Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
 

Emeriti and Alumni

   
Prof. Emeritus Henry Gerlach

Henry Gerlach, Professor Emeritus

Selected publications include:
Conrad Ferdinand Meyer Bibliographie. Tübingen: Mara Niemeyer, 1994.
Friedrich Hebbel. Wesselburener Ausgabe. Briefwechsel 1829-1863. 5 vols. München: iudicium verlag, 1999.
" 'Wenn nichts als Trotz mich triebe ...': Betrachtungen zum Todeswunsch von Hebbels Mariamne." Zeitschrift für deutsche Philologie. 112 (1993): 529-542.
"Ilse Aichingers 'Spiegelgeschichte': eine einzigartige Erzählung." Österreich in Geschichte und Literatur. 40 (1996): 37-45.
"Hebbels Briefe der Lehr- und Wanderjahre: Hinweise für Benutzer," Hebbel-Jahrbuch. 54 (1999): 83-94.

   
Prof. Emeritus Harry Haile

Harry G. Haile, Professor Emeritus

Selected publications include:
Artist in chrysalis; a biographical study of Goethe in Italy. University of Illinois Press, 1973.
Das Faustbuch nach der Wolfenbütteler Handschrift C. Winter, 1995. [An earlier edition attempted reconstruction of the original. This edition focuses the Faust theme.]
The history of Doctor Johann Faustus, recovered from the German. University of Illinois Press, 1965.
Invitation to Goethe's Faust. University of Alabama Press, 1978.
Luther, an experiment in biography. 1st Princeton University Press ed., 1983.

Recommended website: http://lettersfromthedustbowl.com/

   
Stephen Jaeger

C. Stephen Jaeger, Professor Emeritus

Selected publications include:

Books

Medieval Humanism in Gottfried von Strassburg's Tristan und Isolde (Heidelberg: Winter, 1977)

The Origins of Courtliness: Civilizing Trends and the Formation of Courtly Ideals, 935-1210 (Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1985). (Choice Magazine outstanding book of the year)

The Envy of Angels: Cathedral Schools and European Social Ideals, 950-1200 (Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1994). Awarded Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History from American Philosophical Society, 1995. It is due to appear in paperback in Fall 2000.

Ennobling Love: In Search of a Lost Sensibility (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999)

Über die Entstehung der höfischen Kultur (German translation of Origins of Courtliness), Erich Schmidt Verlag, 2001.

Scholars and Courtiers: Intellectuals and Society in the Medieval West, Variorum Reprint, 2002.

Edited books

Der gesunde Gelehrte: Festschrift für Hans Bänziger zum 70. Geburtstag (Zürich: Schläpfer, 1987).

Humanism and Public Life: Papers of the UW Humanities Center Conference, special issue of Modern Language Quarterly

Fremdes wahrnehmen - fremdes Wahrnehmen: Studien zur Geschichte der Wahrnehmung und zur Begegnung von Kulturen in Mittelalter und früher Neuzeit, ed. Wolfgang Harms & C. Stephen Jaeger, (Stuttgart/Leipzig: Hirzel, 1997)

   
Prof. Emerita Marianne Kalinke

Marianne Kalinke, CAS Professor and Trowbridge Chair in Literary Studies, Emerita

Selected publications include:
King Arthur, North-by-Northwest. The matière de Bretagne in Old Norse-Icelandic Romances. Bibliotheca Arnamagnæana, XXXVII. Copenhagen: Reitzel, 198l. Pp. xii + 277.
Bibliography of Old Norse-Icelandic Romances. Compiled by Marianne E. Kalinke and P. M. Mitchell. Islandica, 44. Ithaca, N. Y.: Cornell University Press, 1985. Pp. xii + 140.
Möttuls saga. Edited by Marianne E. Kalinke. With an Edition of Le Lai du cort mantel by Philip E. Bennett. Editiones Arnamagnæanæ, B, 30. Copenhagen: Reitzel, 1987. Pp. cli + 108.
Bridal-Quest Romance in Medieval Iceland. Islandica, 46. Ithaca, N. Y.: Cornell University Press, 1990. Pp. xii + 223.
The Book of Reykjahólar: The Last of the Great Medieval Legendaries. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1996. Pp. xii + 322.
Norse Romance I: The Tristan Legend (Editor). Arthurian Archives, IV. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1999. Pp. x + 294.
Norse Romance II: The Knights of the Round Table (Editor). Arthurian Archives, IV. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1999. Pp. 329.
Norse Romance III: Hærra Ivan (Editor). Arthurian Archives, V. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1999. Pp. 320.
St. Oswald of Northumbria: Continental Metamorphoses. With an Edition and Translation of Ósvalds saga and Van sunte Oswaldo deme konninghe. Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2005. Pp. xi + 207.

   
Prof. Emeritus James McGlathery

James McGlathery, Professor Emeritus

Selected publications include:

Mysticism and Sexuality: E. T. A. Hoffmann. Part One: Hoffmann and His Sources. Berner Beiträge zur deutschen Sprache und Literatur, 4 (also as: American University Studies, I,3, and Europäische Hochschulschriften ,I, 450). Berne: Peter Lang Verlag, 1981.
Fairy Tale Romance: The Grimms, Basile, Perrault. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991. (Japanese edition Tokyo: Tuttle-Mori Agency, 1998.)
Grimms' Fairy Tales: A History of Criticism on a Popular Classic. Literary Criticism in Perspective. Columbia, SC: Camden House, 1993.
E. T. A. Hoffmann. Twayne's World Authors Series, 868. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1997.
Wagner's Operas and Desire. North American Studies in Nineteenth-Century German Literature, 22. New York: Peter Lang, 1998.

   
Prof. Emeritus Hans Schoepf

Karl-Heinz Schoeps, Professor Emeritus

Selected publications include:
Literatur im Dritten Reich. Berlin: Weidler, 2000 (second and revised edition)
Literature and Film in the Third Reich. Rochester NY: Camden House, 2004
Tallhover or The Eternal Spy: Hans Joachim Schädlich's Stasi-Novel "Tallhover." In: German Writers and the Politics of Culture: Dealing with the Stasi, eds. Paul Cook and Andrew Plowman (Houndmills/Basingstoke, New York: Palgrave-MacMillan, 3003), 71-84.
Conservative Opposition: Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen's Anti-Fascist Novel Bockelson: A History of Mass Hysteria." In: A Flight of Fantasy: New Perspectives on Inner Emigration in German Literature 1933-1945, eds. Neil Donahue and Doris Kirchner (New York, Oxford: Berghahn, 2001, paper 2005), 188-198.
Interpretation von Bertolt Brechts Gedicht "An die Nachgeborenen." In: Brecht-Handbuch, vol. 2, Gedichte, ed. Jan Knopf (Stuttgart: Metzler, 2001), 274-281.
Interpretation von Brechts Gedicht "Legende vom toten Soldaten." In: Brecht-Handbuch, vol. 2, Gedichte, ed. Jan Knopf (Stuttgart: Metzler, 2001), 50-57.
Interpretation von Bertolt Brechts Aufsatz "Die Horst-Wessel-Legende." In Brecht-Handbuch, vol 3, Prosa, Filme, Drehbücher, ed. Jan Knopf (Stuttgart: Metzler, 2002) 276-282.
Bertolt Brecht und Bernard Shaw. Bonn: Bouvier, 1974.
DDR-Literatur im Tauwetter. New York, Bern, Frankfurt a.M: Lang, 1985. (Anthology in three volumes, with introduction, interviews; together with Richard Zipser).
Bertolt Brecht: Life, Work, and Criticism Fredericton, N.B. (Canada): York Press Ltd., 1989.
Literatur im Dritten Reich. Bern: Lang, 1992. 237 pp.
"Nazi Writers in Germany after 1945." In progress.

   
Prof. Emerita Rochelle Wright

Rochelle Wright, Professor Emerita

Danish Emigrant Ballads and Songs. Carbondale: Southern Illinois U P, 1983 (with Robert L. Wright). Pp. 302.
The Visible Wall: Jews and Other Ethnic Outsiders in Swedish Film. Carbondale: Southern Illinois U P, and Uppsala, Sweden: Centre for Multi-Ethnic Research, 1998. Pp. 454.
"Textual Dialogue and the Humanistic Tradition: Kerstin Ekman's Gör mig levande igen," Scandinavian Studies 72 (2000): 279-300.
"Att förmedla det svenska: Utvandrarna och Äppelkriget" [Transmitting 'Swedishness': The Emigrants and The Apple War]. Filmhäftet 28:3 (2000): 6-11.
"From Strindberg to Ekman: Swedish Literature and the American Audience." Swedish-American Historical Quarterly 50 (1999): 233-244.
"Nature Imagery and National Romanticism in the Films of Alf Sjöberg." Scandinavian Studies 70 (1998): 461-476.
"Delblanc's Kanaans land and Moberg's Emigrant Tetralogy: Intertextuality and Transformation." Scandinavian-Canadian Studies 5 (1992): 81-93.
"The Martinsons and Literary History." Scandinavian Studies 64 (1992): 263-69.
"Dream and Dream Imagery in Ivar Lo-Johansson's Godnatt, jord." Scandinavian Studies 64 (1992): 53-67.

   

Elmer H. Antonsen, Professor Emeritus

Herbert Knust, Professor Emeritus

Ruth E. Lorbe, Professor Emerita

James Marchand, Professor Emeritus

   
Alumni

Recent doctorates awarded

Tobias Barske, Ph.D., 2006

Dissertation Title: Co-Constructing Social Roles in German Business Meetings: A Conversation Analytic Study

Dissertation advisor: Andrea Golato

Current position: Assistant Professor (tenure-track), University of Wisconsin Stevens Point

 

Francien Markx, Ph.D., 2003

Dissertation Title: Der Kritiker als Magier: E.T.A. Hoffmanns Musikerzählungen im Kontext der Allemeinen Musikalischen Zeitung

Dissertation advisor: James McGlathery

Current position: Senior Lecturer, Ohio State University

   

Jonathan Green, Ph.D., 2003

Dissertation Title: The Nuremberg Chronicle and its Readers: The Reception of Hartmann Schedel’s Liber cronicarum

Dissertation advisor: Marianne Kalinke

Current position: Visiting Assistant Professor, College of Charleston

   

Brenda Sanders, Ph.D., 2003

Dissertation Title: Discourse and Device: The Power Strategies of Hildegard Medicine

Dissertation advisor: Karl-Heinz Schoeps

   

Nicole Thesz, Ph.D., 2002

Dissertation Title: Palimpseste zur deutschen Einheit: Die Funktion der Prosa und Lyrik Theodor Fontanes in Günter Grass’ Ein weites Feld

Dissertation advisor: Karl-Heinz Schoeps

Current position: Assistant Professor, Miami University in Ohio

   

John Martin, Ph.D., 2002

Dissertation Title: Representations of Jews in Late Medieval German Literature

Dissertation advisor: Marianne Kalinke

Current position: Visiting Assistant Professor, Purdue University

   

James P. Witte, Ph.D., 2001

Dissertation Title: Syntax and Semantics of Path-Denoting Articles and Prepositional Phrases in German

Dissertation advisors: Georgia Green, E. Antonsen

Current position: ATLAS, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

   

Almut Spalding, Ph.D., 2001

Dissertation Title: Elise Reimarus (1735-1805), The Muse of Hamburg: A woman of the German Enlightenment

Dissertation advisor: Mara Wade

Current position: Assistant Professor, Illinois College

   

Suzanne Hilgendorf, Ph.D., 2001

Dissertation Title: Language Contact, Convergence, and Attitudes: The Case of English in Germany

Dissertation advisor: Braj Kachru

Current position: Assistant Professor, Wayne State University

   

Kathleen Condray, Ph.D., 2001

Dissertation Title: The Literary Kaleidoscope: Women Writers of the Journal Jugend from 1919-1940

Dissertation advisor: Karl-Heinz Schoeps

Current position: Assistant Professor, University of Arkansas at Fayetteville

   

Amy Jones Hayworth, Ph.D., 2000

Dissertation Title: An Ecofeminist Perspective: Ecology and Feminism in the Works of Reinig, Maron, Morgner, and Wolf.

Dissertation advisor: Karl-Heinz Schoeps

   

Jennifer Watson, Ph.D., 1998

Dissertation Title: The Literary Response of German-Language Authors to Selma Lagerlöf

Dissertation advisor: Rochelle Wright

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Coordinator Scandinavian Certificate Program, University of Wisconsin, Milawukee

   

Annemarie Wambach, Ph.D., 1996

Dissertation Title: Georg Wickrams Von guten und bösen Nachbarn: Eine literarische Utopie

Dissertation advisor: Marianne Kalinke

Current position: Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

   

Elisabeth Wade, Ph.D., 1995

Dissertation Title: History and Furtuna in Heinrich Steinhöwel's Appolonius

Dissertation advisor: Marianne Kalinke

Current position: Associate Professor, Coordinator of the German Division, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh

   
   

 

 

 

 
Last update: October 18, 2007