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Manuela Achilles
General Faculty
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Degrees
Ph.D.
University
of Michigan
(2005)
M.A. Free University
of Berlin
(1996)
Interests
Ms. Achilles combines the study of
German culture with
historical and theoretical analyses. She
has
previously studied at Cornell University
and received
her Master’s degree in German literature, history and
linguistics from the Free
University of Berlin. Her dissertation, "Re/Forming the Reich:
Symbolics
of the Republican Nation in Weimar Germany," explores the symbolism of
power
and authority in the interwar period with a particular focus on Weimar
constitutional patriotism.
Books
Beyond the
Failure Paradigm:
Democratic Culture in Weimar
Germany (in progress)
Articles
"Reforming the Reich: Democratic Symbols and Rituals in
the Weimar
Republic,"
in Kathleen Canning,
Kerstin Barndt and Kristin McGuire (eds), Weimar
Publics/Weimar Subjects, Berghahn (forthcoming).
"Placing Benjamin in the Tradition of
German
Kulturwissenschaft. Book review for H-German@h-net.msu.edu
(September 2007).
"On Healing and Hailing: Laurence A.
Rickel's Nazi
Psychoanalysis." Book review for H-German@h-net.msu.edu
(April 2004).
"Nationalist Violence and Republican
Identity in Weimar Germany,"
in David Midgley and Christian Emden (eds), German
Literature, History and the Nation. Papers from the
Conference: "The
Fragile Tradition" (Cambridge 2002), Oxford 2004, pp. 305-328.
"Blutdurst' und
'Symbolhunger': Zur Semantik von Blut und Erde", in Walter
Delabar, Horst Denkler, Erhard Schütz (eds), Spielräume des
Einzelnen:
Deutsche Literatur in der Weimarer Republik und im Dritten Reich,
Berlin 2000, pp. 185-315.
