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Name:                   Dennis F. Mahoney

 

Academic Address:       Department of German and Russian

422a Waterman Building

University of Vermont

Burlington, VT  05405-0160

Telephone:  (802) 656‑1476

e-mail:   Dennis.Mahoney@uvm.edu

 

Home Address:           135 Ferguson Avenue

Burlington, VT  05401

 

Personal:               Married

Place of Birth:  Brooklyn, New York

 

 

EDUCATION

 

Ph.D., 1977             University of Massachusetts

Amherst, Massachusetts

Dissertation:  "Die Poetisierung der                          Natur bei Novalis"

 

Sept. 1975 to           Dissertation Research at the University

Dec. 1976               of Freiburg, Germany

(Fulbright Fellowship)

 

M.A., 1973              University of Massachusetts

Amherst, Massachusetts

Major:  German

 

B.A., 1971              College of the Holy Cross

Worcester, Massachusetts

Major:  German ‑ magna cum laude

 

 

EMPLOYMENT

 

September, 1994         Professsor of German

University of Vermont

 

1984 to 1994            Associate Professor of German

University of Vermont

 

1979 to 1984            Assistant Professor of German

University of Vermont

EMPLOYMENT, contd.

 

1977 to 1979            Assistant Professor of German, and

Assistant Director, Humanities Year                           Program, Baldwin‑Wallace College

Berea, Ohio

 

1990, 1992, 1998, 2001: Guest Professor

Summer semesters   Universität Augsburg

Augsburg, Germany

 

COURSES TAUGHT

 

Elementary German

Intermediate German; Advanced Intermediate German

German for Reading Knowledge

German Culture and Civilization

The German Media

The German Film (World Literature course; First-year seminar)

From Enlightenment to Nazism: German Literature and Film, 1750-1945 (World Literature Course; STEP course)

German Intellectual History from the Enlightenment

     until 1945 (Graduate Seminar)

Survey of German Literature:  Old High German to Romanticism

Survey of German Literature: 1750 - 1850

Eighteenth-Century German Drama (Senior Seminar)

Introduction to Literature of German Classicism and Romanticism

Prose of the Age of Goethe (Senior Seminar)

Lessing (Senior Seminar)

Goethe (Seminar)

Schiller (Seminar)

The Age of Goethe Today (Senior Seminar)

The Novel of the Age of Goethe (Graduate Seminar; Lecture course, Univer­sity of Augsburg)

The French Revolution and German Literature (Graduate Semi­nar; Senior Seminar)

Napoleon, Nationalism, and German Literature, 1806-1830 (Graduate Seminar)

German Romanticism (Graduate Seminar; Senior Seminar; World Literature Course)

The German Romantic Novel (Graduate Seminar)

Nineteenth-Century German Drama (Seminar)

Survey of Nineteenth-Century German Literature

Introduction to Twentieth-Century German Literature

English and German Romanticism (World Literature Course, cross-listed with English)

European Romanticism (World Literature Course)

 

 

 

 

 

COURSES TAUGHT, cont.

 

The Gothic Tradition in Literature and Film (World Literature      Course)

The Gothic Strain in German, English, and American Romanticism (Graduate Seminar, University of Augsburg, with participa­tion by 6 UVM students)

Novalis (Graduate Seminar, University of Augsburg)

Confrontations in Romanticism: Novalis and Achim von Arnim

(Grad­uate Seminar, University of Augsburg)

Developments in Contemporary American Literary Theory (Introduc-­   tory Seminar, University of Augsbu­rg)

Europe — The Search for an Identity (Senior Seminar, Europe­an Studies; STEP course)

Director, 4‑Week Study Tour of Germany and Austria

(Baldwin‑Wallace Humanities Year Program, 1978 and 1979)

AWARDS, SCHOLARSHIPS AND GRANTS

 

University of Massachusetts Fellowship, 1972‑1975

Fulbright Fellowship, 1975‑1976

German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Study Tour Grant, 1979

(used to defray students' tour expenses during the Baldwin‑

Wallace Humanities Year Program stay in West Germany)

University of Vermont Instructional Incentive Grant, 1980‑1982

(used to develop audio‑visual materials as a "Stepping Stone to the Understanding of German History and Culture")

University of Vermont Summer Research Fellowships, 1981 and 1983

(in support of research on my book project "Der Roman der

Goethezeit"‑‑The Novel of the Age of Goethe)

University of Vermont Instructional Incentive Grant, 1986‑1987

(used to establish a basic collection of masterpieces of the German Cinema in videocassette format)

Guest Professorship, University of Augsburg, Germany, Summers of   1990, 1992 and 1998

Fulbright Travel Award to University of Augsburg, Summer 1992

University Committee on Research and Scholarship grant, Spring 1992 (subvention to cover the printing costs of the Fall, 1992 issue of Historical Reflections/ Réflexions Historiques devoted to "The Eighteenth Century and Uses of the Past")

University of Vermont Faculty Development Support, College of Arts and Sciences, Fall 1992 (partial subvention of travel expenses involved with invited lectures at the University of Augsburg and the Center for Research on Early Romanticism, Oberwiederstedt, Germany)

University of Vermont Instructional Incentive Grant, 1993-94 (used to develop a for the European Stud­ies major on the topic "Europe — the Search for an Identi­ty")

University of Vermont, the Dean's Fund, College of Arts and Sciences, Fall 1997 (partial subvention of travel expenses involved with lecture at Oberwiederstedt, Germany for an international conference on the reception and influence of the German Romantic writer Novalis)

University of Vermont, the Dean's Fund, College of Arts and Sciences, Spring 1999 (subvention of the translation of an article from German to English to appear in the special issue of Historical Reflections/ Réflexions Historiques devoted to "The End of the Enlightenment")

University of Vermont, the International Advisory Council, Summer 1999 (partial subvention of plane travel expens­es for myself and four other UVM faculty invited to participate in an inter­na­tional confer­ence on Exile in History and Literature at the University of Augsburg, Germany)

University of Vermont, the Dean's Fund, College of Arts and Sciences, Summer 1999 (partial subvention of travel expens­es involved with a lecture on Heinrich Heine at Augsburg, Germany for an interna­tional conference on Exile in History and Literature)

AWARDS, SCHOLARSHIPS AND GRANTS, contd.

 

 

University Committee on Research and Scholarship grant, Spring 2000 (partial subvention of travel expenses involved with archival research in Frankfurt and Oberwiederstedt, Germany for my book on the German Romantic writer Friedrich von Harden­berg [Nova­lis])

University of Vermont, the Dean's Fund, College of Arts and Sciences, and University Committee on Research and Scholar­ship Fall 2001 (subvention of the translation of three essays from German to English that appeared in the volume on The Literature of German Romanticism by Camden House Press)

Kroepsch-Maurice Excellence in Teaching Award (Full Professor Catego­ry), 2001-02

University of Vermont, the Dean's Fund, College of Arts and Sciences, Fall 2005 (partial subvention of travel expenses involved with a lecture on Penelope Fitzgerald’s novel The Blue Flower at the Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies 2005 meeting in Fredericton, NB, Canada).

 

 

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND ACTIVITIES

 

 

American Association of Teachers of German (AATG):

Vice‑President and Newsletter Editor of Northern New England Chapter, April 1980 to March 1982;

Chapter President, March 1982 to April 1984;

Associate Editor in charge of book reviews for The German Quarterly (National scholarly journal for the AATG); April 1988-July 1991 (app. 500 reviews edited)

Evaluator of manu­scripts submitted to The German Quarterly,   1988-

Chairperson, Program Committee for the sections on German          Literature at the 1995 Annual Meeting in Stanford, CA

American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS)

Eichendorff Society

Goethe Society of North America

Member, Board of Directors, 1992-94

Historical Reflec­tions/Réflexions Historiq­ues, Member of the Editorial Board, 2001-

Guest Editor for the Special Issue "The Eighteenth Century and Uses of the Past," Fall 1992, consisting of select­ed proceed­ings of the 1991 NEASECS Meeting

Guest Editor for the Special Issue "The End of the Enlight­enment," Fall 2000, consisting of se­lect­ed pro­ceed­ings of the 1998 NEASECS Meeting

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND ACTIVITIES, contd.

 

International Novalis Society

Member, Board of Directors, 1994-

Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, Member

Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

(NEASECS)

Program Chairperson for 1991 NEASECS Meeting at the Univer­-sity of Vermont

Member, NEASECS Board of Directors, 1994-97

Member, Program Committee for the 1998 NEASECS Meeting at          Williams College

Vice-President, 2002-03

President, 2003-04

Program Chairperson for 2004 NEASECS Meeting at the Univer- sity of Vermont

Member, NEASECS Board of Directors, 2005-

Coordinator of revisions for the second print­ing of the Interme­diate German textbook Wei­ter! published by John Wiley & Sons­­ (1995)

Evaluator of manu­scripts submitted to Colloquia Germanica, 1997

Evaluator of book manuscripts submitted to Wayne State Univer­sity Press (1987, 1988, 1995, 1996), to Penn State Press (1990), to New York State University Press (1995), and to Camden House Press (1996, 2005)

Evaluator of fellowship, tenure, and promotion decisions for institutions such as Middlebury College, Dartmouth College, Mount Holyoke Col­lege, Bowling Green State University, New York Univer­sity, the University of California at San Diego, the Uni­versity of Nebraska, the Univer­sity of New Hampshire, Purdue University, Rice Univer­sity, the University of Richmond, Syracuse University, Wayne State Universi­ty, and Queen's University in Kingston, Ontar­io

Outside Evaluator for a review of the gradu­ate program in German   at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontar­io (1998)

Outside Evaluator for a review of the Department of Modern

Lang­uages at Plattsburgh State University (2000)

Outside Evaluator for a review of the Department of German and Russian Languages and Literatures at Notre Dame University (2002)

Outside Evaluator of a Grant Proposal submitted to Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2005)

UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT ACTIVITIES

 

 

Living/Learning Faculty Program Review Board, 1979‑1980

Departmental Representative to Faculty Senate, 1979 to 1984

Committee Member:  M.S. Thesis in Chemistry, 1980

Member, Interviewing Committee for new Associate Director

of Living/Learning Center, 1981

Commentator on The Blue Angel and M for Fleming Museum Film Series: "Masterpieces of the Early Sound Era," 1982

Leader of Area Studies Discussion on "The West German Election:

Parties, Issues, Results, Consequences," 1983

Commentator on the film The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach, shown at Bai­ley‑Howe Library, 1983

Member, College of Arts and Sciences Nominations Committee,   1983-85 and 1997-99; Committee Chairperson, 1984‑1985

Secretary, Graduate College Executive Committee, 1984‑1985

Super­visor:  M.A. Thesis in German ("The Horn Call as a Motif in

German Romantic Prose and Poetry"), 1985

Member, Social Sciences and Humanities Study Section of the

University Committee on Research and Scholarship, 1986‑87;

Humanities Study Section, 1987-1990, 1995-98; Committee        Chairperson, 1989-1990 and 1997-98

Committee Member:  M.A. Thesis in German ("The Reception of

Nietzschean Thoughts in the Works of Stefan George, Rainer

Maria Rilke, and Thomas Mann"), 1987

Supervisor:  M.A. Thesis in German ("Das Mittelalter als  poetischer Reflex der Gegenwart in Werken von Goethe, Novalis und Arnim"), 1988-1989

Member, Vermont Overseas Study Program Task Force, 1989-1990

Committee Member:  M.A. Thesis in Classics, 1990

Committee Member:  M.A. Thesis in English, 1990

Member, College of Arts and Sciences Standards Committee, 1990-91

Member, Review Committee for Chair of Geography Depart­ment, 1991

Member, European Studies Executive Committee, 1991-; Interim Director, 1997-98; Director 2000-2005

Participant in a European Studies roundtable discussion on "The European State under Stress," 1993

Committee Member: M.A. Thesis in German ("Cultural and Linguistic Exchanges between the Central European Celts and the Early Germans during the First Millennium B.C."), 1993

Participant in a panel discussion on the German Art Song, "From Poetic Source to Performance," prior to a Lane Series con­cert, 1993

Member, Academic Honesty Panel, 1993-95

Member, Review Committee for Chair of Music Depart­ment, 1994

Chairperson, Orientation Review Committee, College of Arts and Sciences, 1994

Member, Connections Program Committee, 1994-95

Initiator and Faculty Coordinator, Student Exchange Program with the University of Augsburg, 1994-

UNI­VERSITY OF VER­MONT ACTIVI­TIES, contd.

 

Committee Member: M.A. Thesis in Comparative Literature ("Aus­erlesene Gefängnisse, Verschlungene Labyrinthe: Raumstruk­turen im Schauerroman von Horace Walpole bis Stephen King), Univer­sity of Augsburg, 1994

Commentator on the films The Boat is Full, I Vitteloni, The Blue Angel, Casablanca, and Männer for the European Studies Film Series, 1994-97

Member, Selection Committee for Arts and Sciences Faculty parti­cipating in June Orientation, 1995

Faculty Marshall, Arts and Sciences Commencement Ceremony, 1995-99, 2001-

Vermont Junior Conference, Presentation on "The Use and Abuse of Images: Leni Riefenstahl's Propaganda Film Triumph of the Will", 1995 and 1997

Faculty Mentor, Project Just, 1995-96

Committee Member, M.A. Thesis in German ("Martin Luther: Politics of Language"), 1996

Chair, English Department Chairperson Search Committee, 1996

Committee Member, M.A. Thesis in German ("Die Auseinandersetzung mit Marieluise Fleißer in Rainer Werner Fassbinders früher Theaterarbeit"), 1997

Committee Member, M.A. Thesis in German ("Schuld und Sühne in Heinrich von Kleists Michael Kohlhaas und Anette von Droste Hülshoffs Die Judenbuche"), 1998

 Committee Member, B.A. Honors The­sis in German ("'Kleine Schri­tte sind besser als keine Schritte': Willy Brandts spri­chwört­liche Rhetorik"), 1998

Supervisor, M.A. Thesis in German ("Ich kehre in mich selbst zurück, und finde eine Welt!: Der Außenseiter in Goethes Die Leiden des jungen Werthers, Pilar Mirós Werthers unglück­liche Liebe und Plenzdorfs Die neuen Leiden des jungen W."), 1998

Committee Member, M.A. Thesis in History ("From King to Councils: Munich and the German Revolution 1918-19"), 1998

Member, Interview Committee for Study Abroad Advisor, Office of International Educational Services, 1998

Committee Member, M.A. Thesis in English ("Stephen King's Intri-­   cate 'Dance’ with (Post)Modern American Culture"), 1998

Participant in a panel discussion on Winterreise ("Winter Jour­ney"), prior to a Lane Series con­cert of this Wilhelm Mül­ler/Franz Schubert­ Song Cycle, 1998

Participant in a panel discussion on Schwanengesang ("Swan Song"), prior to a Lane Series con­cert of the Franz Liszt transcription of this Franz Schubert­ Song Cycle, 1999

Supervisor, M.A. Thesis in German ("'Du bist nicht ich: du bist der Teufel!': Ego-Division in E.T.A. Hoffmann's Die Elixiere des Teufels"), 1999

UNI­VERSITY OF VER­MONT ACTIVI­TIES, contd.

 

Committee Member, M.A. Thesis in English ("Mythic Time: Sub­crea­tion of History in The Lord of the Rings and The Wheel of Time"), 1999

Supervisor, B.A. Honors Thesis in German ("Those Extraordinary Twins: The Relationship Between Mark Twain and Ger­man Cul­ture"), 1999

Outside Member, M.A. Thesis in German ("Alle Menschen sollen thronfähig werden": Ausgewählte Probleme zu Fragen nach der Organisation und Legitimation von Herrschaft in den poli­tischen Schriften des Novalis"), University of Augsburg, 2000

Committee Member, M.A. Thesis in English ("An Ascending Spiral: The Progress of the Imagination in Wordsworths's The Prelude and the History of Poetics"), 2001

Committee Member, B.A. Honors Thesis in European Studies ("Gen­der and Class as Key Defining Elements during the French Revolu­tion: A Case Study of three French Women"), 2001

Committee Mem­ber, B.A. Honors Thesis in European Studies ("Re­flections of the Past and Present: the Spanish Novel, 1936-1975), 2001

­Committee Member, M.A. Thesis in English, ("A Requiem for Ray Brower: Encounters with Death, Trauma, and Survival in Stephen King's The Body"), 2002

Member, Arts and Sciences College Curriculum Subcommittee on Foreign Language and Mathematics requirements, 2001-02

Member, Chair Search Committee for the Romance Language Depart­ment, 2002

Member, Self-Study Group for the International Advisory Council, Spring 2002; now serving on the Global Outreach Committee, Spring 2003-2005, newly constituted as the International Initiatives Committee, Fall 2005-

Committee Member, M.A. Thesis in English, (“Wordsworth and Stevens: The Poetics of a Meditative Imagination”), 2003

Committee Member, B.A. Honors Thesis in English (A Collection of Short Stories written by Sara Cooper), 2003

Member, Chair Review Committee for the Department of German and Russian, 2003

Committee Member, B.A. Honors Thesis in Geography, 2004

Member, Geography Department Chairperson Search Committee, 2004

­Committee Member, M.A. Thesis in English, ("Crossing over gender in Wordsworth and Keats"), 2005

Faculty Mentor to a tenure-track colleague, 2005-

Introduction to the poetry of Heinrich Heine prior to a Lane Series concert of Lieder set to texts by Heine, 2006

Introduction to Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) prior to a Lane Series performance of this opera, 2006

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UNI­VERSITY OF VER­MONT ACTIVI­TIES, contd.

 

Committee Member, M.A. Thesis in English, ("Sublime Transcendence: The Matrix of British and German Romanticism"), 2006 

Committee Member, B.A. Honors Thesis in English (“Black Specters: Racial Monsters in the American Gothic”), 2006

Committee Member, B.A. Honors Thesis in Music ("Arthur Pryor and the Revolution of the Solo Trombone"), 2006

Committee Member, Living-Learning Center Program Selection Committee, 2006

Co-Presenter at a session on Residential Learning Communities at “Mastering the Maze,” 2006

Director, the Global Village Residential Learning Community, 2006-

 

 

 

 

DEPARTMENTAL ACTIVITIES

 

Director, German House Program in the Living/Learning Center,

1979‑1982, 1993-95, 1997-1999

Coordinator, Elementary German Instruction, 1982‑1983, 1984‑1985

Coordinator, Intermediate German Instruction, 1983‑1984,

1986‑1988, 1991-1992, 1994-98, 2002-2004

Departmental Foreign Studies Advisor, 1984‑1985

Initiator and Faculty Coordinator, Student Exchange Program with the University of Augsburg, 1994-

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

 

BOOKS

 

Die Poetisierung der Natur bei Novalis:  Beweggründe,

Gestaltung, Folgen.  Bonn:  Bouvier, 1980.

 

 

Der Roman der Goethezeit (1774-1829).  Sammlung Metzler, 241.           Stuttgart: Metzler, 1988.

 

 

Editor, "The Eighteenth Century and Uses of the Past"; Special issue of Historical Reflections/Réflexions Histo­riques, 18, No. 3 (1992). 124 pages.

 

 

The Critical Fortunes of a Romantic Novel: Novalis's "Hein­rich von Ofterdingen." Liter­ary Criticism in Perspec­tive.  Colum­bia, SC: Camden House, 1994.

 

 

Editor, "The End of the Enlight­en­ment"; Special issue of Histori­cal Reflections/Réflexions Histo­riques, 26. No. 3 (2000). 153 pages.

 

 

Friedrich von Hardenberg (Novalis). Sammlung Metzler, 336. Stutt­gart: Metzler, 2001.

 

 

Editor, The Literature of German Romanticism — Volume 8 of a projected 10-volume se­ries, "The Camden House History of German Literature." Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer, 2004.

 

 

ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

 

1. "The Myth of Death and Resurrection in Heinrich von Ofter­dingen,"      South Atlantic Review, 48, No. 2 (1983), 52‑66.

 

2. "Double into Doppelgänger:  The Genesis of the Doppelgänger-Motif in the Novels of Jean Paul and E.T.A. Hoffmann," Jour­nal of Evolutionary Psychology, 4, No. 1 & 2 (1983), 54‑63.

 

3. "Goethe Seen Anew:  Egon Günther's film Lotte in Weimar," Goethe Yearbook, 2 (1984), 105‑116;" republished in modified form as "A Recast Goethe:  Egon Gün­ther's Lotte in Weimar," in German Film and Literature:  Adaptations and Transforma­tions, ed. E. Rentsch­ler. New York:  Methuen, 1986, pp. 246­259.

 

4. "The Sufferings of Young Lenz:  The Function of Parody in Büchner's Lenz," Monatshefte, 76 (1984), 396‑408.

 

5. "'What's Wrong with a Cowboy in Hamburg?':  Narcissism as

Cultural Imperialism in Wim Wenders' The American Friend,"

Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, 7, No. 1 & 2 (1986),

106‑116.

 

6. "Hölderlins Hyperion und der Bildungsroman.  Zur Umbil­dung eines Begriffs," in Verlorene Klassik? Ein Symposium, ed. W.­ Witt­kowski.  Tübingen:  Niemeyer, 1986, pp. 224‑236.

 

7. "The Presence of the Past:  Egon Günther's Film The Sor­rows of Young Werther (Die Leiden des jungen Werthers)," in West 

Virginia University Philological Papers, 32 (1986-1987),      100-108.

 

8. "Stages of Enlightenment:  Lessing's Nathan der Weise and

Novalis' Heinrich von Ofterdingen,"  Seminar, 23 (1987), 200-215.

 

9. "A 'Schützenkönig' for Kuhschnappel:  Social Reality and Wish Projection in Jean Paul's Siebenkäs," in Verantwortung und Utopie:  Zur Literatur der Goethezeit, ed. W. Wittkowski. Tübingen: Ni­emeyer, 1988, pp. 310-320.

 

10. "The French Revolution and the Bildungsroman," in The French Revolution and the Age of Goethe, ed. G. Hoff­meister.  Hildes­heim:  Olms, 1989, pp. 127-143.

ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS IN BOOKS, contd.

 

11. "Personalizing the Holocaust:  Markus Imhoof's Film Das Boot ist voll," Modern Language Studies, 19 (1989), 3-11.

 

12. "The Thematic Significance of Astrology in Schiller's Wallen­stein," Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, 10, No. 3 & 4 (1989), 383-392.

 

13. "Painting the Red Flower Blue:  Developments in Research on the Novels of the Age of Goethe since 1968," in The Age of Goethe Today:  Critical Reexamination and Literary Re­flec­tion, ed. G. P­ickar and S. Cramer.  München:  Fink, 1990, pp. 25-38.

 

14. "Novalis' Glauben und Liebe, oder die Problematik eines`poe­tischen Staats,'" in Revolution und Autonomie:  Deutsche Auton­omieästhetik im Zeitalter der Französischen Revolution, ed. W. Witt­kowski.  Tübin­gen:  Niemeyer, 1990, pp. 192-202.

 

15. "The Apprenticeship of the Reader:  The Bildungsroman of the 'Age of Goethe'," in Reflection and Action:  Essays on the Bildungsroman, ed. J. M. Hardin.  Columbia, SC:  University of South Carolina Press, 1991, pp. 97-117.

 

16. "Human History as Natural History in Heinrich von Ofter­dingen and Die Lehrlinge zu Sais," in Subver­sive Sublimi­ties:  Under­currents in the German Englighten­ment, ed. E. Timm.  Colum­bia, SC:  Camden House, 1992, pp. 1-11; repub­lished with English quotations in place of the German in Historical Reflec­tions/Réflexions Histor­iques, 18, No. 3 (1992), 111-124.

 

17. "Publishing Eighteenth-Century Scholarship in Twentieth-Century Journals," Editors' Notes, 11, No. 1 (1992), 44-47.

 

18. "Novalis: Heinrich von Ofterdingen,” in Große Werke der Litera­tur III, ed. Hans Vilmar Geppert. Tübingen: Francke, 1993, pp. 91-101.

 

19. "From Caligari to Strangelove: The German as (Mad) Scientist in Literature and Film," in Analogon Rationis: Festschrift für Gerwin Marahrens zum 65. Geburtstag, ed. Marianne Henn and Christoph Lorey. Edmonton: Univer­sity of Alberta Press, 1994, pp. 419-432.

 

ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS IN BOOKS, contd.

 

20. "The French Revolution as Volcano: Goethe and Georg Forster," in Ethik und Ästhetik: Werke und Werte in der Literatur vom 18. bis zum 20. Jahrhundert, ed. Richard Fisher. Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 1995, pp. 71-79.

 

21. "The Channeling of a Literary Revolution: Goethe, Schil­ler, and the Genesis of German Romanticism," in A Reassess­ment of Weimar Classi­cism, ed. G. Hoffmeister. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1996, pp. 117-31.

 

22. "Hardenbergs Naturbegriff und -Darstellung im Lichte mo­derner Chaost­heor­ien," in Novalis und die Wissenschaften, ed. Herbert Uerlings. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1997, pp. 103-116.

 

23.  "Torre di Venere in neuem Licht: Klaus Maria Brandauers filmische Auseinandersetzung mit Thomas Manns Mario und der Zauberer," Colloquia Germanica, 31 (1998), 357-373.

 

24.  "Die Stim­me eines Frem­den: Zur Nova­lis-Reze­ption in Groß­brit­an­nien und Amer­ika," in Blüthenstaub: Rezeption und Wirkung des Werkes von Novalis, ed. Herbert Uerlings. Tübin­gen: Niemeyer, 2000, pp. 141-156.

 

25.  "Primeval Formation: Interpreting Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre with the Help of Goethe's Urworte. Orphisch," in Die Goethe­zeit: Werke — Wechselbeziehungen — Wirkung. Eine Fest­schrift für Wil­fried Malsch, ed. Jeffrey L. High. Göttingen: Verlag von Schwerin, 2001, pp. 202-214.

 

26.  "Heinrich Heines ikonoklastischer Exilpatriotismus in Deutschland. Ein Wintermärchen," in Exil: Transhistorische und transnationale Perspektiven / Exile: Transhistorical and Transnational Perspec­tives, ed. Helmut Koopmann. Pader­born: mentis, 2001, pp. 135-146.

 

27.  "Goethe's Autobiographical Writings," in The Cambridge Companion to Goethe, ed. Lesley Sharpe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, pp. 147-159.

 

28.  "Heinrich von Ofterdingen, oder die Macht der Musik," in Novalis: Poesie und Poetik, ed. Herbert Uerlings. Tübing­en: Niemeyer, 2004, pp. 83-92.

 

 

ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS IN BOOKS, contd.

 

29.  "Marching in Step: German Youth and Colonial Cinema" [co-written with Robert Gordon, Department of Anthropology, University of Vermont], in Germany’s Colonial Pasts, eds. Eric Ames, Marcia Klotz, and Lora Wildenthal. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2005, pp. 189-202.

 

30.  "’Was nicht ist, kann noch werden’: Proverbs and Early German Romanticism," Proverbium, 22 (2005), 145-166.

 

31.  “Old, New, and (Un)Known Worlds: History and Fiction in Achim von Arnim’s Die Kronenwächter and Edward P. Jones’s The Known World,” in the Festschrift for Hans Vilmar Geppert, eds. Werner Frick, Fabian Lampart, and Bernadette Malinowski. Tübingen: Francke-Verlag (accepted; estimated date of publication: July, 2006).

 

32.  “Quality of Life: An Approach Integrating Opportunities, Human Needs, and Subjective Well-Being” [co-written with 18 other colleagues from the University of Vermont under the direction of Robert Costanza], Ecological Economics (accepted, estimated date of publication: August, 2006).

 

 

 

 

Electronic Publications

 

2,500-word on-line article on Friedrich von Hardenberg (Novalis) in The Literary Encyclopedia: www.litencyc.com

 

On-line response to Werther’s letter of 24. May, 1771: http://the-sorrows-of-young-werther.com/index2.html

 

 

 

 

INTRODUCTION TO VOLUMES

 

Foreword to the volume Eighteenth Century German Prose, ed. ­Ellis Shookman.  In the series "The Ger­man Li­brary."  New York:  Continuum, 1992.  pp. vii-xi.

 

Preface to "The Eighteenth Century and Uses of the Past," special issue of Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiq­ues, 18, No. 3 (1992), 1-5.

 

Preface to "The End of the Enlightenment," special issue of Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiq­ues, 26 (2000), 355-362.

 

Introduction to The Literature of German Romanticism, ed. Dennis F. Mahoney. Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer, 2004. pp. 1-24.

 

 

TRANSLATIONS

 

Kippenberg, Hans G. "Rivalry among Scholars of Religions:  The Crisis of Historicism and the Formation of Paradigms in the History of Religions," Historical Reflections/Réflexions Histo­riq­ues, 20, No. 3 (1994), 377-402.  Translated by Dennis F. Mahoney and Folke-Christine Moeller-Sahling.

 

Novalis. Selected Blüthenstaub fragments for The Columbia World of Quotations (CD-ROM), 1996­.

 

Stockinger, Claudia. "The Romantic Drama: Tieck, Brentano, Arnim, Fouqué, and Eichendorff." In: The Literature of German Romanticism, ed. Dennis F. Mahoney (Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer, 2004), 125-145. Translated by Dennis F. Mahoney and Dorothee Racette.

 

Malinowski, Bernadette. "German Romantic Poetry in Theory and Practice: The Schlegel Brothers, Schelling, Tieck, Novalis, Eichendorff, Brentano, and Heine." In: The Literature of German Romanticism, ed. Dennis F. Mahoney (Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer, 2004), 147-169. Translated by Dennis F. Mahoney and Bernadette Malinowski.

 

Rommel, Gabriele. "Romanticism and Natural Science." In: The Literature of German Romanticism, ed. Dennis F. Mahoney (Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer, 2004), 209-227. Trans­lated by Dennis F. Mahoney and David Wood.

 

BOOK REVIEWS

 

1.   Hughes, Glyn Tegai.  Romantic German Literature.  London:

Arnold, 1979.  Aurora.  Jahrbuch der Eichendorff-Gesell-

schaft, 40 (1980), 232‑233.

 

2.   Birrell, Gordon.  The Boundless Present:  Space and Time in

the Literary Fairy Tales of Novalis and Tieck.  Chapel

Hill:  Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1979.  Aurora, 42

(1982), 254‑255.

 

3.   Hanke, Amala A.  Spatiotemporal Consciousness in English and

German Romanticism.  Bern:  Peter Lang, 1981.  Aurora, 42

(1982), 254‑255.

 

4.   Stadler, Ulrich.  Die Theuren Dinge:  Studien zu Bunyan, Jung-Stilling und Novalis.  Bern:  Francke, 1980.  German

Quarterly, 56 (1981), 344‑345.

 

5.   Reed, J. T.  The Classical Centre:  Goethe and Weimar 1775-

1832.  London:  Croom Helm Ltd., 1980.  Germanic Review,

56 (1981), 77‑78.

 

6.   Steer, A. G., Jr.  Goethe's Science in the Structure of the

Wanderjahre.  Athens:  Univ. of Georgia Press, 1979.

Germanic Review, 56 (1981), 119‑120.

 

7.   Berghahn, Klaus and Pinkerneil, Beate.  Am Beispiel Wilhelm

Meister:  Einführung in die Wissenschaftsgeschichte der

Germanistik.  2 vols.  Königstein/Ts.:  Athenäum, 1980.

Germanic Review, 57 (1982), 45‑46.

 

8.   Bosshard, Hans Heinrich.  Natur-Prinzipien und Dichtung. 

Bonn:  Bouvier, 1979.  Colloquia Germanica, 15 (1982),

168‑169.

 

9.   Hannah, Richard W.  The Fichtean Dynamic of Novalis' Poe­tics. Bern:  Peter Lang, 1981.  Aurora, 43 (1983), 251‑252.

 

10.  Pikulik, Lothar.  Romantik als Ungenügen an der Normalität. Frankfurt/M: Suhrkamp, 1979.  Monatshefte, 75 (1983), 215‑216.

 

11.  Sprengel, Peter (ed.).  Jean Paul im Urteil seiner Kritiker. München:  Beck, 1980.  Monatshefte, 75 (1983), 343‑344.

 

 

BOOK REVIEWS, contd.

 

12.  Oehlenschläger, Eckard.  Närrische Phantasie:  Zum meta-

phorischen Prozeß bei Jean Paul.  Tübingen:  Niemeyer,

1980.  Monatshefte, 75 (1983), 344‑345.

 

13.  Maurer, Peter.  Wunsch und Maske:  Eine Untersuchung der Bild- und Motivstruktur von Jean Pauls Flegeljahren.  Gött­in­gen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 1981.  Monatshefte, 76 (1984­), 100‑101.

 

14.  Wölfel, Kurt (ed.).  Jahrbuch 1980 der Jean-Paul-Gesell­schaft. München:  Beck, 1980.  Monatshefte, 76 (1984), 218­219.

 

15.  Blackall, Eric A.  The Novels of the German Romantics.  Ithaca & London:  Cornell University Press, 1983.  German Quarterly, 58 (1985), 120‑121.

 

16.  Lillyman, William J. (ed.).  Goethe's Narrative Fiction.  The Irvine Goethe Symposium.  Berlin & New York:  de Gruy­ter,   1983.  German Quarterly, 58 (1985), 280‑282.

 

17.  Schreiber, Jens.  Das Symptom des Schreibens.  Roman und  absolutes Buch in der Frühromantik (Novalis/Schlegel). Frank­furt:  Peter Lang, 1983.  Aurora, 44 (1984), 229‑232.

 

18.  Müller, Götz.  Jean Pauls Ästhetik und Naturphilosophie. 

Tübingen:  Niemeyer, 1983.  Monatshefte, 78 (1986), 404-406.

 

19.  Schödlbauer, Ulrich.  Kunsterfahrung als Weltverstehen.  Die ästhetische Form von Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahren.  Heidelberg:  Winter, 1984.  Goethe Yearbook, 3 (1986), 237‑239.

 

20.  Wittkowski, Wolfgang (ed.).  Goethe im Kontext:  Kunst und

Humanität, Naturwissenschaft und Politik von der Aufklärung

bis zur Restauration.  Ein Symposium.  Tübingen:  Niemeyer,

1984.  German Quarterly, 59 (1986), 315‑317.

 

21.  Friedrichsmeyer, Sara.  The Androgyne in Early German Romanticism.  Friedrich Schlegel, Novalis and the Metaphysics of Love.  Bern, Frankfurt & New York:  Lang, 1983.  Aurora, 47 (1987), 211-212.

 

22.  Behrens, Klaus.  Friedrich Schlegels Ge­schichtsphilosophie

(1794‑1808):  Ein Beitrag zur politischen Romantik. Tübingen:  Niemeyer, 1984.  Monatshefte, 79 (1987), 516-517.

 

BOOK REVIEWS, contd.

 

23.  Allert, Beate.  Die Metapher und ihre Krise:  Zur Dynamik der "Bilderschrift" Jean Pauls.  Frankfurt & New York:  Lang, 1987.  Monatshefte, 81 (1989), 126-127.

 

24.  Roche, Mark William.  Dynamic Stillness:  Philosophical Concepts of "Ruhe" in Schiller, Hölderlin, Büchner, and Heine.  Tübingen:  Niemeyer, 1987.  German Quarterly, 63 (1990­), 115-116.

 

25.  Saine, Thomas P.  Von der Kopernikanischen bis zur Französi­sch­en Revolution:  Die Auseinandersetzung der deutschen Frühauf­klärung mit der neuen Zeit.  Berlin:  Schm­idt, 1987.  German Quarterly, 63 (1990), 534-535.

 

26.  Trommler, Frank (ed.).  Germanistik in den USA.  Neue Entwicklungen und Methoden.  Opladen:  Westdeutscher Ver­lag, 1989.  German Quarterly, 64 (1991), 572­-573.

 

27-30.    Review Article of recent books on Novalis,

                  Aurora, 49 (­1989), 232-235:

Striedter, Jurij­.  Die Fragmente des Novalis als "Präfi­gura­tionen" seiner Dichtung.­  München:  Fink, 1985;

Eckhardt, Hans-Wilhelm.  "Wünsche und Begehrungen sind Flügel:  Die Genese der Utopie bei Novalis.­"  Frank­furt/M:  Lang, 1987; 

Kuzniar, Alice A.  Delayed End­ings:  Nonclosure in Novalis and Hölderlin.  Athens, Ga.:  University of Georgia Press, 1987;

Molnár, Géza von.  Roman­tic Vision, Ethical Context:  Nova­lis and Artistic Autono­my.  Min­neapo­lis:  Universi­ty of Minne­sota Press, 1987. 

 

31-32.   Review Article of recent editions of Novalis,

                  Auro­ra, 50 (1990), 265-269:

Novalis.  Schriften.  Historisch-kritische Ausgabe, V: 

Materialien und Register.  Ed. Hans-Joachim Mähl und Rich­ard Samuel.  Stuttgart:  Kohlhammer, 1987;

Novalis.  Werke, Tagebücher und Briefe Friedrich von      Hardenbergs, III:  Kommentar von Hans Jürgen       Balmes et al.  München:  Hanser, 1988.  

 

33.  Kittler, Friedrich A.  Discourse Networks, 1800/1900.  Stan­ford: Stanford University Press, 1990.  European Romantic Review, 2, No. 1 (1991), 102-106.

 

 

BOOK REVIEWS, contd.

 

34.  Johnston, Otto W.  The Myth of a Nation:  Literature and Politics in Prussia under Napoleon.  Columbia, SC:  Camden House, 1989.  Goethe Yearbook, 6 (1992), 283-285.

 

35.  Ziegler, Vickie L.  Bending the Frame in the German Cyclical Narrative: Achim von Arnim's Der Wintergarten and E. T. A. Hoffmann's Die Serapionsbrüder.  Washington, D.C.:  Catholic UP of America, 1991.  Aurora, 53 (1993), 212-213.

 

36-41.   Review Essay of Recent Literature on Novalis,

             German Quarterly, 67 (1994), 250-256:

Uerlings, Herbert.  Friedrich von Hardenberg, genannt Nova­lis: Werk und Forschung. Stuttgart:  Metzler, 1991;

Roder, Florian.  Novalis:  Die Verwandlung des Menschen.  Leben und Werk Friedrich von Hardenbergs.  Stuttgart:  Urachhaus, 1992;

Hansen, Erk F.  Wissenschaftswahrnehmung und -umsetzung im Kontext der deutschen Frühromantik.  Frankfurt/Main:  Lang, 1992;

Saul, Nich­olas (ed.­).  Die deut­sche litera­rische Romantik­ und die Wissens­chaften.  München:  Iudi­cium, 1991;

Grosser, Thomas.  Identität und Rolle.  Kontext, Konzept und Wirkungsgeschichte der Genieästhetik bei Novalis.  Opladen:  Westdeutscher Verlag, 1992;

Calhoon, Kenneth S.  Fatherland.  Novalis, Freud, and the Disci­pline of Romance.  Detroit:  Wayne State UP, 1992.

 

42.  Wilson, W. Daniel.  Geheimräte gegen Geheimbünde:  Ein unbe­kann­tes Kapi­tel der klas­isch-romantischen Geschichte­ Wei­mars. Stuttgart:  Metzler, 1991.  Goethe Yearbook, 7 (1994), 256-259.

 

43.  Lützeler, Paul Michael.  Die Schriftsteller und Europa: Von der Romantik bis zur Gegenwart. Munich: Piper, 1992. Aurora, 55 (1995), 320-321­.

 

44.  Hoffmeister, Gerhart (ed.).  Goethes Mignon und ihre Schwes­tern: Interpretationen und Rezeption. New York: Lang, 1993.  German Quarterly, 68 (1995), 211-212.

 

45.  Engel, Manfred.  Der Roman der Goethezeit.  Band I.  Anfänge in Klassik und Frühromantik: Transzendentale Geschi­chten.  Stutt­gart: Metztler, 1993.  Michigan Germanic Studies, 19 (1993 [sic!]), 183-187.

 

 

 

BOOK REVIEWS, contd.

 

46.  Kasperowski, Ira. Mittelalterrezeption im Werk des Novalis. Tübingen, Niemeyer, 1994. Colloquia Germanica, 29 (1996), 35­3-355.

 

47.  Haynes, Roslynn D. From Faust to Strangelove. Representa­tions of the Scientist in Western Literature. Baltimore: Johns Hop­kins UP, 1994. Seminar, 33 (1997), 72-73.

 

48.  O'Brien, Wm. Arctander. Novalis: Signs of Revolution. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1995. Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 96 (1997), 313-315.

 

49.  Von Petersdorff, Dirk. Mysterienrede: Zum Selbstverständnis romantischer Intellektueller. Tübingen: Nie­meyer, 1996.  Aurora, 57 (1997), 238-241.

 

50.  Brauer-Ewers, Ina. Züge des Grotesken in den Nacht­wachen des Bona­ventura. Paderborn: Schöningh, 1995.  Aurora, 57 (1997), 241-42.

 

51.  Carové, Friedrich Wilhelm. Kinderleben oder das Mährchen ohne Ende. Translated by Sarah Austin: The Story Without an End. Edited and with a Commentary by Christoph E. Schwei­tzer. Columbia, SC: Camden House, 1995. Marvels & Tales, 11, Nr. 1-2 (1997), 218-220.

 

52.  Schulz, Gerhard. Romantik: Geschichte und Begriff. Munich: Beck, 1996. Journal of English and Germanic Philolo­gy, 97 (1998), 80-81­.

 

53.  Wellbery, David. The Specular Moment: Goethe's Early Lyric and the Beginnings of Romanticism. Stanford: Stanford Uni­versity Press, 1996. Colloquia Germanica, 31 (1998), 81-82.

 

54.  Uerlings, Herbert (ed.). Novalis und die Wissenschaften. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1997. Colloquia Germanica, 32 (1999), 81-83.

 

55.  Lüer, Edwin. Aurum und Aurora: Ludwig Tiecks Runenberg und Jakob Böhme. Heidelberg: Winter, 1997. Marvels & Tales, 13, (1999), 103-106.

 

56.  Rommel, Gabriele (ed.). Geheimnisvolle Zeichen — die "Chif­freschrift, wodurch die Natur figürlich zu uns spricht": Alchemie, Magie, Mystik und Natur bei Novalis. Berlin: Edition Leipzig, 1998. German Quarterly, 73 (2000), 93-94.

BOOK REVIEWS, contd.

 

57.  Pugh, David. Dialectic of Love: Platonism in Schiller's Aesthetics. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1996. Aurora, 60 (2000), 191-192.

 

58.  Robertson, Ritchie. The "Jewish Question" in German Litera­ture, 1749-1939: Emancipation and its Discontents. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. The Bulletin of The Center for Holocaust Studies at the University of Vermont, 5.2 (2001), 10-11.

 

59.  Seehafer, Klaus. Mein Leben ein einzig Abenteuer: Johann Wolfgang Goethe. Biografie. Berlin: Aufbau, 1998. Goethe Yearbook, 10 (2001), 290-292.

 

60.  Bark, Irene. "Steine in Potenzen": Konstruktive Rezeption der Mineralogie bei Novalis. Tübingen, Niemeyer, 1999. German Quarterly, 74 (2001), 88-89.

 

61-62.    Novalis. Schriften. Historisch-kritische Ausgabe, VI.1-2: Der dichterische Jugendnachlaß 1788-1791. Stammbuch­ein­tra­gungen 1791-1793. Ed. Hans-Joachim Mähl, Martina Eichel­dinger und Ludwig Rommel (Text and Commentary). Stutt­gart: Kohl­hammer, 1998-1999. Aurora, 61 (2001), 181-184.

 

63.  Mayer, Paola. Jena Romanticism and its Appropria­tion of Jakob Boehme: Theosophy, Hagiography, Literature. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1999. Seminar, 38 (2002­), 285-287.

 

64.  Japp, Uwe, Stefan Scherer, and Claudia Stockinger (eds.). Das romanntische Drama: Produktive Synthese zwischen Tradi­tion und Innovation. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 2000. Goethe Year­book, 11 (2002), 436-438.

 

65.  Vietor, Sophia. "Astralis" von Novalis: Manuskript — Text — Werk. Würzburg: Könighausen & Neumann, 2001. German Quarter­ly, 75 (2002), 346-347.

 

66.  Pikulik, Lothar: Signatur einer Zeitenwende: Studien zur Literatur der frühen Moderne von Lessing bis Eichendorff. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2001. Colloquia Germanica 35 (2002), 347-348.

 

 

 

BOOK REVIEWS, contd.

 

67.  Schierbaum, Martin. Friedrich von Hardenbergs poetisierte Rhetorik: Politische Ästhetik der Frühromantik. Paderborn et al.: Schöningh, 2002. Arbitrium. Zeitschrift für Rezensionen zur germanistischen Literaturwissenschaft 21.3 (2003) 334-335.

 

68.  Kaminski, Nicola. Kreuzgänge: Romanexperimente der deutschen Romantik. Paderborn et al.: Schöningh, 2001. Modern Language Review 99.2 (2004), 531-533.

 

69.  Walther Hinderer (ed.). Goethe und das Zeitalter der Romantik. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2002. Modern Language Review 100.2 (2005), 554-556.

 

70.  Jeanne Riou (ed.). Imagination in German Romanticism: Re-thinking the Self and its Environment. Oxford, Bern, Berlin et al.: Lang, 2004. Modern Language Review (accepted).

 

71.  Siobhan Donovan and Robin Elliott (eds.). Music and Literature in German Romanticism. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2004. Modern Language Review (accepted).

 

72. Forster, Georg. Über Leckereyen und andere Essays. Ed. Tanja van Hoorn. Hannover: Wehrhahn, 2004. Eighteenth-Century Current Biography (accepted).

TALKS

 

1.   "Buchner's Lenz:  A `Gesteigerter Werther'?"  Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference, October 13, 1978.

Berea, Kentucky.

 

2.   "Audio‑Visual Aids as a Stepping Stone to German Culture and Civilization."  Annual Meeting of the American Associa­tion of Teachers of German, November 22, 1980.  Boston,

Massachusetts.  (Prepared jointly with Professor Heike

Doane).

 

3.   "'Double' into Doppelgänger.  The Genesis of the Doppel­gänger-Motif in the Novels of Jean Paul and E.T.A. Hoff­mann."2nd International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, March 20, 1981.  Boca Raton, Florida.

 

4.   "Brücke zur deutschen Kultur der Vergangenheit und Gegen­wart: Audiovisuelle Materialien im Sprach- und Kultur­unter­richt." Northern New England AATG Chapter Meeting, March 28, 1981. Harwood Union High School; Moretown, Vermont.

 

5.   "Egon Günther's film Lotte in Weimar (1975) and the Image of Goethe in the German Democratic Republic."  Annual Con-

vention of the Modern Language Association of America,

December 29, 1981, New York City.

 

6.   "Mignon Revived:  The Myth of Death and Resurrection in Nova­lis' Heinrich von Ofterdingen."  Georgia Colloquium, April 2, 1982.  University of Georgia; Athens, Georgia.

 

7.   "Zur Integration von Kurzfilmen in den Kulturunter­richt, am

Beispiel des DDR‑Films `Martin Luther.'"  Northern New

England AATG Chapter Meeting, May 14, 1983.  University of

New Hampshire; Durham, New Hampshire.

 

8.   "Egon Günther's Lotte im Weimar:  The Reception of the Film and the Changing Image of Goethe in the GDR."  German De­partment Film Series presentation and ensuing discussion,

May 16, 1983.  Dartmouth College; Hanover, New Hampshire.

 

9.   "'What's Wrong with a Cowboy in Hamburg?':  Narcissism as Cultural Imperialism in Wim Wenders' The American Friend."

Conference on Narcissism in the Fine Arts and Humanities,

June 6, 1983.  Miami University; Oxford, Ohio.

 

10.  Discussant of the talk by Gisela Brude‑Firnau on Dichtung und Wahrheit.  Symposium on Goethe's Narrative Works, April 1, 1984.  Washington University; St. Louis, Missouri.

 

TALKS, contd.

 

11.  "The Presence of the Past:  Egon Günther's Film Die Leiden des jungen Werthers."  Conference on "Rebels, Aliens, and

Outsiders.  The Nonconformist in Society," September 28,

1984.  West Virginia University; Morgantown, West Virginia.

 

12.  "Hölderlins Hyperion und der Bildungsroman.  Zur Umbildung

eines Begriffs."  International Symposium on the topic

"Loss of the Past?  Dealing with the Goethezeit," October

12, 1984.  State University of New York at Albany; Albany, New York.

 

13.  "Goethe and Botany."  Lecture as a part of a University of Vermont Botany Department Seminar on the History of Botany.  March 28, 1985.

 

14.  "Stages of Enlightenment:  Lessing's Nathan der Weise and

Novalis' Heinrich von Ofterdingen."  Annual Convention of

the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies,

April 19, 1985.  Toronto, Canada.

 

15.  "A 'Schützenkönig' for Kuhschnappel:  Social Reality and Wish     Projection in Jean Paul's Siebenkäs."  International Symposium on the topic "Goethezeit.  Literatur und Verant-

wortung," October 24, 1986.  State University of New York

at Albany; Albany, New York.

 

16.  Coming to Terms with the Past.  The Image of World War II in the New German Cinema."  Brown Bag Lecture Series,

     University of Vermont Libraries, December 10, 1986; Hadassah Meeting, February 17, 1987. Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, Burlington, Vermont.

 

17.  "German Romanticism and Goethe's Faust."  Guest Lecture for a World Literature course, March 3, 1987.  St. Michael's

College, Winooski, Vermont.

 

18.  "Painting the Red Flower Blue:  Developments in Research on the Novels of the Age of Goethe since 1968."  Symposium on the Age of Goethe Today:  Critical Reexamination and Liter­ary Reflec­tion, March 5, 1987.  University of Houston; Houston, Texas.

 

19.  "Personalizing the Holocaust:  Markus Imhoof's Das Boot ist v­oll."  Annu­al Con­ven­tion of the Nort­heast Mod­ern Lan­guage Asso­cia­tion, (NEMLA), April 2, 1987.  Boston, Massa­chusetts.

 

TALKS, contd.

 

20.  "Searching for a Scapegoat:  The Portrayal of Rotwang as 'Jewish Scientist' in Fritz Lang's Metropolis."  Annual Con­ven­tion of the Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA), March 24, 1988.  Providence, Rhode Island.

 

21.  "The French Revolution and the Bildungsroman."  Symposium "On the Eve of the French Revolution.  Literature and Poli­tics in the Age of Goethe."  May 8, 1988.  University of California, Santa Barbara.

 

22.  "Novalis' Glauben und Liebe, oder die Problematik eines  poetischen Staats."  International Symposium on the top­ic "Autonomous Literature in Germany during the Age of the French Revolution."  October 7, 1988.  State University of New York, Albany.

 

23.  "The Image of the French Revolution as Volcano in the Writ­ings of Goethe and Georg Forster."  Annual Meeting of the American Association of Teachers of German (AATG), November 17, 1989. Boston, Massachusetts.

 

24.  "How Novel is Novalis?  Learning from Die Lehrlinge zu Sais — and from the New Historicism."  Annual Meeting of the Ameri­can Association of Teachers of German (AATG), November 17, 1990. Nashville, Tennessee.

 

25.  "Human History as Natural History in Die Lehrlinge zu Sais and Heinrich von Ofterdingen."  Annual Meeting of the North­east American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (NEASECS), November 2, 1991.  Burlington, Vermont.

 

26.  "Lehrjahre im Lesen.  Der Bildungsroman der Goethe­zeit."  Guest lecture, University of Augsburg, December 19, 1991.  Augsburg, Germany.

 

27.  "From Caligari to Strangelove:  The German as Mad Scien­tist."Annual Meeting of the American Association of Teachers of German (AATG), July 21, 1992.  Baden-Baden, Germany.

 

28.  "In the Shadow of the French Revolution:  Weimar, Jena, and the Genesis of German Romanticism."  Annual Meeting of the North­east American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (NEA­SECS), October 18, 1992.  Islip, Long Island, NY.

 

 

 

 

TALKS, contd.

 

29.  "Novalis: Heinrich von Ofterdingen."  Guest lecture in the series "Große Werke der Literatur" (Great Works of Litera­ture), University of Augsburg, December 16, 1992. Augsburg, Germa­ny; repeated for the International Novalis Society, January 9, 1993.  Oberwiederstedt, Germany.