Bruce Murray
Ph.D. University of Minnesota
Vienna Director, Austria-Illinois Exchange Program

Research Interests:
German cinema, literature and film

Biography | Publications | Courses

Biography

Assistant Professor Bruce Murray, Resident Director of the Illinois Program in Vienna, is a native of Minnesota, where German Protestantism, Irish working-class values, and the student movement of the 1960s influenced his early development. He earned two B.A.s (summa cum laude in German and English) from Luther College and an M.A. in German Studies from Middlebury College. He received his Ph.D. in German Studies from the University of Minnesota were he completed a dissertation on German film and politics in the Weimar Republic. While a student, Prof. Murray completed course work and research in Freiburg, Mainz, and in Berlin (East and West).

For the past decade Prof. Murray has directed the Illinois Program in Vienna. There he teaches two courses each semester on German literature and culture, as well as on European integration. He advises AIEP participants academically and personally--and serves as liaison between UIUC and its academic partners in Vienna. Prof. Murray currently also serves as EU coordinator of the Good Governance Consortium (GGC), a partnership of eight EU and U.S. universities, including UIUC. The GGC offers an innovative curriculum for advanced undergraduate and graduate students interested in transatlantic collaboration in various aspects of political and economic governance.

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Publications

Books:

Framing the Past: The Historiography of German Cinema and Television. Bruce Murray and Christopher Wickham, eds. Carbondale: SIUP, 1992. 348 pp.

Film and the German Left in the Weimar Republic: From Caligari to Kuhle Wampe. Austin: U of Texas P. 1990. 293 pp.

Film and Politics in the Weimar Republic. Thomas Plummer et al. New York: Holmes and Meier, 1982. 100 pp.

Articles:

"The Role of the Vamp in Weimar Cinema: An Analysis of Karl Grune's Die Strasse." Gender Perspectives in German Cinema. Sandra Frieden et al., eds. Providence: Berg, 1994. 43-50.

"Dramaturgische Experimente in den Filmen der Prometheus GmbH." Walter Schatzberg, ed. Munich: Saur, 1992: 230-54.

"Postwar Discourse about the National Socialist Past: Are the Murderers Still Among Us?" Schnittstellen zwischen Medienwissenschaft, Medienpraxis und gesellschaftlicher Kommunikation. Knut Hickethier and Siegfried Zielinski, eds. Berlin: Volker Spiess, 1991: 255-73.

"NBC's Docudrama, Holocaust, and Concepts of National Socialism in the United States and the Federal Republic of Germany." The Americanizationof the Global Village: Studies in Comparative Popular Culture. Roger Rollin, ed. Bowling Green: The Popular Press of Bowling Green State University,1989: 87-106.

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Recently Taught Courses

• Introduction to Modern German Literature
• Introduction to 20th-Century German Literature
• History of Austrian Culture
• Politics and Culture of the European Union
  
• Global Studies: Diversity and Integration in Cosmopolitan Vienna
• Good Governance Consortium: Introductory Seminar
  

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