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Cora Schenberg Lecturer |
Degrees
Ph.D. University of Virginia, 2003, Germanic Languages and Literatures
M.A., Middlebury College, 1981
B.A. Vassar College, 1980
Interests
Autobiography, memoir, GDR literature, lyric, Judaic studies, feminist theory/ies.
Articles
(Translation), “Puppet Show and Emulation of Hamlet: Wilhelm Meister’s (Re)Mission of the Theatralische Sendung,” by Bernhard Greiner, in Fictions of Culture, Steven Taubeneck, ed.
“’Lilie der Auen’: Problems in Translating Stefan George,” Proceedings of the 1984 Convention of the American Translators’ Association.
Book reviews
The GDR Bulletin
Flanzendörfer, “unmöglich es leben,” Fall 1995
Sarah Kirsch, “Das simple Leben,” Fall 1994
Essays
WVTF radio (NPR), December 2006; September 2001 (essays read).
The Utne Reader, January/February 2002: “The Theory of Falling Bodies” (essay, reprint).
Brainchild Magazine, Fall ’01: “A Theory of Falling Bodies” (essay).
Other essays published in “The C’ville Weekly,” “The Hook,” “Tough Times Companion” (anthology published by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities).
Awards
Writer’s Digest Magazine Writing Competition: Prize for feature writing, 2006.
Middlebury-Mainz Fellowship, 1980.
The Lilian L. Stroebe Prize for Excellence in German, Vassar College, May 1978.