Curriculum Vitae

LILIANE WEISSBERG

February 2008

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Degrees

M.A. 1989 University of Pennsylvania (honorary)

Ph.D. 1984 Harvard University, Comparative Literature

A.M. 1979 Harvard University, Comparative Literature

M.A. 1977 Freie Universität Berlin, General and Comparative Literature, German Studies, Linguistics

Principal Pedagogical Interests

German, American, and French Literature (late eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries), literary theory, aesthetics, cultural studies.

Educational Background

l977-84 Harvard University, Comparative Literature (American, German, and French literature)

l978 (Spring term) Yale University, special student, French and Comparative

Literature

l977 (Fall term) Massachusetts Institute of Technology, special student,

Theoretical Linguistics

l972-78 Freie Universität Berlin, General and Comparative Literature (Critical theory, German, English-American, and French literature), German Studies, Philosophy

(German Enlightenment to present, Hermeneutics)

l973-77 Technische Universität Berlin, Theoretical Linguistics and Philosophy of Language

Fellowships and Awards

Fall 2004 The Dalck and Rose Feith Family Fellowship, Center for Advanced

Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania

2004 Maria Sibylla Merian Fellowship, Universität Erfurt

2003 SAS Instructional Technology Grant, University of Pennsylvania

2003 Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Foundation Award for

Distinguished Teaching, University of Pennsylvania

2001 Faculty Research Support Grant, Alice Paul Center, University of

Pennsylvania

1999-2000 Faculty Research Associateship, Humanities Forum, University of

Pennsylvania

1999 Recognition, Netherlands-America Association

1998-99 Samuel Grunfeld Fellowship, Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania

1998 Fellowship, American Philosophical Society

1997 Research Award, Research Foundation, University of Pennsylvania

1992 Research Award, Research Foundation, University of Pennsylvania

1991-92 Fellowship, Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture

1991-92 Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

1991 East-West Fellowship, Voltaire Foundation

Fellow, Wadham College, Oxford University

1989 Research Award, Research Foundation, University of Pennsylvania

1988 1987 Margaret Church MFS Memorial Prize

1988 LBI/DAAD Fellowship in German-Jewish History and Culture

1988 NEH Summer Stipend

1987-88 Grant for Course Development, Kenan Fund, The Johns Hopkins University

1985 Research Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies

1984-85 Grant for Course Development, Kenan Fund, The Johns Hopkins University

1983 Susan Anthony Potter Prize in Comparative Literature, Harvard University

1981 Bernard Blume Award in German Literature, Harvard University

1980 Esther Sellholm Walz Prize in German Literature, Harvard University

l980-82 Dissertation Fellowship, Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes, Bonn

Teaching Experience

2004-present Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor in Arts and

Sciences, University of Pennsylvania

1998-2004 Joseph B. Glossberg Term Professor in the Humanities, University of Pennsylvania

1994-present Professor, German and Comparative Literature, University of Pennsylvania

Secondary appointments in: Women’s Studies (since 1989), Folklore and Folklife (later: Center for Ethnography and Folklore), 1997 - 2004, Jewish Studies (since 1998), History of Art (since 2000)

1989-1994 Associate Professor of German and Comparative Literature, University of Pennsylvania

1983-1989 Assistant Professor of German, The Johns Hopkins University

1979-81 Teaching Fellow, Department of Germanic Languages and

Literatures, History and Literature Concentration, and Social Studies Concentration, Harvard University

1975-77, 1978 Lecturer in Linguistics and Text Theory, Hochschule der

(Summer semester) Künste Berlin

Visiting Appointments

2007 (Summer semester) Kurt David Brühl Visiting Professor, Jüdische Studien, Karl-

Franzens-Universität Graz

2003 (Summer semester) Visiting Professor, Jüdische Philosophie und Geistesgeschichte

(Jewish Philosophy and Intellectual History), Hochschule für Jüdische Studien, Heidelberg

2002 (Summer semester) Visiting Professor, Jüdische Geschichte und Kultur (Jewish

History and Culture), Kulturwissenschaftliches Seminar

(Cultural Studies), Humboldt Universität zu Berlin

2001 (Summer semester) Ernst Cassirer Professor, Philosophisches Seminar (Philosophy),

Universität Hamburg

1995 (Summer semester) Visiting Professor, Lehrstuhl Neugermanistik I; neuere deutsche

Literatur und Medienkunde (Chair in Modern German Literature and Media), Germanistisches Institut, Ruhr-Universität Bochum

1993 (Summer semester) Visiting Professor, Neuere deutsche Geschichte (Modern German History), and Fellow, Moses Mendelssohn-Zentrum für europäisch-jüdische Studien (Moses Mendelssohn Center for European-Jewish Studies), Universität Potsdam

1990 (Spring term) Lecturer, Lauder Institute (Business and German Studies),

University of Pennsylvania

1989 (Fall term) Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Germanic

Languages and Literatures, Princeton University

1986 (Summer semester) Visiting Professor, Literaturwissenschaftliches Seminar

(German Literature), Universität Hamburg

Administrative Positions (University of Pennsylvania)

2004-present Graduate Chair, Department of Germanic Languages and

Literatures

2003 (Spring term) Acting Undergraduate Chair, Department of Germanic Languages

and Literatures

1995-2002 Chair, Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory

1992-1995 Co-Chair, Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory

1993 (Spring term) Acting Director, Women’s Studies Program

1991 (Spring term) Acting Chair, Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory

Publications

1. Books

(monographs)

Geistersprache: Philosophischer und literarischer Diskurs im späten achtzehnten Jahrhundert. Würzburg: Verlag Königshausen + Neumann, 1990.

Edgar Allan Poe (ser.) Sammlung Metzler 204. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler Verlag, 1991.

Approaching Gentility: Early German-Jewish Autobiography and the Quest for Acculturation (nearing completion).

(separata)

Life as a Goddess: Henriette Herz Writes Her Autobiography. (ser.) Braun Lecture in the History of German Jewry, 1999. Ramat Gan: Bar-Ilan University, 2001.

Humanity and Its Limits: Hannah Arendt Reads Lessing. Fritz Thyssen Lecture, Center of German Excellence. Beer Sheva: Ben Gurion University of the Negev (forthcoming)

(editions)

Poe, Edgar Allan. Ligeia und andere Erzählungen. Afterword, edition and partial translation. Berlin: Ullstein Verlag, 1985.

Schlegel, Dorothea. Florentin. Afterword and edition. Berlin: Ullstein Verlag, 1987.

Hannah Arendt, Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewess, trans. Richard and Clara Winston. Introduction and edition. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.

-- second printing,1998.

-- paperback publication, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.

-- second printing, paperback, 2000.

-- third printing, paperback, 2004.

Briefe der Frühromantik. Introduction and edition. 2 volumes. Frankfurt/M: Insel Verlag (forthcoming).

(anthologies)

MLN 102 (German Issue), April 1987.

Weiblichkeit als Maskerade. Introduction, edition, and partial translation. Frankfurt/M: S. Fischer Verlag, 1994.

(with Dan Ben-Amos), Cultural Memory and the Construction of Identity. Introduction and edition. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1999.

--second printing, 2006.

(with J. Gerald Kennedy), Romancing the Shadow: Poe and Race. Introduction and edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001 (hardcover and paperback).

The Culture of Exchange: Real and Imagined Markets in the Low Countries, 1500-1800 (work-in-progress).

Picture This! Writing With Photography (with Karen Beckman; work-in-progress).

(translations)

Chomsky, Noam. Studien zu Fragen der Semantik. Berlin: Ullstein Verlag, 1978.