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Education

D.Phil, Oxford University, 2006

MA, Dalhousie University, 2003

Areas of Research

German Poetry from 1770 to the present, aesthetics, hermeneutics, the role of literature in society, the relationship between politics, society and academia.

Specialties:

20th Century Literature
19th Century Literature
18th Century Literature
Literary History & Criticism

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

Merkur Essay Award, January 2007
Izaak Walton Killam Predoctoral Scholarship, 2002-2003
Universitas 21 Exchange Scholarship, 2000-2001
Heath Harrison Graduate Teaching Fellowship, Oxford University, Sub-Faculty of German, 2004-2006
Lamb & Flag Studentship, 2003-2006

Publications (listed separately)

  Invited Lectures:

• Reflections on the University in the Correspondence between Gundolf and Wolters, Dem Elfenbeinturme geschworen, Gefällt mir die Welt. A Symposium in Memory of Claus Victor Bock 1926-2008. IGRS London, June 27, 2008
• Friedrich Gundolf - Friedrich Wolters. Briefwechsel von 1910-1925, Forum für Kunst, Heidelberg, February 13, 2005
• Global Students? Anecdotes and Arguments about Higher Education, University College of the Cariboo, Kamloops BC, Canada, March 24, 2004
• Understanding Poetry – Time for a Paradox, German Department, Dalhousie University, Halifax NS, Canada, March 18, 2004
• Ernst Jünger’s Waldgang, Department of Languages and Literatures, Acadia University, Wolfville NS, Canada, March 16, 2004
• Poetry, Friendship and the War. On Stefan George, Department of Languages and Literatures, Acadia University, Wolfville NS, Canada, February 28, 2003
• Castrum Peregrini – Freundeskreis und Verlag in der Tradition Stefan Georges, Colloquium on occasion of the 50th birthday of Castrum Peregrini, City Hall Mainz, November 24, 2001

• Geheimes Deutschland als Paradox, Universität Frankfurt, June 7, 2008
• What to Make of a War – Untergetaucht unter Freunden as pedagogy, AATG Annual Convention, San Antonio, TX, November, 2007
• Virtually There - Hölderlin's Kolomb and Tinian, GSA Annual Conference, San Diego, CA, October, 2007
• The changing role of the prophet in Stefan George’s late works, Poetry & Politics’ Conference, University of Stirling, July 05, 2006
• The perception of the divine in Stefan George’s last works, Conference ‘Reading Spiritualities,’ Lancaster University, January 20, 2006
• Inner Emigration in Adenauer and Kohl Germany, 2nd International Oxford Summer Symposium on Displacement, Exile, Resistance, Oxford, April 30, 2005
• Grace and Dignity in aesthetically educated poetry, Friedrich Schiller. Poetry, Drama, Ideas. Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies and English Goethe Society, London, January 27, 2005
• Klänge der Wandlung. Stefan Georges Musik der Vorzeichen, Modern German Graduate Seminar, University of Oxford, November 15, 2004
• Abgelagerte Inschriften. Wulf Kirstens geschichtliche Landschaften, Annual Conference of the Canadian Association of University Teachers of German, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg MB, Canada, May 29, 2004
• Das Unheimliche des Weinens im Stern des Bundes (Stefan George), German Studies Seminar ‘Männer weinen heimlich. Masculine Sensitivity in German Literature,’ Oxford University, Oxford, May 1, 2004
• Translating Davis: A Translator’s Poetry, Conference ‘Poetry in Translation,’ Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, December 5, 2003
• Symbolist Motifs in Stefan George’s Algabal, Conference ‘Différence et diversité,’ Dalhousie University, Halifax NS, Canada, May 27, 2003
• Der ‘künder unkündbar’ – Abgrund und Terror in Georges Spätwerk, Annual Conference of the Canadian Association of University Teachers of German, Dalhousie University, Halifax NS, Canada, May 3, 2003
• Distance is Futile, Conference ‘Building Bridges – Putting up Walls,’ University of Alberta, Edmonton AB, Canada, March 8, 2003

• The Nameable and the Unnameable The Nameable and the Unnameable: Hofmannsthal’s Der Schwierige in Context, May, 2008
• 5th International Oxford Forum, December, 2000

• Focus on German Studies, 2007 - present
• The Nameable and the Unnameable The Nameable and the Unnameable: Hofmannsthal’s Der Schwierige in Context, May, 2008
• 5th International Oxford Forum, December, 2000
  Conference bringing together MPs and academics from the US, the UK and Germany. Speakers included the President of Deutscher Bundestag, Wolfgang Thierse, MdB, the coordinator of German-American relations, Carsten Voigt.