Helga Schreckenberger, Professor of German
Prof. Helga Schreckenberger has been the Chair of the Department of
German and Russian since July 2008.
She is a past director of Women's Studies at the University
of Vermont, director of our Department's Junior Year Study Abroad
Programs,
and former director of the Salzburg Junior Year Abroad Study Program in
Salzburg, Austria (1996/1997 and 1999/2000). Her research interests
include Contemporary Austrian Literature and Exile Literature.
Prof. Schreckenberger's publications include works on Guillaume
Apollinaire, Max Walther Schulz, Erich Maria Remarque, Arnold Zweig,
Heinz R. Unger,
Felix Mitterer, Gerhard Roth, Joseph Roth, Peter Handke and Lilian
Faschinger;
contributions to The Feminist Encyclopedia of German Literature;
co-translator
of works by Gerhard Roth (The Calm Ocean), Elfriede Jelinek (President
Eveningbreeze) and Ulrike Klepalski ("Midsummernight").
Courses taught include German Short Story after 1945, Fin-de-siecle,
German Exile Literature, The Modern German Novel, The Legacy of the
Holocaust,
Strangers in Paradise: The German Exiles in the US, and Expository
Writing.
One of her latest books is Die
Alchemie des
Exils. Exil als schoepferischer Impuls (2005), an essay volume
that she edited of the proceedings of the North American Society for
Exile Studies conference in Lawrence, Kansas, in September 2003.
The Modern Austrian Literature and Culture
Association (MALCA) 2003 annual meeting was held at the University of
Vermont in April 2003, and Helga Schreckenberger was the
conference organizer. Information on the conference: "Globalization
and Multiculturalism in Modern
Austrian Literature."
Connect to:
Salzburg Junior Year Abroad Study Program .
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Schreckenberger
