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Jacqueline Vansant
504 Snyder Ave.
Ann Arbor, MI 48103
(734) 769-5328
e-mail: jvansant@umich.edu
Language, Culture, and Communication
University of Michigan-Dearborn
Dearborn, MI 48128
(313) 593-5153
Academic Employment:
University of Michigan-Dearborn (Full Professor of German, Sept. 2003-present;
Associate Professor of German, Sept. 1995-August 2003; Assistant Professor of
German, Sept. 1992-August 1995)
Miami University (Visiting Assistant Professor of German, June 1988-June 1992 & Jan.May 1987)
Hamilton College (Visiting Assistant Professor of German, Sept 1987-May 1988)
Guest Positions:
Fulbright-Gastprofessorin, Universität Salzburg (March-June 2003)
Gastdozentin, Universität Leipzig (April-July 1998)
Dozentin, Deutsche Sommerschule am Pazifik (June-July 1992)
Education:
1980-86
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin (awarded May 1986) Dissertation:
"Feminism and Austrian Women Writers in the Second Republic,"
Barbara Becker-Cantarino (Director)
Jan-May
1980
University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland
1976-77
M.A., Department of German, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1972-76
B.A., Washington College, Chestertown, MD, magna cum laude with
Departmental Honors in German
1974-75
Universität Salzburg (independent junior year abroad)
Publications:
Books:
Reclaiming ‘Heimat': Trauma and Mourning in Memoirs by Jewish Austrian Réemigrés
(Detroit: Wayne State UP: 2001)
Against the Horizon: Feminism and Postwar Austrian Women Writers (Westport:
Greenwood Press, 1988).
Textbooks:
Deutsch: Na klar!,( first-year text). Robert DiDonato, Monica Clyde, and J. Vansant (New
York: McGraw Hill-Random House, 19901, 19952, 19983, 20116).
Blickwechsel (second-year reader). Ed. J. Vansant with Janet K. Swaffar, Katherine
Arens, Sandra D. Shattuck, and Marie-Luise Gättens (Boston: Houghton Mifflin,
1990).
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Articles and Chapters:
“Political and Humanitarian Messages in a Horse’s Tale: MGM’s Florian,” Austrian History
Yearbook 42 (2011): 164-184.
“‘Damit nie der Kontakt verloren geht’: Rundbriefe Wiener Gymnasiasten jüdischer
Herkunft 1938-1942.” In: Alltag im Exil. Daniel Azuélos, ed. (Würzburg:
Königshausen & Neumann, 2011.) 137-151. Proceedings to conference in
Amiens, France, November 2009.)
“Facing Austria’s National-Socialist Past: Film Adaptations of Literature,” Shadows of the
Past: Austrian Literature of the Twentieth Century, ed. Hans Schulte and Gerald
Chapple (New York: Peter Lang, 2009), 161-178.
“Involuntary and Voluntary Travel in Egon Schwarz’s Unfreiwillige Wanderjahre and Die
japanische Mauer.“ Ed. Johannes Evelein. (Amsterdam: Rodolpi, 2009), 369-84.
(Proceedings to conference of the American Society of Exile Studies, Sept.
2006).
“Jewish-Austrian identities in Bruno Kreisky’s Zwischen den Zeiten.“ Fünfzig Jahre
Staatsvertrag. The State Treaty Fifty Years On. (Munich: iudicum, 2008), 71-82.
(Proceedings to conference at Trinity College, Dublin in Nov. 2005).
“Hollywoods ’Wien’ als transnationaler Gedächtnisort.“ Jenseits von Grenzen.
Transnationales, translokales Gedächtnis. (Vienna: Präsens Verlag, 2007), 183196. (Proceedings to conference at the Akademie der Wisschenschaften in
Vienna, Nov. 2005.)
“Österreichische Geschichte(n) aus Hollywood—1938-1948,” in Österreich in Geschichte
und Literatur (mit Geographie). 51.3 (2007): 130-39.
“Innenanschichten und Auβenseiter: Das Bild der USA in Autobiografien zweier
Exilschriftsteller” with Guy Stern. Aufbau 3 (26 February 2004): 26-27. (70th
Anniversary Issue).
“Political Memoirs and Negative Rhetoric: Kurt Waldheim’s In the Eye of the Storm and Im
Glaspalast der Weltpolitik.” Biography 25.2 (Spring 2002): 343-62.
"'Die Bäume müßten Trauer tragen': Mapping the Past in Elisabeth Reichart's Komm über
den See." Towards the Millenium: Interpreting the Austrian Novel 1971-1996. Ed.
Gerald Chapple (Tübingen: Stauffenburg, 2000), 185-201.
“Robert Wise’s The Sound of Music: The ‘Denazification’ of Austria in American Cinema.”
From World War to Waldheim: Politics and Culture in Austria and the United
States. Ed. David Good & Ruth Wodak (New York: Berghahn, 1999), 165-86.
"Österreichbilder im amerikanischen Film nach 1945." Das ist Österreich: Innen- und
Außensichten. Ed. Ursula Prutsch & Manfred Lechner (Vienna: Döcker Verlag,
1997), 287-310.
“‘Warum hast du sie sonderbehandelt?’: ‘Die Zigeunerin’ in Marie-Thérèse
Kerschbaumers Der weibliche Name des Widerstands,” Konflikte, Skandale,
Dichterfehden in der österreichischen Literatur. Ed. Wendelin Schmidt-Dengler,
Johann Sonnleitner, and Klaus Zeyringer (Berlin: Schmidt Verlag, 1995), 236-47.
“‘Harry Lime und Maria von Trapp treffen sich am Stammtisch’: Die Entnazifizierung
Österreichs in amerikanischen Filmen.” The Sound of Austria. Ed. John Bunzl
(Vienna: Braumüller, 1995), 169-84.
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"Marie-Thérèse Kerschbaumer's Der Schwimmer. A Linguistic Novel," Modern Austrian
Literature 27.1 (1994): 71-88.
"Challenging Austria's Victim Status: National Socialism and Austrian Personal
Narratives," German Quarterly 67.1 (1994): 38-57.
"Wieviel Kanon braucht der Mensch?" Die einen rein. Die anderen raus. Der
österreichische Kanon. Ed. Wendelin Schmidt-Dengler, Johann Sonnleitner, and
Klaus Zeyringer (Berlin: Schmidt Verlag, 1994), 161-71.
"Andreas Okopenko: Naiver Realist und zorniger Moralist," Protokolle 1 (1993): 7-28.
"Nationalsozialismus und Autobiographien verfolgter Frauen." Nationalsozialismus in der
österreichischen Provinz (Vienna: Mitteilungen des Instituts für Wissenschaft und
Kunst, 1991): 2-7.
"Ways of Remembering: Der Bockerer as Play and Film" Austrian Writers and the
Anschluß (Riverside, CA: Ariadne Press, 1991), 271-85.
"Liebe und Patriarchat in der Romantik: Sophie Mereaus 'Amanda und Eduard'." Der
Widerspenstigen Zähmung. Ed. Sylvia Wallinger and Monika Jonas (Innsbruck:
Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Kulturwissenschaft, 1986): 185-200.
"Bertolt Brecht's 'Leben des Galilei': The Story of a Transformation." Neue Germanistik 2
(1981-82): 53-63.
Afterword:
“Afterword,” Hilde Spiel Return to Vienna: A Journal. (Riverside, CA: Ariadne Press:
2011), 112-123.
Review Articles:
*“Illustrating Intersections: Ten Years of Feminist Criticism on Austrian Women Writers,”
Women in German Yearbook 16 (2000). Ed. Patricia Herminghouse and Susanne
Zantop. 13-38.
"Die Rezeption Elfriede Jelineks in den USA." Echos und Masken: Die internationale
Rezeption Elfriede Jelineks. Ed. Daniela Bartens (Graz: Droschl Verlag, 1997),
196-219.
Edited Volumes:
“Wenn sie das Wort Ich gebraucht”: Festschrift für Barbara Becker-Cantarino von
FreundInnen, SchülerInnen und KollegInnen, ed. with John Pustejovsky
(Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2013).
(Mit) Schwarz lesen. Essays und Kurztexte zum Lesen und Gelesenen von Egon
Schwarz. (Vienna: Praesens, 2009).
Schwarz auf Weiβ. Ein transatlantisches Würdigungsbuch für Egon Schwarz with Ursula
Seeber (Vienna: Czernin, 2007).
Modern Austrian Literature with Geoffrey C. Howes. 33.1, 2-38 1/2 (2000-2005 [total 10
issues])
Encyclopedia Entries:
Andreas Okopenko’s Romanlexikon and Kindernazi, in: Romanlexikon (Stuttgart: Reclam,
2000), 131-33.
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"Barbara Frischmuth." Women Writers in German-speaking Countries. Ed. Elke
Frederiksen and Elizabeth Ametsbichel (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1998):
144-51.
Interviews:
“Interview with Maja Haderlap,” Modern Austrian Literature 47.3 (Fall 2014): 93-102.
"Interview mit Marie-Thérèse Kerschbaumer." Modern Austrian Literature 22.1 (1989):
107-20.
"Interview mit Elfriede Jelinek." Deutsche Bücher 15.1 (1985): 1-9. Reprinted in: Literatur
im Gespräch. Ed. Andrea Kunne and Bodo Plachta (Berlin: Weidler Buchverlag:
2001): 246-52.
Bio-Bibliography:
Contributor to Women Writers of Austria, Germany, and Switzerland: An Annotated Biobibliographical Guide. Ed. Elke Frederiksen (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1989).
On-line Teaching Units:
“Exil, Rückkehr, Heimkehr—Topographien des Erinnerns,” Österreichische Literatur im
Exil seit 1933,” director of project Karl Müller, under Praxisfelder at
http://www.literaturepochen.at/exil.
Translations:
Gerhard Roth, The Story of Darkness. Helga Schreckenberger and J. Vansant (Riverside,
CA: Adriadne Press, 1998).
Ulrike Klepalski, "Midsummer Night." Helga Schreckenberger and J. Vansant, in: Against
the Grain (Riverside, CA: Ariadne Press, 1997): 127-33.
Elfriede Jelinek, President Evening Breeze. Helga Schreckenberger and J. Vansant, in:
new anthology of contemporary austrian folk plays (Riverside, CA: Ariadne Press,
1996): 293-318.
Gerhard Roth, The Calm Ocean. Helga Schreckenberger and J. Vansant (Riverside, CA:
Ariadne Press, 1993).
Sophie Mereau "Flight to the City," with biographical introduction in Bitter Healing:
Anthology of German Women Writers from Pietism to Romanticism. Ed. Jeannine
Blackwell and Susanne Zantop (Nebraska: U of Nebraska P, 1990), pp. 371-73 &
380-99.
Horst Jesse, "The Young Brecht and Religion." Communications, 15.2 (April 1986): 17-27.
Select Reviews:
“Heidi Schlipphacke, Nostalgia After Nazism: History, Home, and Affect in German and
Austrian Literature and Film,” Modern Austrian Literature 47.3 (Fall 2014): 115117.
“Maria Fritsche, Homemade Men in Postwar Austrian Cinema: Nationhood, Genre, and
Masculinity,” Contemporary Austrian Studies 23 (2014): 365-368.
“Andrew Barker, Fictions from an Orphan State: Literary Reflections of Austria between
Habsburg and Hitler. Monatshefte Vol. 106, N. 1 (2014): 155-57.
“Primus-Heinz Kucher and Julia Bertschik, eds. “baustelle kultur” Diskurslagen in der
österreichischen Literatur 1918-1933/38.German Studies Review 36.1 (2013):
208-10.
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Kirsten Krick-Aigner, Unredeemed Past: Themes of War and Womanhood in the Works of
Post-World War II Austrian Women Writers. German Quarterly 85 (4): 485-86.
“Michaela Hoenicke Moore, Know Your Enemy: The American Debate on Nazism, 19331945,” German Studies Review 34.3 (October 2011): 667.
“Karl Müller and Hans Wagener, eds., Österreich 1918 und die Folgen: Geschichte,
Literatur und Film, German Studies Review 34.1 (February 2011):
“Ursula Mahlendorf. The Shame of Survial. Working Through a Nazi Childhood.”.
German Quarterly. 83 (2010): 396-97.
“Hillary Hope Herzog et al, ed. Rebirth of a Culture. Jewish Identity and Jewish Writing in
Germany and Austria Today.” German Quarterly 82 (2009): 544-45
“Robert von Dassanowsky Austria Cinema: A History” Germanic Review 83.1 (2008): 7476.
Gerd Gemünden. Filmemacher mit Akzent. Billy Wilder in Hollywood.” Modern Austria
Literature. 41.2 (2008): 95-96.
“Marianne Henn et al, eds. Aneignungen, Entfremdungen: The Austrian Playwright Franz
Grillparzer (1791-1872).” Monatshefte. 100.3 (Fall 2008). 434.
“Karin Moser, ed. Besetzte Bilder. Film, Kultur und Propaganda in Österreich 1945-1955.”
Modern Austrian Literature.40.3 (2007): 120-22.
“Clemens Jabloner et al. Schlussbericht der Historikerkommission der Republik
Österreich,” Austrian History Yearbook. Vol. XXXVII (2006): 251
“Omer Bartov. The ‘Jew’ in Cinema. From ‘The Golem’ to ‘Don’t Touch My Holocaust’”
Journal of Modern History. 78.4 (December 2006): 943-44.
“Bianca Theisen. Silenced Facts. Media Montages in Contemporary Austrian Literature.”
Gegenwartsliteratur. 4 (2005): 303-04.
“Georg Stefan Troller. Das fidele Grab an der Donau. Mein Wien 1918-1938. Nestroyana.
25.3-4 (2005): 170-71.
“Heidemarie Uhl, ed. Zivilisationsbruch und Gedächtniskultur. Das 20. Jahrhundert in der
Erinnerung des beginnenden 21. Jahrhunderts.” HABSBURG-LIST, Nov. 2004.
“Anneliese Gidl. In einern (un)weiblichen Gesellschaft? Eine Analyse der österreichischen
Printmedian 1945-1995,” German Studies Review XXVII.2 (May 2004): 436-37.
“Egon Schwarz. Die japanische Mauer.“ Modern Austrian Literature. 36 3/4 (2003): 11112.
“Christina Kleiser and Ursula Seeber, ed. Geteilte Erinnerung. Generationen des Exils,”
Modern Austrian Literature 36. 1/2 (2003); 101-102
“J.M. Ritchie, ed. German-speaking Exiles in Great Britain.” Monatshefte. 95.1 (2003):
150-51.
“Rudy Koshar. From Monuments to Traces: Artifacts of German Memory, 1870-1990,”
German Quarterly. 75.3 (Summer 2002): 351-52.
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“Peter Blickle Heimat. A Critical Theory of the German Idea of Homeland,” Michigan
Academician. 34.2 (Summer 2002): 217-19.
“Egon Schwarz. ‘Ich bin kein Freund allgemeiner Urteile über ganze Völker’. Essays über
österreichische, deutsche und jüdische Literatur,” Modern Austrian Literature 3/4
(2001): 115-17.
“Elisabeth Snyder Hook. Family Secrets and the Contemporary German Novel: Literary
Explorations in the Aftermath of the Third Reich,” Colloquia Germanica 34. 3/4
(2001): 354-56.
“Marie-Therese Kerschbaumer. Die Fremde,” World Literature Today 75.3/4
(Summer/Autumn 2001): 181.
Select Invited Talks
“Wien 1938 -- aus der Sicht jüdischer Schüler,” Max Kade House, University of MichiganAnn Arbor, 11 February 2014
“Das Drama des Exils in einem Briefwechsel junger österreichisch-jüdischer Schüler,“ in
the Schauspielklasse, Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst, Graz. June
2013
“Making Connections over Space and Time: The Extraordinary Group Correspondence
of Jewish-Austrian Schoolboys.”at the Symposium “Austrian Jews: Exile and the
Holocaust, Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin, 12 May 2012 and
Washington College, 10 October 2012.
“’Hebt die Briefe auf!’: Die auβergewöhnliche Korrespondenz einer jüdischösterreichischen Gymnasialklasse 1938-1953,” Presentation of a CD of the letters
read by students at the Stubenbasteischule, 7 December 2011.
(http://vimeo.com/33870699)
“Interkulturelle Beziehungen der intimen Art: Hollywoods Liebesaffairen mit Österreich,”
University of Vienna, sponsored by the Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 21 June 2011.
“Cross-Cultural Encounters of the Intimate Kind: Hollywood’s Americans in Love in
Austria(ns),” Miami University, sponsored by the Department of German,
Russian, and East Asian Languages, 22 April 2011.
“From Exile to Immigration in the Letters of Young Jewish-Austrians” Ohio State
University, sponsored by the Department of German, 17 May 2010.
“‘Damit nie der Kontakt verloren geht’”: Zentrum für Jüdische Kulturgeschichte, Universität
Salzburg, 18. June and Amiens, France, Conference “Exil des petit gens,” 7.
November 2009.
“Hollywood’s Denazification of Austria: Screening Austrian History,” sponsored by the
Department of Languages and Linguistics, Michigan State University, 1 April,
2009.
“Habsburgs Go Hollywood,” as part of panel discussion at the film series “Habsburgs Go
Hollywood,” sponsored by the Austrian Cultural Forum, New York, 10 November
2008.
“Austria: Made in Hollywood” and “Ist Österreich anders?”, Miami University, sponsored
by the Department of German, Russian, and East Asian Languages, 6 March
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2008.
“Nostalgic Views of Austria?: Hollywood’s Austria 1938-1945,” sponsored by the American
Studies Seminar, University of Munich, 2 February 2007.
“’Wien’ als transnationaler Gedächtnisort,” at the symposium “Translokales,
transnationales Gedächtnis?”, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften,
Vienna, Austria, 5 November 2005.
“Austria: Made in Hollywood,” jour fixe, sponsored by the österreichische Akademie der
Wissenschaften, Vienna, Austria, 6 June 2005.
“(Re)inventing Heimat in and after Exile: Jean Améry, Elisabeth Freundlich, and Egon
Schwarz,” Washington D.C., sponsored by the Austrian Embassy, 10 March
2005.
“Revealing Cross-Cultural Encounters: Celluloid Americans in Austria,” at the conference
“Urban Icons: Vienna and Chicago,” University of Chicago, sponsored by the
Department of History, 12 Nov. 2004. A slightly revised version of the talk given at
the GSA meeting in Oct. 2004.
“Censorship in Hollywood as American Cultural Policy,” Universität Salzburg, sponsored
by the Institut für Amerikanistik und Anglistik, 18 June 2003.
“’Jede Ecke, jedes Plätzchen, atmete Erinnerungen’: Topographien des Erinnerns in
Memoiren von jüdischen Remigranten,” Universität Salzburg, sponsored by the
Institut für Germanistik, 3 June 2003.
“Trauma und Trauerarbeit in den Memoiren zurückgekehrter Exilanten,” Universität
Klagenfurt, sponsored by the Institut für Germanistik, 26 May 2003,
“Österreich: Made in Hollywood,” University of Salzburg, in the Dissertantenseminar at the
Department of History, 7 May 2003 and University of Innsbruck, sponsored by the
Institut für Politologie, 17 June 2003.
“Screening Austrian History” at the conference “Redefining the Nation in Europe:
Germany and Austria, 1945-2000,” Atlanta, Emory University, sponsored by the
DAAD, Center for Austrian Studies, and Department of History at Emory
University, 12 April 2002 & at the Fulbright Seminar in American Studies,
Altenmarkt, Austria, 25 April 2003.
“Reclaiming Heimat: Trauma and Mourning in Memoirs by Jewish Austrian Reemigres,” at
the symposium “Austria in the Heart of Europe,” sponsored by the Center for
Austrian Studies, University of Minnesota, 5 April 2001.
“Die Vermarktung von Hollywoods Österreich,” at the symposium “Imaginiertes
Österreich: Imagining Austria,” sponsored by the Internationales
Forschungsinstitut Kulturwissenschaft, Vienna, Austria, 10 November 2000. (An
expanded and revised version of the talk listed below.)
“’He’ll put you in a dither with his zither’: Die Vermarktung von Hollywoods
Nachkriegsösterreich,” University of Salzburg, sponsored by the Departments of
History and Folklore, 17 May 2000. (German version of talk given at the MLA
1998.)
“New Tales from the Vienna Woods: Writers Protesting Haider,” at the symposium
“Austria: Black and Blue,” sponsored by the Center for European Studies,
University of Michigan-Arbor, 5 April 2000.
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Select Presentations:
“Cross-Cultural Encounters of the Intimate Kind: Billy Wilder’s Emperor Waltz,” American
Studies, University of Salzburg, 5 November 2014.
“Cross-Cultural Encounters of the Intimate Kind: Bernhard Vorhaus’s Three Faces West,”
at the Symposium Austrian-American Cross-Cultural Encounters, sponsored by
the English Department at the University of Salzburg, 25 January 2014, Salzburg,
Austria. A version of the talk was given on 11 February 2014 as part of the LCC
Connections series.
“An Epistolary Network: In and Beyond Exile,” at North American Exile Studies
Conference, University of Vermont, 21 September 2013
“Exile, Assimilation, and Evolving Belief Systems Revealed in the Correspondence of
Austrian-Jewish Schoolboys,” at the annual meeting of the Austrian Studies
Association, 3 May 2012, University of Waterloo,
“‘Curtiz is insane and Vienna is the asshole of Europe’: Michael Curtiz’s A Breath of
Scandal” the annual meeting of the Austrian Studies Association, 27 April 2012,
California State University-Long Beach.
“Verbindungen über Zeit und Raum: Die auβergewöhnliche Korrespondenz jüdischösterreichischer Schüler und ihr Weiterleben,” Tagung der Exilgesellschaft, 24
March 2012 Amsterdam.
“Transforming Cross-Cultural Relationships of the Intimate Kind: Stuart Walker’s
Evenings for Sale,” at the annual meeting of the German Studies Association,
Louisville, Kentucky, 24 September 2011. A German version of this talk was
given at the University of Vienna in June 2012.
“Teaching Franz Werfel’s The Forty Days of Musa Dagh,” at the annual meeting of the
Modern Languages Association, Los Angeles, California, 9 January 2011.
“A Polyglotinous Lollapalooza: Students Performing Poetry,” at the annual meeting of the
American Association of Teachers of German, Boston, 20 November 2010.
“The Extraordinary Group Correspondence of Austrian-Jewish Schoolboys,” at the annual
meeting of the German Studies Association, Oakland, California, 6 October 2010.
“Humanitarian and Political Messages in a Horse’s Tale: MGM’s Florian,” at the bi-annual
meeting of the North American Society for Exile Studies, University of Kansas, 1
October 2010.
“Teaching Language, Culture, and Intercultural Awareness with German-Language
Newspapers,” at the annual meeting of the American Association of Teachers of
German, San Diego, 20. November, 2009. A modified version given at the MFLA
on 17. October 2009.
“‘[T]the Austrians were never so bad as the Germans’: In Print and Film,” at the annual
German Studies Association Meeting, Washington, D.C., 11 October, 2009.
“(Re)inventing the Enemy: Germans and Austrians on the Hollywood Screen,” at the
annual meeting of MALCA, Emory University, 26 April, 2009
“(De)Constructing Austrian and German Identities on the US Screen,” at the annual
meeting of the Modern Language Association, San Francisco, 28 December
2008.
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“Performing Austrian Identity: The Lippizans in Literature and Film,” at the annual
meeting of MALCA, University of Washington, Seattle, 27 April 2008
“Innocents Abroad?” Americans in Hollywood’s Austria,” at the annual meeting of the
Modern Language Association, Chicago, 28 December 2007.
“‘Um ans Ufer des Sinnreichen zu gelangen’: Teaching Culture and Language Through
Mysteries” at ACTFL, sponsored by AATG, San Antonio, 16. November 2007.
“Neo-Realism and the Challenge to Austria’s Victim Status: Kerschbaumer’s and Zanke’s
Der weibliche Name des Widerstands” at the MMLA, Cleveland, 9 November
2007.
“‘Where does the ocean stop being European?’: Adapting Felix Salten’s Florian. Das
Pferd des Kaisers to the Hollywood Screen,” at the Germans Studies Association
Conference, San Diego, 5 October 2007.
“Between Kunst and Kitsch: Hollywood’s Silent ‘Austria’ Films,” at the German Studies
Association Conference, Pittsburgh, 30 September 2006.
“Travel and Exile in Egon Schwarz’s Die japanische Mauer,” at the meeting of the Exile
Society, Trinity College, Hartford, CO, 16 September 2006.
“The Politics of Memory in Bruno Kreiky’s Zwischen den Zeiten (1986),” conference “Fifty
Years Austrian State Treaty,” sponsored by the German Department, Trinity
College, Dublin, Ireland, 24 November 2005.
“Screening Austrian History,” at the annual meeting of the Modern Language Association,
Washington, D.C. 29 December 2005.
“Publishing in Austrian Studies,” at the German Studies Association Conference,
Washington D.C., 9 October 2004.
“Revealing Cross-Cultural Encounters: Celluloid Americans in Austria,” at the German
Studies Association Conference, Washington D.C., 8 October 2004 & at the
Modern Austrian Literature and Culture Association Meeting (MALCA), University
of Montana, Missoula, 22 April 2005.
“Austria: Made in Hollywood,” at the German Studies Association Conference, New
Orleans, 19 September 2003. An expanded version given at a Provost
Roundtable, December 2003.
“The Threat of the Global or Domesticating Austria in Hollywood,” at the Annual Meeting
of the MALCA, Burlington, Vermont, 13 April 2003.
“Reinventing Arthur Schnitzler: Jacques Feyder’s Daybreak,” at the German Studies
Association Conference, Washington, D.C., 5 October 2001.
“Topographies of Trauma and Mourning in Memoirs by Jewish Austrian Reémigrés,”
special session, at the annual meeting of the Modern Language Association,
Washington D.C., 29 December 2000.
“Reclaiming Self and Home: Trauma and Mourning in Memoirs by Jewish Austrian
Reémigrés,” at the conference Changing Identities and Autobiography, University
of British Columbia, Vancouver, 29 July 2000.
“Rückgewinnung österreichischer Identitäten,” annual meeting of the Exile Society,
Vienna, Austria, 26 March 2000.
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External Grants and Fellowships for Research or Research-related Activities:
Botstiber Grant: ($25,000 for academic leave Winter 2011 to work on “Austria: Made in
Hollywood)
NEH Summer Seminar: German Exile Community in California, Stanford University, 2007
($4000 to participate in intensive 6-week seminar to work on Austria: Made in
Hollywood).
Research Grant for German Exile Studies, Leon Feuchtwanger Archive, University of
Southern California, ($750 travel grant to work on “Austria: Made in Hollywood,”
July 2004).
Dorot Fellowship, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, at The University of Texas
at Austin ($1000 travel grant to work on “Austria: Made in Hollywood,” June 2003August 2004).
NEH Summer Stipend ($4000, to work on project "Reclaiming Heimat: Memoir Literature
of Jewish Austrian Exiles,” August-September 1998)
Leo Baeck/German Academic Exchange Service Fellowship ($2000, to carry out research
at the Leo Baeck Institute in New York, 1997)
Fulbright Research Grant ($6000, to carry out research in Vienna, Austria, Feb-July 1991)
Stipendium für Bewerber aus aller Welt, Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Forschung
($4000, to carry out research in Vienna, Austria, Oct-Feb 1990)
NEH Travel to Collections Grant ($800, to carry out research in Vienna, Austria, June
1990)
Austrian Government Grant ($3200, dissertation research in Vienna, Austria, Feb-June
1984)
Fulbright-Hays Full Grant ($10,000, Graduate Fellowship to Vienna, Austria, Sep 1982Jan 1984)
Grants for Curricular and Faculty Development and Co-Curricular Activities:
(*supported by external competitive grants)
*AATG Grant ($2500, to attend “Intercultural Teaching Seminar, Herder Institut, Leipzig,
Germany, June 7-21, 2008).
Professional Development Award ($500, to attend ACTFL Oral Proficiency Workshop,
Nov. 13-16, Nashville, TN)
UM-D Diversity Grant ($1500, to support lecture and film series “Youth in Exile,” 2004)
*Teaching Fulbright ($13,000 to teach at the Universität Salzburg Sommersemester
2003).
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor OVPR Grant ($2,000 to support series of events
”Memory, History, and Identity,” Winter Semester 2002)
UM-D Grants from Chancellor, Provost, and Dean of CASL to organize series of events
“Memory, History, and Identity” ($17,500 to organize series of events “Memory,
History, and Identity,” Winter Semester 2002)
UM-D Diversity Grant ($1500, to support talk and film series, 2001)
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*Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften ($7000, to support conference
“Imagining Austria” to be held in Nov. 2000 and co-organized with Helga
Embacher, University of Salzburg)
*NEH Summer Institute “German Across the Curriculum,” (July10-August 4 1995 at the
University of Rhode Island)
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor OVPR Grant ($2000 to support conference on Austrian
and German Jewish Exiles in March 1995)
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Rackham Grant ($800 to support conference on
Austrian and German Jewish Exiles in March 1995)
*DAAD-Team-teaching Award ($4951 to introduce German Across the Curriculum, Winter
1995)
*Max Kade Foundation Grant ($3000 to support conference on Austrian and German
Jewish Exiles in March 1995)
*DAAD Award ($6000 to support local university students who wish to attend the
conference on Austrian and German Jewish Exiles in March 1995)
*Fulbright Landeskunde Seminar (June 17-July 17, 1993, Bonn, Rostock, and Berlin)
Courses taught:
German Studies/Culture:
Vienna: A Multi/Interdisciplinary Study
Contemporary Culture in the German-speaking countries Culture, History, Literature in the
BRD
Representations of New Minorities in Film and Literature in the Federal Republic of
Germany (third year)
Images of Women in Germany: 1945-Present
Representations of National Socialism in Literature and Film (Honors)
Contemporary German Cultures (Focus on National and Individual Identity)
Jüdisch-österreichische Identitäten in Literatur, Autobiographie und Film nach 1945
National Cinema (Germany)
Literature:
Introduction to German Literature 800-1790
Introduction to German Literature 1890-Present
Postwar and Contemporary Literature in the German-speaking World (upper
division/graduate)
Postwar and Contemporary Women Writers in the German-speaking World (upper
division/graduate, and in Women's Studies Program in translation)
Representations of National Socialism in Postwar and Contemporary Literature in the
German-speaking World (upper division/graduate)
Autobiographische Literatur: Literarische Autobiographien in Österreich nach 1945
The First Holocaust Novel: Franz Werfel’s The Forty Days of Musa Dagh
German Across the Curriculum (Reading courses taught in conjunction with):
History: Germany before Hitler
Anthropology: Culture and International Business
History: The Reformation Era
History: Freud’s Vienna
Language:
First through fourth semester--four skills language program
Fourth semester Women's Literature Course (co-designed in 1982 with two other
graduate students)
Advanced conversation and composition (Third and Fourth Year)
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Business German
Interdisciplinary Graduate Course
"The Texture of Memory" M.A. Liberal Studies Program (Winter 2001, Fall 2002, Winter
2004, Fall 2010)
“Formen des Erinnerns” Privatissimum, University of Salzburg (Sommersemester 2003)
“Capstone Experience: Place,” (with Kathleen Wider in Fall 2005; alone Fall 2008)
Independent Studies
Wien um die Jahrhundertwende
Kinderliteratur
Österreichische autobiographische Literatur nach 1945
Nachkriegsliteratur
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