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EDUCATION
Ph.D., English with a designated emphasis in critical theory, University of California, Davis; degree awarded September 19, 2001.
Dissertation: “The Changing Shape of the American Landscape: Travel, Corporate Expansion, and Consumer Culture, 1845-1945.” Director: Michael Hoffman. Readers: David Van Leer, William Worthen, Georges van den Abbeele.
Examination Fields: nineteenth-century American literature; twentieth-century American literature; critical theory.
M.A., English, University of California, Davis, 1995.
B.A., summa cum laude, double major in English and philosophy, University of Arizona, 1993.
PUBLICATIONS
I. Books
With Susanne Rohr, Comedy, Avant-Garde, Scandal: Remembering the Holocaust after the End of History (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2010).
With Ulla Haselstein and MaryAnn Snyder-Körber (eds.). The Pathos of Authenticity (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2010).
With Krystyna Kujawinska-Courtney, Words About Eloquence: A Glossary of Basic Literary, Critical, and Cultural Terms, Moscow University: The Russian & British Cathedra, 1998.
With Michael Hoffman, Holocaust Tourism: The Holocaust as Metaphor, Memory, and Destination in Contemporary Literature and Film (in progress)
The Changing Shape of the American Landscape: Travel, Corporate Expansion, and Consumer Culture, 1900-1955 (under submission)
II. Journal Issues
With MaryAnn Snyder-Körber (eds.). A special issue of Amerikastudien/ American Studies: Trauma’s Continuum: 9/11 After a Decade. (under submission)
III. Articles and Chapters
“DEATH IS SO PERMANENT: DRIVE CAREFULLY. European Ruins and American Studies ca. 1948” in Transnational American Studies, eds. Donald Pease, John Carlos Rowe, Winfried Fluck (forthcoming).
“Lyricism and Liberalism, or Karl Shapiro’s Elegy for Identity.” Journal of Modern Literature (forthcoming)
With co-author Michael Hoffman, “Passions of Grief: Corporeality and Obscenity in the Early Representations of the Holocaust” in Projecting Words, Writing Images: Intersections of the Literary and the Visual in American Cultural Practice, eds. John Leo, Marek Paryż (forthcoming).
With co-author Michael Hoffman, “Holocaust Pornography: Obscene Films and Other Narratives.” Polish Journal for AmericanStudies (Vol. 4, 2010). 75-93.
With co-authors Ulla Haselstein and MaryAnn Snyder-Körber, Introduction to The Pathos of Authenticity (Heidelberg: Winter Verlag, 2010).
“It Might Have Happened Here: Real Anti-Semitism, Fake History, and Remembering the Present” in Amerikastudien/American Studies (forthcoming).
“’After Auschwitz’: Adorno, Postmodernism, and the Anti-Aesthetic” in The Holocaust, Art, and Taboo: Transatlantic Exchanges on the Ethics and Aesthetics of Representation, ed. Sophia Komor, Susanne Rohr (Heidelberg: Winter Verlag, 2010).
“Imaginary Jews and True Confessions: Ethnicity, Lyricism, and John Berryman’s Dreamsongs,” in The Journal of Transnational American Studies 1:1 (Jan 2009)
Another version of this article appears in The Pathos of Authenticity, Ulla Haselstein, Mary-Ann Snyder-Körber, and Andrew Gross eds. (Heidelberg: Winter Verlag, 2010).
“The Road Novel.” The Blackwell Encyclopedia of American Literature. Forthcoming.
“Imagining the Interstate: Henry Miller, Post-Tourism, and the Disappearance of American Place,” in Public Spaces, edited by Miles Orvell and Jeffrey Meikle (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2009): 407-434.
“Signs of Violence: Terrorism, Postmodernism, and the Nostalgia for Destruction,” in the first conference volume of the European Association for American Studies, Conformism, Non-Conformism and Anti-Conformism in the Culture of the United States, edited by Antonis Balasopoulos, Gesa Mackenthun, and Theodora Tsimpouki, et al., Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2008.
“Jean Améry’s ‘Torture’: Towards a Definition of Genocide,” Exterminating Narratives, edited by Timothy Libretti, Lexington Books, forthcoming.
“William James and Frederick Jackson Turner: Nature, Corporate Expansion, and the Consumption of Space,” in Polish Journal for American Studies 3 (2009): 99-106.
“Prisoner’s Body/ Prisoner’s Dilemma: The Incarcerated Body in Recent and Contemporary Prison Literature,” in The Body as Interface, special issue of Amerikastudien/American Studies, edited by Sabine Sielke and Elisabeth Schäfer-Wünsche, Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2007.
“Counter-tourism in Jean Améry and W.G. Sebald,” in a book entitled Representing the Unimaginable: Narratives of Disaster, edited by Angela Stock and Cornelia Stott, Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2007.
“Holocaust Tourism in Berlin: Religion, Politics, and the Negative Sublime,” Journeys: The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing 7:2 (2006).
“Campus Union Coalitions and the Corporate University: Organizing at the University of California,” Academic Collective Bargaining, edited by Ernst Benjamin and Michael Mauer, New York: The American Association of University Professors and the Modern Language Association, 2006.
“The American Guide Series: Patriotism as Brand-Name Identification,” The Arizona Quarterly 62:1 (Spring 2006): 85-112.
“Cars, Postcards, and Patriotism: Tourism and National Politics in the United States, 1893-1929,” Pacific Coast Philology 40 (2005): 77-97.
“The American Guide Series: Tourism, Consumerism, and Managing Space,” The Poetics of America, eds. Agata Preis-Smith and Marek Paryz, Warsaw: U of Warsaw, 2004.
“A Brief History of the Future: The Concept of the ‘New’ in American Culture and Politics,” in Die US-amerikanische Gesellschaft im Spiegel ihrer zeitgenössischen Literatur, Loccumer Protokolle 74/03, edited by Hans-Peter Burmeister, Evangelische Akademie Loccum, 2004.
With co-author Michael Hoffman, “Memory, Authority, and Identity: Holocaust Studies in Light of the Wilkomirski Debate,” Biography 27.1 (Winter 2004), 25-47.
“California Automobile Tourism and Consumer Culture in US Literature,” as part of the university research series ZENAF Arbeits und Forschungsberichte, University of Frankfurt, 2003.
With co-author Ingrid Stapf, “9/11: Mass Media and Metaphors of Disaster,” in Medien und Terrorismus: Reaktionen auf dem 11. September 2001, edited by Christian Schicha and Carsten Brosda, Münster: Lit. Verlag, 2002.
With co-author Michael Hoffman, “Some Reflections on a Holocaust Imposter: Fragments and its Tortured History,” in the online journal Bad Subjects 61 (September 2002). <http://www.badsubjects.com>
“Negotiating for the Family: Unions and the Graduate Student Workplace,” in the online journal Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor 5.1 (October 2002). <http://www.workplace-gsc.com>
“Theodore Dreiser and Emily Post: Politics and Early Road Books,” in a book brought out by the National Sun Yat-sen University of Taiwan entitled Crossings: Travel, Art, Literature, Politics, edited by Rudolphus Teeuwen and Shu-li Chang, Taipei: Bookman Books, 2001.
With co-author Ingrid Stapf, “Wer das Wort hat, hat das Sagen: Die Hegemonie der Metapher und Reaktionen der US-Medien infolge des Terroranschlags am 11. September,” Zeitschrift für Kommunikationsökologie 3.3 (2001): 42-44.
“Ulysses as Digestive Tract,” in British Tradition: Its Appropriation/Subversion, edited by Krystyna Kujawinska-Courtney, University of Łódź Press, 2000. 141-149.
IV. Book Reviews
Katrin Pieper. Die Musealisierung des Holocaust: Das Jüdische Museum Berlin und das U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C. Europäische Geschichtsdarstellungen Band 9. Köln, Weimar, Wien: Böhlau Verlag, 2006. Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult, May 2007, http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/rezensionen/id=7542&count=5580&recno=25&type= rezbuecher&sort=datum&order=down.
Hagen Schulz-Forberg. London-Berlin: Authenticity, Modernity, and the Metropolis in Urban Travel Writing from 1851 to 1939. Reviewed for Journeys: The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing11.2 (Oct/Nov 2010, forthcoming).
ACADEMIC CONFERENCES AND PRESENTATIONS
Panel Chair, Young Americans in Literature of the Early Republic. The European Association of American Studies, Dublin, 26-29 March, 2010.
“Youth and the Young Nation in Thomas Paine,” presented to the European Association of American Studies, Dublin, 26-29 March, 2010.
Panel Chair, The World is Not Enough: International Scholarship in the Field of American Studies, at the American Studies Association, Washington DC, 5-8 November, 2009.
Panel Chair, “Literary Negotiations of Change,” at the Conference of the Second Cohort of the Graduate School of North American Studies, John F. Kennedy Institute, 10-11 July, 2009.
“Prose Poems and Line Breaks: Some Limits of Verse in Modern Prosody,” presented to Conceptual Writing and Its Environs—New Strategies in American Poetry, www.discover-us.org, 1 May 2009.
“’DEATH IS SO PERMANENT. DRIVE CAREFULLY’: European Ruins and American Studies ca. 1948,” presented to the literature-culture colloquium of the John F. Kennedy Institute, 30 April 2009.
“’It Can Happen Here: Real Anti-Semitism, Fake History, and Jewish American Memory,” presented to the International Workshop on Counterfactual Thinking, Centre for British Studies at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 28-29 November 2008
“The Western Frontier as Metaphor for Cold War Cultural Politics,” presented to the American Studies Association, Albuquerque, NM, 16-19 October 2008
“War, Pound, and the Limits of Liberalism: The Case of Karl Shapiro,” presented to the Trans-Coop conference on Transatlantic American Studies, University Potsdam/ FU Berlin/ Humboldt University, 9-11 October, 2008.
Chair of opening panel of The Holocaust, Art, and Taboo: Transatlantic Exchanges on the Ethics and Aesthetics of Representation, Universität Hamburg, 26-28 June, 2008. Panelists included Anna Adam, Melvin Jules Bukiet, Heinz Ickstadt, Norman Kleeblatt, and Dani Levy. Also chaired session panel.Hol
Introduction of Sandra Gilbert, Fraenkel Lecture, John F. Kennedy Institute, 4 June 2008.
Co-Chair with Catrin Gersdorf of the conference panel, Poetry and Politics, at the German American Studies Association (DGfA), Heidelberg, 15-18 May 2008.
“Personification in the Poetry and Politics of Ezra Pound,” presented to the German American Studies Association (DGfA), Heidelberg, 15-18 May 2008.
Introduction of Kenneth Gross, American Academy Berlin, 29 April 2008.
“It Can Happen Here: Real Anti-Semitism, Fake History, and American Jewish Memory in Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America,” presented to the symposium Literatur macht Politik, Universität Bonn/ Haus der Sprache und Literatur, 27 November 2007.
“Imaginary Jews and True Confessions in the Poetry of John Berryman,” presented as part of the W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture Series of the Humboldt Universität, 20 November 2007.
“States, Statelessness, and the National Sublime in the Life and Writing of Thomas Paine,” presented to the American Studies Association, Philadelphia, Penn, 11-14 October 2007.
“Remembering, Visiting, Belonging: Rituals of Holocaust Remembrance and Sites of Trans-National Citizenship in the New Europe,” presented at the conference Belonging in the New Europe, at the University of Edinburgh, 13-14 September 2007.
“Imaginary Jews and True Confessions: Ethnicity and Non-Conformity in Post-War Modernism,” presented at the conference entitled Pathos of Authenticity: American Passions of the Real at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, FU Berlin, 21-24 June, 2007. I am also one of the organizers of this conference.
“Imaginary Jews and True Confessions: Ethnicity and Non-Conformity in the Poetry of John Berryman” and “Landscapes, Cityscapes, and Post-World War II Travel Narratives: Henry Miller and His Followers,” both presented by special invitation to the University of Lodz, Poland, Institute of American Studies, 29 May 2007.
“Automobile Tourism: Freedom on the Road as Advertising Technique,” presented to Schwarzmarkt für nützliches Wissen und Nicht-Wissen: American Close Ups in 440 Dialogues, an Installation with 150 Experts by Hanna Hurtzig, 17-18 November 2006.
“The Roadside Colossus Revisited: Public Space and Monumentality in the Age of the Interstate,” presented to the conference Public Spaces and the Ideology of Place in American Culture, sponsored by the Bavarian American Academy, Munich, 10 November 2006.
Panel chair, Questions of Travel: American Americanists at the John F. Kennedy Institute, Berlin, a roundtable discussion with Jules Chametzky, Paul Lauter, Richard Pells, Hortense Spillers, and Ulla Haselstein, held at the annual conference of the American Studies Association, Oakland, October 12 to 15, 2006.
“’Death Is So Permanent. Drive Carefully’: A Roadmap of Americanization in Post-War Europe,” presented to the conference America Without Borders at the University of Southern California, October 6-7, 2006.
“Signs of Violence: Terrorism, Postmodernism, and the Nostalgia for Destruction,” presented to the Biennial Conference of the European Association for American Studies, Cyprus, April 7 to 10, 2006.
“Terrorism and American Literature,” presented to ExpoLingua Berlin, 18. Internationale Messe für Sprachen und Kulturen, 18-20 November 2005.
“Daniel Libeskind’s WTC Project: Architecture, (Inter)nationalism and the Space of moral Consensus,” presented to the Annual Conference of the American Studies Association, Washington D.C., November 3 to 6, 2005.
“’After Auschwitz’: Adorno, the Holocaust, and the Anti-Aesthetic in American Universities,” delivered to the Annual Conference of the German Association for American Studies, Frankfurt am Main, May 19 to 22, 2005.
“Patriotism as Brand-Name Identification,” and “Terrorism and American Literature,” both presented at the teacher-training conference, Aspects of American Contemporary Society, Eisenach, April 7-9, 2005.
“Terrorism and American Literature,” presented at the Amerika Haus Berlin on Feb. 11, 2005; the Deutsch-Amerikanisches-Centrum Stuttgart, Jan. 26, 2005; the Deutsch-Amerikanisches-Institut Tübingen, Jan. 27, 2005.
“’A Circle within a Circle within a Circle’: Jeanette Lander’s Jewish-American-German Novels and the Globalization of Memory,” to the annual convention of the MLA, Pittsburgh, PA, Dec. 26-29, 2004.
Panelist, Post-Election Analysis, for the Deutsches Institut für Public Affairs, Pottsdam, Nov. 25, 2004.
Panel chair, History and Memory: Representations of the Holocaust in Film and Literature, to the annual convention of the SAMLA, Roanoke Virginia, Nov. 12-14, 2004.
“The Limits of Historical Representation and the Language of Trauma: The Pawnbroker as Novel and Film,” to the annual convention of the PAMLA, Portland, Oregon, Nov. 5-7, 2004.
“Cars, Postcards, and the American West: Tourism and Patriotism, 1893-1929,” to the annual convention of the PAMLA, Portland, Oregon, Nov. 5-7, 2004.
“Representation and Mourning in the Architecture of Daniel Libeskind,” as part of the summer lecture series of the John F. Kennedy Institute, Freie Universität Berlin, June 10, 2004.
“Daniel Libeskind’s WTC Project: Architecture, (Inter)nationalism, and the Politics of Moral Consensus,” to the biannual conference of the European Association of American Studies Conference, Prague, May 2004.
“Cars, Postcards, and Patriotism: Tourism and National Politics in the United States, 1893-1929,” to the Fin de Siècle Interdisciplinary Seminar Series at Oxford University, Oxford, Jan. 29, 2003.
“Jean Amery’s ‘Torture’: Towards a Definition of Genocide,” to the annual convention of the MLA, San Diego, CA, Dec. 27-30, 2003.
“Jewish Diaspora, German Exile, and the Legacy of the Holocaust: Jean Améry and W.G. Sebald,” to the annual convention of the MLA, San Diego, CA, Dec. 27-30, 2003.
“Disaster and the Negative Sublime: The Holocaust as Moral Baseline in the Philosophy of Berel Lang,” as guest lecturer at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Dec. 9, 2003.
“A Brief History of the Future: The Concept of the ‘New’ in American Culture and Politics,” delivered as part of the lecture series Die US-amerikanische Gesellschaft im Spiegel ihrer zeitgenössischen Literatur at the Evangelische Akademie Loccum, Germany, Dec. 5-7, 2003.
Moderator for panel on Representations of the Holocaust in Germany and the United States, with participating authors Maxim Biller, Tanja Dückers, Thane Rosenbaum, and Rebecca Goldstein, as part of the lecture series on Remembering the Holocaust at the Brecht-Haus, Berlin, Dec. 1, 2003.
“Recent American Views and Images of Germany and Europe,” as part of the annual lecture series Fortbildungsseminar für Lerher, Mitarbeiter in der Erwachsenenbildung und interessierte Buerger/Innen aus Hessen, Nov. 20-22, 2003.
“William James and Frederick Jackson Turner: Nature, Corporate Expansion, and the Consumption of Space,” presented to the annual conference of the Polish Association for American Studies, Poznań, October 19-21, 2003.
“Prisoner’s Body/ Prisoner’s Dilemma,” delivered as a keynote lecture to the interdisciplinary conference The Body as Interface: Dialogues Between the Disciplines, at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, June 26-28, 2003.
Conference organizer, On the Road: International Student Conference on American Travel Literature, at the University of Warsaw, Poland, June 6-8, 2003.
“Counter-tourism in Jean Améry and W.G. Sebald,” presented as part of the International Interdisciplinary Conference at the English Seminar, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster, May 23-25, 2003.
“Trauma Theory and Museum Design: Washington DC and Berlin,” the keynote address at Signposts, a conference on travel literature at the Catholic University, Washington D.C., April 5, 2003.
“The Contemporary Berlin Cityscape and Ruin Theories of Value,” special lecture to the German Department at the Catholic University, Washington D.C., April 4, 2003.
“Narratives of Disaster: Memory, History, and Tourism at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Jewish Museum, Berlin,” delivered at the conference Black-Jewish Relations: Dialogues and Dissonances, at the University of Bonn, Feb. 13-15, 2003.
“Memory, History, and Tourism at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Jewish Museum, Berlin,” as part of the John F. Kennedy Institute Lecture Series, Freie Universität Berlin, Dec. 12, 2002.
“California Automobile Tourism and Consumer Culture in U.S. Literature,” delivered to the annual lecture series Fortbildungsseminar für Lerher, Mitarbeiter in der Erwachsenenbildung und interessierte Buerger/Innen aus Hessen, Nov. 21-23, 2002.
“Counter-monuments and Counter-tourism: Memory, Narrative, and Displacement in Ruth Kluger and W. G. Sebald,” delivered to the annual conference of the SAMLA, Nov. 15-17, 2002.
“Campus Union Coalitions,” delivered to the annual convention of the MLA, Dec. 27-29, 2001.
“Autobiography as Testimony: The Strange Case of Binjamin Wilkomirksi,” delivered to the annual conference of the PAMLA, Nov. 9-11, 2001.
“Land of Extremes. Land of Contrasts. Land of Surprises: The Arizona Guide, Tourism, and the Geography of Consumption,” delivered to the annual conference of the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, March 7-10, 2001.
“Negotiating for the Family: Unions and the Graduate Student Workplace,” delivered to the annual convention of the MLA, Dec. 27-29, 2000.
“Emily Post and Sinclair Lewis: Women, Driving, and the Birth of the Female Consumer,” delivered to the annual conference of the M/MLA, Nov. 2-4, 2000.
“Movement, Identity, and the Incorporation of the Environment: William James and Frederick Jackson Turner,” delivered to the annual conference of the PAMLA, Nov. 10-12, 2000.
“Theodore Dreiser and Emily Post: Politics and Early Road Books,” as part of Beyond Borders II, an international conference on art, literature and travel, at the National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, May 27-28, 2000.
“Henry James and the Specter of Immigration,” as part of the University of Łódź visiting scholar lecture series, spring 1999.
“The Ghost Stories of Henry James,” as part of the UC Davis Summer Faculty Lecture Series, 1999.
“William James and American Imperialism,” delivered to the Interdisciplinary Graduate Symposium, University of California, Davis, spring 1998.
“Ulysses as Digestive Tract,” presented to The British Tradition and its Subversion/Appropriation, a conference at the University of Łódź, Poland, Sept. 24-26, 1998.
“Bodies in Motion: Travel and Food in M. F. K. Fisher,” presented to Gender, Bodies, Borders, a conference at the University of Michigan, Fall 1997.
TEACHING
The John F. Kennedy-Institut of the Freie Universität Berlin, first as Fulbright lecturer, then as DAAD guest lecturer, then as guest professor, and currently as assistant professor of American literature, 2002-present
Gender and Genre: Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O’Connor, Grace Paley
Cultural Criticism of the 1950s
War and Modern Memory: History, Literature, and the Sense of the Past (MA interdisciplinary)
Literary Theory (graduate seminar)
Lyricism and Liberalism: Mid-Century American Poetry
James Fenimore Cooper and Mark Twain
Recent and Contemporary Jewish American Fiction (graduate seminar)
Confessional Poetry (graduate seminar)
Thomas Paine (graduate seminar)
Cultural Criticism and Cultural Diplomacy: the History of American Studies (graduate seminar)
Film in Literature: the Hollywood Novel (graduate seminar)
Banned Books
Nostalgia for the Present: Contemporary American Fiction (graduate seminar)
Modernisms and Masculinities
Literature and Terrorism (graduate seminar)
William Faulkner
Wallace Stevens and John Ashbery (graduate seminar)
Historical Survey of American Literature (four semesters)
Native American Literature
Whitman and Dickinson (graduate seminar)
Representations of the Holocaust in the United States
Introduction to Literary Theory
Recent and Contemporary Prison Literature in the United States
The Automobile in American Literature: Mass Tourism and Consumer Culture (graduate seminar)
English Department, University of California at Davis, Faculty Fellow, 2001-2004
Introduction to Literary Theory (upper division, two quarters)
Advanced Composition (upper division, four quarters)
English Department, University of California at Davis, Graduate Student Instructor, 1993-2001
Advanced Composition (upper division, three quarters)
Introduction to Literature (eight quarters)
Expository Writing (four quarters)
Literature of the Holocaust (teaching assistant, one quarter)
American Novel: 1800 to 1899 (teaching assistant, one quarter)
San Quentin Prison Teaching Project, Volunteer Lecturer, 2001-2002
Advanced Composition and Literature
Twentieth-Century American Literature (Both of these courses were taught in San Quentin to inmates working towards AA degrees.)
Université de Bordeaux III, Michel de Montagne, Lecturer in English, 1995-96
English Language and Culture (five sections)
INTERNATIONAL STUDY ABROAD (TEACHING AND ADMINISTRATION)
Honors International Abroad Program, in cooperation with Catholic University of America: Berlin Program for 30 advanced students, February-March 2005
University of California at Davis, Summer Sessions Abroad, in cooperation with the FU Berlin: Representations of the Holocaust, July-August 2004, July-August 2005
University of California Education Abroad Program: Representations of the Holocaust, January-February 2004
Freie Universität Berlin International Summer University: Creative Writing, Fiction Writing Workshop, 2003
ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICE
Fulbright Selection Committee, Bonn, 17 January 2007
Conference Organizer, Pathos of Authenticity, John F. Kennedy Institute, June 2007
Member, International Committee of the American Studies Association, 2006-2009
Academic Election Supervisor, FU Berlin, 2005-2007
Organizer, John F. Kennedy Institute International Colloquium on American Literature and Culture, 2005-06
Fulbright selection committee, Fulbright Commission Berlin, fall 2005
International recruitment advisor for FU-BEST (Freie Universität Berlin European Studies)
International agreement of understanding between UC Davis and the FU Berlin in order to facilitate my summer course on Representations of the Holocaust in Berlin in 2004 and other future collaboration
Fulbright selection committee, Freie Universität Berlin, July 8, 2003
Volunteer, San Quentin Prison teaching project, 2001-02
Campus unit chair, member of bylaw committee, and member of collective bargaining team, AGSE/UAW Local 2865, 1999-2001
Chair, GSHIP (Graduate Student Health Insurance Plan) Committee, UC Davis, 1999-2000
Member, Student Health Fee Advisory Committee, UC Davis, 1999-2000
Vice Chair, Graduate Student Association, UC Davis, 1997-1998
Member, Graduate Council (academic senate committee), 1997-1998
Member, University of California Student Regent Nominating Commission, 1997-1998
AWARDS, GRANTS, HONORS
2007-2008, DFG Research Grant, Representations of the Holocaust in the 1990s.
2004-2005, “Vertretung” (guest professor), FU Berlin
2003-2004, DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) guest lecturer, FU Berlin
2002-2003, Fulbright guest lecturer, FU Berlin
2001-2004, faculty fellow, UC Davis (resigned from position in 2004)
2000, dissertation fellowship, faculty of the humanities, UC Davis
2000, dissertation fellowship, English department, UC Davis
2000, 1998, 1996, Miller travel grants, UC Davis
1998-1999, Doctoral research grant, University of Düsseldorf
1997, 1996, Miller Prizes for most outstanding graduate essay of the year, English, UC Davis
1997, Instructional improvement grant to design Representations of the Holocaust, UC Davis
TRANSLATION, EDITING, JOURNALISM, AND GRANT WRITING
Interview in Deutschland Radio Kultur, Fazit am Abend Spezial—Barack Obamas Rede in Berlin (24 July 2008; Moderation: Marie Sagenschneider)
Interview with Mary Ann Snyder-Körber in FUndiert (FU Berlin, 4 December 2007).
“Teaching American Studies Abroad,” The Fulbright Funnel 42 (Winter 2005)
Interview in Berlin: Das Magazin aus der Hauptstadt (December 2004), 7.
Article on Senior Scholar Program, German Fulbright Commission Report, 2002-2003
Grant writer for the UC Davis-Woodland School Partnership Program, 2000-2001
Developmental editor, University of Düsseldorf’s Handbook for Visiting Academics, 1999
Translation Consultant for Christine Raguet-Bouvart’s French edition of Henry James’s Notes of a Son and Brother (Carnet de famille, Rivages: 1996)
Foreign correspondent (from Bordeaux, France) for The California Aggie, 1995-1996
