Mara R Wade
Head of Germanic Languages and Literatures; Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Cinema Studies, Comparative and World Literature, European Union Center, Gender and Women's Studies, and Library Admin
Education
Ph.D. University of Michigan
Specialty
Early Modern and Baroque literature and culture, emblematica, gender studies, Jewish studies
Contact Information:
- Address: 3120/2070C
- Telephone: (217) 333-9353
- Email: mwade@illinois.edu
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.
Courses Taught
- German Literature 1450-1750
- German Poetics, and Metrics
- Introduction to German Literature I
- Introduction to German Literature II
- History of German Film
- The Holocaust in Context
- Nürnberg in the 17th Century
- Introduction to Graduate Study
- Nürnberg 1450-1700
- Jüdische Authoren deutscher Literatur
- Stadt und Literatur: Nürnberg im 17. Jahrhundert
- Torheit in der Literatur der frühen Neuzeit
- Hof und Literatur im deutschen Barock
- German Literature and Gender
- Schreibende Frauen der frühen Neuzeit