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Associate Professor, World Languages and Cultures
Presentations
- “Nature’s Lament, the Posthuman, and ‘Pre-Traumatic Stress Disorder’ in Spielberg’s
A.I.” American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), Los Angeles, California, March 2018.
Conference Paper, Refereed,
Presented, 03/2018.
- “Blind Spot: (Non) Seeing, (Non) Saying, and (Non) Sense in Adalbert Stifter’s The
Mountain Forest.” Awe and Attention Symposium, University of Utah,
February 2018.
Conference Paper,
Presented, 02/2018.
- “Georg Büchner, Re-Animator.” American Comparative Literature Association
(ACLA), Cambridge, MA, March 2016.
Conference Paper, Refereed,
Presented, 03/2016.
- “Permeation Germanistik: On ‘Getting Into’ Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies, and Contemplative Pedagogy.” Invited talk, German Dept. Alumni Colloquium, Harvard University, April 2014.
Invited Talk/Keynote,
Presented, 04/2014.
- “Collapsed Compasses and Biopolitical Baromenters: Locating Leopold von Sacher-Masoch.” American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), Toronto, Canada, April 2013.
Conference Paper, Refereed,
Presented, 04/2013.
- "Vom Erhabenen zum Laecherlichen (und zurueck): Koerperbilder in Rilkes Gedichtkreis fuer Madeleine Broglie." Annual Conference of the International Rilke Society, Boston University and Harvard University.
Invited Talk/Keynote,
Presented, 09/2011.
- “Reification, Absolute Surplus, and the Perverse Sublime in Stifter’s Proto-Benjaminian Stadtbilder.” Roundtable paper, Conference of the Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA), Montreal, Canada, April 2010.
Conference Paper, Refereed,
Presented, 04/2010.
- “Adalbert Stifter’s Colonial Scene/Seen: Envisioning Brigitta’s Turko-Hungarian Home.” Keynote address, Rutgers University German Graduate Student Conference “Minority-Identity,” February 2009.
Invited Talk/Keynote,
Presented, 2009.
- “The Holocaust Poetry of Paul Celan.” Workshop of the United States Holocaust Memorial
Museum, University of Utah, April 2008.
Invited Talk/Keynote,
Presented, 2008.
- “Wilhelm Dilettant, or the Unhomely Subject of Subjection: Austrian Double Consciousness
and Graeco-German Bildungskolonialismus in Sacher-Masoch’s Venus im Pelz.” Invited talk,
Harvard University Dept. of Germanic Languages and Literatures, March 2008.
Invited Talk/Keynote,
Presented, 2008.
- Stifter’s “‘Ein Gang durch die Katakomben’: The Sublime, the Scientific World View, and the
Value of Valuelessness in a Time of Capitalist Urban Growth.” Invited seminar presentation, German Studies Colloquium for Graduate Students, Harvard University, March 2008.
Invited Talk/Keynote,
Presented, 2008.
Languages
Geographical Regions of Interest
Austria
Germany
Switzerland
Publications
- “Genre beside Itself: David Mitchell’s The Bone Clocks, Pulp Intrusions, and the Cosmic Historians’ War.” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 58.2 (2017): 121-28 (online pagination).
Published, 10/18/2016.
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0011161...
- Joseph Metz (2015). “Sacher-Masoch and the Jewish Bildungsroman.” . Journal of Austrian Studies. Vol. 48.1, 59-80.
Published, 03/2015.
- review of Robert Lemon, _Imperial Messages: Orientalism as Self-Critique in the Habsburg Fin de Siecle_. _German Quarterly_ 85.2 (Spring 2012) 221-22.
Accepted, 10/2011.
- “‘Es ist ein seltsam, furchtbar erhabenes Ding, der Mensch’: Verdinglichung, absoluter Mehrwert und das perverse Erhabene in Adalbert Stifters Proto-Benjaminischen Stadtbildern.“ Christiane Arndt and Silke Brodersen, eds. _Organismus und Gesellschaft: Der Körper in der deutschsprachigen Literatur des Realismus (1830-1930)_. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2011. 49-67.
Published, 06/2011.
- “The Jew as Sign in Stifter’s Abdias.” Anthologized by request of publisher in Kathy D. Darrow, ed. Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism 198. Detroit: Gale, 2008. 288-96. Originally in Germanic Review 77.3 (Summer 2002): 219-32.
Published, 2008.