Lecturer

History and Germanic Languages and Literatures

Office Hours: MW 3:30-4:30 in Cabell 506

Office: Randall 224

Phone: (434) 924-6401

Fax: (434) 924-7891

Email: ma6cqvirginia.edu

Education 

M.A. Free University of Berlin, 1996
M.A. University of Michigan, 1996
Ph.D. University of Michigan, 2005

Publications

"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 2006 (forthcoming).

Pamela E. Swett, Neighbors and Enemies: The Culture of Radicalism in Berlin, 1929-1933 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004). Book review for Social History, November 2006 (forthcoming).

"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: Peter Lang, 2004, pp. 305-328.

"'Blutdurst' und 'Symbolhunger': Zur Semantik von Blut und Erde", in Walter Delabar, Horst Denkler, Erhard Schatz (eds), Spielraume des Einzelnen: Deutsche Literatur in der Weimarer Republik und im Dritten Reich, Berlin: Weidler Buchverlag, 2000, pp. 185-315.

Teaching Interests

• German History, Literature and Film
• Cultural Studies
• Critical Theory
• Literary Theory
• Intellectual History
• National Identity and the Politics of Culture
• Literature and the Nation
• German Orientalism