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Faculty: William C. Donahue  

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

Tu/Th 11:30-12:30 and by appointment

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

Research Interests:  

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

Duties:

Academic Director, Duke in Berlin Director, Duke Summer in Berlin Director, Graduate Exchange Programs in Germany
Recent Publications   (More Publications)

Books

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