Kristopher Imbrigotta - University of Puget Sound

Kristopher Imbrigotta
Department of German Studies
kimbrigotta@pugetsound.edu
University of Puget Sound
(608) 213-0586 (mobile)
1500 North Warner Street
(253) 879-2457 (campus)
Tacoma, WA 98416
http://pugetsound.edu/faculty-pages/kimbrigotta
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Academic Position
2013-
University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington
Visiting Assistant Professor of German
Department of German Studies
Education
2006-13
2004-06
2003-04
2000-03
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
PhD, German Studies (minors: Art History, Comparative Literature)
Master of Arts, German Studies
Universität Hamburg (Fulbright Fellow)
Visiting Student, German Literature
Ohio University, Athens, Ohio
Bachelor of Arts, German and International Studies
Other Experience Abroad
2015
DAAD/Fulbright Fortbildung, Herder Institute at the Universität Leipzig
2012
Universität Bonn Sommerakademie
2006-7, 10, 11 Akademie der Künste, Bertolt-Brecht-Archiv, Berlin (DAAD Fellow)
2003-04
English Language Teacher, Hansa-Gymnasium, Hamburg
2002
Internship, Gesellschaft für Naturschutz und Ornithologie Rheinland-Pfalz
2002
Salzburg, Austria (study abroad)
Dissertation
“Framing Brecht: Photography and Experiment in the Modellbücher, Arbeitsjournale,
and Kriegsfibel”
Committee: Marc Silberman (advisor), Sabine Gross, Weijia Li, Charles James,
Barbara Buenger
Research and Teaching Interests
20th and 21st century literature and culture
Performance studies, theatre history, and drama pedagogy
Visual culture studies and media theory (photography, film, architecture)
Historiography
Narratology
Digital humanities
Humor and political satire
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Publications
Project in Progress
Teaching Brecht. Special issue of Brecht Yearbook. Guest eds. Kristopher Imbrigotta and Per
Urlaub. [publication expected late 2016/early 2017]
Peer-Reviewed Articles and Chapters
In Progress
“‘Die Unmöglichkeit, eine Photographie zu textieren’: Humor, History, and Critique in Kurt
Tucholsky’s Deutschland, Deutschland über alles.” [manuscript in progress]
“Brecht, Lukács, Seghers. Unterwegs zur Kunst der Polemik in der Realismusdebatte.”
Expressionismus (2016). [manuscript under revision]
“Wolfgang Staudte’s Rotation: The Marketing of Memory after World War II.”
[manuscript in progress]
Published
“Slatan Dudow’s Documentary Film How the Worker Lives (1930).” German Cinema: A Critical
Filmography to 1945. Eds. Todd Herzog and Todd Heidt. Montreal: Caboose, 2016.
“(Re)Building the Engaged Spectator: The Katzgraben Programmhefte of the Berliner
Ensemble, 1953/1972.” Brecht Yearbook 39 (2015): 90-111.
“History and the Challenge of Photography in Bertolt Brecht’s Kriegsfibel.” Radical History Review
106 (Winter 2010): 27-45.
“Brecht’s ‘Fischweiber’: Crossroads of Criticism and Transformation.” Brecht Yearbook 34 (2009):
226-41.
Translation Work
Hölbl, Günther. Cambridge Dictionary of Ancient Mediterranean Religions. Ed. Eric Orlin. New
York/London: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Selected texts: “Ptolemy,” “Philae,” “Kom Ombo,” “Esna,” “Dendera,” and “Birth House”
Brecht, Bertolt. Brecht on Theatre. Eds. Marc Silberman, Steve Giles, and Tom Kuhn. New
York/London: Bloomsbury/Methuen, 2014.
“The Progressiveness of the Stanislavsky System”(132-3)
“On the Art of Spectatorship” (149)
“Maintaining Gestures over Multiple Generations” (149)
“The Attitude of the Rehearsal Director (in the Inductive Process)” (212-13)
“What Makes an Actor” (271-72)
“Gesture” (272)
“About Our Stagings” (274-75)
“[The Plot]” (275)
“On Stanislavsky” (279-80)
“Stanislavsky Studies [3]” (280)
“A Few Thoughts on the Stanislavsky Conference” (280-83)
Book Reviews, Performance Reviews, Interviews
Barnett, David. Brecht in Practice: Theatre, Theory and Performance. London: Bloomsbury, 2014.
[German Studies Review, 2016]
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Magilow, Daniel. The Photography of Crisis: The Photo Essays of Weimar Germany. University
Park: Pennsylvania State U Press, 2012. [H-Net German, 2015]
Zervigón, Andrés Mario. John Heartfield and the Agitated Image: Photography, Persuasion, and the
Rise of Avant-Garde Photomontage. Chicago: U Chicago Press, 2012. [H-Net German, 2015]
“To Pea or Not to Pea: Büchner’s Woyzeck in Madison.” Communications of the International
Brecht Society 42 (2013): 133-43. [interview dossier]
Hillenbach, Anne-Kathrin. Literatur und Fotografie. Analysen eines intermedialen Verhältnisses.
Bielefeld: Transcript, 2012. [Monatshefte 105:3 (Fall 2013): 536-38.]
Zinn, Andreas. Bildersturmspiele. Intermedialität im Werk Bertolt Brechts. Würzburg:
Königshausen & Neumann, 2011. [Monatshefte 105:1 (Spring 2013): 163-65.]
“Shell, Shell, Shell! Archer/Morley tackle Brecht/Weill, Weimar Cabaret, and Big Oil (among
others).” Communications of the International Brecht Society 39 (2010): 73-76.
Gillett, Robert and Godela Weiss-Sussex, eds. “Verwisch die Spuren!” Bertolt Brecht’s Work and
Legacy: A Reassessment. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2008. [Monatshefte 102:1 (Spring 2010): 10911.]
Kaynar, Gad and Linda Ben-Zvi, eds. Bertolt Brecht: Performance and Philosophy. Tel-Aviv:
Assaph Books, 2005. [Brecht Yearbook 34 (2009): 275-79.]
“Brecht and Asia: A Bibliography.” Electronic Communications of the International Brecht Society
[ECIBS 38 2009]
Teaching Experience
University of Puget Sound
German 470:
Humor, Culture, Society
German 405:
Culture in the Third Reich
German 310:
Nature and Environment in German Culture
German 305:
German Cinema
German 304:
Contemporary Cultural History and Politics (1871-today)
German 303:
German Mentalities (post-1945 culture and adv. conversation)
German 302:
Theory and Practice of German Drama (public staging of German play)
German 201/2: Intermediate German
German 101/2: Beginning German
Directed/Independent Study in German (GERM 495)
Propaganda Films of Leni Riefenstahl
Translation Workshop (works by Thomas Brussig)
University of Wisconsin-Madison
German 305:
20th/21st Century German Literature (teaching practicum)
German 272:
Nazi Culture (course assistant, reader/grader)
German 258:
Intermediate German–Reading (third-year reading strategies)
German 249:
Intermediate German–Speaking (third-year conversation)
German 203/4: Intermediate German
German 101/2: Elementary German
Mini-Seminars: Art in the Third Reich; German Expressionism (second-year level)
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Other Teaching Experience
English language teacher: Hansa-Gymnasium Bergedorf, grades 5-8, 10, and 13
Conference Participation
Presentations, Workshops, and Invited Talks
Oct 2016
Panel moderator: “1956: Death and Socialism,” GSA Conference (San Diego,
CA)
Jun 2016
1) Paper: “Betrayal and Homage: War Primer 2 and the Problem of
Appropriation”
2) Panel moderator: “Teaching Brecht”
Brecht Society Symposium, St Hugh’s College, Oxford University (UK)
April 2016
Keynote Speaker, “Lachen (un)erwünscht? Dani Levys Hitler-Parodie Mein Führer
und die Grenzen des Humors,” German Undergraduate Research
Conference, Illinois Wesleyan University (Bloomington, IL)
Oct 2015
Panel moderator: “Translating and Transforming Brecht,” GSA Conference
(Washington DC)
Jun 2015
DAAD/Fulbright Sommerakademie, Herder Institut (interDaF), Universität
Leipzig, Germany
Nov 2014
“Show and Tell: Performing Epic Theatre in the German Language
Classroom,” ACTFL/AATG Convention (San Antonio, TX)
Oct 2014
DAAD Teacher Workshop/Lehrfortbildung: Deutsch als Fremdsprache
in den USA, University of California (Berkeley, CA)
Feb 2014
“Enemy Aliens? Brecht and the Japanese Minority in the
US,” Asia and the Pacific in German Culture, University of
Hawai’i (Honolulu, HI)
Sep 2013
Washington AATG Teachers’ Fall Workshop (Snoqualmie, WA)
May 2013
1) Paper: “Engaged Spectator, Active Citizen: Looking to the Programmhefte
of the Berliner Ensemble”
2) Workshop participant: “Spectators as Masses and Individuals”
Brecht Society Symposium, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
(Porto Alegre, Brazil)
Feb 2013
“Berlin after the Wall: Contemporary Representations and
Literary Spaces,” Department of German, Lawrence University
(Appleton, WI)
Jan 2013
“The Brown Brew of History: Architecture, Topography, and German
Identity,” Department of German and Russian, Carleton College
(Northfield, MN)
Nov 2012
“The Research Landscape in Germany,” DAAD workshops for
History, Sociology, Art History, and German at UW-Madison
Jul 2012
“‘Grenzen einhalten, Grenzen überschreiten’: Zeit und Historiographie in Brechts
Arbeitsjournalen,” Zeit und Literatur, Universität Bonn (Germany)
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Sep 2010
Feb 2010
Dec 2009
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“Breaking the Mirror: Brecht’s Problem with Mimesis,” Mimesis Now, Center for
the Humanities, University of Rochester (New York)
“Crafting a Dissertation in the Humanities,” Center for German and European
Studies, University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, MN)
“Framing Brecht: Fotografie und Experiment in seinen Werken,” Brecht-Tage
2010, Literaturforum im Brecht-Haus (Berlin, Germany)
“‘Die Wahrheit ist konkret’ or ‘Verdunkelung der Tatbestände’? Brecht and Images of
War in Contemporary Context,” MLA Philadelphia
Nov 2009
“Brecht’s Model Books,” Graduate Research Colloquium, UW-Madison
Jun 2009
“Architectural and Identity Debates in Berlin after the Wall,” Center for European
Studies Teacher Workshop, UW-Madison
Mar 2007
“Brecht’s ‘Fischweiber’: Crossroads of Criticism and Transformation,”
Department of German, UW-Madison
Mar 2006
“You Are Now Leaving the German Sector: Finding Germany in the
New Berlin,” Department of German, UW-Madison
Conference and Panels Organized
Jan 2015
Panel co-organizer and respondent: “Brecht, Protest, Youth,” MLA
Vancouver (British Columbia, Canada)
Jan 2014
Panel co-organizer and respondent: “Fifty Shades of Brecht: Vulnerability versus
Autonomy among Brecht’s Female Collaborators,” MLA Chicago
Mar 2012
Conference support: Humboldt-Kolleg “German Secret Societies,” UW-Madison
Jan 2012
Panel organizer: “Multi-mediated Brecht,” MLA Seattle
May 2010
Panel organizer: “Asian Theatre and the Lehrstücke,” Brecht Society Symposium,
University of Hawai’i
Apr 2010
Film screening co-organizer: Ikonen. Bertolt Brechts häusliches Bildprogramm
(dir. Peter Voigt), UW-Madison
Mar 2009
Panel organizer: “Boundaries in the Classroom,” UW-Madison
Mar 2008
Conference organizer: Recognizing (Dis)Order, and panel moderator:
“Collapse and Regeneration,” UW-Madison
Fellowships, Honors, Awards, and Grants
2014
Discretionary Fund Grant, Office of the Academic Vice President,
University of Puget Sound ($300; guest artist visit)
2013
Recipient, Graduate Student Competition, Women in German
2013
Vilas Conference Grant, Graduate School, UW-Madison ($600; Brazil)
2012-
DAAD Research Ambassador (UW-Madison, University of Puget Sound)
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2012
Vilas Conference Grant, Graduate School, UW-Madison ($600; New York)
2011
Research Grant, Graduate School, UW-Madison ($600; Berlin)
2010
DAAD Dissertation Fellow, Akademie der Künste / Brecht-Archiv (Berlin)
2009
Vilas Travel Grant, Graduate School, UW-Madison ($600; Berlin, Augsburg)
2008
Research Travel Grant, CGES, UW-Madison ($2000; Berlin)
2007
DAAD / CGES Research Fellow, UW-Madison (pre-dissertation research)
2003
Fulbright Fellow (University of Hamburg)
2003
ACTFL OPI German Language Evaluation: “Superior” rating
Research and Professional Experience
2016-
Manuscript reviewer, Rocky Mountain Review (Rocky Mountain MLA)
2016-
Co-Editor, Communications of the International Brecht Society
<http://e-cibs.org>
2015-
Manuscript Reviewer, E-tum: E-Journal for Theatre and Media
<http://ejournal.theaterforschung.de/>
2012
Program Assistant, Center for Early Modern Studies, UW-Madison
2012-13
Production Team, Sound Ensemble Wisconsin <http://sewmusic.org>
2011-13
Project and Research Assistant, Jost Hermand, UW-Madison
Selected volumes:
Culture in Dark Times: Nazi Fascism, Inner Emigration, Exile (2012).
Verlorene Illusionen. Eine Geschichte des deutschen Nationalismus (2012).
Deutsche Geheimgesellschaften (2013).
Unerfüllte Hoffnungen. Rückblicke auf die Literatur der DDR (2013).
Freunde, Promis, Kontrahenten. Politbiographische Momentaufnahmen (2013).
2007-09
Editorial Assistant, Monatshefte für deutschsprachige Literatur und Kultur
Editors: Hans Adler, Sabine Gross <http://monatshefte.org>
2007-
Production Team, German play
Die Kleinbürgerhochzeit (Brecht), 2016 Puget Sound
Woyzeck (Georg Büchner), 2013 UW-Madison
Glaube, Liebe, Hoffnung (Ödön von Horváth), 2007 UW-Madison
2006-13
Moderator, International Brecht Society Listserve
2005-09
Researcher/Bibliographer, “Brecht’s Works in English Translation”
<http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/BrechtGuide/about> (open access database)
2005-10
Website Manager/Technician, International Brecht Society webpage
2002
Intern and Translation Assistant, Gesellschaft für Naturschutz und Ornithologie
Rheinland-Pfalz (Steiningen and Koblenz, Germany) <http://gnor.de>
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Departmental and University Service
Department of German Studies, Puget Sound
Service
Coordinator: second-year German program (2013-14, 2015-present)
Coordinator: first-year German program (2014-15)
Undergraduate teaching practicum in German (GERM 101, 2014)
Curriculum development
German 470: Humor, Culture, Society
German 405: Culture in the Third Reich
German 310: Nature and Environment in German Culture
Berlin Summer Program (in development)
Campus visits co-organized
w/Japanese: Yoko Tawada (2017) guest visit and university lecture
w/Gender Studies: Beatrice Möller (2014) guest visit and film screening, Alles was wir wollen
Guest lectures/discussion in UPS courses (outside German Studies)
Translation on Stage: Language, Culture, and Genre (SSI 190, Fall 2015)
Theatre History II (THTR 373, Spring 2014)
German Studies campus and class events
Stammtisch, Maifest, Kochabend
German excursion weekend during Fall Semester (Leavenworth, WA)
Seattle Art Museum visit (GERM 304, Spring 2015)
German film series
German play (GERM 302): public staging and director
2016: Die Kleinbürgerhochzeit / The Respectable Bourgeois Wedding
Community outreach
Faculty Supervisor: undergraduate teaching program in German, Washington
Elementary School (Tacoma) and University of Puget Sound
German film series/discussions, The Grand Cinema (Tacoma)
Professional Memberships and Affiliations
German Studies Association
International Brecht Society
American Association of Teachers of German/ACTFL
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
National German Honor Society (Delta Phi Alpha)
Languages
English (native)
German (near-native: ACTFL “Superior” rating)
Latin (reading knowledge)
French (reading knowledge)