conference, March 2009.
"Walls and Bridges: Fatih Akin's Im Juli and Gegen die Wand." Transcultural German
Studies Conference, March 2007.
"Triangular Relationships as a Challenge to Family Structure in Fouqué's Undine."
NEMLA (Northeast Modern Language Association) Conference, March 2006
"Zones of the Lyric: Metaphor and Apostrophe in the Poems of Rilke and Apollinaire."
ACLA (American Comparative Literature Association) Conference, April 2005
"Communicative German via ITV: A Collaborative Program in Modern Languages." Joint
presentation with Leo Gruber. Conference: "Collaborative Programs and the Future of
Distance Education." Clarion University, October 2004.
Foreign Language as an Aid to Reading for At-Risk Students." TASS (Teaching Academic
Survival Skills) Conference, March 2004
"From Berlin's Sidewalks to Penn's Woods: Teaching Languages and Cultures in a Rural
Setting." ACLA (American Comparative Literature Association) Conference, April 2004
"Border Crossings in Françoise de Graffigny's Lettres d'une Péruvienne." ACLA Conference,
April 2003
"Advanced Language and Civilization and Culture Classes delivered by Interactive Video:
How to prepare and what to expect." Conference: "Modern Languages in an Era of Distance
Education," Clarion University, October 2001.
"International Perspectives: Germany." Conference: "After September 11: Arabs, Afghans,
Americans and Anthrax," Clarion University, September 2001.
"Distance Education and Foreign Languages: How Is It Possible?" Joint presentation
with Charles Tichy. PSMLA (Pennsylvania State Modern Languages Association) Conference,
September 2001.
"Contemporary Berlin." Slide lecture presented at German Reunification Conference,
Slippery Rock University, October 2000.
"Masculinity and Militarism: The Seven Years' War and G. E. Lessing's Minna von Barnhelm."
ASECS Conference (American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies), April 2000.
"The Future as Potentiality: The Subjunctive and Metaphoric Substitution in Rilke's
Poetry." NEMLA Conference (Northeast Modern Languages Association), April 2000.
Panel organizer: "Beyond Language?: National Identity and Transnationalism in Recent
Film" and Paper: "Beyond Speech, Beyond Silence: Is the Language of Gesture Transnational?"
presented at the ACLA Conference, March 1999.
"Translating Across Cultures and Genres: Versions of Femininity and Masculinity in
Lessing's Miss Sara Sampson." ACLA Conference, March 1998.
"Subversions of Gendered Narrative in Mozart's Magic Flute." The Narrative Conference,
April 1996.
Honors and Awards
Winner of the 2012 North American Goethe Society's Essay Prize for "Masks and Metamorphoses:
The Transformation of Classical Tradition in Goethe's Römische Elegien." German Quarterly
85.4 (Fall 2012).
Summer Research Stipend, 2012
International Programs Grant to investigate study abroad options in Germany, 2010
Clarion University College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Development Grant, 2004, 2006,
2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
Clarion University Foundation Grant, 2004
Mellon Dean's Dissertation Fellowship, University of Michigan, 1995–9
Exchange Lectureship in the Departments of German and English Université de Lausanne,
Switzerland, 1994–95
Regents' Fellowship, University of Michigan, 1990–94
DAAD Summer Fellowship; Regensburg, Germany, summer 1991
Fulbright Teaching Assistantship; Lycée Joubert, Ancenis, France, 1987–88
