William C. Donahue

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Office Location:  116K Old Chem
Office Phone:  (919) 660-3089
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Teaching (Summer1 2012):

  • Arthist 190b.01, ART & ARCH BERLIN, 15TH-20TH C Synopsis
    Study away, 12:00 AM-12:00 AM
Office Hours:

Tu/Th 4:30-5:30 and by appointment (but not prior to class)

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
Research Interests:

realism, modernism, Holocaust literature, religion & secularization, memoir, Elias Canetti, ethics & literature

Duties:

Academic Director, Duke in Berlin Director, Duke Summer in Berlin
Curriculum Vitae
Current Ph.D. Students   (Former Students)

  • Marc Reibold
  • Huiping Wang
  • Paul Hammond
  • Geoff Baker
Recent Publications   (More Publications)

  1. W.C. Donahue & Martin Kagel. "Saving German Studies, via Europe." Chronicle of Higher Education  (January 2, 2012)
  2. W.C. Donahue. Rev of Ingeborg Bachmann: Kriegstagebuch. Mit Briefen von Jack Hamesh an Ingeborg Bachmann, ed. Hans Hoeller.  Modern Austrian Literature (2012).
  3. W.C. Donahue. "Germans' Lingering Link to the Wall." The Philadelphia Inquirer & Toronto Globe & Mail  (August 14, 2011)  [abs] [author's comments]
  4. W.C. Donahue. "In Her Own Words: Veza Canetti's Letters to Georges." andererseits Ed. W. C. Donahue & Jochen Vogt. 2Universitaetsverlag Rhein-Ruhr & Duke University Libraries, (August, 2011): 81-98.  [abs]
  5. William Collins Donahue. Holocaust Lite: Bernhard Schlinks “NS-Romane” und ihre Verfilmungen. Aisthesis Verlag, 2011.  [author's comments]

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