Edith Krause

Dr. Krause joined the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures as Department in 2004 and served as chair from 2004-2019. She has also held full-time and chair appointments at the University of Minnesota at Moorhead and Angelo State University (Texas Tech University System). Her principal interests include 19th- and 20th-century German literature and culture, literature and film, literature and philosophy, comparative literature, feminist perspectives in literature and language pedagogy. With her publications on Theodor Fontane, she has enriched translation and reception studies. Her recent work includes a Kristevan approach to Kafka's The Metamorphosis and Patrick Süskind's novel Das Parfum and one of the first detailed comparative studies of German and Spanish realist novels by Theodor Fontane and Leopoldo Alas "Clarín."

Education

Ph.D., German, New York University, 1987
M.A., German, University of Waterloo, Canada, 1979
Staatsexamen, Germanistk/Anglistk, University of Heidelberg, Germany, 1977

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