EDUCATION

 1989 University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.

Doctor of Philosophy in German. Concentration in 20th C. German Literature and Culture (Post-War FRG and GDR), German Romanticism, Germanic Philology and Netherlandic Studies. Dissertation title: "The German Jeremiad: Notion of History, the Outsider and Utopian Elements in Uwe Johnson's Jahrestage." Advisor Dr. Frank D. Hirschbach.

Master of Arts in German. Thesis paper: "Günter Grass' Statement on the Role of the Author in Society as Portrayed in his Drama Die Plebejer proben den Aufstand." Advisor Dr. Ernst Schürer.

Bachelor of Arts in Modern Languages (German, French, Russian), Minor European History

Denison University - (September 1989 - present)

German 111-112 (Beginning), German 211 (Beginning Intermediate), German 213 (Conversation), German 250 (Introduction to Culture), German 311 (Introduction to literature), German 317 (Classics-'Die Novelle'), German 321 (Romanticism), German 312 (Masterpieces in German Film and Literature), German 314 (Advanced Grammar), German 315 "German for Commerce," German 416 (senior seminar), International Studies 200 "National Identity: Germany and South Africa," and Honors 273 "Fantasies, Fears and Desire: Narrative Structure and Ideology in Literature"

German 1010 (Individualized German Study), German 1101, German 1102, German 1103, German 1105, Dutch 1010 (Individualized Dutch Study), German 0221 (German and Dutch for Reading Knowledge - Graduate Students).

"Drama des 19. Jahrhunderts" and two sections of German III.

                German I, II, III, IV.

PUBLICATIONS:

"Max Havelaar: Een roman als ontstellingsmiddel." Over Multatuli 22 (1989): 28-34.

"Max Havelaar: A Romantic Novel for Social Fluidity" Publications of the American Association of Netherlandic Studies 3. The Low Countries Multidisciplinary Studies. Ed. Margriet Lacy. Lanham, MD: U of America P, 1990: 139-146. English version of above article.

"Object van verlangen en ongewenste kennis in Multatuli's Woutertje Pieterse." Over Multatuli 26 (1991): 54-65.

"Object of Desire and Undesired Knowledge in Multatuli's Woutertje Pieterse." Publications of the American Association of Netherlandic Studies 5. The Low Countries and Beyond. Ed. Robert S. Kirsner. Lanham, MD: UP of America, 1993: 125-137. English version of above article.

"The Outsider Experience and Narrative Strategy in Uwe Johnson's Jahrestage." Colloquia Germanica 24.2 (1991): 83-120.

"The Socio-Economic Background of Heijermans' The Good Hope." The Good Hope: A Study Guide. Ed. Michael Lupu. Minneapolis: The Guthrie Theater, 1992: 7-10.

"(Anti-) Utopian Elements in Uwe Johnson's Jahrestage: Traces of Ernst Bloch." The Germanic Review 58.1 (1993): 32-45.

"The Influence of Walter Benjamin's Notion of Allegory on Uwe Johnson's Jahrestage: Form and Approach to History." The German Quarterly 66.3 (1993): 318-329.

"Henrïette Roland Holst-van der Schalk." Women Writing in Dutch. Ed. Kristiaan Aercke. New York: Garland Publishing, 1994: 353-421.

"Henriette Roland Holst-van der Schalk and the Hunchback of Theology: Reconciling the Unreconciable" Canadian Journal of Netherlandic Studies. 14.2 (1993): 8-13.

"Auntie 'Times' and Elvira's Tears. The Montage Effect in Uwe Johnson's 'Jahrestage' and Christa Wolf's 'Kindheitsmuster.'" Vol. 3 of Internationales Uwe-Johnson-Forum: Beiträge zum Werkverständnis und Materialien zur Rezeptionsgeschichte. Eds. Carsten Gansel, Bernd Neumann and Nicolai Riedel. Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang, 1993: 121-138.

"The Reforming Power of Drama: Historical Authenticity and Storytelling in Herman Heijermans' 'Op hoop van zegen.'" Canadian Journal of Netherlandic Studies 15.1 (1994): 7-17.

"Die Poetisierung der Geschichte in Uwe Johnsons 'Jahrestage.'" Uwe Johnson zwischen Vormoderne und Postmoderne. Eds. Carsten Gansel and Nicolai Riedel. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1995: 143-151.

"Het esthetisch leven van de hoogste en de laagste stenden in Multatuli's 'Woutertje Pieterse' en 'Vorstenschool.'" Over Multatuli 36 (1996): 29-35.

"Multatuli's 'Woutertje Pieterse' and 'Vorstenschool:' The (Un)poetic Truth of Upward Mobility." Publications of the Association of Netherlandic Studies 9. Contemporary Explorations in the Culture of the Low Countries. eds. William Z. Shetter and Inge Van der Cruysse. Lanham: U P of America, 1996: 1-11. English version of above article.

"The Fictionalization of Uwe Johnson in Michael Tophoff's 'Het Kanaal.'" Vol. 4 of Internationales Uwe-Johnson-Forum: Beiträge zum Werkverständnis und Materialien zur Rezeptionsgeschichte. Eds. Carsten Gansel, Bernd Neumann and Nicolai Reidel. Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang, 1996: 155-167.

"Transcending the Berlin Wall in Search of the Mother and the Excluded Self." The Berlin Wall: Representations and Perspectives. Eds. Ernst Schürer et al. Studies in Modern German Literature vol. 79. New York: Peter Lang, 1996: 109-118.

"Drie aspecten van Vorstenschool: staatkunde, theater en Thorbecke" Over Multatuli 39 (1997): 17-24.

BOOK:
Understanding Uwe Johnson.  Understanding Modern European and Latin American Literature.  Columbia: University of South Carolina, Press.  1999.

Ulrich Fries. Uwe Johnsons Jahrestage. Erzählstruktur und politische Subjektivität. Colloquia Germanica. 24.2 (1991): 169-171.

Karl Hermann Roehricht. Lebensverläufe: Innenansichten aus der DDR. GDR Bulletin. 19.1 (1993): 17.

Günter Mittag. Um jeden Preis: Im Spannungsfeld zweier Systeme. GDR Bulletin. 20.1 (1994): 47-48.

Eberhard Haufe, ed. Johannes Bobrowski. Peter Huchel: Briefwechsel. GDR Bulletin. 22.2 (1995): 30-31.

D. G. Bond. German History and German Identity: Uwe Johnson's Jahrestage. German Studies Review. 19.1 (1996): 194-195.

Kurt Fickert. Dialogue with the Reader: The Narrative Stance in Uwe Johnson's Fiction. German Studies Review. 19.3 (1996): 618-619.

Gerber, Margy, and Roger Woods, eds.  Changing Identities in East Germany.   Studies in GDR Culture and Society.  GDR Bulletin.  25.1 (1998): 75-76.

"The German Jeremiad: Lamentation of the Past and the Appeal to Humanity by German Authors 1945-1949". Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 21 - 23, 1988 at the University of Kentucky in Lexington.

"Max Havelaar: A Romantic Novel for Social Flexibility." Fourth Biennial  Interdisciplinary Conference on Netherlandic Studies, June 15 - 18, 1988 at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.

"The Notion of History in Uwe Johnson's Jahrestage: Past as Allegorical Space." Kentucky Foreign Language Conference , April 27-29, 1989 at the University of Kentucky in Lexington.

"Uwe Johnson's 'Reality' as Portrayed in Michael Tophoff's Novel Het Kanaal." Fifth Wisconsin Symposium on Netherlandic Studies, March 2-3, 1990 at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

"Object of Desire and Undesired Knowledge in Multatuli's Woutertje Pieterse." Fifth Interdisciplinary Conference on Netherlandic Studies, June 19-22, 1990 at theUniversity of California, Los Angeles

"Romantic Irony as a Narrative Strategy in Uwe Johnson's Jahrestage." Pennsylvania Foreign Language Conference, September 21-23, 1990 at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh.

"Transcending the Berlin Wall in Search of the Excluded Self." The Wall: Reality and Symbol, October 10-12, 1991 at the Pennsylvania State University in University Park.

"Evidence of Future and Utopian Impulses in Uwe Johnson's Jahrestage." American Association of Teachers of German, November 23-25, 1991 Washington, DC.

"Exercises in Reconciling the Unreconcilable: The Works of Henriette Roland Holst-van der Schalk." Sixth Interdisciplinary Conference on Netherlandic Studies, June 10-13, 1992 at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

"The Experience of Displacement and Loss in the Works of Barbara Honigmann." Pennsylvania Foreign Language Conference, September 25-27, 1992, at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh.

"The News and Montage Effect in Christa Wolf's Kindheitsmuster and Uwe Johnson's Jahrestage." American Association of Teachers of German Annual Meeting, November 20-22, 1992 Rosemont, IL.

"The Historical and Socio-Economic Background of Herman Heijermans'The Good Hope." Invited presentation for the Pre-Play Symposium at the Guthrie Theater, January 3, 1993 Minneapolis, MN.

"Sculptures and Executions: The Dialectical Image in Peter Weiss' Die Ästhetik des Widerstands" Pennsylvania Foreign Language Conference, September 24-26, 1993 at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh.

"Fascism and its Family Resemblances: Christa Wolf's Kindheitsmuster and Uwe Johnson's Jahrestage" Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 21-23, 1994, University of Kentucky in Lexington.

"Aesthetic Existence of 'the Highest' and 'the Lowest' in Multatuli's Woutertje Pieterse and Vorstenschool" Seventh Interdisciplinary Conference on Netherlandic Studies, June 1-4, 1994 at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana.

"Der Zusammenhang von Geschichtsauffassung, Form und Erzähltheorie in Uwe Johnsons Jahrestagen" Internationales Uwe Johnson Symposium in Neubrandenburg, Germany 22nd - 24th of September 1994.

"'Aufbauliteratur' of a Therapeutic Nature: Literature after the 'Wende'" German Studies Association 19th Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, September 21-24, 1995.

"Discovering Germany in the Rubble: The Reportage Narrative 1945-1949" Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 18-20, 1996, University of Kentucky in Lexington.

"The Threefold Thrust of Multatuli's Vorstenschool: Theory, Theater, and Thorbecke," Eigth Biennial Interdisciplinary Conference on Netherlandic Studies, June 12-15, 1996 at Columbia University and CUNY Graduate Center.

"Must Interdisciplinarity Be Learned? The View of Literature and Culture From the Back of the Room." ACTFL/American Association of Teachers of German, November 22-24, 1996, Philadelphia.

"The Constitutional 'Heimat': Sentiments of Nation-Building in Germany's Cultural Journals, 1945-1949." German Studies Association 21st Annual Conference, Washington, D.C. Sept. 25-28, 1997.

"The Environment of Conflict in Multatuli's Max Havelaar: Universalism and Cultural Identity"  Ninth Biennial Interdisciplinary Conference on  Netherlandic Studies, May 27-30, 1998 at the University of Wisconsin- Madison.

"Of Things Never Experienced: 'Heimat' and Language in Kurt Drawert's 'Speigelland.'" 25th New Hampshire Symposium on Eastern Germany, Conway NH June 23-30, 1999.

"'Germany could be as happy as Wisconsin': Describing Enemy Culture," Twenty-third annual German Studies Association Oct. 7-10, 1999 Atlanta Georgia

"'At Home in the Maelstrom': Simplicissimus, Atavism of Modernity,"  Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, Nov. 5-7, 1999, Portland, OR.

"'Putting Technology in Its Place': Enhancing Listening Comprehension With Digitized Video" in 'Teaching and Learning German' Modern Language Association Conference, December 27-30, 1999 in Chicago.

"Discourse of 'Shock' and 'Abandonment': Reading Kafka in the Late 1940s." Society for the Study of Narrative Literature, March 8-11, 2001 in Houston.

"Redemption or Reculturation? Thomas Mann and American Intellectuals on German Character." Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 19-21, 2001, University of Kentucky in Lexington.

"Reading in the Rubble: The Reception of Thomas Mann's 'Dr. Faustus' 1947-49," Conference in Anticipation of Frank Hirschbach's 80th Birthday, April 28, 2001 in Minneapolis

"Tarrying with the Rubble 1945-1949: Between Metonymy and Metaphor,"
Society for the Study of Narrative Literature, April 11-14, 2002, Michigan State University.

"Bartering for Goethe: Reconstructung the Goethe-Haus 1944-1951," Kentucky
Foreign Language Conference, April 24-26, 2003. University of Kentucky.

"The Three Elements of Multatuli's Affirmation of Life: Love, Knowledge and Struggle," Modern Language Association, December 27-30, 2003 San Diego.

"The Diseased German: National Character and Metaphor," Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 15-17, 2004. University of Kentucky.

Research Assistant - College of Education, University of Minnesota (October 1988 - June 1989).

Instructor of Dutch - Dutch Studies Center, University of Minnesota (September 1988 - June 1989).

Instructor of English - Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, GDR (September -December 1986).

Research Assistant - Western European Area Studies, University of Minnesota (Summer 1986).

Assessment Committee, 2002 - present

Chairperson, Department of Modern Languages, 1999-2002

Student Enrollment and Retention Committee, Denison University 1999-2001

Vice-Chair and Chair of the Faculty, Denison University, 1997-1999

Organized discussion group Netherlandic Language and Literature: Modern Language Association Conference, Toronto, December 1997.

Served on a task force to reconfigure the General Education Program at Denison. (summer 1992)

International Studies Committee (1992-present)

Negotiated and maintain an exchange agreement between Denison University and the Justus-Liebig-Universität in Giessen, Germany. (1990-present)

Presented a 75 minute seminar with a colleague in History for the Alumni College of Denison University in June, 1990. Seminar was entitled "Beyond the Wall: East Germany and the Reunification Question."

---Goethe Institute in Chicago (September 1984) - Awarded a scholarship to attend a two week seminar in Teaching Assistant Training in Seattle, WA. Emphasis on foreign language classroom methodology.

---ACTFL Seminar (June 1988) - Participated in an American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages Seminar in Portland, OR for training to administer the Oral Proficiency Interview.

---Fulbright Summer Seminar in German Studies (June-July 1993)

---American Association of Teachers of German seminar "Literatur nach der Wende," Universität Leipzig (July 1994)

---Andrew W. Mellon Workshop: "Technology in Language Education," Middlebury College (July 1995)

---School of Criticism and Theory: "Posthistoricism" with Walter Benn Michaels, Cornell University (June-July 1997)

---American Association of Teachers of German seminar "Allgemeine Landeskunde Österreichs" in Vienna and Graz (July 1998)

---Council on International Educational Exchange "South Africa: New Directions in Nation-Building" Cape Town and Pretoria June 6-16, 1999

---Truman and Marshall Scholarships: "Breaking the Code"  University of Arkansas July 30-August 1, 1999.

---Dozentenfortbildung "Wirtschaftsdeutsch" Heinrich Heine Universität, Düsseldorf (July 2000)

Fulbright stipend awarded to attend the Summer Seminar in German Studies in Bonn, Rostock, and Berlin (June-July 1993)

Scholarship from the Dutch Ministry of Education to attend Dutch course in Breukelen/Nijenrode (July 17 - August 5, 1989).

Research scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (Feb. - April 1987).

Outstanding Teaching Assistant of the Year. Awarded by the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota. (June 1986)

American Association of Netherlandic Studies (AANS)

American Association of Teachers of German (AATG)

American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)

Fulbright Association

German Studies Association (GSA)

Modern Language Association (MLA)

Multatuli genotenschaap

Society for the Study of Narrative Literature