Beth Bjorklund
Associate Professor
Degrees
Ph.D. Indiana 1975
Interests
Poetry, poetics, prosody,
linguistics, translation, fin de siècle Vienna, modern
Austrian literature, contemporary poetry, Mayröcker, Jandl,
working-class literature, socio-political approaches to literature
Books
Politics in German Literature.
Co-edited with Mark Cory. Columbia, SC:
Camden House, 1998.
Constance Mozart: An Unimportant
Woman. Trans. of Constanze Mozart: Eine
unbedeutende Frau, by Renate Welsh. Riverside,
CA: Ariadne Press, 1997.
Night Train.
Trans. of Reise
durch die Nacht, by
Friederike Mayröcker. Riverside, CA:
Ariadne Press, 1992.
Contemporary Austria Poetry: An Anthology. London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, 1986
A Study in Comparative Prosody:
English and German Iambic Pentameter.
Stuttgarten Arbeiten zur Germanistik 35. Stuttgart:
Akademischer Verlag Heinz, 1978.
Articles
"Representation
and its Retreat in the Poetry of Evelyn Schlag." In Evelyn Schlag: Readings of Text, ed.
Beverley Eddy. New York:
Peter Lang, 2004, 117-40.
“Working-Class
Literature: Petzold’s Rauhes Leben.”
Center for Austrian Studies. Working Papers in Austrian Studies. Minneapolis, MN: University
of Minnesota (2003). At:
www.cas.umn.edu, under Publications/Working Paper 03-1.
“Das Ich erschreiben – Derrida, Picasso und Bach
in Mayröckers brütt.” Trans. by H.M. Müller, in “Rupfen in fremden
Gärten.” Intertextualität im Schreiben Friederike Mayröckers, ed.
Heidy Margit Müller. Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2002, 107-22.
“On the Integrity
of the Line in Free Verse.” In Meter, Rhythm and Performance – Metrum,
Rhythmus, Performanz, ed. Christoph Küper. Frankfurt
a..M.: Peter Lang, 2002, 241-52.
“Mysteries of the
Subject: Friederike Mayröcker’s Reise durch die Nacht. In Modern
Austrian Prose: Interpretations and Insights, ed. Paul F. Dvorak. Riverside, CA:
Ariadne Press, 2001, pp. 247-68.
"The 'Raw'
and the 'Cooked' in fin-de-siècle Vienna."
Politics in German Literature, ed. Beth Bjorklund and Mark Cory. Columbia, SC: Camden House, 1998, pp.
103-16.
"Mayröcker's
Fictional Autobiography." Out from the Shadows: Essays on Contemporary
Austrian Women Writers and Filmmakers, ed. Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger. Riverside, CA:
Ariadne Press, 1997, pp. 55-65.
"History
from a Woman's Perspective: Welsh's Lufthaus." Out from the
Shadows: Essays on Contemporary Austrian Women Writers and Filmmakers, ed.
Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger. Riverside,
CA: Ariadne Press, 1997, pp.
88-100.
"Form,
Anti-Form, and Informality: Reinventing Free Verse." Poetics Today,
16 (1995), 547-67.
"Realistic
Idealism: Welsh for All Ages." Österreich in amerikanischer Sicht, 8 (1995), 1-20.
"A Gender-linked Genre? Or: Why Women
Do Not Write Volksstücke." Modern Austrian Literature, 26
(1993), 129-42.
"Horváth's
Unbekannte." Turn-of-the-Century
Vienna and its Legacy: Essays in Honor of Donald G. Daviau, ed. Jeffrey B.
Berlin, Jorun B. Johns, and Richard H. Lawson.
Vienna:
Edition Atelier, 1993, pp. 389-412.
"Austrian
Poetry," "German Prosody," and "Blank Verse." The
New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and
Poetics, ed. Alex Preminger and T. V. F. Brogan. Princeton: Princeton University
Press, 1993, Third Edition, pp. 109-12, 140-41, 477-78.
"Ödön von
Horváth." Twentieth-Century German Dramatists, 1919-1992, ed.,
James Hardin and Wolfgang Elfe. Vol. 124 of Dictionary of Literary Biography. Detroit, London: Bruccoli Clark
Layman, 1992, 228-37.
"Metre as a
Human Problem." Semiotica,
88 (1992), 327-40. Abstract in Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts,
26 (1992), 1949.
"Museum of Modern
Art's 'Vienna
1900': Conception and Reception." Modern Austrian Literature,
23 (1990), 99-109.
"Kerschbaumer's Feminine Resistance." Österreich in amerikanischer Sicht, 6
(1990), 1-9.
"Iambic and
Trochaic Verse--Major and Minor Keys?"
Rhythm and Meter, ed. Paul Kiparsky and Gilbert Youmans (Phonetic
and Phonology, I). New
York, San Diego: Academic Press, 1988, pp. 155-81.
"Ingeborg
Bachmann." Major Figures of
Contemporary Austrian Literature, ed. Donald G. Daviau. Riverside, CA: Ariadne Press, 1988, pp. 49-82.
"Goethe's
Iphigenie in Prose and Verse." Style,
21 (1987), 439-63.
"The Modern
Muse of Friederike Mayröcker's Literary Production." Major Figures of
Contemporary Austrian Literature, ed. Donald G. Daviau. New
York: P. Lang,
1987, pp. 313-36.
"Friederike
Mayröcker and the Austrian Avant-Garde."
poesis 5 (1984), 48-67.
(Formerly, Contemporary Poetry:
A Journal of Criticism)
"'If This be
Error': How Shall the Poem be
Translated?" Language and Style,
16 (1983), 3-22.
"Klopstock's
Poetic Innovations: The Emergence of
German as a Prosodic Language." The
Germanic Review, 56 (1981), 20-27.
"Tradition and
Innovation: Austrian Poetry at the
Opening of the Eighties." World
Literature Today, 55 (1981), 592-96.
"On the
Alleged Incomprehensibility of Modern Poetry:
Friederike Mayröcker's Experimental Forms." Österreich in amerikanischer Sicht, 2
(1981), 1-9.
"Elements of
Poetic Rhythm: Stress, Syllabicity,
Sound, and Sense." Poetics,
8 (1979), 351-65.
"Cognitive
Strategies in a Text." Journal
of Literary Semantics, 8 (1979), 84-99.
Abstract in Language and
Language Behavior Abstracts, 15 (1981), 82.
"'Dunkel ist Licht genug': Zur Lyrik von Doris Mühringer," with
Jürgen Koppensteiner. Modern
Austrian Literature, 12 (1979), 192-207.
Reprinted in Podium, 38 (1980), 18-22.
"Thomas
Mann's 'Tobias Mindernickel' in light of Sartre's 'Being-for-Others.'" Studies
in Twentieth Century Literature, 2 (1978), 103-12.
Fellowship and Awards
University of Virginia Sesquicentennial Associateship,
2004-05, 1993-94, 1986-87
Fulbright German Studies Seminar Grant, 1998, 1993
University of Virginia Small Grant, 1993
University of Virginia Summer Grant, 1992, 1990,1986, 1985,
1982, 1980, 1979
Österreichisches Bundesministerium für Unterricht und Kunst Grant, 1988, 1979
Fulbright Research Grant, 1987-88
NEH Travel to Collections Grant, 1986
Columbia University, Society of Fellows in the Humanities, Senior Fellowship, 1982-84
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 1980-81
Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College Fellowship, 1980-81 (declined)
Outstanding Young Woman of America Award, Montgomery, Alabama, 1978
W.K. Kellogg Foundation Planning Grant, 1977-78
Furman University Summer Grant, 1977, 1978
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar Grant, 1977
Ohio State University Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1975-76
Europa-Kolleg Fellowship, 1973-74
Indiana University Doctoral Student Grant-in-Aid to Research, 1972
American Association of University Women Fellowship, 1971-72
N.D.E.A. Title IV Fellowship, 1968-71
Middlebury-Mainz Fellowship, 1967-68
Minnesota-Berlin Exchange Fellowship, 1966-67
Fulbright Travel Grant, 1966-67
