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Education

Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo, 1989

M.A., University of California at Irvine, 1985

BA, University of Constance, Germany, 1982

Specialties:

19th Century Literature
Critical Theory
Literary History & Criticism

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

Finalist for Excellence in Teaching Award, DSG, February 2003
Dorothy Collins Brown Fellow at the Henry Huntington Library, Summer 1993
Dissertation defended with distinction, State University of New York at Buffalo, Nov. 1988
Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, 1988-1999
Ph.D. qualifying examinations passed with distinction, State University of New York at Buffalo, Mar. 1987
University Fellowship for Graduate Studies at the State University of New York at Buffalo, 1985-1988
Regents of the University of California Fellowship for Graduate Studies, 1983-1984
German Academic Exchange Fellowship for Study in the United States, 1982-1983

Publications (listed separately)

  Invited Lectures:

• "The Melancholy of Writing: Keats and some Contemporaries", Emory University--English Department, April 16, 2005
• "Satyr Plays of Civilization: on the Death of 'Bildung' in Spengler and Mann", University of Chicago--Germanic Languages & Literatures, April 02, 2005
• "Metamorphoses of Theory: Towards an Interdisciplinary Definition of 'Bildung'.", University of Michigan--Germanic Languages & Literatures, February 24, 2005
• Theology and Liberty in Bach’s B-Minor Mass, Valparaiso, Indiana, January 8-11, 2004
• "[Ital]Verstimmung[Ital]as Literature: Reading Keats and Heine.", Princeton University, 13 December 2003
• "Keats's Poetics of Simulation", King's College, Cambridge, U.K., 13 December 2003
• Ruins of Modernity, German Studies Association Meeting in New Orleans, September 18-21, 2003
• Tyranny, Power, Freedom and Responsibility in Schiller’s Writings, Big Sky, Montana, June 26-29, 2003
• Keats’s Poetics of Simulation, Invitational lecture at “Aesthetic Positions,” University of Cambridge, U.K., June 20-22, 2003

• Director of Undergraduate Studies, July 01, 2005 - present
• German Studies Associate Faculty, Member, 1994 - present
• Director of Undergraduate Studies in English, July 01, 2005 - present
• Director of Graduate Student Placement--English
• Director of Undergraduate Studies--German
• Graduate Advisory Committee--English, Member
• English Department Executive Committee, Member
• Search Committee in 19th C English Lit, Chair
  Chaired committee for search in 19th C lit. that resulted in the appointment of Prof. Robert Mitchell
• Search Committee for 18th & 19th C Brit. Lit., Member
• Director of Graduate Studies--German
• Tenure Review Committee for Prof. Ian Baucom, Member
• Senior Search Committee in German Studies, Member, 1997 - 1998
• English Graduate Program Advisory Committee, Member, 1995 - 1997
• English Department Honors Committee, Director, 1992 - 1994
• Committee for Graduate Placement, Director, 1994
• Committee for Graduate Placement, Director, 1994-95, 1997-98
• English Undergraduate Studies Committee, Member, 1992 - 1993
• Committee for Graduate Placement, Member, 1992-94; 1996-97, 1999

  University

• Duke University Bookstore Committee

  Professional

• North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Member on the Advisory Board

Doctoral Theses Directed

Magdalena Ostas, (January 1, 2006 - May 13, 2007)