Presentations

Papers Presented

“’Coffee to Go’: The Café Connection in Olga Grjasnowa’s Gott ist nicht schüchtern, Anna Seghers’ Transit and Erich Marie Remarque’s Die Nacht von Lissabon.” German Studies Association Sept. 29-Oct 4, 2020. Virtual conference.

“The Violence of Mobility and the Non-Places of Refugee Experience in Olga Grjasnowa’s Gott ist nicht schüchtern.” Discussed in the seminar “(De)Constructing Identities through Mobilities” at the German Studies Association Oct 3-6, 2019, Portland, OR.

“Violence and Expulsion as Obstructions to Asylum: Questioning Obstacles” Ashland University 5^th Annual John D. Stratton Conference on Future of Nonviolence, February 23, 2019.

“Precarity and Modes of Violence in Jenny Erpenbeck’s Gehen, ging, gegangen.” German Studies Association Sept 27-30, 2018, Pittsburgh, PA.

“Refugees and Cell Phone Community in Jenny Erpenbeck’s Go Went Gone.” Society for Comparative Literature and the Arts. October 19-21, 2017. Johns Hopkins U.

“Fathers and Rules to Live by in the Works of Uwe Timm and Utz Rachowski” German Studies Association Sept 29-Oct 2, 2016, San Diego, CA.

“Uwe Johnson und der Kalte Krieg” Uwe Johnson in seiner Zeit. June 3-5, 2016. University of Rostock.

“The Democratic Personality in the Work of Margarete Mitscherlich.” Paper discussed in the German Studies Association Seminar “Creating Democratic Subjectivities” October 1-4, 2015, Washington DC.

“Of Monsters and Democrats in Bernhard Schlink’s The Reader,” Modern Language

Association, Jan 8-11, 2015, Vancouver.

“Deutsche Väter. Über Mitscherlichs Thesen und Johnsons Väter” Uwe Johnson und der Kanon. May 22-25, 2014. University of Rostock.

“The Absurd and Storytelling in Uwe Timm’s Johannisnacht” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 10-12, 2014. University of Kentucky.

“Disrupted Referentiality in Uwe Timm’s Der Freund und der Fremde” German Studies Association. Oct 5-7, 2012 Milwaukee, WI.

“The Case of Egon Schmitt and the Origins of Alexander Mitscherlich’s Social Psychology” German Studies Association. Sept 22-25, 2011 Louisville, KY.

“The Coalescence of Beauty and Violence in Uwe Timm’s Rot” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 14-16, 2011. University of Kentucky.

“On Violence. Gewalt in Uwe Johnsons Jahrestagen” Identität des Autors zweifelhaft. Uwe Johnson. Werk und Leben. May 27-30, 2010 University of Rostock.

“Pattern versus Teleology in Uwe Timm’s Am Beispiel meines Bruders” German Studies Association. Oct 8-11 2009 Washington DC.

“Reading Günter Grass’s Dummer August and Bertolt Brecht’s Buckower Elegien” German Studies Association. Oct 2-5, 2008, St. Paul, MN.

“Hitlerjunge Quex: National or National Character Cinema?” Colloquium on Literature and Film, October 4-6, 2007, West Virginia University.

“The Involution of History: Generations in Günter Grass’s Im Krebsgang” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 19-21, 2007. University of Kentucky.

“Günter Grass’s Im Krebsgang and the Hillgruber Element.” German Studies Association. Sept 29- Oct 1, 2006, Pittsburgh, PA.

“The Collapse of Chronology in Günter Grass’s Ein weites Feld and Im Krebsgang.” German Studies Association, Sept 29-Oct 2, 2005. Milwaukee, WI.

“The Reluctant Conqueror: German Character and the Relaxing American.” German Studies Association, Oct 7-10, 2004. Washington DC.

“The Diseased German: National Character and Metaphor,” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 15-17, 2004. University of Kentucky.

“Three Elements of Multatuli’s Affirmation of Life: Love, Knowledge, and Struggle,” Modern Language Association, Dec 27-30, 2003, San Diego.

“Bartering for Goethe: Reconstructung the Goethe-Haus 1944-1951,” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 24-26, 2003. University of Kentucky.

“Tarrying with the Rubble 1945-1949: Between Metonymy and Metaphor” Society for the Study of Narrative Literature, April 11-14, 2002, Michigan State University.

“Reading in the Rubble: The Reception of Thomas Mann’s Dr. Faustus, 1947-1949.”(Invited talk) Conference in Anticipation of Frank Hirschbach’s 80th Birthday, April 28, 2001, University of Minnesota.

“Redemption or Reculturation? Thomas Mann and American Intellectuals on German Character” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 19-21, 2001, University of Kentucky.

“Discourse of ‘Shock’ and ‘Abandonment’:Reading Kafka in the Late 1940s” Society for the Study of Narrative Literature, March 8-11, 2001. Rice University.

"'At Home in the Maelstrom': Simplicissimus, Atavism of Modernity," Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, Nov. 5-7, 1999, Portland, OR.

"'Germany could be as happy as Wisconsin': Describing Enemy Culture," German Studies Association Oct. 7-10, 1999 Atlanta.

“Of Things Never Experienced: ‘Heimat’ and Language in the Works of Kurt Drawert.” Twenty-Fifth New Hampshire Symposium , Conway NH, June 23-30, 1999 World Fellowship Center.

“The Environment of Conflict in Multatuli’s Max Havelaar: Universalism and Cultural Identity” Ninth Biennial Interdisciplinary Conference on Netherlandic Studies, May 27-30, 1998 University of Wisconsin- Madison.

“The Constitutional ‘Heimat’: Sentiments of Nation-Building in Germany’s Cultural Journals, 1945-1949.” German Studies Association, Washington, D.C. Sept. 25-28, 1997.

"Must Interdisciplinarity Be Learned? The View of Literature and Culture From the Back of the Room."American Association of Teachers of German, November 22-24, 1996, Philadelphia.

"The Threefold Thrust of Multatuli's Vorstenschool: Theory, Theater, and Thorbecke," Eigth Biennial Interdisciplinary Conference on Netherlandic Studies, June 12-15, 1996 at Columbia University and CUNY Graduate Center.

"Discovering Germany in the Rubble: The Reportage Narrative 1945-1949" Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 18-20, 1996, University of Kentucky.

"'Aufbauliteratur' of a Therapeutic Nature: Literature after the 'Wende'" German Studies Association, Chicago, IL, Sept 21-24, 1995.

"Der Zusammenhang von Geschichtsauffassung, Form und Erzähltheorie in Uwe Johnsons Jahrestagen" Internationales Uwe Johnson Symposium in Neubrandenburg, September 22 – 24, 1994.

"Aesthetic Existence of 'the Highest' and 'the Lowest' in Multatuli's Woutertje Pieterse and Vorstenschool" Seventh Interdisciplinary Conference on Netherlandic Studies, June 1-4, 1994 at Indiana University.

"Fascism and its Family Resemblances: Christa Wolf's Kindheitsmuster and Uwe Johnson's Jahrestage" Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 21-23, 1994, University of Kentucky.

"Sculptures and Executions: The Dialectical Image in Peter Weiss' Die Ästhetik des Widerstands" Pennsylvania Foreign Language Conference, September 24-26, 1993 at Duquesne University.

"The Historical and Socio-Economic Background of Herman Heijermans' The Good Hope." Invited presentation for the Pre-Play Symposium at the Guthrie Theater, January 3, 1993 Minneapolis, MN.

"The News and Montage Effect in Christa Wolf's Kindheitsmuster and Uw e Johnson's Jahrestage." American Association of Teachers of German, November 20-22, 1992 Rosemont, IL.

"The Experience of Displacement and Loss in the Works of Barbara Honigmann." Pennsylvania Foreign Language Conference, September 25-27, 1992, at Duquesne University.

"Exercises in Reconciling the Unreconcilable: The Works of Henriette Roland Holst-van der Schalk." Sixth Interdisciplinary Conference on Netherlandic Studies, June 10-13, 1992 at Calvin College.

"Evidence of Future and Utopian Impulses in Uwe Johnson's Jahrestage." American Association of Teachers of German, November 23-25, 1991 Washington, DC.

"Transcending the Berlin Wall in Search of the Excluded Self." The Wall: Reality and Symbol, October 10-12, 1991 at Pennsylvania State University.

"Romantic Irony as a Narrative Strategy in Uwe Johnson's Jahrestage." Pennsylvania Foreign Language Conference, September 21-23, 1990 Duquesne University.

"Object of Desire and Undesired Knowledge in Multatuli's Woutertje Pieterse." Fifth Interdisciplinary Conference on Netherlandic Studies, June 19-22, 1990 at the University of California, Los Angeles

"Uwe Johnson's 'Reality' as Portrayed in Michael Tophoff's Novel Het Kanaal." Fifth Wisconsin Symposium on Netherlandic Studies, March 2-3, 1990 at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

"The Notion of History in Uwe Johnson's Jahrestage: Past as Allegorical Space." Kentucky Foreign Language Conference , April 27-29, 1989 University of Kentucky.

"Max Havelaar: A Romantic Novel for Social Flexibility." Fourth Biennial Interdisciplinary Conference on Netherlandic Studies, June 15 - 18, 1988 at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.

"The German Jeremiad: Lamentation of the Past and the Appeal to Humanity by German Authors 1945-1949.” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 21 - 23, 1988 University of Kentucky.

Technology and Pedagogy Presentations

“German Identity and Immigration: Ohio 5 Project.” With (Mareike Herrmann, Wooster, Paul Gebhardt, Kenyon, and Leo Riegert, Kenyon). Mellon Language Colloquium, “Flipped Classrooms: Way Beyond Lectures,” at Ohio State University, November 16, 2019

“Tech Tools that Make a Difference in Improving Students’ Proficiencies.” Together with Cheryl Johnson at the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages and American Association of Teachers of German, New Orleans Nov. 16-18, 2018.

“Grenzerfahrungen. Wie die deutsch-deutsche Grenze teilte und noch teilt” “Border Experiences: how the German Border Divided and Continues to Divide” American Junior Year Abroad in Heidelberg, Germany June 11, 2018. (Invited talk)

“Authentic Listening and Reading Materials for German Language.” (with Cheryl

Johnson) Ohio State, Five Colleges of Ohio & The Ohio State University, October 21, 2017

“Teaching Literary Nuance and Increasing Discussion Using Paintings to Interpret

Literature.” Ohio German Studies Workshop at Ohio State, Oct. 14, 2017.

“Transforming International Studies Programs at Liberal Arts Colleges.” (with Isis Nusair) International Studies Association. Atlanta Georgia March 16-19, 2016.

“Technologies for vocabulary expansion and listening comprehension at the intermediate level.” Ohio German Studies Workshop at Ohio State, Oct 11, 2014.

“Fulfilling the Oral Communication Requirement with German” (with Gabriele Dillmann) American Association of Teachers of German, Nov 21-23, 2008. Orlando.

“Teaching Metaphor and Metonymy Using Digital Images.” American Association of Teachers of German, Nov 19-21, 2004. Chicago.

“Virtual Departments and Intercampus Courses: Denison-Kenyon Arabic Initiative” (with Nevine Demian and Cheryl Johnson) Creating and Supporting Digital Learning through Collaboration, DePauw Feb. 8-9, 2002.

“Professor + Instructional Technologist + Students = Learning” (with Eduardo Jaramillo and Cheryl Johnson) Midwest Association of Learning Laboratories, Oct. 19, 2001, Luther College.

“Putting Technology in Its Place’: Enhancing Listening Comprehension with Digitized Video” Modern Language Association, Chicago, Dec. 27-30, 1999.