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Ervin Malakaj

June 1, 2018, 9:33 am
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Ph.D. Washington University in St. Louis
M.A. University of Illinois at Chicago
B.A. University of Illinois at Chicago

 

Dr. Malakaj specializes in late-18th-21st c. German media and cultural history. His research focuses on 19th-century literary cultures, film history (Imperial Germany, Weimar Germany, cinema of the 60s and 70s), narrative theory, queer theory, and critical pedagogy.

Dr. Malakaj is currently writing a book examining the influence of fluctuating literary markets on authorial agency and narrative form provisionally titled Fragile Literary Cultures in Early Imperial Germany. Part and parcel of this research is his work on a volume titled The Becoming and Afterlife of Literature: Agents in the German Literary Field (co-edited with Vance Byrd).

Scholarship in film studies includes a second book project, which will examine the primacy of melodramatic form in the articulation of queer experiences in popular culture and the intellectual sphere of Weimar Germany. In addition, Dr. Malakaj is completing an article, which examines the queer potential of slapstick in Ernst Lubitsch’s early comedies. This article is part of his work on an edited volume titled An Interdisciplinary Companion to Slapstick Cultures (co-edited with Alena Lyons and under advanced contract with de Gruyter).

In 2016, Dr. Malakaj co-founded the international scholarly collective “Diversity, Decolonialization, and the German Curriculum” (DDGC). Following DDGC’s inaugural conference March 2017 at the University of North Carolina, Asheville, DDGC has been institutionalized into a biannual conference (the next conference will take place Spring 2019 at St. Olaf College). Dr. Malakaj also serves as the co-editor of DDGC’s official blog.

T1 Winter 2018/19 he will teach a course titled “The Sexual Politics of Weimar Cinema” and “Out of Line: Rebellion, Failure, and Other Queer Ways of Being.” T2 Winter 2018/19 he will teach a course titled “Empire & Mass Media.”

Peer Reviewed Articles and Chapters

“Cruel Optimism and Post-68 Nostalgia in Helma Sanders-Brahms’ Unter dem Pflaster ist der Strand,” Celluloid Revolt: German Screen Cultures in the long Sixties, ed. Marco Abel and Christina Gerhardt (Rochester: Camden House) (forthcoming 2019) 

“The Emotive Textualities of Wilhelm Jensen’s Karin von Schweden,” Neophilologus 102.1 (2018): 59-74.

“Richard Oswald, Magnus Hirschfeld, and the Possible Impossibility of Hygienic Melodrama” Studies in European Cinema 14.3 (2017): 216-230.

“Teaching an Honors Seminar on #BlackLivesMatter in East Texas” with Jeffery L. Littlejohn, Kimberly Bell, Patrick Lewis, and Julia May, Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council 18.2 (2017): 3-15.

Entries

 “Germany: A Historical Overview,” “Doris Dörrie,” and “Jutta Brückner,” Women Screenwriters: An International Guide, ed. Jill Nelmes and Jule Selbo (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015): 363-74; 390-91; 394-96.

“Wilhelm Raabe: Der Hungerpastor,” The Literary Encyclopedia. September 2014. 

“Wilhelm Raabe,” The Literary Encyclopedia. May 2014. 

“Hotel,” “Das Mädchen Rosemarie,” “Subjektitüde,” and “Die Trapp Familie.” Directory of World Cinema: Germany Volume II (Bristol: Intellect, 2014): 295-96, 224-26, 291-92, 222-24.

“Hungerjahre – in einem reichen Land,” and “Shirins Hochzeit.” Directory of World Cinema: Germany Volume I (Bristol: Intellect, 2011): 248-50, 153-55.

Selected Reviews

“Approaches to Kurban Said’s Ali und Nino: Love, Identity, and Intercultural Conflict, Carl Niekerk and Cori Crane, eds.” (forthcoming in Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature)

“Archiv/Fiktionen: Verfahren des Archivierens in Literatur und Kultur des langen 19. Jahrhunderts. Daniela Gretz & Nicolas Pethes.” Goethe Yearbook 23 (2018): 322-23.

“Afterlives: Allegories of Film and Mortality in Early Weimar Germany. Steve Choe.” (forthcoming in Studies in European Cinema)

“Realism and Romanticism in German Literature. Ed. Dirk Göttsche and Nicholas Saul.” Monatshefte. 107.3 (Fall 2015): 504-06.

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Carolina Franzen

August 22, 2013, 2:42 pm
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PhD Student in Germanic Studies as of Sept 2012

Previous Education
Degree: Magister in Kunstgeschichte (History of Art) und Neuere Deutsche Literatur (German Literature after 1600).
Institutions: Freie Universität Berlin (graduation 2012), University College Dublin, Universität Leipzig.

Bio
I grew up in Munich, Germany and began my PhD studies at UBC in 2012. I am currently doing a research project in Berlin.

Carolina Franzen, “Gefühlte Geschichte unterm Skalpell. Die Familienromane Nach den Kriegen von Dagmar Leupold und Am Beispiel meines Bruders von Uwe Timm,” in Ege Forschungen zur deutschen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft 10 (2008), pp. 81-97. [Published 2010]

 

Research Interests

  • Theory
  • Aesthetics
  • Politics
  • Transnationalism in Visual Arts and Literature

  • 2013, May, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey: “Contemporary Ways of Thinking Power Relations in Socio-Philosophy and Video Art – A Juxtaposition of Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble and Francis Alÿs’ Symbolic Actions.”

 

  • 2012, October, University of British Columbia, Canada: “Wie Herzog Ernst im Land der Kranichschnäbler “flaniert”: Die Grippia-aventiure des Herzog Ernst und Anknüpfungspunkte an einen literaturwissenschaftlichen Moderne-Diskurs.”
  • 2011/12 Ege University, Izmir (Turkey) for the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service). Undergraduate classes, Introduction to German Literature.
  • 2008: Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. Undergraduate History of Art classes, introduction to the Architecture of Berlin.

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Kyle Frackman

August 8, 2013, 3:37 pm
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Ph.D., 2009, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Certificate in Adv. Feminist Studies, 2007, University of Massachusetts Amherst
M.A., 2004, University of Massachusetts Amherst
B.A., 2001, Hamline University

 

Before joining the faculty at UBC in July 2012, Dr. Kyle Frackman taught at institutions in the United States: the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Smith College, and Amherst College.

Originally from Anchorage, Alaska, Dr. Frackman attended Hamline University, graduating with a major in German Studies. For 2001-2002, Dr. Frackman was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to study in Hamburg, Germany. At UMass Amherst, Dr. Frackman completed graduate studies and a dissertation under the direction of Prof. Susan Cocalis.

Dr. Frackman has received research and travel support from a number of organizations and institutions, including the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), UBC, the Faculty of Arts, the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, the Nordic Council, the Fulbright Commission, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the American-Scandinavian Foundation, and the Swedish Institute.

Dr. Frackman is Associate and Affiliated Faculty in the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, the Institute for European Studies, and the Centre for Cinema Studies.

Book

Edited Books

Journal Articles

Book Chapters

Encyclopedia Entries

  • Entries on “Swedish-Speakers in Finland,” “Einojuhani Rautavaara,” “Nobel Peace Prize,” and “Folk High Schools” in Encyclopedia of Contemporary Scandinavian Culture. Eds. Helena Forsås-Scott, Mary Hilson, and Titus Hjelm. London: Hurst & Co. (submitted)
  • Entries on “Lola und Bilidikid” and “Zurück auf los” in The Directory of World Cinema: Germany. Ed. Michelle Langford. Bristol: Intellect Books, 2012. 192-93, 196-97.
  • “Finland, Civil War, and Revolution, 1914-1918.” International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest: 1500 to the Present. Ed. Immanuel Ness. NY: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. 1200-02. (R)
  • Entries on “German Literature,” “Magnus Hirschfeld,” and “Richard von Krafft-Ebing” in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Love, Courtship, and Sexuality through History: The Nineteenth Century. Vol. 5. Ed. Susan Mumm. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2008. 138-42, 111-13, 130-32.

Non-Refereed Publications

Reviews

Research Interests

  • German-language and Scandinavian literature (especially of the long 20th century)
  • East German culture and history
  • German and Nordic film
  • German-North American immigration
  • Queer theory, feminist theory, gender studies
  • German, Swedish, Finnish language

Research Projects

  • Homosexuality in East Germany, supported by a SSHRC Insight Grant: “Coming Out of the Iron Closet: Queer Lives in East Germany”
  • German-BC, German-Canadian immigration
  • With Dr. Gregory Mackie (English) and UBC Rare Books and Special Collections, the Jane Rule Endowment-funded “Queer Archives Project,” which works to augment UBC’s holdings in queer literary and cultural history

Invited Talks and Presentations

  1. “Persistent and Deceptive Ambivalence: Queer East German Studies.” Stanford University, Department of German Studies. 7 November 2017.
  2. Discussant for Book Launch: Alessandra Santos, The Holy Mountain (2017). 1 Nov. 2017.
  3. “Bergman and Allen and Sondheim—oh, my!” Screen-to-Stage Pre-Performance Discussion. Gateway Theatre, Richmond, BC. 15 Oct. 2017.
  4. “Schnitzler, Lt. Gustl, and Crises of Gender in Modernism.” Guest Lecture and Discussion, Arts One, UBC. 30 Nov. 2015.
  5. “The Short End of the Broomstick: Sex, Gender, and the European Witch Persecution.” Nerd Nite Vancouver. 15 Oct. 2015.
  6. Graduate Student Workshop on the Profession. Dept. of CENES, UBC. 29 Sept. 2015.
  7. “DEFA: Cinema of the Other Germany.” Guest Lecture and Discussion, GERM 304: German Cinema. Dept. of CENES, UBC. 5 Aug. 2015.
  8. Invited Co-Director, 8th Biennial East German Summer Film Institute: “Sex, Gender, and Videotape: Love, Eroticism, and Romance in East Germany.” Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts. 19-26 July 2015. Co-directed with Victoria Rizo Lenshyn.
  9. Introductions. Public Film Screenings and Discussions of Beziehungen zwischen Jungen und Mädchen (Pt. 1, Sagst Du’s deinem Kinde? and Pt. 3, Partner), Sieben Sommersprossen, Sie, Mann und Frau intim, and Liebe ohne Angst; and Die andere Liebe and Coming Out. Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, and Amherst Cinema, Amherst, Massachusetts. 21, 22, and 23 July 2015. Part of the 2015 8th Biennial East German Summer Film Institute, Northampton, Massachusetts.
  10. “Mädchen in Uniform in the Context of German Education and Boarding School Fiction.” Mädchen in Uniform Conference. University of British Columbia. 14-15 Sept. 2013.
  11. “Vikings in Middle-earth? Tolkien and Nordic Material.” Guest Lecture in SCAN 335: Vikings. Dept. of Central, Eastern, & Northern European Studies. University of British Columbia. 28 Mar. 2013.
  12. “The Reality of Free Will: Ibsen and The Lady from the Sea.” Guest Lecture in CENS 404: Gender & Nation. Dept. of Central, Eastern, & Northern European Studies. University of British Columbia. 6 Nov. 2012.
  13. “Germany is a Resort.” Introductory remarks for visit by Prof. Claire Kramsch. Inaugural Lecture and Reception for Language Research and Teaching Lab. Dept. of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, UMass Amherst. 14 May 2012.
  14. “Questions of Humanity: Steve Sem-Sandberg’s The Emperor of Lies.” People of the Book. 9 May 2012. Amherst, Massachusetts.
  15. “Coming Out of the Iron Closet:  Melancholy, Suppression, and East Germany.” Bucknell University, Department of German Studies. 20 April 2010.
  16. Programmleiter: “Wende-Flicks im Unterricht.” [“Wende-Flicks in the Classroom.”] Workshop on East German Fall-of-the-Wall films co-facilitated with Victoria Lenshyn. Virginia AATG Immersion Weekend for German Teachers. Sweet Briar College. 18-20 Sep. 2009. Teaching materials available online. Featured in The Daily Collegian.
  17. “A Time and Place for Sexuality: Uncanny Queerness and Contemporary Germany.” 19 April 2009. Department of German, Williams College. Included as part of Queer Pride Days.

Selected Refereed Presentations

  1. “‘Die im Vorgang erfaßten Personen waren praktizierende Homosexuelle’: Reading for and from Affect in Secret Records of Queer East Germany.” Seminar on “Feminist Scholar Activism and the Politics of Affect.” German Studies Association. 6 Oct. 2017. Atlanta, Georgia.
  2. “Queerness in East Germany: Film, Media, and Archival Traces.” Seminar on “Socialist Media Landscapes: Queerness, Gender, Sexuality.” German Studies Association. 29 Sep.-2 Oct. 2016. San Diego, California.
  3. “The Other Love in the Other Germany: East German Film, Media, and Social Change for Gay Rights.” Canadian Association of University Teachers of German, panel sponsored by Women in German. 30 May 2016. Calgary, Alberta.
  4. “Queer Documentary in the Shadow of the Wall.” German Studies Association. Washington, DC. 1-4 Oct. 2015. Seminar on “East German Cinema and TV in a Global Context.”
  5. “Unearthing Socialist Sexuality: Examinations of Gayness in the GDR.” German Studies Association. Kansas City, Missouri. 18-21 Sept. 2014.
  6. “Gay in the GDR: Documentary and Personal History in Unter Männern.” Canadian Association of University Teachers of German. 24-27 May 2014. St. Catharines, Ontario.
  7. “The Pursuit of Happiness: The Role of Truth in Sex, Gender, and Body Transformation.” German Studies Association 2013. 3-6 Oct. 2013. Denver, Colorado.
  8. “On the Cusp of ‘Truth’: Confession and Transsexuality in Sabine Bernardi’s Romeos.” Canadian Association of University Teachers of German. 2-4 June 2013. Victoria, British Columbia.
  9. “‘Jauchzet, frohlocket!’: Parody and Musical Commentary in Heiner Carow’s Coming Out.” Panel: Music and Interdisciplinarity I: New Theoretical Perspectives. GSA 2012. 4-7 Oct. 2012. Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
  10. “Mord auf dem Ländle: The Advantages of German Regional Crime Fiction.” Panel: Best Practices: Teaching German Literature on the Undergraduate Level. NEMLA 2012. 15-18 Mar. 2012. Rochester, New York.
  11. “Outsiderdom: Exclusion and Inclusion in the GDR.” Poster session. Women in German Conference. 20-23 Oct. 2011. Augusta, Michigan.
  12. “Old Faces, New Places: Canon Rejuvenation in German Studies.” NEMLA 2010. 7-11 Apr. 2010. Montreal.
  13. “The Curious Case of the Turkish Drag Queen: Queer Film and Feminist Pedagogy in an Advanced German Stylistics Course.” Panel (Praxis and Pedagogy): Queering the Gaze: Film and Feminism in the Classroom. Women in German Conference. 22-25 Oct. 2009. Augusta, Michigan.
  14. “Perverse Symbiosis: Home, Respectability, and Corporeal Subjectivity in Frank Wedekind’s Frühlings Erwachen.” Panel: Pedagogical Narratives: The Body and Education around 1900. GSA 2009. 8-11 Oct. 2009. Washington, DC.
  15. “Podcasting Culture: Technology as a Means of Cultural Integration in an Intensive Elementary German Course.” Co-presented with Victoria Lenshyn. Second Symposium on Contemporary German Culture: Teaching Culture(s). 10-11 April 2009. Middlebury College.
  16. “The Temporality of Sexuality and Disease in Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss’s Zurück auf los.” Panel: German-German Problems (I). NEMLA 2008. 10-13 April 2008. Buffalo, New York.
  17. “Introductory Language Teaching: Swedish.” Demonstration and discussion. Invited to TA Orientation, German & Scandinavian Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Aug. 2007.
  18. “There’s No Place Like Home…? The Queerly Diasporic in Lola + Bilidikid.” Panel: Down and Out in the New Germany. NEMLA 2007. 1-4 Mar. 2007. Baltimore, Maryland.
  19. “Opportunities and Challenges for Multimedia and Online Teaching in German.” Invited to German 583: Methods of Teaching German, Prof. Sarah McGaughey. 6 Nov. 2006. University of Massachusetts Amherst.
  20. “Dissolving the Fourth Wall: Theatricality and Masculine Space in German and Nordic Painting.” Poster session. Women in German Conference. 19-22 Oct. 2006. Snowbird, Utah.
  21. “Introductory Language Teaching: Swedish.” Demonstration and discussion. Invited to TA Orientation, German & Scandinavian Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Aug. 2006.
  22. “Boy Interrupted: Male Homosociality and Anxieties of Intrusion in Nordic Visual Art.” Panel: Men in/and Art. Conference: Nordic Conference on Men and Masculinities: Experiences of Men—Masculinities and Bodies. 5-7 May 2006. Åbo Akademi University, Turku/Åbo, Finland.
  23. “Bedding with Honor: Gender Dynamics in fin-de-siècle German and Austrian Educational Culture.” Poster session. Women in German Conference. 20-23 Oct. 2005. Carrollton, Kentucky.
  24. “There is a Time and a Place for Everything: Logics of Textual Time-Space.” Panel: Language, Ideology, and Education. Conference: Eurovisions: Crossing Disciplines, Crossing Boundaries. Department of Anthropology. University of Massachusetts Amherst. 13-14 May 2005.
  25. “‘Die lähmende Gewalt der Enge’: Discipline, Sexual Complicity, and Queer Space in Robert Musil’s Törleß.” Poster session. Women in German Conference. 21-24 Oct. 2004. Carrollton, Kentucky.
  26. “Queerly Everyday: Discursive Mobility and (Hetero)Normative Discipline in Der bewegte Mann.” With Rachael A. Salyer. Panel: (Re)Negotiations of History, Gender, and Subjectivity: East, West, and Post-Wende German Film. Conference: (Re)Visions: New Ideas in German and European Studies. University of Massachusetts Amherst. 26 Mar. 2004.

Chaired Panels and Conferences

  1. Conference Program Co-Chair, Canadian Association of University Teachers of German (CAUTG). Congress 2016. Calgary, Alberta. 28-31 May 2015.
  2. (Invited) Co-Convenor, “Sex, Lies, and Videotape: Love, Eroticism, and Romance in East Germany.” East German Summer Film Institute, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts. 19-26 July 2015.
  3. Conference Program Co-Chair, Canadian Association of University Teachers of German (CAUTG). Congress 2015. Ottawa, Ontario. 30 May – 2 June 2015.
  4. Panel Co-Organizer. “New Feminist and Queer Approaches in North American German Studies.” Inaugural Panel Sponsored by Women in German at the 2014 Canadian Association of University Teachers of German Conference. St. Catharines, Ontario. May 2014.
  5. Panel Moderator. “Men in Crisis.” German Studies Association 2012. 4-7 Oct. 2012. Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
  6. Panel Chair. “Best Practices: Teaching German Literature at the Undergraduate Level (II).” NEMLA 2012. 15-18 Mar. 2012. Rochester, New York.
  7. Panel Co-Organizer. Poster Session. Women in German Conference. Oct. 2009. Augusta, Michigan.
  8. Panel Co-Organizer. “Filling Out in the Middle: Innovations for Intermediate German.” Women in German Session at the AATG Conference. Nov. 2008. Orlando, Florida.
  9. Panel Co-Organizer. Poster Session. Women in German Conference. Oct. 2008. Snowbird, Utah.
  10. Panel Chair. “German-German Problems (II): Continuities and Discontinuities in Post-Unification Germany.” NEMLA 2008. 10-13 April 2008. Buffalo, New York.
  11. Panel Chair. “Children of Myth.” Myth: German & Scandinavian Studies. Graduate Student Conference at UMass Amherst. 15-17 Feb. 2008.
  12. Panel Co-Organizer. Poster Session. Women in German Conference. Oct. 2007. Snowbird, Utah.
  13. Conference Organizer/Chair. Experimentations: German and Scandinavian Studies. Graduate Student Conference at UMass Amherst. Germanic Languages and Literatures. 18-19 Feb. 2006. Obtained ca. $2,000 in grants.
  14. Panel Organizer. “(Con)Textual Infusions of German and Scandinavian Studies.” Experimentations: German and Scandinavian Studies. UMass Amherst. Germanic Languages and Literatures. 18-19 Feb. 2006.
  15. Conference Organizer/Chair. (Re)Visions: New Ideas in European Studies. Graduate Student Conference at UMass Amherst. Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures. 26-27 Mar. 2004. Obtained ca. $1,000 in grants.
  16. Panel Co-Organizer. “Fixed and Fluctuating: Gender, Sexuality, and Queerness in Twentieth-Century Germany.” (Re)Visions: New Ideas in European Studies. Graduate Student Conference at UMass Amherst. Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures. 26-27 Mar. 2004.

 

All courses

CENS 307 – Witches: Myth & Reality

GERM 500A – German Studies Research Methods

GERM 510 – Literary History

GERM 521 – Viennese Modernism (German Cultural Studies)

SCAN 332A – Heroes in Nordic Literature and Film (Topics in Scandinavian Studies)

SCAN 411A – Scandinavian Drama & Film

SCAN 412 – The Northern European Epic

SCAN 415 – The World of the Sagas

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Alexis Briley

July 1, 2018, 10:50 am
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Alexis Briley received her Ph.D. in comparative literature from Cornell University in 2014.

Dr. Briley’s research focuses on German literature around 1800, European Romanticism, and German lyric poetry from the eighteenth-century to the present. Her current research examines figures of obstacle and stumbling in works by Friedrich Hölderlin, Heinrich von Kleist, Robert Walser, Paul Celan, Christa Wolf, and W.G. Sebald.

Dr. Briley has studied at the Humboldt University of Berlin, the University of Erfurt, and Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen.

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Steve Commichau

July 17, 2018, 2:29 pm
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M.A. in Medieval German Literature at Freie Universität Berlin
B.A. in Germanic Studies/Philosophy at Universität Potsdam

 

After completing a professional training in renewable energy and energy management, Steve decided to seek a different profession and study humanities. He majored in Germanic Studies at the University of Potsdam, where he was first introduced to medieval literature on the example of the Old English elegy “The Wanderer,” which fascinated him (enough to get it tattooed) and sparked his interest in premodern European literature. During his studies at the Freie Universität Steve specialized in medieval and early modern texts. His research interests include Arthurian literature, heroic epics and othering in premodern texts. He is excited about the opportunity to work and study at UBC.

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Florian Gassner

December 31, 2013, 10:10 am
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M.A., Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, 2008; Ph.D., University of British Columbia, 2012

Florian Gassner is a Fellow of the New Europe College in Bucharest, Romania, and he has represented the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) at the Donetsk National University, Ukraine. He specializes in the cultural history of Central and Eastern Europe, particularly in Russian-European relations, and he is an expert on German literature from the eighteenth and nineteenth century.

Contact Florian about

  • The ‘Offene Treff’ – an opportunity to meet up and chat in German
  • The German Choir – a great way to perfect your overall feel for the German language
  • German Language Certificate OnDaF
  • Study Abroad Opportunities

Publications and Research Contributions

Textbook
Die deutsche Kurzgeschichte: Texte, Hintergründe, Aufgaben. Donetsk: Donetsk UP, 2013.
Nikolaus Lenau. Hannover: Wehrhahn Verlag, 2012.
Germany Versus Russia: A Social History of the Divide between East and West. Diss. The University of British Columbia, 2012.

Peer-Reviewed Articles

“Der geköpfte Hahn und Das Klavier im Nebel von Eginald Schlattner: Ein elegischer Blick auf die rumäniendeutsche Vergangenheit.“ Jahrbuch des Bundesinstituts für Kultur und Geschichte der Deutschen im östlichen Europa 25 (2016, submitted).
“Giacomo Casanova: Love in the Time of Individuality.” New Europe College Yearbook 2011-2012 (2014): 120-142.
“‘Unserer Mütter, unsere Väter’ – Kein neuer Blick auf das Dritte Reich.” DaF in der Ukraine 26 (2013): 75-80.
“Erinnern und Vergessen: Die Rezeption von Friedrich Schillers Wilhelm Tell und Walter Scotts Waverley.” Kritische Ausgabe 20 (2011): 49–63.
“Imagining Russia: A Scottish Perspective.” Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies 5.1 (2011): 29-48.
“Theodor Fontanes Vor dem Sturm: Der Entwurf einer deutschen Identität im europäischen Kontext.” Transcarpathica 9 (2010): 207–226.
“Erzählstrategien in Dorothea Schlegels Florentin.” Lenz Jahrbuch 17 (2010): 75–105.

Articles in an Edited Volume
“Das Melodrama August von Kotzebues: Eine Gefahr für die Gesellschaft.” Melodrama – zwischen Populärkultur und ‘Moralisch-Okkultem.’ Ed. Marion Schmaus. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2015. 93-113.
“Die Erinnerung an Wilhelm Tell und Waverley: Eine Vergleichende Rezeptionsanalyse.“ „Musst nur wagen, wagen, wagen!“ Ein Rückblick auf 25 Kritische Ausgaben. Eds. Fabian Beer, Marcel Diel and Benedikt Viertelhaus. Bonn: Weidle Verlag, 2015. 181–188.
“Kulturgeschichtliche Überlegungen zur Bedeutung des Literaturverstehens.” Literatur verstehen – wozu eigentlich? 55 Antworten. Ed. Nikola Roßbach. Oldenburg: Igel Verlag, 2015. 85–89.
“Nemeckij Obraz Rossii: Predystoriâ XX Veka.” In: Rossiâ i Germaniâ v Prostranstve Evropejskih Kommunikacij. Eds. Andrey Devyatkov and Andrey Makarychev. Moscow, 2013. 133–152.
“Becoming a Western Nation: The Quest for German National Identity and the Image of Russia.” The East-West Discourse: Symbolic Geography and its Consequences. Ed. Alexander Maxwell. Oxford: Lang, 2010. 51–72. Nationalisms Across the Globe 8.

Encyclopedia Entries
“König, Heinrich” and “Bodenstedt, Friedrich.“ Kleines Kasseler Literatur-Lexikon. Ed. Nikola Roßbach (2016, in press).
“Die Russen und Engländer in Neapel,” “Erlinde, die Ilm-Nixe,” “Gallerie der unterhaltendsten Geister- und Zaubergeschichten,” and “Kurze Lebens- und Kriegs-Geschichte des Grafen Alexander Suworow Rimnikski.” Andere Klassik – Das Werk von Christian August Vulpius (1762-1827). Ed. Alexander Košenina. Hannover: Wehrhahn Verlag, 2012.
“Bayard,” “Belas Flucht,” “Das Kind der Liebe,” “Der Brief aus Cadix,” “Die Kreuzfahrer,” “Die silberne Hochzeit,” “Sorgen ohne Noth und Noth ohne Sorgen,” and “Ungerns erster Wohlthäter.” Werklexikon Dramen August von Kotzebues. Eds. Johannes Birgfeld, Julia Bohnengel and Alexander Košenina. Hannover: Wehrhahn Verlag, 2011.

Book Reviews
“Hochholdinger-Reiterer, Beate: Kostümierung der Geschlechter: Schauspielkunst als Erfindung der Aufklärung. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2014.“ Lessing Yearbook XLIII (2016 forthcoming).
“Carley, Michael Jabara. Silent Conflict: A Hidden History of Early Soviet-Western Relations. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014.” The Historian 78.1 (2016): 141-142.
“Korte, Hermann, Hans-Joachim Jakob and Bastian Dewenter, eds. “Das böse Tier Theaterpublikum.” Zuschauerinnen und Zuschauer in Theater- und Literaturjournalen des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts. Heidelberg: Winter, 2014.” Lessing Yearbook XLII (2015): 234-236.
“Korte, Hermann, and Hans-Joachim Jakob, eds. “Das Theater glich einem Irrenhause.” Das Publikum im Theater des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts. Heidelberg: Winter, 2012.” Lessing Yearbook XLI (2014): 345-347.
“Peteri, Gyorgy, ed. Imagining the West in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010.” Canadian American Slavic Studies 48.1 (2014, in press).
“Potter, Edward T. Marriage, Gender, and Desire in Early Enlightenment German Comedy. Rochester: Camden House, 2012. ” Lessing Yearkbook XL (2013, in press).
“Kreuder, Friedemann. Spielräume der Identität in Theaterformen des 18. Jahrhunderts. Tübingen: Narr/Francke, 2010.” Lessing Yearbook XXXIX (2012): 281–284.
“Liulevicius, Vejas G. The German Myth of the East: 1800 to the Present. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.” Transcarpathica 10 (2012): 243–246.
“Lærke, Mogens, ed. The Use of Censorship in the Enlightenment. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2009.” Lenz Jahrbuch 17 (2010): 167–172.

Research Interests

Idiomatic language learning
Social history of Eastern Europe
Literature and music
Literature and religion
Central and Eastern European film

Arjun Chowdhury, Florian Gassner, Kurt Hübner and Anastasiya Salnykova (in Kyiv): “Ukraine in Crisis” BARtalk- Terry Project (Gallery Lounge, UBC. March 13, 2014)

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Carolina Franzen

August 22, 2013, 2:42 pm
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PhD Student in Germanic Studies as of Sept 2012

Previous Education
Degree: Magister in Kunstgeschichte (History of Art) und Neuere Deutsche Literatur (German Literature after 1600).
Institutions: Freie Universität Berlin (graduation 2012), University College Dublin, Universität Leipzig.

Bio
I grew up in Munich, Germany and began my PhD studies at UBC in 2012. I am currently doing a research project in Berlin.

Carolina Franzen, “Gefühlte Geschichte unterm Skalpell. Die Familienromane Nach den Kriegen von Dagmar Leupold und Am Beispiel meines Bruders von Uwe Timm,” in Ege Forschungen zur deutschen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft 10 (2008), pp. 81-97. [Published 2010]

 

Research Interests

  • Theory
  • Aesthetics
  • Politics
  • Transnationalism in Visual Arts and Literature

  • 2013, May, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey: “Contemporary Ways of Thinking Power Relations in Socio-Philosophy and Video Art – A Juxtaposition of Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble and Francis Alÿs’ Symbolic Actions.”

 

  • 2012, October, University of British Columbia, Canada: “Wie Herzog Ernst im Land der Kranichschnäbler “flaniert”: Die Grippia-aventiure des Herzog Ernst und Anknüpfungspunkte an einen literaturwissenschaftlichen Moderne-Diskurs.”
  • 2011/12 Ege University, Izmir (Turkey) for the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service). Undergraduate classes, Introduction to German Literature.
  • 2008: Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. Undergraduate History of Art classes, introduction to the Architecture of Berlin.

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Alice Christensen

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Biz Nijdam

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Elizabeth “Biz” Nijdam is Assistant Professor in German Studies. She graduated from the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in 2017, after receiving her Masters in Germanic Studies from the University of Victoria in 2007. Her dissertation, “‘Drawing for me means communication’: Anke Feuchtenberger and German Art Comics after 1989,” traces East German artistic traditions, transnational feminist discourses, and the politics of German unification into the comics and graphic art of East German artist Anke Feuchtenberger.

Before coming to UBC, Biz was Visiting Assistant Professor in German Studies and Film & Media Studies at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington. From 2017-2018, she was a postdoctoral fellow in the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin.

Biz’s current book project, Panelled Pasts: History, Media and Memory in the German Graphic Novel (under contract with Ohio State University Press), examines how comics have become an important form for popular investigations of East German experience. Analyzing twelve graphic novels and webcomics thematizing life in the German Democratic Republic (GDR), this project evaluates how the comics medium negotiates the divide between history and memory at the intersection of text and image.

Biz’s research has been funded by a SSHRC doctoral grant along with numerous institutional grants and fellowships at the University of Michigan and the Swann Foundation Fellowship from the Library of Congress. She is a collaborator in numerous international comics projects, including the “Women in Comics in the Baltic Region: A Multidisciplinary Study of Feminist Comic Art” at Södertörn University in Stockholm, Sweden and the “Visualities of Gender in German-language Comics” at the University of Vienna in Vienna, Austria. Her recent publications include articles in The Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, World Literature Today, International Journal of Comic Art, and ImageText, and chapters in the edited volume Class, Please Open Your Comics (2015) and the forthcoming book Comics of the New Europe: Intersections and Reflections with University of Leuven Press.

In addition to founding the University of Michigan’s first comics studies working group, the Transnational Comics Studies Workshop, Biz is also the Secretary for the Executive Committee of the International Comic Arts Forum and President of the Executive Board of the Comics Studies Society’s Graduate Student Caucus.

Having been raised in Vancouver, Biz is thrilled to be returning home to teach German language, film and comics at UBC!

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Carolina Franzen

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Carolina Franzen is a PhD candidate at the Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies at the University of British Columbia. In her research project she approaches affect theory through the narratives of the Holocaust.

Carolina has participated in the research program Witnessing Auschwitz, she has conducted archival research at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum’s archives, and she has been a teaching assistant for several courses, including Representations of the Holocaust.

Carolina received a degree in Newer German Literature and Art History (Magister Artium) from the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. She taught, studied and lived in Munich, Leipzig, Berlin (Germany), Dublin (Ireland), Izmir (Turkey), Vancouver (Canada), and on a boat.

Publications
Franzen, Carolina. “Holocaust Survivors’ Memoirs – Difficult Questions”. Bożena Karwowska and Anja Nowak. The More I Know, the Less I Understand. Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, Oświęcim 2017, pp. 130 – 133. Print.

Franzen, Carolina. “Gefühlte Geschichte unterm Skalpell. Die Familienromane Nach Den Kriegen Von Dagmar Leupold und Am Beispiel Meines Bruders Von Uwe Timm” Ege Forschungen zur deutschen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft 10 (2008), Ege Üniversitesi Matbaası, Izmir 2012, pp. 81 – 97. Print.

Currently Teaching / Teaching Assistant for
CENS 303 B Representations of the Holocaust. Instructor: Dr. Bozena Karwowska. Objectives: Analytic Thinking and Writing in Relation to Literary, Historical and Theoretical Representations of the Holocaust.

Previous Education
Degree: Magister in Kunstgeschichte (History of Art) und Neuere Deutsche Literatur (German Literature after 1600).
Institutions: Freie Universität Berlin (graduation 2012), University College Dublin, Universität Leipzig.

Carolina Franzen, “Gefühlte Geschichte unterm Skalpell. Die Familienromane Nach den Kriegen von Dagmar Leupold und Am Beispiel meines Bruders von Uwe Timm,” in Ege Forschungen zur deutschen Sprach-und Literaturwissenschaft 10 (2008), pp. 81-97. [Published 2010]

 

Research Interests

  • Theory
  • Aesthetics
  • Politics
  • Transnationalism in Visual Arts and Literature

2013, May, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey: “Contemporary Ways of Thinking Power Relations in Socio-Philosophy and Video Art – A Juxtaposition of Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble and Franci Alÿs’ Sympolic Actions.”

2012, October, University of British Columbia, Canada: “Wie Herzog Ernst im Land der Kranichschnäbler “flaniert”: Die Grippia-aventiure des Herzog Ernst und Anknüpfungspunkte an einen literaturwissenschaftlichen Moderne-Diskurs.”

  • 2011/12 Ege University, Izmir (Turkey) for the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service). Undergraduate classes, Introduction to German Literature.
  • 2008: Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. Undergraduate History of Art classes, introduction to the Architecture of Berlin.

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Kyle Frackman

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Ph.D., 2009, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Certificate in Adv. Feminist Studies, 2007, University of Massachusetts Amherst
M.A., 2004, University of Massachusetts Amherst
B.A., 2001, Hamline University

 

Before joining the faculty at UBC in July 2012, Dr. Kyle Frackman taught at institutions in the United States: the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Smith College, and Amherst College.

Originally from Anchorage, Alaska, Dr. Frackman attended Hamline University, graduating with a major in German Studies. For 2001-2002, Dr. Frackman was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to study in Hamburg, Germany. At UMass Amherst, Dr. Frackman completed graduate studies and a dissertation under the direction of Prof. Susan Cocalis.

Dr. Frackman has received research and travel support from a number of organizations and institutions, including the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), UBC, the Faculty of Arts, the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, the Nordic Council, the Fulbright Commission, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the American-Scandinavian Foundation, and the Swedish Institute.

Dr. Frackman is Associate and Affiliated Faculty in the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, the Institute for European Studies, the Centre for Cinema Studies, and the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies.

Book

Edited Books

Journal Articles

Book Chapters

Encyclopedia Entries

  • Entries on “Swedish-Speakers in Finland,” “Einojuhani Rautavaara,” “Nobel Peace Prize,” and “Folk High Schools” in Encyclopedia of Contemporary Scandinavian Culture. Eds. Helena Forsås-Scott, Mary Hilson, and Titus Hjelm. London: Hurst & Co. (submitted)
  • Entries on “Lola und Bilidikid” and “Zurück auf los” in The Directory of World Cinema: Germany. Ed. Michelle Langford. Bristol: Intellect Books, 2012. 192-93, 196-97.
  • “Finland, Civil War, and Revolution, 1914-1918.” International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest: 1500 to the Present. Ed. Immanuel Ness. NY: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. 1200-02. (R)
  • Entries on “German Literature,” “Magnus Hirschfeld,” and “Richard von Krafft-Ebing” in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Love, Courtship, and Sexuality through History: The Nineteenth Century. Vol. 5. Ed. Susan Mumm. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2008. 138-42, 111-13, 130-32.

Non-Refereed Publications

Reviews

Research Interests

  • German-language and Scandinavian literature (especially of the long 20th century)
  • East German culture and history
  • German and Nordic film
  • German-North American immigration
  • Queer theory, feminist theory, gender studies
  • German, Swedish, Finnish language

Research Projects

  • Homosexuality in East Germany, supported by a SSHRC Insight Grant: “Coming Out of the Iron Closet: Queer Lives in East Germany”
  • German-BC, German-Canadian immigration
  • With Dr. Gregory Mackie (English) and UBC Rare Books and Special Collections, the Jane Rule Endowment-funded “Queer Archives Project,” which works to augment UBC’s holdings in queer literary and cultural history

Invited Talks and Presentations

  1. “Persistent and Deceptive Ambivalence: Queer East German Studies.” Stanford University, Department of German Studies. 7 November 2017.
  2. Discussant for Book Launch: Alessandra Santos, The Holy Mountain (2017). 1 Nov. 2017.
  3. “Bergman and Allen and Sondheim—oh, my!” Screen-to-Stage Pre-Performance Discussion. Gateway Theatre, Richmond, BC. 15 Oct. 2017.
  4. “Schnitzler, Lt. Gustl, and Crises of Gender in Modernism.” Guest Lecture and Discussion, Arts One, UBC. 30 Nov. 2015.
  5. “The Short End of the Broomstick: Sex, Gender, and the European Witch Persecution.” Nerd Nite Vancouver. 15 Oct. 2015.
  6. Graduate Student Workshop on the Profession. Dept. of CENES, UBC. 29 Sept. 2015.
  7. “DEFA: Cinema of the Other Germany.” Guest Lecture and Discussion, GERM 304: German Cinema. Dept. of CENES, UBC. 5 Aug. 2015.
  8. Invited Co-Director, 8th Biennial East German Summer Film Institute: “Sex, Gender, and Videotape: Love, Eroticism, and Romance in East Germany.” Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts. 19-26 July 2015. Co-directed with Victoria Rizo Lenshyn.
  9. Introductions. Public Film Screenings and Discussions of Beziehungen zwischen Jungen und Mädchen (Pt. 1, Sagst Du’s deinem Kinde? and Pt. 3, Partner), Sieben Sommersprossen, Sie, Mann und Frau intim, and Liebe ohne Angst; and Die andere Liebe and Coming Out. Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, and Amherst Cinema, Amherst, Massachusetts. 21, 22, and 23 July 2015. Part of the 2015 8th Biennial East German Summer Film Institute, Northampton, Massachusetts.
  10. “Mädchen in Uniform in the Context of German Education and Boarding School Fiction.” Mädchen in Uniform Conference. University of British Columbia. 14-15 Sept. 2013.
  11. “Vikings in Middle-earth? Tolkien and Nordic Material.” Guest Lecture in SCAN 335: Vikings. Dept. of Central, Eastern, & Northern European Studies. University of British Columbia. 28 Mar. 2013.
  12. “The Reality of Free Will: Ibsen and The Lady from the Sea.” Guest Lecture in CENS 404: Gender & Nation. Dept. of Central, Eastern, & Northern European Studies. University of British Columbia. 6 Nov. 2012.
  13. “Germany is a Resort.” Introductory remarks for visit by Prof. Claire Kramsch. Inaugural Lecture and Reception for Language Research and Teaching Lab. Dept. of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, UMass Amherst. 14 May 2012.
  14. “Questions of Humanity: Steve Sem-Sandberg’s The Emperor of Lies.” People of the Book. 9 May 2012. Amherst, Massachusetts.
  15. “Coming Out of the Iron Closet:  Melancholy, Suppression, and East Germany.” Bucknell University, Department of German Studies. 20 April 2010.
  16. Programmleiter: “Wende-Flicks im Unterricht.” [“Wende-Flicks in the Classroom.”] Workshop on East German Fall-of-the-Wall films co-facilitated with Victoria Lenshyn. Virginia AATG Immersion Weekend for German Teachers. Sweet Briar College. 18-20 Sep. 2009. Teaching materials available online. Featured in The Daily Collegian.
  17. “A Time and Place for Sexuality: Uncanny Queerness and Contemporary Germany.” 19 April 2009. Department of German, Williams College. Included as part of Queer Pride Days.

Selected Refereed Presentations

  1. “‘Die im Vorgang erfaßten Personen waren praktizierende Homosexuelle’: Reading for and from Affect in Secret Records of Queer East Germany.” Seminar on “Feminist Scholar Activism and the Politics of Affect.” German Studies Association. 6 Oct. 2017. Atlanta, Georgia.
  2. “Queerness in East Germany: Film, Media, and Archival Traces.” Seminar on “Socialist Media Landscapes: Queerness, Gender, Sexuality.” German Studies Association. 29 Sep.-2 Oct. 2016. San Diego, California.
  3. “The Other Love in the Other Germany: East German Film, Media, and Social Change for Gay Rights.” Canadian Association of University Teachers of German, panel sponsored by Women in German. 30 May 2016. Calgary, Alberta.
  4. “Queer Documentary in the Shadow of the Wall.” German Studies Association. Washington, DC. 1-4 Oct. 2015. Seminar on “East German Cinema and TV in a Global Context.”
  5. “Unearthing Socialist Sexuality: Examinations of Gayness in the GDR.” German Studies Association. Kansas City, Missouri. 18-21 Sept. 2014.
  6. “Gay in the GDR: Documentary and Personal History in Unter Männern.” Canadian Association of University Teachers of German. 24-27 May 2014. St. Catharines, Ontario.
  7. “The Pursuit of Happiness: The Role of Truth in Sex, Gender, and Body Transformation.” German Studies Association 2013. 3-6 Oct. 2013. Denver, Colorado.
  8. “On the Cusp of ‘Truth’: Confession and Transsexuality in Sabine Bernardi’s Romeos.” Canadian Association of University Teachers of German. 2-4 June 2013. Victoria, British Columbia.
  9. “‘Jauchzet, frohlocket!’: Parody and Musical Commentary in Heiner Carow’s Coming Out.” Panel: Music and Interdisciplinarity I: New Theoretical Perspectives. GSA 2012. 4-7 Oct. 2012. Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
  10. “Mord auf dem Ländle: The Advantages of German Regional Crime Fiction.” Panel: Best Practices: Teaching German Literature on the Undergraduate Level. NEMLA 2012. 15-18 Mar. 2012. Rochester, New York.
  11. “Outsiderdom: Exclusion and Inclusion in the GDR.” Poster session. Women in German Conference. 20-23 Oct. 2011. Augusta, Michigan.
  12. “Old Faces, New Places: Canon Rejuvenation in German Studies.” NEMLA 2010. 7-11 Apr. 2010. Montreal.
  13. “The Curious Case of the Turkish Drag Queen: Queer Film and Feminist Pedagogy in an Advanced German Stylistics Course.” Panel (Praxis and Pedagogy): Queering the Gaze: Film and Feminism in the Classroom. Women in German Conference. 22-25 Oct. 2009. Augusta, Michigan.
  14. “Perverse Symbiosis: Home, Respectability, and Corporeal Subjectivity in Frank Wedekind’s Frühlings Erwachen.” Panel: Pedagogical Narratives: The Body and Education around 1900. GSA 2009. 8-11 Oct. 2009. Washington, DC.
  15. “Podcasting Culture: Technology as a Means of Cultural Integration in an Intensive Elementary German Course.” Co-presented with Victoria Lenshyn. Second Symposium on Contemporary German Culture: Teaching Culture(s). 10-11 April 2009. Middlebury College.
  16. “The Temporality of Sexuality and Disease in Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss’s Zurück auf los.” Panel: German-German Problems (I). NEMLA 2008. 10-13 April 2008. Buffalo, New York.
  17. “Introductory Language Teaching: Swedish.” Demonstration and discussion. Invited to TA Orientation, German & Scandinavian Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Aug. 2007.
  18. “There’s No Place Like Home…? The Queerly Diasporic in Lola + Bilidikid.” Panel: Down and Out in the New Germany. NEMLA 2007. 1-4 Mar. 2007. Baltimore, Maryland.
  19. “Opportunities and Challenges for Multimedia and Online Teaching in German.” Invited to German 583: Methods of Teaching German, Prof. Sarah McGaughey. 6 Nov. 2006. University of Massachusetts Amherst.
  20. “Dissolving the Fourth Wall: Theatricality and Masculine Space in German and Nordic Painting.” Poster session. Women in German Conference. 19-22 Oct. 2006. Snowbird, Utah.
  21. “Introductory Language Teaching: Swedish.” Demonstration and discussion. Invited to TA Orientation, German & Scandinavian Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Aug. 2006.
  22. “Boy Interrupted: Male Homosociality and Anxieties of Intrusion in Nordic Visual Art.” Panel: Men in/and Art. Conference: Nordic Conference on Men and Masculinities: Experiences of Men—Masculinities and Bodies. 5-7 May 2006. Åbo Akademi University, Turku/Åbo, Finland.
  23. “Bedding with Honor: Gender Dynamics in fin-de-siècle German and Austrian Educational Culture.” Poster session. Women in German Conference. 20-23 Oct. 2005. Carrollton, Kentucky.
  24. “There is a Time and a Place for Everything: Logics of Textual Time-Space.” Panel: Language, Ideology, and Education. Conference: Eurovisions: Crossing Disciplines, Crossing Boundaries. Department of Anthropology. University of Massachusetts Amherst. 13-14 May 2005.
  25. “‘Die lähmende Gewalt der Enge’: Discipline, Sexual Complicity, and Queer Space in Robert Musil’s Törleß.” Poster session. Women in German Conference. 21-24 Oct. 2004. Carrollton, Kentucky.
  26. “Queerly Everyday: Discursive Mobility and (Hetero)Normative Discipline in Der bewegte Mann.” With Rachael A. Salyer. Panel: (Re)Negotiations of History, Gender, and Subjectivity: East, West, and Post-Wende German Film. Conference: (Re)Visions: New Ideas in German and European Studies. University of Massachusetts Amherst. 26 Mar. 2004.

Chaired Panels and Conferences

  1. Conference Program Co-Chair, Canadian Association of University Teachers of German (CAUTG). Congress 2016. Calgary, Alberta. 28-31 May 2015.
  2. (Invited) Co-Convenor, “Sex, Lies, and Videotape: Love, Eroticism, and Romance in East Germany.” East German Summer Film Institute, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts. 19-26 July 2015.
  3. Conference Program Co-Chair, Canadian Association of University Teachers of German (CAUTG). Congress 2015. Ottawa, Ontario. 30 May – 2 June 2015.
  4. Panel Co-Organizer. “New Feminist and Queer Approaches in North American German Studies.” Inaugural Panel Sponsored by Women in German at the 2014 Canadian Association of University Teachers of German Conference. St. Catharines, Ontario. May 2014.
  5. Panel Moderator. “Men in Crisis.” German Studies Association 2012. 4-7 Oct. 2012. Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
  6. Panel Chair. “Best Practices: Teaching German Literature at the Undergraduate Level (II).” NEMLA 2012. 15-18 Mar. 2012. Rochester, New York.
  7. Panel Co-Organizer. Poster Session. Women in German Conference. Oct. 2009. Augusta, Michigan.
  8. Panel Co-Organizer. “Filling Out in the Middle: Innovations for Intermediate German.” Women in German Session at the AATG Conference. Nov. 2008. Orlando, Florida.
  9. Panel Co-Organizer. Poster Session. Women in German Conference. Oct. 2008. Snowbird, Utah.
  10. Panel Chair. “German-German Problems (II): Continuities and Discontinuities in Post-Unification Germany.” NEMLA 2008. 10-13 April 2008. Buffalo, New York.
  11. Panel Chair. “Children of Myth.” Myth: German & Scandinavian Studies. Graduate Student Conference at UMass Amherst. 15-17 Feb. 2008.
  12. Panel Co-Organizer. Poster Session. Women in German Conference. Oct. 2007. Snowbird, Utah.
  13. Conference Organizer/Chair. Experimentations: German and Scandinavian Studies. Graduate Student Conference at UMass Amherst. Germanic Languages and Literatures. 18-19 Feb. 2006. Obtained ca. $2,000 in grants.
  14. Panel Organizer. “(Con)Textual Infusions of German and Scandinavian Studies.” Experimentations: German and Scandinavian Studies. UMass Amherst. Germanic Languages and Literatures. 18-19 Feb. 2006.
  15. Conference Organizer/Chair. (Re)Visions: New Ideas in European Studies. Graduate Student Conference at UMass Amherst. Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures. 26-27 Mar. 2004. Obtained ca. $1,000 in grants.
  16. Panel Co-Organizer. “Fixed and Fluctuating: Gender, Sexuality, and Queerness in Twentieth-Century Germany.” (Re)Visions: New Ideas in European Studies. Graduate Student Conference at UMass Amherst. Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures. 26-27 Mar. 2004.

 

All courses

CENS 307 – Witches: Myth & Reality

GERM 500A – German Studies Research Methods

GERM 510 – Literary History

GERM 521 – Viennese Modernism (German Cultural Studies)

SCAN 332A – Heroes in Nordic Literature and Film (Topics in Scandinavian Studies)

SCAN 411A – Scandinavian Drama & Film

SCAN 412 – The Northern European Epic

SCAN 415 – The World of the Sagas

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Florian Faller

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Erstes Staatsexamen (MA), (Freiburg, Germany 1995),  Zweites Staatsexamen (Freiburg, Germany 1998). Postgraduate University Degree in French as a Foreign Language (Mulhouse, France 1996). 3 Postgraduate Degrees in German as a Foreign Language from the Goethe-Institut and Universität Kassel (Munich, Kassel, Germany 2000-2003)

Florian has native proficiency in German and has been studying languages (French, English, Latin, Classical Greek, Italian and Swedish, in that order) for most of his life.

Since beginning teaching German as a Foreign Language in 1998, he has taught at six different institutions in Italy and Canada. His main employer in Italy was the Goethe-Institut, the most respected institution for teaching German as a Foreign Language worldwide, where he taught all levels including Business German. He also has experience teaching German literature and linguistics. At the Scuola Superiore Interpreti e Traduttori Vittoria, he taught an undergraduate seminar in German literature: Literatur danach? Deutsche Nachkriegsliteratur, as well as an undergraduate seminar in German Language and Linguistics.

Florian came to UBC in 2001 and has taught German 100, 110, 200, 210, 300, 310, 400 and 433 in the CENES Department. He aims to establish a good connection with his students, and to enable them to communicate in German and to develop their intercultural awareness. He feels very fortunate about the people he has the privilege to work with.

Second / Foreign Language Acquisition
German as a Foreign Language

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Dorothee Leesing

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2015 PhD Student at CENES, UBC, Vancouver, Canada
2014 Reel Grrls, Seattle; Program Manager
2014 Master of Arts at University of Washington in German Literature/Ecocriticism
2013 Deutsche Grammophon/Universal, Berlin; Promotion Assistant
2012 Missy Magazine, Berlin; Videography and Copywriter
2011 Master of Education at WWU Münster
2010 Bachelor of Arts in Music and New Media at Westfälische-Wilhelms Universität Münster, Germany
2009-2010 –  Erasmus Scholarship: Norwegian and English Literature at Universitet i Bergen, Norway

Dorothee Leesing’s research interest is centered in the fields of Media Studies and Ecocriticism, with her PhD project “Reverse Speleology – high-rise perception in post-war Germany”.

Amongst Dorothee’s past and ongoing art practice in film, classical music and gaming are projects like “The Future is Zero“, the Accidental String Quartet, and Garbage Daze.

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Laura Isakov

September 18, 2014, 2:23 pm
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MA, Germanic Studies, UBC, 2016
Adv. B.A., History, University of Manitoba, 2005

Laura Isakov grew up in Minnesota and began studying German out of a desire to connect with her German-Scandinavian heritage. Laura attended Concordia Language Villages and returned in 2000 as a senior counselor. She completed an undergraduate degree in history with a German minor at the University of Manitoba in 2005. It took a number of years to decide to pursue her passions of history, literature and the German language at UBC. Laura holds a certificate as a CRLA Master Tutor in writing and has experience both in the face-to-face and online environments. She is interested in many research areas and is enthusiastic to have the opportunity to be part of the CENES department at UBC.

Research Interests

Collective Social Memory, the Holocaust and Wiedervereinigung
Germany and the East
Epistolary Culture
Medieval History

Laura is a research assistant for the SSHRC Charlotte Schiller project with Dr. Gaby Pailer and Dr. Florian Gassner.

Publications

“Anya” – short story in Douglas College’s 2014 edition of Pearls

 

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Ajibola Fabusuyi

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