Books

  1. Donahue, W.C.. The End of Modernism: Elias Canetti’s Auto-da-Fé. Series in Germanic Languages and Literatures 124Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. (Winner of the 2002 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures. Reviewed in German Quarterly, German Studies Review, Modern Language Review, Modern Austrian Literature)

Edited Volumes

  1. Hanno Loewy. Tales of Mass Destruction and Survival: Holocaust, Genre and Fiction in the Movies and on TV. Rutgers German Studies Occasional PapersThe 2003 Craig-Kade Lecture, 4 Department of German, Russian & East European Languages & Literature, Rutgers University, (2006). (Edited and introduced by William Collins Donahue)
  2.  History & Literature: Essays in Honor of Karl Guthke.  Tübingen: Stauffenburg, 2000

Articles/Essays/Chapters in Books

  1. W.C. Donahue. "Canetti on Safari." The Worlds of Elias Canetti. Ed. William Donahue and Julian Preece. Cambridge Scholars Press, 2006. 
  2. W.C. Donahue. "Alte und Neue Welten in Elias Canettis _Die Blendung_ and Fritz Langs _Metropolis_." Der untote Gott: Religion und Aesthetik in deutscher und oesterreichischer Literature des 20. Jahrhunderts. Ed. Olaf Berwald and Gregor Thuswaldner. Boehlau, 2006. 
  3. W.C. Donahue. "Normal as Apolitical: Uwe Timm's _Rot_ and Thomas Brussig's _Leben bis Maenner_." German Culture, Politics, and Literature into the 21st Century: Beyond Normalization. Ed. Paul Cooke and Stuart Taberner. Camden House, 2006. 181-94.
  4. W.C. Donahue. "How Much German in German Studies?." The German Quarterly 78.4 (Fall, 2005): 521-24.  Forum article
  5. W. C. Donahue. "Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, The Jews’ Beech (Die Judenbuche)." Antisemitism: A Historical Encyclopedia of Prejudice and Persecution. Ed. Richard S. Levy. IABC-Clio, 2005. 383-84.
  6. W. C. Donahue. "Theodor Fontane (1819-1898)." Antisemitism: A Historical Encyclopedia of Prejudice and Persecution. Ed. Richard S. Levy. IABC-CLIO, 2005. 232-33.
  7. W. C. Donahue. "Rainer Werner Fassbinder, The Garbage, the City, and Death (Der Müll, die Stadt, und der Tod)." Antisemitism: A Historical Encyclopedia of Prejudice and Persecution. Ed. Richard S. Levy. IABC-CLIO, 2005. 253-54.
  8. W. C. Donahue. "Thomas Mann (1875-1955)." Antisemitism: A Historical Encyclopedia of Prejudice and Persecution. Ed. Richard S. Levy. IIABC-CLIO, 2005. 443-45.
  9. Donahue, W.C.. "The Popular Culture Alibi: Bernhard Schlink’s Detective Novels and the Culture of Politically Correct Holocaust Literature." The German Quarterly 77.4 (Fall, 2004): 462-481.
  10. Donahue, W.C.. "Revising ’68: Bernhard Schlink’s Der Vorleser, Peter Schneider’s Vati and the Question of History." Seminar 40.3 (September, 2004): 293-311.
  11. Donahue, W.C.. "The Shadow Play of Religion in Fritz Lang’s Metropolis." New England Review 24.4 (2004): 207-221.
  12. Donahue, W.C.. "Good-bye to All That: Elias Canetti’s Obituaries." A Companion to the Works of Elias Canetti. Ed. Dagmar C. G. Lorenz. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2004. 25-41.
  13. Donahue, W.C.. "Canetti as Religionist? The Redemption of Fiction for Social Analysis in Crowds and Power." Literary Canons and Religious Identity. Ed. Erik Borgman, Bart Philipsen & Lea Verstricht. Hants: Ashgate, 2004. 69-78.
  14. Donahue, W.C.. "Der Holocaust als Anlass zur Selbstbemitleidung: Geschichtsschüchternheit in Bernhard Schlinks Der Vorleser." Rechenschaften. Juristischer und literarischer Diskurs in der Auseinandersetzung mit den NS-Massenverbrechen. Ed. Stephan Braese. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2004. 177-197. This is a shorter and revised version of my 2001 article that appeared in German Life and Letters.
  15. Donahue, W.C.. "Ein politisch fortschrittlicher Rilke: Kunst als Politik in den Zwei Prager Geschichten” [“Rilke as Political Progressive: Art as Politics in the Zwei Prager Geschichten." Recherches germaniques 33 (2003): 81-105.
  16. Donahue, W.C.. "Illusions of Subtlety: Bernhard Schlink’s Der Vorleser and the Moral Limits of Holocaust Fiction." German Life and Letters 54.1 (January, 2001): 60–81.
  17. Donahue, W.C.. "The End of History: ‘Eschatology’ in Elias Canetti’s Masse und Macht." Fin de siècle—Fin du millénaire: Endzeitstimmungen in der deutschsprachigen Literatur. Ed. Helmut Koopmann & Hans-Jörg Knobloch. Tübingen: Stauffenburg, 2001. 113-134.
  18. Donahue, W.C.. "Of Pretty Boys and Nasty Girls: The Holocaust in Two German Films of the 90s." New England Review 21.4 (2000): 108-124.
  19. Donahue, W.C.. "The Real ‘Tora Connection’ in Barbara Honigmann’s Soharas Reise." Literatur und Identität: Deutsch-deutsche Befindlichkeiten und die multikulturelle Gesellschaft. Ed. Ursula Beitter. New York: Peter Lang, 2000. 69-80.
  20. Donahue, W.C.. "Beyond Cultural Literacy: ‘Interactive Autobiography’ as Holocaust Pedagogy." Shedding Light on the Darkness: North American Germanists Teach the Holocaust. Ed. Miriam Jokiniemi & Nancy A. Lauckner. New York: Berghahn, 2000. 211-224.
  21. Donahue, W.C.. "Die Blendung (1935; Auto-da-Fé)." Encyclopedia of German Literature. Ed. Michael Konzett. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000. 170-172.
  22. Donahue, W.C.. "Masse und Macht (1960; Crowds and Power)." Encyclopedia of German Literature. Ed. Michael Konzett. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000. 173-175.
  23. Donahue, W.C.. "Die Blendung: Elias Canetti's ‘Viennese’ Novel." Sprachkunst: Beiträge zur Literaturwissenschaft (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften) 30.2 (1999): 247-270.
  24. Donahue, W.C.. "“‘Ist er kein Jude, dann verdiente er einer zu sein’: Droste-Hülshoff’s Die Judenbuche and Religious Anti-Semitism." German Quarterly 72.1 (1999): 44–73.  Awarded the Max Kade Prize for Best Article of the Year, 1999
  25. Donahue, W.C.. "Holocaust as History Lesson? Contestatory Voices." Österreich in amerikanischer Sicht 9 (1999): 28–40.  Publication of the Austrian Cultural Institute, New York
  26. Donahue, W.C.. "Eigentlich bist du eine Frau. Du bestehst aus Sensationen’: Misogyny as Cultural Critique in Elias Canetti’s Die Blendung." Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte 71.4 (December, 1997): 668–700.
  27. Donahue, W.C.. "Cold Water in Our Faces: American Germanists Meet Eastern European Authors." Aufbau  (September 12, 1997): 11.
  28. Donahue, W.C. & Cohn, R.L.. "Cultural Reparations? Jews and Jewish Studies in Germany Today." German Politics & Society 15.1 (Spring, 1997): 94–116.
  29. Donahue, W.C.. "Bless My Homeland Forever’: Teaching Austria and the Holocaust." Die Unterrichtspraxis 29.2 (Fall, 1996): 188–200.
  30. Donahue, W.C. & Cohn, R.L.. "Ein Besuch, der manche Fragen offenließ: Amerikanische Wissenschaftler auf den Spuren jüdischen Lebens in Deutschland." Die Zeit 31 (July 26, 1996): 8.  A somewhat longer version of this essay appeared in English in the Harvard Divinity Bulletin 26.1 (1996): 13.
  31. Donahue, W.C.. "'We shall not speak of it': Nazism and the Holocaust in the Elementary College Course." Die Unterrrichtspraxis 27.1 (1994): 88–104.  Winner of the 1995 Best Article of the Year, Die Unterrichtspraxis
  32. Donahue, W.C.. "The Kiss of the Spider Woman: Gotthelf's ‘Matricentric’ Pedagogy and its Postwar Reception." German Quarterly 67.3 (1994): 304-324.  Winner of the 1994 Esther Sellholm Walz Prize for Best Essay, Harvard University, Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures
  33. Donahue, W.C. & Cohn, R.L.. "Vicarious Pleasures—Critical Interventions: German Political Literature Revisited." German Politics & Society 32 (1994): 125-135.
  34. Donahue, W.C.. "Creative Writing in the Elementary German Classroom: A Plädoyer for Poetry." Die Unterrichtspraxis 24.2 (1991): 183-189.
  35. Donahue, W.C.. "The Role of the Oratorium in Schnitzler's Leutnant Gustl: Divine and Decadent." New German Review 5/6 (1990): 29–42.
  36. Donahue, W.C.. "Andeutungen (Zu Thomas Bernhards Die Ursache Eine Andeutung)." Modern Austrian Literature 21.3-4 (1988): 89–105.

Book Reviews

  1. W.C. Donahue. German Literature of the Nineteenth Century, 1832-1899, edited by Clayton Koelb and Eric Downing.  German Studies Review (Fall, 2006).
  2. W.C. Donahue. Elias Canetti. Biographie, by Sven Hanuschek.  The German Quarterly (Fall, 2006).
  3. W.C. Donahue. Elias Canetti’s Counter-Image of Society: Crowds, Power and Transformation, by Johann P. Arnasan and David Roberts.  The German Quarterly 79.2 (Spring, 2006): 269-71.
  4. W.C. Donahue. Elektra after Freud: Myth and Culture, by Jill Scott.  Modern Austrian Literature 38.1/2 (2005): 86-89.
  5. W. C. Donahue. Freud’s Theory and Its Use in Literary and Cultural Studies: An Introduction, by Henk de Berg.  Modern Austrian Literature 37.3/4 (2004): 70-73.
  6. Donahue, W.C.. Double Exposures: Repetition and Realism in Nineteenth-Century German Fiction, by Eric Downing.  The European Legacy: Journal of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas 8.5 (October, 2003): 662-663.
  7. Donahue, W.C.. Anthropology as Memory: Elias Canetti’s and Franz Baermann Steiner’s Responses to the Shoah, by Michael Mack.  Modern Judaism 23.3 (2003): 306-310.
  8. Donahue, W.C.. Schnitzler’s Century: The Making of Middle-Class Culture, 1815-1914, by Peter Gay.  Modern Austrian Literature 35.3/4 (2002): 115-117.
  9. Donahue, W.C.. Critical Essays on Elias Canetti, edited by David Darby.  German Quarterly 75.3 (2002): 354-356.
  10. Donahue, W.C.. Bertolt Brecht: Centenary Essays, edited by Steve Giles and Rodney Livingstone.  German Studies Review 23.2 (2000): 461-462.
  11. Donahue, W.C.. Aus der Judengasse: Zur Entstehung und Ausprägung deutschsprachiger Ghettoliteratur im 19. Jahrhundert, by Gabriele von Glasenapp.  Monatshefte 91.4 (Winter, 1999): 560-562.
  12. Donahue, W.C.. Inside the Concentration Camps: Eyewitness Accounts of Life in Hitler’s Death Camps, compiled by Eugene Aroneanu.  Monatshefte 90.2 (Summer, 1998): 275-276.
  13. Donahue, W.C.. Canetti and Nietzsche: Theories of Humor in “Die Blendung,” by Harriet Murphy.  German Studies Review 21.1 (February, 1998): 206-208.
  14. Donahue, W.C.. Widerstand und Konformismus: Positionen des Subjekts im Faschismus bei Andersch, Kluge, Enzensberger und Peter Weiss, by Friedemann J. Weidauer.  German Studies Review 20.1 (February, 1997): 202-203.
  15. Donahue, W.C.. Lustmord: Sexual Murder in Weimar Germany, by Maria Tatar.  German Politics & Society 14.4 (Winter, 1996): 103-105.
  16. Donahue, W.C.. Zum Thema Nationalsozialismus im DaF-Werk und -Unterricht, eds. Warmbold, Joachim, E.-Anette Koeppel, & Hans-Simon Pelada.  Die Unterrichtspraxis 28.1 (Spring, 1995): 107-108.
  17. Donahue, W.C.. Visions of War. Ideologies and Images of War in German Literature Before and After the Great War, by Scott D. Denham.  German Politics & Society 28 (1993): 75-79.

Editing a Special Edition of a Journal

  1. Donahue, W.C.. Germany in the American Mind: The American Postwar Reception of German Culture. German Politics & Society (Special Issue) 13.3 (1995): 209 pp.
  2. Donahue, W.C.. Getting over the Wall: Recent Reflections on German Art and Politics since the Third Reich. German Politics & Society (Special Issue) 27  (1992): 155 pp.

Websites

  1. W.C. Donahue. "The Persistence of Tradition,” review of Between Redemption and Doom: The Strains of German-Jewish Modernism, by Noah Isenberg." H-NET Book Review. H-Antisemitism@H-net.msu.edu. October, 1999. (Re-issued in H-Judaica, October 1999.)

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