I’ve written and edited two books, published several articles (mostly academic), and penned three novels, a slew of poems, plays, and short stories.
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Books
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Germanistik in America: The Reception of German Classicism, 1870-1905. Stuttgarter Arbeiten zur Germanistik, No. 115. Stuttgart: Heinz, 1982. Reviewed in Etudes Germaniques, 40, No. 1 (1985), 118-19; German Quarterly, 58, No. 4 (1985), 645-47, and Seminar, 22, No. 4 (1986), 336-37.
Eagle in the New World: German Immigration to America, German Immigration to Texas. With Theodore G. Gish. College Station: Texas A&M Press, 1986.
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Selected Articles on Literature & Culture
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“‘Freiheit im Gleichnis leben zu dürfen’: Notions of Freedom in Thomas Mann’s Felix Krull.” Reprinted in Thomas Mann. Ed. Harold Bloom. Chelsea House, 2002.
“From Genesis to Convention: Literary Criticism as a German-American Institution.” In Teaching German in America: Prolegomena to a History. Eds. David P. Benseler, Walter F.W. Lohnes, and Valters Nollendorfs. Madison: U Wisconsin P, 1988, 155-64.
“The (Dis)Position of Foreign Terms in the VOCAT Encyclopedic Dictionary,” Critical Exchange, No. 20, 1986.
“Anfänge und Institutionalisierung: Germanistische Literaturwissenschaft aus deutsch-amerikanischer Sicht.” Zeitschrift für Kulturaustausch, 35, No. 2 (1985), 22-29.
“Stilanalytische Beobachtungen zu Robert Walsers Guten Tag, Riesin!” Teaching Language Through Literature, 24, No. 1 (1984), 40-46.
“Three Sonnets by Goethe: An Investigation of Dialectics, Poetic Stance, and the Symbol.” New German Studies, 12, No. 3 (1984), 201-12.
“Some Observations on Literary Studies and German Studies in the Context of GRIP.” In GRIP [Group for Research on the Institutionalization and Professionalization of Literary Studies] Report, Vol. 2 (1984).
“Consolatory topoi: Aspects of a Tradition.” Neohelicon: Acta Comparationis Litteratum Universarum, 12, No. 1 (1984), 239-63.
“Gottfried Benn.” Critical Survey of German Poetry. Foreign Language Series. Ed. Walton Beacham. 5 vols. La Canada, CA: Salem Press, 1984.
“Bertolt Brecht.” Critical Survey of German Poetry. Foreign Language Series. Ed. Walton Beacham. 5 vols. La Canada, CA: Salem Press, 1984.
“Hans Magnus Enzensberger.” Critical Survey of German Poetry. Foreign Language Series. Ed. Walton Beacham. 5 vols. La Canada, CA: Salem Press, 1984.
“German Poetry: 19th and 20th Centuries.” Critical Survey of German Poetry. Foreign Language Series. Ed. Walton Beacham. 5 vols. La Canada, CA: Salem Press, 1984.
“Lucinde: Roman des Romans.” Colloquia Germanica, 16, No. 213 (1983), 166-76.
“‘Freiheit im Gleichnis leben zu dürfen’: Notions of Freedom in Thomas Mann’s Felix Krull.” Archiv für das Studium der Neueren Sprachen und Literaturen, 135, No. 2 (1983), 343-50.
“American Germanistik and German Classicism: A 19th-Century Exchange.” Germans in America. Ed. E. Allen McCormack. Atlantic Studies. Brooklyn College Studies on Change, No. 27. New York: Social Science Monographs, 1983, 59-78.
“Social Criticism and ‘New Sensitivity’: Günter Herburger’s Poetry.” New German Studies, 11, No. 1 (1983), 31-45.
“The Orientreise of Herzog Ernst.” Neophilologus, 67, No. 3 (1983), 410-18.
“Hermann Broch’s Die Schuldlosen: An Investigation of the Melitta-Encounter.” Colloquia Germanica, 15, No. 4 (1983), 321-30.
“Wilhelm Tell’s American Myth.” Yearbook of German-American Studies. Vol 17. Ed. J. Anthony Burzle. Lawrence: U Kansas P, 1982, 89-98.
“‘Criticism in the Wilderness’? Literary Scholarship in American Germanistik.” University Forum, No. 27 (1982), 3-6.
“Mediating German Culture: American Germanistik at the Turn of the Century.” Yearbook of German American Studies. Vol. 16. Ed. J. Anthony Burzle. Lawrence: U Kansas P, 1981, 9-25.
“Fate, Chance, and the Comedy of Kleist’s Der zerbrochene Krug.” Proceedings of the Pacific Northwest Council on Foreign Languages, 27 (1976), 68-70.
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Selected Articles on Pedagogy
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“Why I Like Teaching,” Orbis Linguae, Newsletter from the Center for the Study of Languages, Number 8, 2002.
“Wie funktioniert das?” The Global Engineer, Newsletter for the International Internship Program for Rice University, Fall 1999.
“German Songs in the Classroom: All Play and No Work?” Schatzkammer, 10, No. 2 (1984), 37-42.
“Concrete Poetry and Elementary Language Study.” Teaching Language Through Literature, 20, No. 2 (1981), 26-37.
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Creative Writing
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From Here to There: Time Spent on the Inside of the Outside of the Inside of Dreams. Full-length novel, 2019.
Places. Short novel, 2018.
In a Year of Seven Seasons. Full-length novel, 2017.
How Much of It Is Only Gravity? An original script for the theater, 1999.
My poems and short stories have appeared in the following anthologies, journals, and magazines, among others: The Album of International Poetry, American Poetry Anthology, Descant, Doorknobs & Bodypaint, Fragments, The Rose’s Hope, Voices International, Alura, UBlue, and others.
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Book Reviews
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Hans Boas, The Life and Death of Texas German.
Gerd Gemünden, Die hermeneutische Wende: Disziplin und Sprachlosigkeit nach 1800.
Walter Fähnders, Anarchismus und Literatur. Ein vergessenes Kapitel deutscher Literaturgeschichte zwischen 1890 und 1910.
Almut Todorov, Gedankenlyrik. Die Entstehung eines Gattungsbegriffs im 19. Jahrhundert.
Hans-Jost Frey and Otto Lorenz, Kritik des Freien Verses.
Hans Robert Jauss, Toward an Aesthetic of Reception.
Richard Thieberger, Gedanken über Dichter und Dichtungen. Essays aus fünf Jahzehnten. Les textes, et les auteurs. Cinquante années des réflexions sur la littératur.
Dietrich Harth and Peter Gebharth, eds. Erkenntnis von Literatur: Theorien, Konzepte, Methoden.
Volker Meid et al, Gedichte und Interpretationen.
Alfred Hoelzel, Walter Hasenclever’s Humanitarianism: Themes of Protest in His Works.
Peter Utz, Die ausgehöhlte Gasse: Stationen der Wirkungsgeschichte von Schillers “Wilhelm Tell“.
Peter Browning, ed. Goethe, Hölderlin, Nietzsche, and Others: German Poetry from 1750 to 1900.
Wilfried W. Dickhoff, Zur Hermeneutik des Schweigens.
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Selected Translations
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“History and Literature: Brecht’s Historical Novel The Affairs of Mr. Julius Caesar” (Harro Möller). Communications, 13, No. 1 (1983), 3-15.
“Literary Sociology in West Germany: Observations on the Internationales Archiv für Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur” (Peter U. Hohendahl). New German Critique, No. 17 (1979), 170-75.
