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Mara Wade
Ph.D. University of Michigan
Professor of Germanic Languages & Literatures
and in the Programs for Comparative and World Literatures, Cinema Studies, Gender and Women's Studies, International Studies, Jewish Society and Culture, International Studies, and in Library Administration
Office: 3120/2070C Telephone: (217) 333-9353
Research Interests:
Early Modern literature, court festivals, music and literature,
women's studies, Jewish authors of German literature, emblematics,
German film, Günter Grass
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Biography
Mara Wade received her education
at Michigan State University and the University of Michigan
and studied at the German universities of Freiburg, Tübingen,
and the FU Berlin. She regularly conducts research in Germany
and Denmark. Her research focuses on Early Modern German literature
and culture. She has taught undergraduate courses in English
on the Holocaust in Context and the History of German Film,
and in German on grammar and conversation, introduction to
German literature, German literature before 1750, and a survey
of German poetry. She has offered graduate seminars on literary
culture in Nürnberg in the 17th century, Andreas Gryphius,
German Court Culture, and Women and German Literature.
Professor
Wade has published over forty scholarly articles on various
aspects of German Baroque literature, emblems, women’s
studies, German-Jewish authors, and on the German Nobel Prize
winner Günter Grass. She is the Principal Investigator
for the research group “Digital Emblematica” at
the University of Illinois which, supported by the Alexander
von Humboldt Foundation, is conducting a three-year emblem
digitization project with the Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel,
entitled “Emblematica On-Line.” She is chair of
the organizing committee for the Seventh International Conference
of the International Society for Emblem Studies to be held
at UIUC, July 24-30, 2005. She is currently writing a monograph
entitled “Splendid Ceremonies: The Great Spectacles
of the Early Modern Period in Electoral Saxony and Denmark
1548-1709” and co-editing a volume, “Foreign Encounters
in German Literature Before 1700,” with Professor Glenn
Ehrstine, University of Iowa, to be published by Rodopi.
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