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Faculty: William C. Donahue  

Title: Associate Professor of Germanic Languages & Literature and Literature and Chair
Office Location: 116D Old Chem
Office Phone: (919) 660-3089
Email Address: wcd2@duke.edu
Web Page:
http://literature.aas.duke.edu/~wcd2

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 abroad, Albert Ludwigs Universität, Freiburg, Germany, 1979

Research Interests:  

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

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

Articles in a Collection

  •  "Elusive ’68: The Challenge to Pedagogy."  2008, 113-23.
Book Reviews
  •  Komik und Gewalt: Zur literarischen Verarbeitung der beiden Weltkriege und der Shoah, by Anne D. Peiter. German Studies Review  (2009).
  •  Why Literature Matters in the 21st Century, by Mark Roche. Colloquia Germanica 39:3/4 (2006): 428-29.
  •  A History of Austrian Literature, 1918-2000. Modern Austrian Literature 40:4 (2007): 163-65.
  •  Elias Canetti: Das Hörwerk 1953-1991. Prosa, Dramen, Essays, Vorträge, Reden, Gespräche. Modern Austrian Literature 41:4 (2008): 111-13.
Curriculum Vitae