116K Old Chem Box 90256 Durham, NC 27708-0256

(919) 660-3089 (office) (email)

Education

PhD (with distinction) German Literature, Harvard University, 1995

MA German Literature, Middlebury College, 1987

M.T.S. Study of Religion and Theology, Harvard University, The Divinity School, 1984

DAAD Fellowship, Otto Suhr Institut für Politologie, Freie Universität Berlin, 1981

B.S.F.S. International Affairs/Politics (summa cum laude), The Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, 1981

Junior Year, Albert Ludwigs Universität, Freiburg, Germany, 1979

Specialties:

19th Century Literature
20th Century Literature

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

Fellow, “Circa 1968”: New Approaches to Young German Film and the Legacies of the Sixties, German Film Institute at the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities, August, 2008
The Goethe Institute/AATG Certificate of Merit for Outstanding Achievement in Furthering the Study of German Language & Culture in the United States of America, The Goethe Institute and the American Association of Teachers of German, November 18, 2006
The Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures for The End of Modernism: Elias Canetti’s Auto-da-Fé, The Modern Language Association of America, December 2002
Fellow, Sixth Annual Summer Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization, Northwestern University, 2001
The Board of Trustees Fellowship for Scholarly Excellence, Rutgers University, 2001
Fellow, The Center for Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture (CCACC), Rutgers University, New Brunswick, 2000 - 2001
Max Kade Prize for Best Article of the Year, The German Quarterly, 1999, Awarded 2000
Fellow and Pew Scholar, Erasmus Institute, University of Notre Dame, 1999 - 2000
Rutgers Faculty of Arts & Sciences Award for Distinguished Contributor to Undergraduate Education, Rutgers University, 1999
Summer Fellow, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Seminar for the Enrichment of University-level Holocaust Courses, Washington, DC, 1999
Fulbright Summer Seminar: “Germany and Jewish Studies Today", June-July 1996
Best Article of the Year, Die Unterrichtspraxis, 1995
Peter Suhrkamp Fellowship for Dissertation Research, Center for Contemporary German Literature, Washington University/Peter Suhrkamp Stiftung, 1994
The Esther Sellholm Walz Prize for Best Essay, Harvard University Department of German, 1994
The Austro-American Association Scholarship for dissertation research, 1993
The Jack M. Stein Teaching Fellow Prize in German, Harvard University, September 1992
Bernhard Blume Award for Excellence in the Graduate Study of German, Harvard University, 1991
Certificates of Distinction in Teaching (7), Derek Bok Center for Teaching & Learning, Harvard University, 0 1990
Summer Language Fellowship, Harvard University, 1990
Fulbright Fellowship, Vienna, Austria, 1981-82
German Academic Exchange Service (D.A.A.D.) Fellowship, Berlin, 1981 - 1982
German Consulate Prize for Excellence in German, Georgetown University, 1981
Lusta Guwaina Award for Excellence in the Study of German, Georgetown University, 1981
Phi Alpha Theta (History Honor Society), Georgetown University, 1981
Phi Beta Kappa, Georgetown University, 1982
The William Branstrom Freshman Prize, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 1978
State of Michigan Merit Scholarship, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 1977 - 1978

Publications (listed separately)

  Invited Lectures:

• “Die Judenbuche als Anti-Detektivroman: Klassen- und Religionskritik bei Droste-Hülshoff.”, Davidson College Department of German, February 21, 2011
• Canetti the Refugee, Department of Literary and Media Studies, University of Duisburg-Essen, July 05, 2010
• The Hollywood Reader, University of Georgia, Dept of Germanic & Slavic Studies and the Willson Center for the Humanities and Arts, April, 2009
• ‘Gute Deutsche’: Zu einer neuen Phase der amerikanischen Verarbeitung des Holocausts ["Good Germans": Regarding a New Phase in the American Confrontation with the Holocaust], Department of German Literature and Media Studies, University Duisburg-Essen, June 19, 2008
• Holocaust Light: The Novels of Bernhard Schlink, Max Kade Center for European and German Studies, Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages, and the Program in Jewish Studies, Vanderbilt University, February 09, 2007
• Fantasies of Africa: Ethics as Literature in Elias Canetti’s The Voices of Marrakesh, Max Kade Center for European & German Studies, The Department of Germanic & Slavic Languages, The Center for Ethics, and the Program in Jewish Studies, Vanderbilt University, February 08, 2007
• Bernhard Schlinks Der Vorleser als amerikanischer Roman [Bernhard Schlink's "The Reader" as an American Novel], Department of German Literature & Media Studies, University of Duisburg-Essen, June 27, 2006
• Text, Intertext, Context: The Antigone segment in Germany in Autumn, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University, March 18, 2005
• Normal as Apolitical: Thomas Brussig’s Leben bis Männer and Uwe Timm’s Rot, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University, March 17, 2005
• The Holocaust as Epiphenomenon in Recent German Literature, Department of German Studies, Duke University, February 28, 2005
• Lenz and Literary Studies, Department of German and Russian, The University of Notre Dame, February 10, 2005
• The Holocaust in Recent German Literature, Deutsches Haus/New York University, October 12, 2004
• Lenz and Literary Studies, The Catholic University of Lublin, Poland, September 17, 2004
• Normal as Apolitical: Thomas Brussig’s Leben bis Männer and Uwe Timm’s Rot, Conference on the “Normalization” of Germany, University of Leeds, September 3, 2004
• The Modernist Fallacy, Conference “Beginnings and Endings of Modernity,” Duke University, April 2, 2004
• The Holocaust as Epiphenomenon in Recent German Literature: Engagement, Allusion, Evasion, Departments of Judaic and German Studies, Brown University, March 18, 2004
• Berlin Holocaust Memorials, Mandel Fellows Conference, USHMM and the Rutgers Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life, March 1, 2004
• Diversity in Contemporary Germany, Teach Europe, Rutgers University, October, 2003
• Orientalism Reconsidered: Elias Canetti’s Voices of Marrakesh, Rutgers Transliteratures Conference, March 29, 2003
• The Sacred & Secular in Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, Canisius College, March 19, 2003
• The Holocaust and the Postmodern: Recent German Literature, Series on Teaching Holocaust Literature, Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life, Rutgers University, October 19, 2002
• Old and New Worlds in Fritz Lang’s Metropolis and Elias Canetti’s Auto-da-Fé, Chicago Vienna Symposium, University of Illinois-Chicago, October 10, 2002
• From Fact to Fiction and Back: Michael Verhoefen’s The Nasty Girl in the Context of Women’s History Month, Lafayette College, March, 2002
• Canetti’s Obituaries, International Canetti Symposium, University of Illinois-Chicago, July, 2001
• Jews & Judaism in Germany Today, Rutgers Hillel, April 25, 2001
• Survivor Testimony in the Classroom, Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life, Rutgers University, December 7, 2000
• Second Generation Blues: Bernhard Schlink’s The Reader and the Moral Limits of Holocaust Fiction, University of Illinois–Chicago, April 27, 2000
• Second Generation Blues: Bernhard Schlink’s The Reader and the Moral Limits of Holocaust Fiction, Middlebury College, April 15, 2000
• Selbstkritik als Abwehrstrategie: Der Fall Michael Berg” (“Self-critique as Preemptive Strike: The Case of Michael Berg”), Project 2001 (Internet Resource for International Literature; underwritten by Inter Nationes and the Mellon Foundation). Recorded at Middlebury College, April 14, 2000
• Second Generation Blues: Bernhard Schlink’s The Reader and the Moral Limits of Holocaust Fiction, University of Notre Dame, November 30, 1999
• Demographic Boom, Religious Decline: Jews and Judaism in Germany Today, Lafayette College, May 3, 1999
• 'If he’s not a Jew, then he deserves to be one’: Annette von Droste-Hülshoff’s Die Judenbuche and Religious Anti-Semitism, Center for European Studies, Harvard University, February 16, 1999
• Sexing the Holocaust: Agnieszka Holland’s Europa, Europa and the Problem of Autobiography, Rutgers University Undergraduate English Association, New Brunswick, NJ, September, 1998
• Austria and the Holocaust: An Overview, Austria Seminar. Sponsored by the Austrian Cultural Institute. University of the South, Sewanee, TN, June, 1998
• Austrian Complicity: Ruth Klüger’s weiter leben: eine Jugend, Austria Seminar. Sponsored by the Austrian Cultural Institute. University of the South, Sewanee, TN, June, 1998
• Gulf Wars (On Bridging the Gap Between Graduate School and a Faculty Appointment), Panel on “The Future of the Profession,” Rutgers Council on Languages and Literatures, March 5, 1996
• Elias Canetti's Die Blendung: Text and Context, Austro-American Association of Greater Boston. Center for European Studies, Harvard University, March, 1994

• “Schnitzler’s Anti-Catholicism: The Case of Professor Bernhardi.”, Washington & Jefferson College, April 09, 2011
• The Consolations of History: Jews, Germans, and the Holocaust in Philip Kerr's Berlin Noir Trilogy, German Studies Association Annual Meeting, Oakland, CA, October 10, 2010
• Respondent & Moderator, "An Internal Matter? The Biermann Affair and the Fallout in the East German Writers' Union., North Carolina German Studies Seminar, UNC-Chapel Hill, April 18, 2010
• The Wenderoman: History, Reconciliation, and Retrospective, 20th Anniversay of the Fall of the Wall Conference, North Carolina German Studies Seminar. UNC-Chapel Hill, October 29, 2009
• Holocaust Literature without the Holocaust, Interdisciplinary German Studies of the Southeast, Emory University, September 12, 2009
• Kien as the Anti-Faust: Canetti’s Dialogue with Goethe, Modern Austrian Literature and Culture Association Annual Meeting, Emory University, Atlanta GA, April 24, 2009
• Respondent to Michael Lawrence Hughes’ “Reason, Emotion, Force, Violence: Modes of Demonstration as Modes of Political Citizenship in 1960s West Germany", North Carolina German Studies Seminar & Workshop, UNC-Chapel Hill, February 22, 2009
• The Hollywood Reader, The Duke German Jewish Studies Workshop, February 16, 2009
• Harvesting Study Abroad for the Home Front: Articulating New Criteria for Success and Failure, Modern Language Association, San Francisco, CA, December 28, 2008
• The Legacy of Sixty-Eight - Roundtable Panelist, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, April 12, 2008
• Proleptic Ethics in the Memoirs of Thomas Bernhard & Elias Canetti, German Studies Association Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, October 07, 2007
• Teaching '68: Peril & Promise, AATG Annual Meeting, Nashville, TN, November 17, 2006
• Ethics as Literature: Canetti in Marrakesh, GSA Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, October, 2006
• Global Terror & German Cinema: A Productive Tension, MLA Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, December 29, 2006
• The Missing Jew in the Mind of the German New Left: Uwe Timm’s Heißer Sommer and Rot, German Studies Association Annual Meeting, Milwaukee, WI, October 02, 2005
• Holocaust Legacies: Bernhard’s Heldenplatz and Walser’s Tod eines Kritikers, Lunch Lecture Series, Department of German, Rutgers University, NJ, January 25, 2005
• Antwort auf die Frage ‘Wieviel deutsch in German Studies?’ Institutionell-wirtschaftliche, forschungsabhängige, und existentielle Bedingungen, Roundtable Discussion, German Studies Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, September 20, 2003
• The Holocaust in Fiction and History, Teaching Strategies from History, Literature, and Sociology, Lessons & Legacies, Minneapolis, November 5, 2002
• The Popular Culture Alibi: Bernhard Schlink’s Detective Fiction and the Culture of Left-Liberal ‘Repression, Panel on Bernhard Schlink, German Studies Association Annual Convention, San Diego, October 4, 2002
• The Graying of the Red: The Repudiation of ‘68er Activism in (and Beyond) Bernhard Schlink’s Der Vorleser,” “Ich will anders sein, Difference in Contemporary Germany, Conference at The Nottingham Trent University, July 4-6, 2002
• Canetti on Safari, German Studies Association Annual Meeting, October, 2001
• Transformation from Below: Reading Canetti with Connolly, Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture (CCACC), Rutgers University, November 8, 2000
• Popular Film and Elite Reviews: The Case for New Criteria for Holocaust Films, Reassuring Fictions: Metamorphoses of Holocaust Discourse in Contemporary Films, German Studies Association, Houston, October 6, 2000
• Canetti as Religionist? The Redemption of Fiction for Social Analysis in Masse und Macht, Tenth Conference of the Society for Literature and Religion, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands, September 8, 2000
• The End of History: ‘Eschatology’ in Elias Canetti’s Masse und Macht, V. Johannesburger Germanistentreffen, Rand Afrikaans University, Johannesburg, March 10, 2000
• Literary Critic as Public Intellectual: A Response to Nicholas Boyle’s ‘After Enlightenment’ and ‘After Realism, Interdisciplinary Faculty Seminar, University of Notre Dame, February 23, 2000
• The Emerging Consensus, Holocaust Pedagogy in Practice, AATG Annual Meeting, Dallas, TX, November, 1999
• The Future is Classics, Graduate Studies in German, South Atlantic MLA, Atlanta, GA, November, 1999
• Hanna and Her Sisters: Bernhard Schlink’s The Reader and the Portrayal of Germans as Victims, German Studies Association, Atlanta, GA, October, 1999
• Two Faces of Myth in Postwar German Jewish Literature: Elias Canetti & Barbara Honigmann, German Studies Association, Salt Lake City, UT, October, 1998
• Re-educating Germany: Judaism as Living Faith in the Work of Barbara Honigmann, Jewish Culture in Contemporary Germany, Northeast Modern Language Association, Baltimore, MD, April, 1998
• Requiescat in pace, or: Life after Downsizing, The Future of Graduate Studies in German, South Atlantic Modern Language Association. Atlanta, GA, November 13, 1997
• Murder, she wrote: Annette von Droste-Hülshoff’s Die Judenbuche and Religious Anti-Semitism, Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. Lexington, KY, April 18, 1997
• The Vision of Judaism in Barbara Honigmann’s Soharas Reise, Southeastern Conference on Foreign Languages and Literatures. Orlando, FL, March 7, 1997
• Sex, Lies and Truth in Agnieszka Holland’s Europa, Europa, Twentieth Century Literature Conference. University of Louisville, February 20, 1997
• Of Pretty Boys and Nasty Girls: Holocaustbewältigung in Recent German Cinema, Recent German Cinema, AATG Annual Meeting. Philadelphia, PA, November 23, 1996
• Naked Truth? Agnieszka Holland’s Europa, Europa: A True Story, Association for Jewish Studies Annual Conference. Boston, MA, December 18, 1995
• Teaching the Holocaust in the Context of Austrian Culture, AATG Annual Meeting. Annaheim, CA, November 19, 1995
• Elias Canetti: Jewish Multiculturalist avant la lettre, Emory University, February 14, 1995
• Elias Canetti: Jewish Multiculturalist avant la lettre, Rutgers University, February 6, 1995
• Elias Canetti: Jewish Multiculturalist avant la lettre, The Ohio State University, January 30, 1995
• Elias Canetti: Jewish Multiculturalist avant la lettre, Middlebury College, January 23, 1995
• Elias Canetti: Jewish Multiculturalist avant la lettre, Association for Jewish Studies, Boston, MA, December 18, 1994
• Nazism and the Holocaust: A Curriculum for Elementary German, ACTFL/AATG Annual Meeting. Atlanta, GA, November 20, 1994
• Didacticizing the Holocaust: The Ruth Gutmann Interview, Ford Foundation German Studies Research Workshop. Harvard University, November 15, 1994
• A Holocaust Curriculum for German A, Germanic Circle, Harvard University, February, 1994
• The Kiss of the Spider Woman: Misogynist Discourse and its Theological (Un)doing in Gotthelf's Die schwarze Spinne, 19th Century German Literature, AATG Annual Meeting. Chicago, IL, November 20, 1992

• Duke German Jewish Studies Workshop, 12 January 2012
• Duke German Jewish Studies Workshop, Duke University, March, 2011
• The Literature of ‘1989’ – After the Great Divide, Southeast German Studies Workshop, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, March 06, 2009
• Duke German Jewish Studies Workshop, Duke University, February, 2009

• Co-director and founder (with Martha Helfer), Duke German Jewish Studies Workshop, February 15-17, 2009 - present (biennial
• Conference co-director (with Peter McIsaac), Germany in the American Mind: The Postwar American Reception of German Culture, April 21-23, 1995
• Conference Co-director (with Rachel Freudenburg and Daniel Reynolds), German Politics and Culture from Weimar to Unification, October 11-13, 1991

• Department of Germanic Languages and Literature, Department Chair, 2008 - present
• Department of Germanic Languages and Literature, Director of Graduate Studies, 2006 - 2009
• Department of Germanic Languages and Literature, Academic Director, Duke in Berlin, 2006 - present
• Department of Germanic, Russian & East European Languages and Literatures, Rutgers University, Chair, 2001 - 2005
• Literature Program Lecture Committee, member, 201011
• Jewish Studies Fellowships Committee, member, 2011 - present
• Jewish Studies - Speakers & Events Committee, member, 2010 - present
• Department of Germanic Languages and Literature, Acting DUS
  spring semester 2009
• Department of German, Russian, and East European Languages & Literatures, Rutgers University, Director of Graduate Studies, 2001 - 2004
• German, Undergraduate Director, 1997 - 2001; fall 2003
• Literature Program Lecture Committee, member, 2010 - present
• Carolina Duke PhD in German Studies - Executive Committee, Member, 2009 - present
• Duke-UNC MA & PhD Qualifying Exam Committees, Chair, 2008 - present
  Marc Reibold, Molly Knight, Michelle Eley.
• Duke-UNC Dissertation Committees, Chair, 2008 - present
  In progress: Marc Reibold, Molly Knight, Michelle Eley.
• Duke German Department Executive Committee, Member, 2006 - present
• Duke-UNC Dissertation Committees, Member, 2006 - present
  Barbara Lechleitner, Richard Benson. In progress: Gabi Wurmitzer, Caroline Kita.
• Duke-UNC MA & PhD Qualifying Exam Committees, Member, 2005 - present
  Richard Benson, Robert Blankenship, Gabi Wurmitzer, Caroline Kita, Marc Reibold.
• Duke-UNC Works in Progress Series, Co-director, 2006 - 2008
  Monthly gathering of UNC & Duke faculty and graduate students in German Studies to present and discuss recent scholarship.
• Reappointment Committee - Professor of the Practice, Chair, 2007-2008
• Interim Director of Undergraduate Studies
  (spring 2009)
• Carolina Duke PhD in German Studies - Implementation Committee, Member, 2008
• Search committee for assistant professor, Committee Chair, 2007-08
• Search Committee for new departmental manager, Member
• Search Committee for Postdoctoral Lecturing Fellow, Member, 2006
• Rutgers M.A. & Ph.D. Qualifying Exam Committees in Comparative Literature, Member, 2000 - 2005
  Geoffrey Baker (chair), Carrie Pedersen, Annie Xu, Bryan Bridges, Joshua Beall, Shirli Sela-Levavi, Elena Patrick, Justyna Braun; James Casteel (History).
• Rutgers Comparative Literature Program, Member of Core Faculty, 2001 - 2005
• Rutgers German MA & PhD Qualifying Exam Committees, 1995 - 2005
  Adriana Bäbler, Kai Diers, Ute Dine, Doris Eggert, Julia Feldhaus, Paul Hammond, Mrinalini Joshi, Forest Fletcher-Kairos, Lynne Kutsch, Joanna Naratil, Kerstin Nasdeo, Pushpa Nayar, Cornelia Neumann, Sripriya Ramaswamy, Sonya Ristau, Christine Scarloss, Huiping Wang, Cate Wanyana, Antje Weymann, Ursula Atkinson, Erika Blumenthal, Kirsten Harjes, Isabel Jensen, Carina Liebeknecht, Chistina MacNicoll, Elena Mancini, Wendy Pfeiffer-Quaile, Anne Quinn, Karin Sattler, Christine Voss,
• Rutgers German - Second Reader on German PhD Dissertation Committees, 1995 - 2005
  Ursula Atkinson, Adriana Bäbler, Mercedes Brand, Lynne Kutch, Elena Mancini, Wendy Pfeiffer-Quaile, Christine Scarloss, Christine Voss, Katja Werthen-Giles.
• Maybell Smith Douglass Thesis: Melissa McTiernan, Director, 2001
• Ph.D. Exam Committee, Department of History: James Casteel, 2001
• FAS ad hoc Committee on the Future of Comparative Literature, 2000

  University

• Duke Engineering Ambassadors, Pratt School of Engineering, Member, 2008 - present
• Executive Committee for Jewish Studies, Member, 2006 - present
• Graduate School Exchange Programs with Free University of Berlin and University of Potsdam, Faculty Director, 2006 - present
• MacAnderson Scholarship Selection Committee (Study Abroad), Member, 2006 - present
• Summer Directors Advisory Committee, Global Education for Undergraduates, Member, 2010 - present
• Smart Chair Search Committee, member, 2010
• Smart Chair Search Committee, member, 2009
• Global Duke, Presentation to the Trinity College Board of Visitors, Panelist, November 2008
• Graduate School Panel: The Faculty Hiring Process: Screening and Interviewing, Speaker, September 2008
• German Fulbright Faculty Selection Committee, Member, 2007
• Rutgers University Faculty of Arts and Sciences exra-departmental faculty promotion committee
  Elizabeth Leake, Department of Italian
• Rutgers Presidential Committee to Review Commencement Procedures, Member, 2004 - 2005
• Rutgers NCAA Advisory Committee and Taskforce on Compliance, Member, 2004 - 2005
• Rutgers College Honors Program, Mentor, 2001 - 2005
• Faculty of Arts and Sciences exra-departmental faculty promotion committee, 2004
  Jeffrey Shandler, Department of Jewish Studies
• New Brunswick Bildner Grant Steering Committee, 2002 - 2003
• Graduate School New Brunswick Humanities Area Committee, Member, 2001 - 2003; 2004-2006
• Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean’s ad hoc Emergency Budget Reduction Committee, 2002
• Faculty of Arts and Sciences extra-departmental ad hoc faculty reappointment committees, 2002
  Lawrence LaFountain-Stokes (Department of Puerto Rican and Hispanic Caribbean Studies) and Jeffrey Shandler (Derpartment of Jewish Studies),
• FAS Curriculum Committee, 1998

  Professional

• The German Quarterly, Editorial Board Member, 2009 - present
• Steering Committee, North Carolina German Studies Seminar & Workshop Series, Member, 2008 - present
• Die Unterrichtspraxis, Editorial Board Member, 2005 - 2011
• Manuscript evaluator, 2003 - present
  JOURNALS: PMLA, German Quarterly, Die Unterrichtspraxis, Modern Austrian Literature, Seminar, The Germanic Review, Christianity & Literature, Women in German Yearbook, Gegenwartsliteratur PRESSES: University of North Carolina Press, Boydell & Brewer/Camden House, Berg Publishers, Rowman & Littlefield/ Lexington Books; Penn State Univ Press
• Faculty Promotion Reviews, Extermal Evaluator, 2002 - present
  To the rank of Full Professor (2004-06): Univ of Leeds; Louisiana State; College of Charleston; University College London. To the rank of Associate Professor with Tenure (2002-08): Emory; Cornell; Boston U; St. Mary's College; Johns Hopkins; University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. To the rank of Associate Professor of the Practice (or equivalent) - 2003-09: Princeton; Carnegie Mellon.
• Search Comittee for Editor of The German Quarterly, Member, 2003
• Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik (book series in German Studies), Senior Editor, with Gerd Labroisse (Berlin), Martha Helfer (New Brunswick) and Norbert Otto Eke (Amsterdam), 2009 - present
• MLA Executive Committee on Late 19th and Early 20th Century German Literature, Member, 2003 - 2009
• German Jewish Studies Workshop, Co-founder and co-director (with Martha Helfer)
  A biennial gathering of scholars in the area of German Jewish Studies at Duke. In the off years a proceedings volume will be published. Seed grant from Duke Jewish Studies.
• National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend Competition, Evaluator, 2008
• Encyclopedia of Antisemitism and Anti-Jewish Prejudice, Advisory Editor (19th Century German Literature)
  edited by Richard Levy (ABC Clio, 2005)
• Chair Search Committee for Editor of German Quarterly, 2005 - 2006
• AATG national conference, Chicago, IL, Co-chair (with Jamie Rankin and Eleanor Williams), November, 2004
• AATG Search Committee for German Quarterly editor, Member, Fall, 2002 - January, 2003
• Faculty Research Grant Proposals, External Reviewer, 1999, 2000
  Grinnell College (2000); CUNY/Hunter College (1999).
• South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Member, Executive Committee, Graduate Studies in German, Chair, 1999
• Duke German Jewish Studies Workshop, Co-director and founder (with Martha Helfer), February 15-17, 2009 - present (biennial
• Germany in the American Mind: The Postwar American Reception of German Culture, Conference co-director (with Peter McIsaac), April 21-23, 1995
• German Politics and Culture from Weimar to Unification, Conference Co-director (with Rachel Freudenburg and Daniel Reynolds), October 11-13, 1991