William C Donahue, Associate Professor of Germanic Languages & Literature and Center for Jewish Studies and Director of Graduate Studies

Contact Info:
Office Location:  116-D Old Chemistry
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Teaching (Fall 2008):

Education:

PhD (with distinction) German LiteratureHarvard University1995
MA German LiteratureMiddlebury College1987
M.T.S. Study of Religion and TheologyHarvard University, The Divinity School1984
DAAD FellowshipOtto Suhr Institut für Politologie, Freie Universität Berlin1981
B.S.F.S. International Affairs/Politics (summa cum laude)The Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University1981
Junior Year abroadAlbert Ludwigs Universität, Freiburg, Germany1979
Current Ph.D. Students   (Former Students)

  • Geoff Baker  
Postdocs Mentored

  • Hui Ping Wang (2006/12-present)  
Recent Publications   (More Publications)

  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, vol. 79 no. 2 (Spring, 2006), pp. 269-71
  4. W.C. Donahue, Canetti on Safari, in The Worlds of Elias Canetti, edited by William Donahue and Julian Preece (2006), Cambridge Scholars Press
  5. W.C. Donahue, Alte und Neue Welten in Elias Canettis _Die Blendung_ and Fritz Langs _Metropolis_, in Der untote Gott: Religion und Aesthetik in deutscher und oesterreichischer Literature des 20. Jahrhunderts, edited by Olaf Berwald and Gregor Thuswaldner (2006), Boehlau