Contact Information
Biography
Education
Ph.D., German, New York University, 1987M.A., German, University of Waterloo, Canada, 1979
Staatsexamen, Germanistk/Anglistk, University of Heidelberg, Germany, 1977
Publications & Presentations
Publications
"The Abject Face: Schach and Victoire in Fontane's Schach von Wuthenow." Colloquia Germanica 52.1-2 (2020): 109-129
"Aspects of Abjection in Kafka's The Metamorphosis." LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory 30.4 (2019): 303-322.
"In Search of the Maternal: Patrick Süskind's Perfume. The Germanic Review 87.4 (2012): 345-364.
"Placer, violencia, espiritualidad: las mujeres y el protagonista atormentado en De sobremesa de José Asunción Silva." Crítica Hispánica XXXIII.1-2 (2011): 79-100.
"Threads/Threats of Violence: Elfriede Jelinek's Stecken, Stab und Stangl. Eine Handarbeit (Rod, Staff, and Crook. A Handiwork)." Dialogue and UniversalismE 2.1 (2011): 21-31 (http://www.emporia.edu/~cbrown/dnue/)
"Ashes and Roses: Response and Responsibility after Auschwitz and Hiroshima." Philosophy after Auschwitz. Ed. Edward Demenchonok. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010: 97-117
"Domesticity, Eccentricity, and the Problems of Self-Making: The Suffering Protagonists in Theodor Fontane's Effi Briest and Leopoldo Alas's La Regenta." Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies 44.4 (2008): 414-432
Presentations
"The Abject Face: Victoire and Schach in Fontane's Schach von Wuthenow. German Studies Association (GSA) Forty-third Annual Conference, Portland, OR, October 3-6, 2019.
"The Challenge of Gender, Generation and Nation in Fassbinder's The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979) and Tykwer's Run, Lola, Run (1998)." International Society for Universal Dialogue: XII World Congress, July 10-15, 2018, Lima, Peru.
"Seduction, Trauma, Nation: Fußball in German Film/Cinema: Die Ehe der Maria Braun/The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979), Lola rennt/ Run Lola Run (1998),/Das Wunder von Bern/The Miracle of Bern (2003)." Pennsylvania Foreign Language Conference, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA, September 22-24, 2017.
"Claire Zachanassian's Body in Dürrenmatt's The Visit: Part(s) and Parcel of a Value System." International Society for Universal Dialogue: Eleventh World Congress, July 11-16, 2016, Warsaw, Poland. Also presened at the Pennsylvania Foreign Language Conference, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA, September 23-25, 2016.
"Fassbinder's The Marriage of Maria Braun: Maria Braun's Containment." Pennsylvania
Foreign
Language Conference, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA, September 25-27, 2015. Also
presented at Southeast Coastal Conference on Languages and Literatures (SECCLL), Georgia
Southern University, Savannah, GA, March 26-27, 2015
"Fontane's Schach von Wuthenow: Schach's Choice." Pennsylvania Foreign Language Conference, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA, September 19-21, 2014
"Perfume--the Film: Order and Destabilization." Southeast Coastal Conference on Languages and Literatures (SECCLL), Georgia Southern University, Savannah, GA, April 4-April 5, 2013
"Syntax of Scent: Patrick Süskind's Das Parfum. Die Geschichte eines Mörders in Film and Print: Possibilities and Limitations." Pennsylvania Foreign Language Conference, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA, September 21-22, 2012