Curriculum Vitae

 

 

                                                          LILIANE WEISSBERG

 

February 2008

 

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(215) 898-3343                                                                       lweissbe@sas.upenn.edu

 

 

 

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 Universitt 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 Universitt Berlin, General and Com­para­tive Literature (Critical theo­ry, German, English-American, and French liter­a­ture), German Stud­ies, Philos­o­phy

                                                (Ger­man Enlight­en­ment to pres­ent, Hermeneutics)

l973-77                        Technische Universitt 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, Universitt 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: Womens 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)                             Knste Berlin

 

 

Visiting Appointments

 

2007 (Summer semester) Kurt David Brhl Visiting Professor, Jdische Studien, Karl-

Franzens-Universitt Graz

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

(Jewish Philosophy and Intellectual History), Hochschule fr Jdische Studien, Heidelberg

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

                                                History and Culture), Kulturwissenschaftliches Seminar

                                                (Cultural Studies), Humboldt Universitt zu Berlin

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

                                                Universitt Hamburg

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

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

1993 (Summer semester) Visiting Professor, Neuere deutsche Geschichte (Modern German History), and Fellow, Moses Mendelssohn-Zentrum fr europisch-jdische Studien (Moses Mendelssohn Center for European-Jewish Studies), Universitt 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), Universitt 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, Womens Studies Program

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

 

Publications

 

1. Books

 

(monographs)

 

Geistersprache:  Philosophischer und literarischer Diskurs im spten achtzehnten Jahrhundert.  Wrzburg: Verlag Knigshausen + 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 Erzhlungen.  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 Frhromantik. 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.

 

Said, Edward.  Orientalismus.  Berlin: Ullstein Verlag, 1981.

 

 

2. Book Series

 

General Editor, Kritik: German Literary Theory and Cultural Studies, a book series published by Wayne State University Press (1991-2006).

 

 

3. Articles

 

Versuch einer Sprache des Mglichen:  Zum Problem des Erzh­lens bei Robert Musil.  Deutsche Viertel­jahrsschrift fr Literatur­wis­senschaft und Geistes­geschichte 54 (1980): 464-484.

 

Writing on the Wall: Letters of Rahel Varn­hagen.  New German Critique 36 (1985): 157-173.

 

Catarcticon und der schne Wahn:  Kants Trume eines Geister­sehers, erlutert durch Trume der Metaphysik. Poetica 18 (1986):  96-116.

 

Singing of Tales:  Kafkas Sirens.  Kafka and the Contem­porary Critical Performance, ed. Alan Udoff (Bloom­ing­ton: Indiana University Press, 1987):  165-177.

 

Editing Adventures:  Writing the Text of Julius Rodman. Modern Fiction Studies 33 (1987): 413-430.

 

Myth, History, Enlightenment:  The Silence of the Sirens. Journal of the Kafka Society of America 9 (1985): 131-148.

 

Arnold Zweig.  Dictionary of Literary Biography 66, vol. II (Columbia, SC: Camden House, Inc., 1988): 503-534.

 

Selbstbeschreibung als pdagogischer Diskurs:  Rahel Varnha­gens Briefe. Rahel Levin Varnhagen: Die Wiederentdeckung einer Schriftstellerin, eds. Barbara Hahn and Ursula Isselstein.  Zeitschrift fr Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik, Beiheft 14 (Gttingen: Verlag Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1987): 76-85.

 

The Masters Theme, and Some Variations:  Dorothea Schle­gels Florentin as Bildungsroman.  Michigan Germanic Studies 13 (1987): 169-181.

 

Anders schreiben? berlegungen zu Briefen Rahel Varnhagens an Friedrich de la Motte Fouqu. Kanalarbeit: Medienstrategien im Kulturwandel, ed. Hans Ulrich Reck (Fran­k-furt/M: Verlag Stroem­feld/Ro­ter Stern, 1988): 148-162.

 

Desired Reconciliation:  On Language as Experiment. MLN 103 (1988): 1056-1071.

 

Natur als Gleichnis:  Der Sprachursprung bei Ralph Waldo Emerson.  Theorien vom Ursprung der Sprache I, eds. Wolfert von Rahden and Joachim Gessinger. (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter Verlag, 1989): 561-584.

 

Languages Wound: Herder, Philoctetes, and the Origin of Speech.  MLN 104 (1989): 548-579.

 

Soziale Mimesis: Versuche der Anpassung um 1800. Imitationen. Nachahmung und Modell: Von der Lust am Falschen, eds. Jrg Huber, Martin Heller, and Hans Ulrich Reck (Basel: Verlag Stroemfeld/Roter Stern, 1989): 99-107.

 

In Search of Truth and Beauty:  Poes Berenice and The Domain of Arnheim.  Poe and His Times:  A Writer and His Milieu, ed. Benjamin F. Fisher (Baltimore: The Edgar Allan Poe Society, 1990): 66-75.

 

Moses Mendelssohn.  German Literary Figures of the Age of Goethe, eds. James Hardin and Christoph Schweitzer  (Columbia, SC:  Bruccoli Clark and Gale Research Company, 1990): 195-204.

 

Monkey Business. Imitation und Mimesis, ed. Hans Ulrich Reck. Kunstforum 113 (July/August 1991): 237-252.

 

Dorothea Schlegel.  Lexikon der deutschsprachigen Litera­tur X, ed. Walther Killy.  (Munich: Bertelsmann Verlag, 1991): 259-260.

 

Stepping Out:  The Writing of Difference in Rahel Varnhagens Letters. New German Critique 52 (1991): 1-14.

 

            -- Reprinted in: Antisemitism in Times of Crisis, eds. Sander L. Gilman and Steven Katz (New York: New York University Press, 1991): 140-153.

 

Literatur als Reprsentationsform: Zur Lektre von Lektre.  Vom Umgang mit Literatur und Literaturgeschichte, eds. Lutz Danneberg and Friedrich Vollhardt (Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler Verlag, 1992): 293-314.

 

A Philosophers Style: Reading Fichtes Geist und Buchstab. Fictions of Culture: Essays in Honor of Walter Sokel, ed. Steven Taubeneck (New York: Verlag Peter Lang, 1991): 117-132.

 

Turns of Emancipation: Rahel Varnhagens Letters. Cultural Critique 21 (1992): 219-238.

 

-- Reprinted in: In the Shadow of Olympus, eds. Katherine Goodman and Edith Waldstein (Albany: SUNY University Press, 1992): 53-70, 224-226.

 

Philosophy and the Fairy Tale: Ernst Bloch as Narrator. New German Critique 55 (1992): 21-44.

 

Changing Weather: A Review Essay. The Germanic Review LXVII (1992): 77-86.

 

Henriette Herz Remembers: The Memoirs of a Jewish Woman. Transactions of the Eighth International Congress on the Enlightenment (Bristol 21-27 July 1991) (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 1992): 844-847.

 

Weibliche Krpersprachen. Von einer Welt in die andere: Jdinnen im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, eds. Jutta Dick and Barbara Hahn (Vienna: Christian Brandsttter Verlag, 1993): 71-92.

 

Vom Naturalienkabinett zur sthetik der Moderne: Zu den Marginalien Edgar Allan Poes. Die Erfindung der Natur: Max Ernst, Paul Klee, Wols und das surreale Universum, eds. Karin Orchard and Jrg Zimmermann (Freiburg: Rombach Verlag, 1994), 89-97.

 

Juden oder Hebrer? Religise und politische Bekehrung bei Herder. Johann Gottfried Herder: Geschichte und Kultur, ed. Martin Bollacher (Wrzburg: Verlag Knigshausen + Neumann, 1994), 191-211.

 

Memory Confined. documents 4/5 (1994): 81-98.

 

            -- Reprinted in: Lab: Jahrbuch 1995/96 fr Knste und Apparate (Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Knig, 1996), 246-65.

 

            -- Reprinted in: Cultural Memory and the Construction of Identity, eds. Dan Ben-Amos and Liliane Weissberg (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1999), 45-76.

 

Utopian Visions: Bloch, Lukcs, Pontoppidan, German Quarterly 67,2 (1994): 197-210.

 

Erfahrungsseelenkunde als Akkulturation: Philosophie, Wissenschaft und Lebensgeschichte bei Salomon Maimon. Der ganze Mensch: Anthropologie und Literaturwissenschaft im achtzehnten Jahrhundert, ed. Hans Jrgen Schings (Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler Verlag, 1994), 298-328.

 

Erinnerung, Geschichte, Kommunikation: Gedanken zu einem Bild Keith Harings. Kunstforum 128 (October-December, 1994): 202-212.

 

Taking Steps: Writing Traces in Adalbert Stifter. Thematics Reconsidered: Essays in Honor of Horst S. Daemmrich, ed. Frank Trommler (Amsterdam: Radopi Verlag, 1995), 253-274.

 

-- German translation (shortened), Kleine Schritte: Natur und Kunstwerk bei Stifter und Heidegger. sthetik und Naturerfahrung, ed. Jrg Zimmermann (Stuttgart: fromann-holzboog Verlag, 1996), 285-298.

 

Schreiben als Selbstentwurf.  Zu den Schriften Rahel Varnha­gens und Dorothea Schlegels. Zeitschrift fr Religions- und Geistesgeschichte 47 (1995): 231-253.

 

Die Ausstellung des Fremden: Zur Literaturtheorie als cultural studies. Literaturtheorie nach 1945, eds. Lutz Danneberg and Friedrich Vollhardt (Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler Verlag, 1995): 499-531.

 

Funoten: Zum Ort der sthetischen Erfahrung in Lazarus Bendavids Selbstbiographie. Cognitio humana-- Dynamik des Wissens und der Werte I-II, eds. Christoph Hubig and Hans Poser (Leipzig: Institut fr Philosophie Leipzig, 1996), II: 1246-1251.

 

Gothic Spaces: The Political Aesthetics of Toni Morrisons Beloved. Modern Gothic: A Reader, eds. Victor Sage and Allan Lloyd Smith (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1996), 104-120.

 

-- Reprinted in: Gothic Literature I-III (Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, forthcoming).

 

Bodies in Pain: Reflections on the Jewish Salon. The German-Jewish Dialogue Reconsidered: A Symposium in Honor of George L. Mosse, ed. Klaus L. Berghahn (Frankfurt/M: Verlag Peter Lang, 1996), 59-79, 258-266.

 

-- German translation (revised), Zur Pathologie des Salons: Regina Frohberg, Rahel Levin, Karl August Varnhagen und der Schmerz der Liebe.  Rahel Varnhagen: Studien zu ihrem Werk im zeitgenssischen Kontext, ed. Sabina Becker (Saarbrcken: Rhrig Universittsverlag, 2001), 119-161.

 

Dramatic History: Notes on a Biblical Play by Ludwig Robert. Studies in Contemporary Jewish History, ed. Ezra Mendelsohn (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996), 3-20.

 

-- German translation (revised),  Das Drama eines preuβischen Patrioten: Ludwig Roberts Jephthas Tochter, Judentum zwischen Tradition und Moderne (ser.) Schriften der Hochschule fr Jdische Studien Heidelberg II, eds. Gerd Biegel and Michael Graetz (Heidelberg: C. Winter Verlag, 2002), 95-116.

 

Der Philosoph als Selbstbeobachter: Zu den Schriften Lazarus Bendavids. Akten des IX. Weltkongress der IVG, ed. Michael Batts (Tbingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1996), 205.

 

Literary Therapy: Lazarus Bendavid and the Possibilities of Jewish Authorship. Transactions of the Ninth International Congress on the Enlightenment (Mnster July 23-29, 1995) (Oxford: Voltaire-Society, 1996), 197-201.

 

The Tale of the Good German. Spielbergs Holocaust: Critical Perspectives on  Schindlers List, ed. Yosefa Loshitsky (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997), 170-92.

 

Circulating Images: Notes on the Photographic Exchange. Writing the Image after Roland Barthes, ed. Jean-Michel Rabat (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997), 109-131.

 

-- Expanded German version, Bilderwechsel.  Barthes, Benjamin, Freud und der Exkurs der Photographie. Jahrbuch fr Literatur und Psychoanalyse 24,  Kulturtheorie, ed. Ortrud Gutjahr (Wrzburg: Knigshausen und Neumann, 2005), 217-240.

 

1792-93: Salomon Maimon publishes his Lebensgeschichte, a reflection on his life in the (Polish) East and the (German) West. Yale Companion to Jewish Writing and Thought in German Culture, 1096-1996, eds. Jack Zipes and Sander Gilman (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997), 108-115.

 

Berliner Villenkultur: Familienbetrieb in der Massenuniversitt-- Herrschaftsvilla und linke Politik. 50 Jahre Freie Universitt: Fachbereich Germanistik: Jubilumszeitung. Der Tagesspiegel (Berlin, October/November 1998), 11.

 

Preisfragen zu einem Leben in Deutschland vor und nach 1933: Karl Lwiths Autobiographie und der Harvard Wettberwerb von 1939. Exil XVIII, 2 (1998): 14-23.

 

Notenverkehr: Antisemitische Motive und Texte auf dem Notgeld der 20er Jahre. Abgestempelt! Antisemitische Bildpostkarten 1885-1945, ed. Fritz Backhaus for the Jdisches Museum Frankfurt/M and Museum fr Post und Kommunkation, Frankfurt/M (ser.) Kataloge der Museumsstiftung Post und Telekommunikation 4 (Heidelberg: Umschau/Braus, 1999), 276-283.

 

-- Shorter French version, En circulation : Le papier-monnaie comme propagande, trans. Julie-Franoise Kruidenier (forthcoming).

 

Funoten. Zum Ort der sthetischen Erfahrung in Lazarus Bendavids Selbstbiographie. Berliner Aufklrung, eds. Ursula Goldenbaum and Alexander Koženina (Berlin: Wehrhahn Verlag, 1999), 231-253.

 

Der Rothschild der Maler und der Dichterfrst (with Georg Heuberger). Moritz Daniel Oppenheim: Die Entdeckung des jdischen Selbstbewuβtseins in der Kunst, eds. Georg Heuberger and Anton Merk; exhibition catalogue, Jdisches Museum Frankfurt/M (Frankfurt/M: Wienand Verlag, 1999), 131-152.

 

-- English translation, The Rothschild of Painters and the Prince of Poets, ibid., 131-152.

 

Das starre Subjekt, das bewegliche Auge:  Zur Geburt des realistischen Blicks. Wissen in der Literatur, eds. Lutz Danneberg and Friedrich Vollhardt, with Hartmut Bhme and Jrg Schnert (Tbingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 2002), 127-146.

 

In Search of the Mother Tongue. Arendt in Jerusalem, ed. Steven Aschheim (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001), 149-164.

 

-- Hebrew translation, Be-hipus ahar sfat ha-em: Ha-sifrut ha-germanit yehudit shel Hannah Arendt translated by Yaacov Gottschalk, in: Hannah Arendt ve Jerushalajim, ed. Stephen E. Aschheim (Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 2007): 167-184.

 

-- revised German version, Auf der Suche nach der Muttersprache.  Dialog der Disziplinen: Jdische Studien und Literaturwissenschaft, eds. Eva Lezzi and Dorothea Salzer (forthcoming 2007).

 

Critics in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt Reads Walter Benjamin. Literary Friendship, Literary Paternity: Essays in Honor of Stanley Corngold, ed. Gerhard Richter (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002), 278-293.

 

Black, White, and Gold. Romancing the Shadow: Poe and Race, eds. J. Gerald Kennedy and Liliane Weissberg (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001), 127-156.

 

-- Reprinted in: Poetic Effect and Cultural Discourses, ed. Hermann Schnackertz (ser.) Amican Studies: A Monograph Series 105, (Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universittsverlag, 2003): 209-244.

 

-- Czech translation, Smery literarni interpretace 20. stoleti, ed. Michal Perprnik (Olmouc: University Publishing House Palacky University, translation-in-progress).

 

Wiederholungen. Erinnern und Vergessen in der europischen Romantik, ed. Gnter Oesterle (Wrzburg: Verlag Knigshausen + Neumann, 2001), 177-191.

 

-- English translation, Repetitions: Returning to Kierkegaard, Freud, and Tieck, Under Construction: Links for the Site of Literary Theory. Essays in Honour of Hendrik van Gorp, eds. Dirk De Geest, Ortwin de Graef, Dirk Delabastita, Koenraad Geldof, Rita Ghesquire, and Jos Lambert, eds. (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2000), 149-165.

           

Ludwig Robert. Lexikon deutsch-jdischer Literatur, ed. Andreas Kilcher (Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler Verlag, 2000): 481-483.

 

Lazarus Bendavid. Lexikon deutsch-jdischer Literatur, ed. Andreas Kilcher (Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler Verlag, 2000): 48-50.

 

Eduard Fuchs und die konomie der Karikatur. Babylon 20 (2002): 113-128.

 

Der Mensch, physiognomisch gesehen: August Sanders Photographien als politischer bungsatlas. Humanitt in einer pluralistischen Welt? Themengeschichtliche und formanalytische Studien zur deutschsprachigen Literatur.  Festschrift fr Martin Bollacher, eds. Christian Kluwe and Jost Schneider (Wrzburg: Knigshausen + Neumann, 2000), 325-341.

 

Weimar and Jena: Goethe and the New Philosophy. Goethe und das Zeitalter der Romantik, ed. Walter Hinderer (Wrzburg: Knigshausen + Neumann, 2002), 163-174.

 

In Plain Sight.  The Holocaust and Visual Culture, ed. Barbie Zelizer (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2001), 13-27.

 

-- German translation, Deutlich sichtbar. In: Reden von Gewalt, trans. Peter Weber-Schfer, ed. Kristin Platt (ser.) Genozid und Gedchtnis (Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 2002), 327-345.

 

-- Excerpted in: The Holocaust: Theoretical Readings, eds. Neil Levi and Michael Rothberg (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press/Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2003), 396-403.

 

Baubo lacht. Theorie der Komdie/ Poetik der Komdie, ed. Ralf Simon (ser.) Studienbuch 2 (Bielefeld: Aisthesis Verlag, 2001), 67-81.

 

Michael Kohlhaas, or the Monstrous Disorder of the World. Kleists Erzhlungen und Dramen: Neue Studien, eds. Michael Ltzeler and David Pan (Wrzburg: Knigshausen & Neumann, 2001), 15-23.

 

-- Expanded German version, Die Unschuld des Namens und die ungeheure Unordnung der Welt. Ein gross vund narhafft haffen: Festschrift fr Jochen Gessinger, eds. Elisabeth Berner, Manuela Bhm, and Anja Voeste (Potsdam: Universitt Potsdam/ Institut fr Germanistik, 2005), 183-196.

 

Dining Out: Walter Benjamin Meets Goethe. Arche Noah. Die Idee der Kultur im deutsch-jdischen Diskurs, eds. Bernhard Greiner and Christoph Schmidt (ser.) Cultura 26 (Freiburg: Rombach, 2002), 249-271.

 

-- German translation (revised), Benjamins Goethe-Traum, in: Differenzerfahrung und Selbst. Bewutsein und Wahrnehmung in Literatur und Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts, eds. Bettina von Jagow and Florian Steger (Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 2003), 269-290.

 

Dora geht.  berschreitung des Hysterieparadigmas.Gender Revisited: Subjekt- und Politikbegriffe in Kultur und Medien, eds. Katharina Baisch, Ines Kappert, Marianne Schuller, Elisabeth Strowick, and Ortrud Gutjahr (Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 2002), 269-288.

 

-- English version, Exit Dora: Freuds Patient Takes Leave. Psychoanalytic Inquiry 25, 1 (2005). Special issue, Freud and Dora: 100 Years Later, eds. Susan Levine and Sidney Pulver, 5-26.

 

Wie schnell kann man verhaftet werden? Benjamin Veitel Ephraim, Preuβens erster jdischer Geheimrat, reflektiert ber das Berufsrisiko um 1800, Preuβens Himmel breitet seine Sterne : Beitrge zur Kultur-, Politik- und Geistesgeschichte der Neuzeit I, Festschrift zum 60. Geburtstag von Julius H. Schoeps, eds. Willi Jasper and Joachim H. Knoll (Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 2002), 85-105.

 

-- Revised version, Wie wird ein rechtloser Jude Diplomat? (oder: Politik um 1800), in: Die Macht und das Imaginre, ed. Jrn Steigerwald (Wrzburg: Knigshausen & Neumann, 2005), 125-141.

 

Paternal Lines: Philip Roth Writes His Autobiography. Contemporary Jewish

Autobiography, (ser.) Romania Judaica, ed. Christoph Miething (Tbingen: Niemeyer Verlag, 2003), 179-195.

 

Kann ein Jude Romantiker sein? Romantische Religiositt, ed. Alexander von Bormann (Wrzburg: Knigshausen + Neumann, 2005), 265-283.

 

Ein Medizinstudent in Berlin: Louis Baruch fhrt Tagebuch. Ludwig Brne. Deutscher, Jude, Demokrat, eds. Frank Stern and Maria Gierlinger (Berlin: Aufbau Verlag, 2003), 9-18.

 

Was will der Mann? Gedanken zum Briefwechsel von Sigmund Freud und Wilhelm Flie. Mnnlichkeit als Maskerade. Kulturelle Inszenierungen vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart, eds. Claudia Benthien and Inge Stephan (ser.) Literatur—Kultur—Geschichte (Kleine Reihe) 18 (Cologne: Bhlau, 2003), 81-99.

 

Kein Ort, nirgends: Gedanken zum jdischen Salon. Jahrbuch fr Historische Bildungsforschung 9 (2003): 119-144.

 

Ortswechsel: Hannah Arendts Suche nach dem asiatischen Volk. Hebrische Poesie und jdischer Volksgeist: Die Wirkungsgeschichte von Johann Gottfried Herder im Judentum Mittel- und Osteuropas, ed. Christoph Schulte (Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 2003), 247-256.

 

Kstchenwahl. Goethe Year Book (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2006): 61-82.

 

-- Shorter version, Puppenstube. Auslassungen. Leerstellen als Movens der Kulturwissenschaft, eds. Natascha Adamowsky and Peter Matussek (Wrzburg: Knigshausen & Neumann, 2004), 201-212.

 

Von der Einfachheit zu dichten und denken, und der Schwierigkeit, ein Volk zu sein. Sind wir noch ein Volk der Dichter und Denker?, eds. Jrgen Trger and Heiner Must (ser.) Vortrge des Studium generale der Ruprecht-Karls-Universitt Heidelberg (Wintersemester 2002/2003) (Heidelberg: Universittsverlag Winter, 2004), 91-106.

 

Sind moderne Religionsgesprche auch jdische Religionsgesprche? Response to a paper by Daniel Hoffmann. Zwischen Sprachen, eds. Michael Brocke and Gregor Pelger (Tbingen: Niemeyer Verlag, 2006), 71-77.

 

Von Liebmann Meyer Wulff bis Hans Richter: Eine Berliner Familien- und Stadtgeschichte, Berliner, Brger, Juden: Die Chronik der Familie Beer—Meyerbeer—Richter, catalogue for an exhibition of family papers at the Stadtmusem Berlin/ Mrkisches Museum, ed. Sven Kuhrau (Berlin: Henschel, 2004), 15-32.

 

Hannah Arendt entdeckt Afrika. Herknfte, eds. Barbara Thums, Volker Mergenthaler, Nicola Kaminski, and Drte Bischoff (Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universittsverlag, 2004), 205-221.

 

The Study of Early German-Jewish Autobiographies. AJS Perspectives: The Newsletter for the Association for Jewish Studies (Spring/Summer 2004): 8-9.

 

Becoming Historians. Review essay: Georg Mosse, Confronting History, A Memoir, Gerda Lerner, Fireweed: A Political Autobiography , and Eric J. Hobsbawm, Interesting Times: A Twentieth-Century Life. Jewish Quarterly Review 95,1 (Winter 2005): 90-106.

 

Reflecting on the Past, Envisioning the Future: Perspectives for German-Jewish

Studies. GHI Bulletin 35 (2004): 11-32.

 

Film als Fundstck: Das Werk von Alan Berliner. Jewish Film Festival Berlin: Filme—Bilder, Geschichten. Die ersten 10 Jahre, ed. Nicola Galliner (Berlin: be.bra verlag, 2004), 84-89.

 

Ist Humanitt ein deutsches Wort? Hannah Arendt liest Lessing. Lessings Grenzen, ed. Ulrike Zeuch (ser.) Wolfenbttler Forschungen (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2005), 267-80.

 

-- English translation, Humanity and its Limits: Hannah Arendt Reads Lessing. Practicing Progress: The Promise and Limitations of Enlightenment, eds. Richard Schade and Dieter Sevin (ser.) Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft (Amsterdam: Radopi, 2007), 187-198.

 

Die Wiederkehr der Gespenster. Walter Benjamin und die Romantik, eds. Heinz Brggemann and Gnter Oesterle (Wrzburg: Knigshausen & Neumann, forthcoming).

 

The Sound of Music: Jews and Jewish Culture in the New Europe.  The Idea of Europe, ed. Susan Suleiman (special issue), Comparative Literature (2006): 403-417.

 

--Shorter version, Jewish Studies in Germany: A Discipline in Search of Its Subject. The New German Jewry and the European Context, ed. Y. Michal Bodemann (New York: Palgrave, forthcoming 2007).

 

--German version, The Sound of Music: Das Studium jdischer Kultur im neuen Europa. Geliebter Feind, gehasster Freund: Philosemitismus in Geschichte und Gegenwart, eds. Irene Diekmann and Elke-Vera Kotowski (forthcoming, 2008).

 

Freuds Schiller. Friedrich Schiller and the Path to Modernity, ed. Walter Hinderer (Wrzburg: Knigshausen & Neumann, 2006), 421-434.

 

Der Berliner Salon, oder: Ein deutsch-jdischer Mythos. Jdischer Almanach, ed. Gisela Dachs (Frankfurt/M: Jdischer Verlag, 2006), 25-32.

 

Heinrich Heine Writes His Autobiography. MLN 122,3 (German Issue; April 2007): 563-572.

 

Eine Komdie von gewisser Prponderanz: Professor Bernhardi von der Bhne zum Bildschirm. In: Die Tatsachen der Seele: Arthur Schnitzler und der Film, eds. Thomas Ballhausen, Barbara Eichinger, karin Moser, and Frank Stern (Vienna: Verlag des Filmarchivs Austria, 2006), 115-135.

 

Literary Culture and Jewish Space Around 1800: Reflexions on the Berlin Salons.  In: Modern Jewish Literatures: Intersections and Boundaries, eds. Sheila Jelen, Michael Kramer, and Scott Lerner (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, forthcoming).

 

Das Fach Germanistik an der Berliner Universitt: Geschlechterpolitik im frhen 20. Jahrhundert. Zeitschrift fr Germanistik. Neue Folge XVII-3 (2007): 575-584.

 

Ariadnes Thread. Freuds Jewish World, ed. Arnold Richards (New York: The Other Press, forthcoming).

 

Hannah Arendt, Charlie Chaplin und die verborgene jdische Tradition. Der Sinn von Politik ist Freiheit: Politisches Denken im 21. Jahrhundert, ed. Eveline Goodman -Thau (forthcoming).

 

--reprinted in Transversal (forthcoming).

 

Freudian Genealogies [Introduction to papers by Jay Geller, Paul Reitter, and Laurence Rickels]. Special issue, Essays on Freud, ed. Paul Reitter, Germanic Review (forthcoming).

 

Robert Schindel: Vineta II, Geschichte im Gedicht, ed. Christoph Wei (work-in-progress).

 

 

4. Reviews

 

Phantastische Literatur im ersten Viertel des 20. Jahr­hunderts: Kafka - Kubin - Meyrink, by Peter Cersowsky.  MLN 100 (April 1985):  670-673.

 

Applied Grammatology:  Post(e)-Pedagogy from Jacques Derrida to Joseph Beuys, by Gregory L. Ulmer.  MLN 101 (December 1985):  1121-1123.

 

Lessings Laocoon:  Semiotics and Aesthetics in the Age of Reason, by David E. Wellbery.  MLN 10l (April 1986):  725-726.

 

The Storm and Stress of Language:  Linguistic Catastrophy in the Early Works of Goethe, Lenz, Klinger, and Schiller, by Bruce Kieffer.  MLN 103 (April 1988): 683-684.

 

Poe, Death, and the Life of Writing, by J. Gerald Kennedy.  American Literature 61 (May 1989): 292-294.

 

Dictations:  On Haunted Writing, by Avital Ronell.  Germanic Review LXIV (1989): 135-136.

 

Kierkegaard, by Theodor W. Adorno. Modern Philology 88 (1991):470-473.

 

Vilna on the Seine: Jewish Intellectuals in France Since 1968, by Judith Friedlnder. The Annals of The American Academy of Political and Social Science 523 (September 1992): 224-231.

 

Imago judaica. Juden und Judentum im Spiegel der deutschen Literatur 1750-1812, by Gunnar Och. Lenz Jahrbuch VI (1996): 257-59.

 

Der literarische Salon: Literatur und Geselligkeit zwischen Aufklrung und Vormrz, by Peter Seibert. German Quarterly 70.2 (1997): 193-94.

 

Varnhagen und sein spter Schmher: ber einige Vorurteile Arno Schmidts. Mit Seitenblicken auf weitere Personen und einem dokumentarischen Anhang, by Dieter Kuhn. German Quarterly 70.2 (1997): 199-200.

 

Sich einen Namen machen: Anonymitt und weibliche Autorschaft 1700-1900, by Susanne Kord. Lessing Year Book XXIX (1997), 271-2.

 

Literarische Kultur im Exil: Gesammelte Beitrge zur Exilforschung/Literature and Culture in Exile: Collected Essays on the German-Speaking Emigration after 1933 (1989-1997), by Guy Stern. Tribne 37, 147 (1998): 226-227.

 

Judentum, Jurisprudenz und Philosophie: Bilder aus dem Leben des Juristen Eduard Gans (1797-1839), by Johann Braun. Shofar 17 (1999): 125-127.

 

Gedchtnistheater. Die jdische Gemeinschaft und ihre deutsche Erfindung, by Y. Michal Bodemann, and Tckische Geschichte. Kollektive Erinnerung an den Holocaust, by Wilfried v. Bredow. Politische Vierteljahresschrift 4 (1998): 924-26.

 

Lebenslufe um 1800, by Jrgen Fohrmann. Studies in German Literature from Goethe to the Present. Festschrift fr Theodore Ziolkowski, ed. Alexander Stephan. Zeitschrift fr Germanistik Neue Folge 3 (1999): 740-41.

 

Keepers of the Motherland: German Texts by Jewish Women Writers, by Dagmar Lorenz. German Studies Review XXII,3 (1999): 527-29.

 

Angelika Kauffmann (1741-1807): Eine Dichterin mit dem Pinsel, ed. Bettina Baumgrtel. Virtual Library Museum (http://www.hco.hagen.de/museen/lit-rez/weissberg00-2.htm).

 

Alexander von Humboldt: Netzwerke des Wissens, exhibition catalogue. Virtual Library Museum. (http://www.hco.hagen.de/museen/lit-rez/weissberg00-1.htm).

 

The Language of Silence, by Ernestine Schlant.  Jewish Quarterly Review XC, 3-4 (January-April 2000), 510-14.

 

Freud and the legacy of Moses, by Richard J. Bernstein. Jewish Quarterly Review XCI, 1-2 (2000), 82-85.

 

Die Geschichten vom Baal Schem Tov. Schivche ha-Bescht vols I-II, ed.  and trans. Karl E. Grzinger. Jewish Quarterly Review XCI,1-2 (2000), 86-89.

 

Cultural Writings of Franz Rosenzweig, ed. and trans. Barbara E. Galli. Jewish Quarterly Review XCII, 3-4 (2002): 650-652.

 

Handbuch sterreichischer Autorinnen und Autoren jdischer Herkunft 18. bis 20. Jahrhundert, ed. sterreichische Nationalbibliothek. Zeitschrift fr Germanistik XIV Neue Folge 1(2004): 198-201.

 

Memory Effects: The Holocaust and the Art of Secondary Witnessing, by Dora Apel. Biography 26,3 (2003): 487-490.

 

Geschlecht—Literatur—Geschichte II. Nation und Geschlecht, ed. Gudrun Loster-Schneider (Ed.), Zeitschrift fr Germanistik XV Neue Folge 2 (2005): 462-464.

 

Antonios Devils: Writers of the Jewish Enlightenment and the Birth of Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literature, by Jeremy Dauber. Jewish Quarterly Review (work-in-progress).

 

Der Berliner Antisemitismusstreit 1879-1881. Kommentierte Quellenedition. Edited for the Zentrum fr Antisemitismusforschung by Karsten Krieger.  Jewish Quarterly Review (work-in-progress).

 

 

Lectures and Talks

 

 

[lecture].  Code der Leidenschaften. Fetischismus in den Knsten. Berlin, October 2008.

Peter Handke Reads Heinrich Heine. German Studies Association, St. Paul, October

2008.

A Family, A City, A Museum: Frankfurts Jewish Museum in the Rothschild Mansion.

German Studies Association, St. Paul, October 2008.

Hannah Arendt, Charlie Chaplin, and the Hidden Jewish Tradition. Department of

French, Miami University of Ohio, Oxford, Ohio, April 2008.

"Hannah Arendt, Charlie Chaplin, and the Hidden Jewish Tradition. University of

Galway, Ireland, March 2008.

"Hannah Arendt, Charlie Chaplin, and the Hidden Jewish Tradition. German Program,

University of Limerick, Ireland, March 2008.

"Hannah Arendt, Charlie Chaplin, and the Hidden Jewish Tradition. German Program,

University of Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, March 2008.

"Hannah Arendt, Charlie Chaplin, and the Hidden Jewish Tradition. National University

of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland, March 2008.

Ariadnes Thread: Reflections on Freuds Metaphors. Symposium: Modernism: The

            time of the Unconscious. Slought Foundation, University of Pennsylvania,

February 2008.

Beyond Hebrew: Secularization, Acculturation, and the Hidden Tradition of Jewish

Literature. Jewish Secularization? The Example of Germany.  MLA Conference, Chicago, December 2007.

Member, Roundtable on Salomon Maimon and Modernity, Association for Jewish Studies,

December 2007.

Metropolis der Freiheit: Berliner Juden in Paris, 1779-1812.  Key note, conference:

Jdische Literatur als europische Literatur: Nationaldiskurse, transnationales Schreiben und europische Identitt (1860-1930). Europa-Universitt Viadrina and Collegium Polonicum, Franfurt an der Oder, Germany, and Słubice, Poland, November 2007.

The Tramp Abroad: Charlie Chaplins Modernity.  Meanings of Modernity in Central

Europe.  New York Public Library, New York, November 2007.

Between Friends: Freud, Fliess, and the Origin of Psychoanalysis.  Rethinking Histories

of Sexuality 6: Freud and the Study of Sexuality. GSA Conference, San Diego, October 2007.

Moderator. Dimensions of the Sacred: Contemporary Theory and Modern German

Thought. GSA Conference, San Diego, October 2007.

Hannah Arendt, Charlie Chaplin und die verborgene jdische Tradition.  Institut fr

Germanistik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitt Mnchen, July 2007.

Mut und Mglichkeit: Sigmund Freud liest Theodor Lipps. Lachen mit Freud.

Sigmund Freud Privatstiftung und Sigmund Freud Museum, Vienna, June 2007.

Jdische Studien: Der Weg zum Lehrfach. Eine Vor- und Nachkriegsgeschichte.

Geliebter Feind, gehasster Freund: Philosemitismus in Geschichte und Gegenwart. Moses-Mendelssohn-Zentrum, Potsdam, June 2007.

Ein deutscher Sokrates: Moses Mendelssohn bersetzt Platon. Das bestimmte Wort: Die

bersetzung zwischen Profanierung und Sakralisierung. Technische Universitt Berlin, Germanistik, June 2007.

Hannah Arendt at the Movies: Charlie Chaplin and the Hidden Tradition of Jewish

Culture. Department of History, University of Sussex, June 2007.

Wie schreibt man ber sich? Deutsch-jdische Autobiographien im achtzehnten

Jahrhundert.  Zentrum fr jdische Kulturgeschichte, Universitt Salzburg, May 2007.

Hannah Arendt, Charlie Chaplin und die verborgene jdische Tradition. Lehrstuhl fr

Zeitgeschichte, Visuelle Tradition, Universitt Wien, Vienna, May 2007.

Hannah Arendt, Charlie Chaplin und die verborgene jdische Tradition. Ansprache zur

Graduiertenfeier (commencement address), Hochschule fr Jdische Studien, Heidelberg, May 2007.

Hannah Arendt, Charlie Chaplin und die verborgene jdische Tradition.

Antrittsrede/Erffnungsvorlesung, Institut fr Zeitgeschichte, Universitt Graz, May 2007.

Hannah Arendt Goes to the Movies. 2007 Rodig Lecture and seminar on Hannah

Arendt, The Hidden Tradition.  Department of German, Rutgers University, April 2007.

Hannah Arendt at the Movies. Graduate Student/Faculty Colloquium, Department of

German, University of Pennsylvania, March 2007.

Der Berliner jdische Salon. Treffpunkt/Bnei Brith Loge, Jdische Gemeinde

Frankfurt/M, March 2007.

Hannah Arendt at the Movies. Oxford University, St. Johns College, February 2007.

Writing Ones Self: Reflexions on Early German-Jewish Autobiography. Leo Baeck

Institute London, February 2007.

No Place on Earth: The Berlin Jewish Salon Reconsidered, Department of German,

University of Bristol, February 2007.

Wie schreibt man ber sich? Deutsch-jdische Autobiographien im achtzehnten

Jahrhundert.  Jdisches Museum Frankfurt/M, February 2007.

Member, Round Table Discussion. Uniting Sound and Text. Graduate Student

Conference, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, February 2007.

Arthur Schnitzlers Theater. The Lantern Theater, Philadelphia, January 2007.

Respondent, panel on Early Twentieth-Century German Literature and Zionism.  MLA

Conference, Philadelphia, December 2006.

Ariadnes Thread. Freuds Jewish World.  Freud Archives, YIVO, and Leo Baeck

Institute, New York, December 2006.

Hannah Arendt geht ins Kino.

 Der Sinn von Politik ist Freiheit: Politisches Denken im

21. Jahrhundert, Berlin, November 2006.

Respondent, panel on Essays on Freud, GSA Conference, Pittsburgh, September 2006.

Speaking Up, and Venturing Out: Early German-Jewish Autobiographies and Karl

Philipp Moritz Magazin zur Erfahrungsseelenkunde. Panel on German-Jewish Sensibilities, GSA Conference, Pittsburgh, September 2006.

Kstchenwahl: Zu Goethes Triumph der Empfindsamkeit.Germanistisches Seminar,

Justus Liebig Universitt Giessen, June 2006.

Exit Dora: Freuds Patient Takes Leave. University College Cork, Modern

Languages, Cork, Ireland, May 2006.

 Heinrich Heine Writes His Autobiography.  Keynote Address, Kentucky Foreign

Language Conference, Lexington, Kentucky, April 2006.

Psychoanalysis and Literature: A Family Romance. Symposium, Freud in the Wider

World: 150 Years of Creative Clinical and Intellectual Influence. New York Psychoanalytic Association, New York, May, 2006.

Reviewing the Case Study. Psychoanalytic Association, Philadelphia, University of

            Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, April 2006.

Jewish Studies in Germany. Conference, Jewish Studies in America, Germany (and

Europe), German University Alliance (Freie Universitt Berlin and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitt Mnchen), New York, April 2006.

Respondent, conference: Samizdat and Underground Culture in the Soviet Bloc

Countries, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Cold War Project, University of Pennsylvania, April 2006.

Disciplining Germanistik: Gender and Politics in Early Twentieth-Century Berlin.

Introductory Lecture, Exhibition Opening of KNOw Women in German, Deutsches Haus, New York University, February 2006.

Respondent to papers by Aya Elyada, Cornelia Aust, and Grit Schorch, Beyond

Memorials: New Perspectives in German-Jewish Culture. Graduate Student Conference, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures and Jewish Studies Program Kutchin Seminar Series, University of Pennsylvania, February 2006.

Respondent, session La Belle Juive: The Jewess in European Literature, 1765-1845.

MLA Conference, Washington, December 2005.

Knstliche Menschen: Kunst und Mensch. Evangelische Akademie Thringen,

Jakobskirche Weimar, November 2005.

Auf der Suche nach der Muttersprache. Dialog der Disziplinen: Jdische Studien

und Literaturwissenschaft, Conference, Universitt Potsdam, November 2005.

Realism Avant La Lettre. Panel on Friedrich Schiller, Deutsches Haus, New York

University, October 2005.

Freuds Schiller. Friedrich Schiller and the Path to Modernity.  Conference, Princeton

University, October 2005.

Mendelssohns Greek Roots. Diasporic Genealogies: Jewish Writing in Germany around

1800. German Studies Association, Milwaukee, September/October 2005.

Moderator, session J.M.R. Lenzs Family Politics. German Studies Association,

Milwaukee, September/October 2005.

Hannah Arendt and the Politics of Jewish Literature. Modern Jewish Literatures:

Language, Identity, Writing.  Eleventh Annual Gruss Colloquium in Judaic Studies, Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania, May 2005.

German-Jewish Studies and the German-Jewish Subject, German Department, UCLA,

April 2005.

Freudian Time. Sixty-Second Lecture, University of Pennsylvania, April 2005.

Moderator, Identity Forum, Queer Students Alliance, University of Pennsylvania, March

2005.

Respondent, papers by Levke Harders, Kristina Baumli, and Florence Feiereisen, How

Many Genders Has German? Graduate Student Conference, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Pennsylvania, March 2005.

No Place on Earth: The Berlin Salon Reconsidered.  Charles Phelps Taft Lecture,

University of Cincinnati, March 2005.

Gentile or Jewish Studies? A Discipline in Search of Its Subject. The New German

Jewry and the European Context. Conference, University of Toronto, February 2005.

A German Poets Mysterious Life. Kings College English House, University of

Pennsylvania, February 2005.

Exit Dora: Freuds Patient Takes Leave, and Henriette Herzs Life as a Goddess.

Department of Modern Languages, Knox College, January 2005.

Moderator, Lessing and His German-Jewish Legacy. Session organized by the Lessing

Society, MLA Conference, Philadelphia, December 2004.

Presenter and member, panel discussion: Arnold Zweig: The Face of Eastern

European Jewry. YIVO and LBI Institute, Center for Jewish History, New York, December 2004.

The Extraordinary Career of Benjamin Veitel Ephraim.  Friends of the Center for

Advanced Judaic Studies, Philadelphia, December 2004.

Presenter and member, panel discussion: The Paradoxes of Survival. Three film

screenings. Center for Jewish History, New York, November 2004.

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington and the Jewish Museum

in Berlin. Seminar on History, Memory, Trauma, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Pennsylvania, November 2004.

Humanity and Its Limits:  Hannah Arendt Reads Lessing. Jewish Studies Program, with

the German Department and Humanities Center, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, November 2004.

Heinrich Heines Mysterious Life. Presentation, Spruce House, University of

Pennsylvania, October 2004.

Respondent to Christine Poggi, Hysterical Bodies/Deviant Others: Picturing Female

Madness at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century. Work-in-Progress Workshop, Womens Studies Program and Alice Paul Center, University of Pennsylvania, October 2004.

No Place on Earth: Thoughts About the Berlin Salon Around 1800. Center for

 Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania, September 2004.

Panel member, discussion on Interdisciplinarity.  Graduate Humanities Forum,

University of Pennsylvania, September 2004.

Ist Humanitt ein deutsches Wort? Hannah Arendt liest Lessing. Germanistisches

Seminar, RWTH Aachen, July 2004.

Enlightenment Economics: Herder and the Jews. Universit Charles de Gaulle Lille III,

June 2004.

In Circulation: Reading Money as Propaganda. LArgent et la monnaie: representations

et concepts. Colloquium, Universit Charles de Gaulle Lille III,  June 2004.

Die Welt der Objekte und die romantische Sehnsucht, Walter Benjamin and

Romanticism, conference, Hebrew University Jerusalem, June 2004.

Humanity and Its Limits: Hannah Arendt Reads Lessing, Fritz Thyssen Lecture, Center

of German Excellence, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Bersheba,  June 2004.

Bilderwechsel.  Barthes, Benjamin, Freud und der Exkurs der Photographie,

Arbeitstagung Literatur und Psychoanalyse.  Freiburg, May 2004.

Ist Humanitt ein deutsches Wort? Hannah Arendt liest Lessing. Keynote lecture

[Abendvortrag], Lessings Grenzen, symposium, Wolfenbttel, April 2004.

Respondent to papers by Catherine Nicholson, Briallen Hopper, Namrata Poddar, and

Ellen Welch. Suspending (Dis)Belief. Graduate Humanities Forum. Fourth Annual Conference, University of Pennsylvania, March 2004.

Respondent to papers by Caryl Emerson, Simon Morrison, and Andrew Baruch Wachtel.

Euterpe in Furs: Russian Musical Culture of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. An Interdisciplinary Symposium. University of Pennsylvania, March 2004.

In Search of Humanity: Hannah Arendt Reads Lessing. Graduate Student/Faculty

 Colloquium, German Department, University of Pennsylvania, March 2004.

In Search of Humanity: Hannah Arendt Reads Lessing. Session organized by the

Lessing Society, MLA Conference, San Diego, December 2003.

Moderator, Panel on German-Jewish Education. AATG Conference, Philadelphia,

November 2003.

Wir verstehen nichts, wenn wirs uns nicht plastisch machen. Kultur und

Mannigfaltigkeit: Johann Gottfried Herder zum 200. Todestag. Conference, Evangelische Akademie Thringen and Kulturstadt Weimar GmbH, Weimar, November 2003.

Mnner-Trume. Keynote Lecture [Abendvortrag]. International Workshops on Gender

in Jewish History I: Rethinking Jewish Womens and Gender History. Institut fr die Geschichte der deutschen Juden, Hamburg, October 2003.

Reflecting on the Past, Envisioning the Future: New Perspectives in German-Jewish

Studies. First Annual Lecture, Leo Baeck Institute New York and German Historical Institute, Washington. Washington, October 2003.

Benjamins Goethe-Traum. Germanistisches Seminar, Universitt Paderborn, July 2003.

Benjamins Goethe-Traum. Literaturwissenschaftliches Seminar, Universitt Hamburg,

June 2003.

Hannah Arendt entdeckt Afrika. Herkunft,  Colloquium for Bernhard Greiner.

Deutsches Seminar, Eberhard-Karls-Universitt Tbingen, June 2003.

Der realistische Blick: Adalbert Stifters Landschaften. Ringvorlesung studium generale,

Germanistisches Seminar, Ruprecht-Karls-Universitt Heidelberg, June 2003.

Response to Daniel Hoffmann, Auf der Suche nach der richtigen Wirklichkeit. Moderne

Religionsgesprche in der deutschen Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts. Zwischen den Sprachen. International Conference, Heinrich Heine-Universitt Dsseldorf, May 2003.

Member, panel discussion on German-Jewish literature before and after 1933, and reading

from recent work. Tarbut 2003. Zweiter jdischer Kulturkongress: Juden in der europischen Literatur: Innen- und Auenperspektiven. Schlo Elmau, May 2003.

Exit Dora: Freuds Patient Takes Leave.  Department of Modern Languages,

Swarthmore College, April 2003.

Von der Einfachheit zu dichten und denken, und der Schwierigkeit, ein Volk zu sein.

Sind wir noch das Volk der Dichter und Denker?, Ringvorlesung studium generale, Ruprecht-Karls-Universitt Heidelberg, January 2003.

Jerusalem and Athens: The Jewish Enlightenment Longs for Greece. The Modern

Setting of the Classical Text. Conference, Department of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania, January 2003.

Heine. A Wintertale. Meeting of the Heinrich Heine Society, MLA Conference, New

York, December 2002.

Constructing the Image:  Moses Mendelssohn Becomes Socrates. Center for German

Excellence, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Bersheba, December 2002.

No Place on Earth: The Berlin Jewish Salon Reconsidered. Conference, Gender and

Jewish Fate, Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem, December 2002.

Response to Tangled Roots, a documentary film by Heidi Schmidt Emberling (2001),

sponsored by the Department of German and the Program in Jewish Studies, November 2002.

Approaching Gentility: German-Jewish Autobiography and the Quest for Acculturation.

Workshop on recent research in German-Jewish studies, LBI Institute, New York, September 2002.

Ortslosigkeit. Hannah Arendts Suche nach dem asiatischen Volk. Symposium,

Hebrische Poesie und jdischer Volksgeist: Die Wirkungsgeschichte von Johann Gottfried Herder im Judentum Mittel- und Osteuropas. Moses Mendelssohn Zentrum in Zusammenarbeit mit der Internationalen Herder-Gesellschaft, Universitt Potsdam, September 2002.

From Werther to Weimar: Goethes Perception on Landscape. Conference, Word and

Image, Hamburg, July 2002.

Benjamins Goethe-Traum. Department of German, Ruhr-Universitt Bochum, July

2002.

Wie wird ein rechtloser Jude Diplomat? (oder: Politik um 1800). Conference, Das

Imaginre und die Macht, Department of Romance Languages, Ruhr-Universtt Bochum, July 2002.

Benjamins Goethe-Traum. Department of German, Universitt Mannheim, June 2002.

Was will der Mann? Gedanken zu Freud. Mnnlichkeit als Maskerade. Gender-Studien

mit Blick auf den Mann Ringvorlesung, Germanististisches Seminar, Humboldt

Universitt Berlin, May 2002.

Past Imperfect. Keynote address, graduate student conference on cultural memory,

Humanities Center, Vanderbilt University, April 2002.

Die jdischen Salons in Berlin als Orte weiblicher Geselligkeit. Keynote address, lecture

series, Graduiertenkolleg: Makom. Ort und Orte im Judentum, Philosophische Fakultt, Universitt Potsdam, April 2002.

Moderator, conference Austrian Writers Confront the Past, Department of German,

University of Pennsylvania, April 2002.

 Paternal Lines: Philip Roth Writes His Autobiography. Department of English, Clemson

University, Clemson, SC, March 2002.

Weimar: Town and Gardens Dinner talk, Science and Technology Wing, English

College House, University of Pennsylvania, March 2002.

Goethe in Weimar. Lunch time talk, University Scholars, University of Pennsylvania,

February 2002.

Paternity: Contemporary American Jewish Autobiographies. Contemporary Jewish

Autobiography.  Symposium. Universitt Mnster, October 2001.

Abschied vom Judentum. Romantik und Religion.  Symposium organized by the

Stiftung fr Romantikfoschung, Munich, October 2001.

Baubo lacht: Oder knnen Frauen Komdie spielen? Institut fr Textilforschung,

Universitt Dortmund, July 2001.

Offensichtlichkeit: Kunst und Literatur nach dem Holocaust. Hochschule fr Jdische

Studien Heidelberg, July 2001.

Dora geht. Des Feminismus neue Kleider—Fragezeichen: Genderdiskurse in den

Kulturwissenschaften: Ringvorlesung, Literaturwissenschaftliches Seminar, Universitt Hamburg, June 2001.

Ein Medizinstudent fhrt Tagebuch. Ludwig Brne. International Conference at the

Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Bersheba, and the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, May 2001.

In Plain Sight, Department of German, University of Liverpool, England, April 2001.

A Classic Life: Picturing Moses Mendelssohn.  Philomathean Society, University of

Pennsylvania, April 2001.

A Classic Life: Picturing Moses Mendelssohn. Bucknell University, March 2001.

Realist Visions. The Practice of Style: Literature and the Visual Arts from Weimar

Classsicism to the Present. Conference, University of Pennsylvania, March 2001.

Dining Out: Walter Benjamin Meets Goethe. Keynote Lecture, Discourses of Desire.

Graduate Student Conference, Department of German, University of Virginia, February 2001.

In Plain Sight. Department of German Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,

February 2001.

Dining Out: Walter Benjamin Meets Goethe. Conference, Noahs Ark: Jewish-German

Concepts of Culture. Hebrew University Jerusalem, Israel, November 2000.

Kafkas Parables. Seminar; KafkaFest, Department of German and Penn Freshmen

             Reading Project, University of Pennsylvania, October 2000.

Freuds Dora.  A Response to Patrick Mahony. Seminar on Freud,  Philadelphia

            Psychoanalytic Association, September 2000.

Respondent, panel on Jewish-Christian Dialogue in the Enlightenment, Hebraica

Veritas? conference, Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania, May 2000.

Member, Roundtable Discussion, The City: Conflict, Innovation, Hybridization.

6th Annual Graduate Romanic Association Colloquium, Department of Romance Languages, University of Pennsylvania, April 2000.

Kleists Michael Kohlhaas. Conference, Heinrich von Kleists Works: Aspects of

Displacement and Deracination. 15. St. Louis Symposium on German Literature. Washington University in St. Louis, March-April, 2000.

Theorizing Imperialism: Hannah Arendt Discovers South Africa. MLA Conference,

            Chicago, December 1999.

In Search of the Mother Tongue: Hannah Arendts German-Jewish Literature. Lecture series on German-Jewish literature, Hofstra University, December 1999.

Der Rothschild der Maler und der Dichterfrst. Germanistisches Seminar, Justus Liebig-

            Universitt Gieβen, November 1999.

Baubo lacht. Conference, Theorie der Komdie/ Poetik der Komdie, Rheinische

            Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitt Bonn, November 1999.

Goethe and the New Philosophy.  Conference, Goethe and the Age of Romanticism,

            Stiftung fr Romantikforschung. Princeton University, November 1999.

Views from the Judengasse. Conference, Goethe in German-Jewish Culture,

University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 1999.

Black, White, and Gold.  Edgar Allan Poe symposium, Katholische Universitt Eichsttt, Eichsttt, September 1999.

Eduard Fuchs und die konomie der Karikatur. Symposium, Antisemitismus in visuellen Medien des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts, Evangelische Akademie             Arnoldsheim. Arnoldsheim, June 1999.

Rahel Varnhagen, Hannah Arendt, and me. Knesset Israel Synagogue, Cheltenham, PA. May 1999.

Moderator, conference Operative Communities? The Jewish Question in France from Durkheim to Levinas University of Pennsylvania, May 1999.

Life of a Goddess: Henriette Herz Writes Her Autobiography. Braun Lecture in the History of Jews in Prussia, Bar Ilan University. Ramat Gan, Israel, May 1999.

Classic Lives. Annual Conference, Center for Judaic Studies. University of Pennsylvania, April 1999.

Critics in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt reads Walter Benjamin. Deutsches Haus, New York University.  New York, March 1999.

 Publishing Books: Kritik: German Literary Theory and Cultural Studies. AATG panel on publishing in German, MLA Conference, San Francisco, December 1998.

Literary Therapy: Lazarus Bendavids Contributions to the Magazin zur Erfahrungsseelenkunde. Center for Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania,             November 1998.

Auf der Suche nach der Muttersprache: Mglichkeiten einer deutsch-jdischen Literatur, 1800-1933. Gesellschaft fr deutsche Sprache, Zweigstelle Philadelphia, November 1998.

Respondent, Sojourners, film by John Bornemann and Jeffrey Peck.  Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures and Jewish Studies Program, University of   Pennsylvania, November 1998.

Wiederholungen. Colloquium, Erinnern und Vergessen in der europischen Romantik. Stiftung fr Romantikforschung, Mnchen, October 1998.

Member, panel discussion on Womens Studies. Symposium to Celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the Womens Studies Program, University of Pennsylvania, September 1998.

Critics in Dark Times. Symposium to Celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the Womens Studies Program, University of Pennsylvania, September 1998.

Auf der Suche nach der Muttersprache: Hannah Arendts Entwurf einer deutsch-jdischen Literatur. Ringvorlesung,  Heinrich Heine-Universitt Dsseldorf,  Dsseldorf, May 1998.

In Search of the Mother Tongue: Hannah Arendts German-Jewish Literature.  Boston University, Boston, April 1998.

Member, panel discussion on Franz Kafka, Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, March 1998.

Hannah Arendts Rahel Varnhagen.  Books and Authors, Gershman Y, Philadelphia, March 1998.

In Search of the Mother Tongue: Hannah Arendts German-Jewish Literature. Leo Baeck Institute, New York, February 1998.

On Thomas Manns Tonio Krger. session of the Faculty Seminar, Wharton School/School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, January 1998.

 In Search of the Mother Tongue.  Symposium: Hannah Arendt in Jerualem, Richard Koebner Center for German History, Van Leer Institute, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. December 1997.

In Search of the Mother Tongue: Hannah Arendts German-Jewish Literature.  Deutsches Haus, Columbia University, October 1997.

Preisfragen zu einem Leben vor und nach 1933, Symposium, Ewige Wiederkehr oder Fortschrittsglaube?-- Zur Aktualitt Karl Lwiths-- .  Marburg, July 1997.

Feminist Theory and Psychoanalytic Theory, with Ayako Kano.  Presentation for the

             Womens Studies Feminist Theory Seminar, Womens Studies Program

            University of Pennsylvania, April 1997.

Critics in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt Reads Walter Benjamin. Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, March 1997.

Jews, Hebrews, or Germans?  Religious and Economic Conversion in Herder. Seminar: The West in Global Perspectives, University of Pennsylvania, February 1997.

Moderator and respondent, German Cultural Studies: Approaches to the City of Weimar. The Second Davidson German Studies Symposium. Davidson College, February 1997.

Auf der Suche nach der Muttersprache:  Hannah Arendts Entwurf einer deutsch-jdischen Literatur. Literaturwissenschaftliches Seminar, Universitt Hamburg, February 1997.

Hannah Arendt on Walter Benjamin. (session) Hannah Arendt and German Literature.  MLA Conference, Washington, December 1996.

Respondent to Charles Taylor, Modernity and the Rise of the Public Sphere, University of Pennsylvania, October 1996.

Funoten. Zum Ort der sthetischen Erfahrung in Lazarus Bendavids Selbstbiographie.  XVII. Deutscher Kongre fr Philosophie, Leipzig, September 1996.

Respondent, Gender and Genre: Reading and Readers in Cultural Context. Gruss Colloquium in Judaic Studies: Learning and Literacy in the Judaic Tradition: A Comparative and Interdisciplinary Inquiry. University of Pennsylvania, April-May, 1996.

Bilderwechsel: Barthes, Freud, Benjamin und die konomie der Photographie. sthetik zur Zeitenwende.  Zweiter Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft fr sthetik.    Hannover, Mrz 1996.

Ist der Holocaust ausstellbar? Ringvorlesung, Konzepte und Praxisformen einer Gedchtniskultur zur Erfahrung Auschwitz. Universitt Hamburg, Germany, February 1996.

Bilderwechsel: Barthes, Freud, Benjamin und die konomie der Photographie. Graduierten-Kolleg, Universitt Siegen, February 1996.

Schreiben als Selbstentwurf: Zu Briefen Rahel Levin Varnhagens. Institut fr deutsche Literatur, Universitt Wrzburg, February 1996.

Moderator, session Poe the Pundit I, MLA Conference, Chicago, December 1995.

            Image, Writing, Ideology: Notes on a Picture by Keith Haring. History of the Book Seminar, University of Pennsylvania, December 1995.

Circulating Images: Notes on the Photographic Exchange. Institute for German Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., October 1995.

Auge, Abbild, Text: Optische Theorien und die Literatur des Realismus. Wissen in der Literatur, Drittes Internationales Hamburger Symposium zur Literaturgeschichtsschreibung, Hamburg, Germany, October 1995.

Commentator, session The Female Body: Benjamin, Kafka, Weininger. German Studies Association Conference, Chicago, September 1995.

Der Philosoph als Selbstbeobachter: Zu den Schriften Lazarus Bendavids. IVG Tagung, Vancouver, Canada, August 1995.

Der Philosoph als Erfahrungsseelenkundler: Zu einer Fallstudie Lazarus Bendavids. Ninth International Congress on the Enlightenment, Mnster, Germany, July 1995.

Bilderwechsel: Barthes, Freud, Benjamin und die Photographie.  Seminar fr deutsche Philologie, Universitt Mannheim, July 1995.

Zur Ausstellung des Fremden. Oberseminar Neugermanistik, Ruhr-Universitt Bochum, July 1995.

Judentum-- Femininitt-- politische Erfahrung: Das Denken von Hannah Arendt. Symposium, University of Pennsylvania and the Universit de Genve, Geneva, May 1995.

Moderator, Sessions Violence and Theory and Exquisite Violence. Conference on Women, Sexuality, and Violence, University of Pennsylvania, March-April, 1995.

Intersections: History and Literature, Keynote Address, German Graduate Student Conference, University of Pennsylvania, March 1995.

Circulating Images: Notes on the Photographic Exchange. Diversity of Language Faculty Seminar, University of Pennsylvania, February 1995.

True Confessions: Hannah Arendt, Rahel Varnhagen, and the Writing of (Auto)biography. Penn Club, New York, February 1995.

True Confessions: Hannah Arendt, Rahel Varnhagen, and the Writing of (Auto)biography. Department of Germanics, University of Washington, Seattle, February 1995.

Response to Greg Urban, Rocks That Talk: Dream Image and Dream Discourse in an Amerindian Society. Ethnohistory Workshop, University of Pennsylvania, February 1995.

The Realist Eye: Reflections on August Sanders Photography. German Department Max Kade Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania, January 1995.

Bilderverkehr: Barthes, Benjamin, Freud und die konomie der Photographie. Germanistisches Institut, Universitt Bochum, January 1995.

Facing the Twentieth Century: Narrative Realism in August Sanders Photography. MLA Conference, San Diego, December 1994.

Moderator, Strategies of Power in Poes Fiction I. MLA Conference, San Diego, December 1994.

Hannah Arendt, Rahel Varnhagen, and the Writing of (Auto)biography. German Department and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Queens University,      Kingston, Ontario, November 1994.

Circulating Images: Notes on the Photographic Exchange. Diversity of Language Faculty Seminar, University of Pennsylvania, November 1994.

Presenter, Graduate Student Career Options: The Sixth Annual Fall Academic Career Conference. University of Pennsylvania, October 1994.

Circulating Images: After Barthes, After Benjamin. Conference, after roland barthes. University of Pennsylvania, April 1994.

Panelist, Spielbergs Holocaust: A Discussion on Schindlers List. Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, March 1994.

Natur und Kunstwerk bei Stifter und Heidegger. sthetik und Naturerfahrung. Tagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft fr sthetik e.V. Hannover, March 1994.

Moderator, Poe and Poetry. MLA Conference, Toronto, December 1993.

            Street Talk: (Jewish) Philosophy Loses Its Innocence. MLA Conference, Toronto, December 1993.

Life as a Goddess: The Memoirs of Henriette Herz. Colloquium University of Pennsylvania/ University of Geneva. Conference, University of Pennsylvania, October 1993.

Bodies in Pain: Reflections on the Jewish Salon. Colloquium, The German-Jewish Dialogue: A Non-Event? University of Wisconsin, Madison. October 1993.

Vergangenheitsbewltigung: Ein Gang durch die Ausstellung Jdische Lebenswelten in Berlin. Universitt Rostock, July 1993.

Weibliche Krpersprachen: Wort und Bild bei Henriette Herz. Universitt Rostock, July 1993.

Presentation and discussant, Karl Jaspers Vorlesungen zu Fragen der Zeit, Colloquium Zeitbruch im Erbe Europas, Halle (Saale), June/July 1993.

Hebrer oder Juden? Religise und politische Bekehrung bei Herder. Mendelssohn-Colloquium, Moses Mendelssohn-Zentrum, Universitt Potsdam, Juni 1993.

Henriette Herz: Self-Representations of an Eighteenth-Century Berlin Jewish Woman. University of Pennsylvania Womens Club, Philadelphia, April 1993.

Exhibiting the Jew: Notes on a Berlin Exhibition. Nation-State: Interrogating the Hyphen, Fifth Annual Interdisciplinary Conference: University of Pennsylvania/Princeton University/Rutgers University, Philadelphia, April 1993.

Literary Therapy: Moritz Magazin and the Possibilities of Jewish Authorship. MLA Conference, New York, December 1992.

Moderator, New Facts in the Case of M. Poe I. MLA Conference, New York,December 1992.

On Exhibitions and Memory. Presentation, Graduate Student Organization, Program Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, University of Pennsylvania, November 1992.

Die Ausstellbarkeit des Fremden: Zur Literaturtheorie als cultural studies. Zweites Hamburger Kolloquium zur Literaturwissenschaft. Hamburg, Germany, October 1992.

Autobiographie und Erfahrungsseelenkunde: Zu den Erinnerungen Salomon Maimons. Der ganze Mensch: Symposium der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft. Wolfenbttel, Germany, September 1992.

Hebrer oder Juden? Religise und politische Bekehrung bei Herder. Internationales Herder Symposium. Ruhr-Universitt Bochum. Bochum, Germany, June 1992.

True Confessions: Hannah Arendt, Rahel Varnhagen, and the Writing of (Auto)biography. Department of Foreign Languages, Univer­sity of Rochester. Rochester, NY, April 1992.

Henriette Herz Memoirs: The Writing of a 19th Century German-Jewish Woman. Jewish Studies Seminar, University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, March 1992.

Weiningers Nacht: A presentation of Joshua Sobols drama and Paulus Mankers film version.  Jewish Film Festival, Philadel­phia, February 1992.

Weibliche Krpersprachen. Symposium: Jdisches Leben in Deutsch­land. Berlin, January 1992.

Framing the Enlightenment. East-West Seminar in Eighteenth-Century Studies. Oxford University. Oxford, England, July 1991.

Henriette Herz Remembers. Eighth International Congress on the Enlightenment. University of Bristol. Bristol, England, July 1991.

Gothic Spaces: The Political Aesthetics of Toni Morrisons Beloved. Norwich International Goth­ic Con­fer­e­nce. Uni­ver­sity of East Ang­lia. Norwich, Eng­lan­d, July 1991.

True Confessions: Hannah Arendt, Rahel Varnhagen, and the Writing of (Auto)biography. Symposium, Women and Writing: Feminist Perspectives on German Literature 1650-Today. Indiana University. Blooming­ton, IN., March 1991.

Rahel Varnhagen: A German-Jewish Woman in Late Eighteenth-Century Berlin. Friends of the Library Lecture, Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania.  February 1991.

What Has Been Unified? Discussion panel, Modern Language College House, University of Pennsylvania, January 1991.

True Confessions: Hannah Arendt, Rahel Varnhagen, and the Writing of (Auto)biography. PARSS Seminar paper, The Diversity of Language, University of Pennsylvania, January 1991.

The Enlightenment Dances. MLA Conference, Chicago. December 1990.

True Confessions: Hannah Arendt, Rahel Varnhagen, and the Writing of (Auto)biography. Swarthmore College, November 1990.

Writing Difference: Rahel Varnhagens Nation. Sec­ond In­ter­na­tion­al Con­fer­ence of the IS­SEI, Com­pa­ra­tive His­tory of Euro­pean Na­tion­al­ism: Eu­rope To­wards 199­2. Cath­olic Uni­ver­sity of Leuv­en, Bel­gium, Sep­tem­ber 1990.

Discussant, Disciplines and Disciplinarity in the 18th-Century and in Our Times. International Herder Symposium, Universi­ty of Virginia, Charlottes­ville, April 1990.

Taking Steps: Writing Traces in Adalbert Stifter. The Interna­tional Association for Philosophy and Literature, Bodies: Image, Writing, Techno­logy. Universi­ty of California, Irvine, April 1990.

Utopian Spaces: Bloch, Lukcs, Pontoppidan. Theory Col­lo­qui­um, De­p­art­ment of Ger­manic Lan­guag­es and Lit­era­tu­res, Prin­ceton Uni­ver­si­ty, April 1990.

Soziale Mimesis: Versuche der Anpassung um 1800. Delta Phi Alpha Lec­ture, Uni­ver­sity of Penn­syl­va­nia, March 1990.

Moderator, symposium The Voices of Jewish Women. Cornell Uni­ver­sity. Itha­ca, NY, Feb­ruary 1990.

Utopian Spaces: Bloch, Lukcs, Pontoppidan. CLASS and Pro­gram in Com­para­tive Lit­era­ture and Crit­ical Theo­ry, Uni­ver­sity of Penn­syl­va­nia, Feb­ruary 1990.

True Confessions: Hannah Arendt, Rahel Varnha­gen, and the Writing of (Auto)biography. Boston University, Boston, MA. February 1990.

True Confessions: Hannah Arendt, Rahel Varnha­gen, and the Writing of (Auto)biography. Leo Baeck Institute, New York, January 1990.

True Confessions: Hannah Arendt and the Writings of Auto­biog­ra­phy. SAMLA Confer­e­nce, At­lan­ta, GA., No­vem­ber 1989.

Response to William Chase, Salvaging a Tradi­tion: The Core Curriculum in Higher Educa­tion. Sym­posium, The Decline of Western Knowledge? School of Continuing Education, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD., April 1989.

Literatur als Reprsentationsform: Zur Lektre von Lektre. Erstes Hamburger Kolloquium zur Lite­raturin­ter­pretation und Literaturge­schichte.  Universitt Ham­burg, March 1989.

Utopian Spaces: Bloch, Lukcs, Pontoppidan. (lecture series) The German Contribution to Literary Theory. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, January 1989.

Telling Lines. MLA Confer­ence. New Orleans. Decem­ber 1988.

Response to Joan DeJean, Sappho in Nineteenth-Century Germany.  Womens Studies Seminar, Womens Studies Program, University of Pennsylvania, Philadel­phia, PA., December 1988.

Stepping Out: Rahel Varnhagen, a German Jewish Writer between Enlightenment and Roman­ticism. ­German Depart­ment, Amherst College, Amherst, MA., November 1988.

On Disciplines. Thesenpapier. German Studies in the United States: Models and New Directions. A Working Confer­ence at Emory University.  Atlanta, GA., Septem­ber/Octo­ber 1988.

Translation and Acculturation: Rahel Varnha­gens Letters. Conference Beyond Transla­tion. The University of Warwick. Coventry, England, July 1988.

Re-directing the Search for Origins:  Johann Gottlieb Fichtes Concept of Language. Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Knox­ville, TN., April 1988.

            A Philosophers Style: Reading Fichtes Geist und Buch­sta­b.  Sym­po­sium: Literary His­tory and Cul­tural S­tud­ies. Cen­ter for Ad­van­ced Stud­ies at the Uni­ver­sity of

            Vir­ginia. Char­lot­tes­vil­le, VA, April 1988.

Philosophy and the Fairy Tale:  Ernst Bloch as ­Nar­ra­tor.  Sym­po­sium: The Playgr­ound of Text­uali­ty. De­tro­it, MI, March 1988.

Shifting Margins:  Poes Conchologists First Book ­and the Writing of the Marginalia. MLA Con­ference. San Francis­co, CA., December 1987.

Turns of Emancipation:  On Rahel Varnhagens Letters.  Jewish Studies Program, Cornell University. Ithaca, NY, November 1987.

Schreiben als Selbstentwurf.  Zu den Schriften Rahel V­arn­ha­gens und Doro­thea Schlegels.  Per­spek­ti­ven­wech­sel:  Sym­po­sium zur Soz­ial­ge­schichte der deut­schen L­ite­ratur.  Schlo Reis­ensb­urg bei Gnz­burg, Ba­yern, September 1987.

Natur als Gleichnis:  Sprache und Bild bei Ralph Waldo Emerson. Fnftes Hamburger Kollo­quium zur sthetik und Kultur­theo­rie, Ҁsthe­tik der Natur. Ham­burg, June 1987.

New and Old Homes:  German Writers in American Exile.  Leo Baeck Institute, Baltimore Chapter. Baltimore, MD., April 1987.

The Masters Theme, and Some Variations: Doro­thea Schlegels Florentin as Bildungsroman. Kentucky Foreign Language Con­ference. Lexington, KY., April    1986.

Schillers Geisterseher and theBoundaries of Fiction. SAMLA. Atlanta, GA., November 1986.

Kants Trume eines Geistersehers und die Moral der Philos­ophie. Viertes Hamburger Kolloquium zur sthetik und Kultur­theorie, Ҁsthetische Erfahrung und die Moral der Kun­st. Hamburg, May 1986.

Vergleichende und allgemeine Literaturwissenschaft/ Komp­ar­ati­stik als philosophische und theo­rie­bil­dende In­stanz der Literatur­wis­sen­sch­aft in den USA? Ein tra­nsat­lanti­sches Gesp­rch­.  Ober­semi­nar: Lit­era­tu­rge­schi­cht­liche Proj­ekte und methodi­sche Pro­ble­me, Univ­ersi­tt Ham­burg, May 1986.

Selbstbeschreibung als pdagogischer Diskurs: Rahel Varnhagens Briefe.  Rahel Levin: Convegno Inter­nazionale.  Universit degli studi di Torino. Turin. April 1986.

Desired Reconciliations: On Language as Experi­ment. MLA Conferen­ce. Chica­go, IL., December 1985.

Myth, History, Enlightenment:  The Silence of the Si­ren­s.  MLA Con­fer­en­ce. Chicago, IL., De­cem­ber 1985.

Teaching Ones Self:  Rahel Varnhagens Letters as Pedagogical Discourse. AATG Con­ference. New York, November 1985.

Writing on the Wall:  Letters of Rahel Varnha­gen. Louis B. Kaplan Seminar in Jewish Culture and Civili­zation, Baltimore Hebrew College.  Bal­timore, MD., April 1985.

Die neuen Leiden des jungen W. Introduction to the Film Version of the Drama by Ulrich Plenz­dorf. The Goethe Society of Ameri­ca, Maryland Chapter, Baltimore, March 1985.

Jewish Women and the Berlin Salon:  Emancipa­tion and German Culture; The Jewish Com­muni­ty in Berlin:  A Short History from the Enlighten­ment to the Present.  Weekend seminar, Harford Jewish Center.  Havre de Grace, MD., March 1985.

Jewish Life in Berlin: Notes on a Community from the l8th Century to the Present. Wednes­day Noon Series, The Johns Hopkins University. Bal­timore, MD., November 1984.           

Savage Allegory:  A Reading of Poe. William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar, Cali­fornia Insti­tute of Tech­nology.  Los Angel­es, CA., May 1984.

Savage Allegory:  Poes Murders in the Rue Morgue,Foreign Language Conference, East Tennessee State University. Johnson City, TN., October 1984.

Truth and Representation:  The Shadow Image in Lavater and Chamisso. Georgia Colloquium 1984.  Athens, GA., May 1984.

Seminar, Adventures in Reading:  Editing Poes Julius Rodman,  Hu­mani­ties Collo­quium, Humani­ties Cen­ter, The Johns Hopkins University, February 1984.  

Film Critics on Film.  Moderation of a panel dis­cussion.  First Womens Film Festival, Univer­sity of Maryland, Baltimore County.  Catonsville, MD., December 1983.

Allegory, Metaphor, and the Problem of Narra­tion. MLA Conference. Los Angeles, CA., December 1982.

 

Media

 

Wissenschaft redet Tacheles by Dagmar Eklaude, Unizeit Graz 2 (June 2007): 14-15.

 

Interviewed by Alex Weinstein, Daily Pennsylvanian, February 2007.

 

Interviewed for/ co-wrote Hannah Arendt segment, Women Public Intellectuals, Whats the Word? MLA Radio/ National Public Radio, March 2007.

 

Interviewed (with Jean-Michel Rabat) by Marty Moss-Coane, on the occasion of Sigmund Freuds 150th birthday. RadioTimes, WHYY (Philadelphia), May 2006.

 

Interviewed by Julia K. Baker and Laura Trser-Vas, University of Cincinnati, March 2005.  Room for Curiosity, Focus on German Studies 12 (2005), 215-221.

 

Interviewed by Richard Levinson, article on Jewish life in Germany, Philadelphia Inquirer, March 2005.

 

Televised lecture, conference Kultur und Mannigfaltigkeit, mdr Kulturnachrichten, November 2003.

 

Interviewed by Jrg Sobiella, Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk/MDR Kultur broadcast, on occasion of the conference Kultur und Mannigfaltigkeit, November 2003.

 

Interviewed by Gabriele Bondy, Bayrischer Rundfunk (Kultur), on occasion of the conference Kultur und Mannigfaltigkeit, November 2003.

 

Interviewed by Nikolaus Halmer, ORF/sterreichischer Rundfunk (Wissenschaft, Bildung, Gesellschaft) on occasion of the conference Kultur und Mannigfaltigkeit, November 2003.

 

Interviewed by Daniela Martin for Aufbau, article on second generation Jewish academics, New York/Berlin, July 2002.

 

Interviewed for Deutschlandfunk, Friday feature broadcast Schalom, on occasion of the conference Contemporary Jewish Autobiography, Mnster, October 2001.

 

Interviewed by Tilman Jens, magazine feature on the offer by the Universitt Potsdam, SAT3 (German Television), Philadelphia, October 2000.

 

Interviewed by Elvira Trlemann, on occasion of the conference Theorie der Komdie/ Poetik der Komdie, Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Bonn, November 1999.

 

Feature by David Swatling about the conference The Culture of Exchange: Real and Imagined Markets in the Low Countries, 1500-1800, (ser.) Aural Tapestry, Radio Netherlands, Philadelphia, May 1999.

 

Interviewed by Peter Taylor, on occasion of the conference Arendt in Jerusalem.  CBC Toronto, Sunday Morning, Toronto/Philadelphia, December 1997.

 

Lecture, Preisfragen zu einem Leben vor und nach 1933 and Roundtable Discussion, Karl Lwith, Hessischer Rundfunk, Marburg, July 1997 [sequence of four one-hour broadcasts].

 

Interviewed for the Westdeutsche Zeitung, in regard to the planned Holocaust Memorial in Berlin, June 1995.

 

Featured, Universittszeitung, Ruhr-Universitt Bochum, May 1995.

 

Interviewed by Dennis Staunton, on the occasion of the opening of the exhibition Jdische Lebenswelten. BBC WorldServices, BBC Berlin, January 1992.

 

 

Conference, Colloquium, and Session Planning

 

2008                            Co-Organizer, The Return of the Soldier. Freud, Franklin, and

Beyond: Discussion Forum; Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, and the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia, (Freud, Franklin, and Beyond) April 2008.

2008                            Organizer, Becoming Modern: The German-Jewish Experience.

Symposium, Department of German and Jewish Studies, University of Pennsylvania, March 2008.

2008                            Co-Organizer, Privacy Matters: Disclosure and Its Discontents.

Freud, Franklin, and Beyond: Discussion Forum; Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, and the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia, February 2008.

2007                            Co-Organizer, The End: Closure in Literature and

Psychoanalysis. Freud, Franklin, and Beyond: Discussion Forum; Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, and the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia, November 2007.

2007                           Co-Organizer, Closed Borders, Open Question: Immigration

Beyond Politics. Freud, Franklin, and Beyond: Discussion Forum; Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, and the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia, April 2007.

2007                            Co-Organizer, Why Curse? Why Not? Freud, Franklin, and

Beyond: Discussion Forum; Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, and the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia, February 2007.

2006                            Co-Organizer, A City in Crisis? The Rise of Violence in

Philadelphia. Freud, Franklin, and Beyond: Discussion Forum; Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, and the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia, October 2006.

2005-2006                   Co-Topic Director, Word and Image, Penn Humanities Forum

2004                            Organized and Moderated Panel, Lessings German-Jewish

Legacy, G.E. Lessing Society of America, MLA

Conference, Philadelphia, 2004.

2003                            Moderated panel, The Uses of G.E. Lessing, G.E. Lessing

                                          Society of America, MLA Conference, San Diego, 2003.

2003                            Organized panel, Jewish Education in Germany, AATG    

                                    Conference, Philadelphia, 2003.

2002-2005                   Member, Organizing Committee, Word and Image Conference,

                                                Philadelphia, 2005.

2000-2001                   Member, Organizing Committee, Conference on Style, German

                                                Department, University of Pennsylvania, March 2001.

2000-2001                   Organizer, graduate student/faculty colloqium, Department of

                                                Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of

                                                Pennsylvania

1998-1999                   Member, Organizing Committee, International Poe Conference,

                                                Richmond, Virginia, October 1999.

1998-1999                   Member, Organizing Committee, International Conference Operative Communities? The Jewish Question in France                                                         from Durkheim to Levinas University of Pennsylvania,

                                                April 1999.

1997-1999                   Organized International Conference, The Culture of Exchange: Real and Imagined Markets in the Low Countries, 1500-                                                  1800.  University of Pennsylvania,  March 1999.

1994-95                       Planning Committee, Conference on Women and Violence,

                                                University of Pennsylvania, March 1995.

1994 (Spring term)      Convener, Workshop on the History of the Book and Material Culture, Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory and Special Collections, Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania.

1993-94                       Co-Convener, Cultural Studies PARSS Faculty Seminar, Cultural   Memory, University of Pennsylvania.

1993 (Spring term)      Executive Member, PARSS Faculty Seminars (In charge of the

                                                seminar: Diversity of Language and the Structure of

                                                Power), University of Pennsylvania.

1991                            organized and presided, two sessions Texts and Intertexts. MLA Conference, San Francis­co, December.

1990                            organized and presided, two sessions Fictional Voyages. MLA Conference, Chicago, December.

1989                            organized and presided, two sessions Poe Reading: Reading Poe. MLA Conference, Washington, December.

1988                            organized and presided, two sessions Poe and Critical Theory. MLA Conference, New Orleans, December.

 

 

Administrative Experience

 

University of Pennsylvania:

 

2007-2008                   Member, Search Committee, Position in Nineteenth-Century

                                                European Art History

2006–present               Member, Collaboration Committee, Psychoanalytic Center of

Philadelphia (PCOP) and the University of Pennsylvania

                                    Co-Chair, Program Committee, Philadelphia Center for

Psychoanalysis and University of Pennsylvania

2006, 2004                  Member, Selection Committee, Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback

Foundation Award for Distinguished Teaching, and Provosts Award for Teaching

2005-2006                   Faculty Advisor, Graduate Humanities Forum

2004                           Member, Search Committee for Dean, School of Arts and Sciences

2004                           Member, Selection Committee, Chair of the Department of English

2004                            Member, Selection Committee, Evan C. Thompson Endowed Term

                                                Professorship for Excellence in Teaching

2003-2004                  Member, Search Committee for Vice Provost and Director of

Libraries

2003-2006                   Member, Graduate Council of the Faculties

2003-2006                   Member, Hearings List for the Faculty Grievance Commission

2002-2004                   Member, selection committee, Travel Fellowships, French Institute

for Culture and Technology

2001 (Fall term)          Member, Arts, Humanities and Society Strategic Planning

                                                Committee

2001                            Member, Selection Committee, Fellowships for the School of

                                                Theory and Criticism at Cornell University

2001                            Member, Selection Committee, Judith Rodin Teaching Award for

                                                Graduate Students

2001                            Member, Selection Committee, Brownlee Term Chair in

                                    Womens Studies

1999-2004                   Member, Funding Committee, University Scholars

1999-2000                   Alternate Member, Senate Committee on Academic Freedom and

                                          Responsibility

2000                            Member, Fellowship Committee, Center for Advanced Judaic

                                                Studies

2000                            Member, Dissertation Fellowship Committee, Womens Studies

1999-2000                   University Council Library Committee

1996-2004                   Member, Faculty Advisory Board/Executive Committee, Womens

                                                Studies

1997-2000                   helped organize MLA program, Public Culture and Arts. Administration

1996-present               University Library Advisory Council

1996                            Search Committees, Departments of English and Romance    Languages, deVito Chair in Italian Studies

1995                            Search Committee, Director of the Program in Womens Studies

1995                            Member, Planning Committee, Undergraduate Major in Communication

1995-1997                   Member, Personnel Committee, and Personnel Committee Summer Panel

1995-present               Member, Advisory Board, Penn Center for Judaic Studies

1994-2004                   Faculty Advisor, Delta Phi Alpha Honors Society (Rho Chapter)

1994-present               Member, Committee on Faculty Exchange, Catholic University

                                                Leuven            /Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

1994-2004                   Member, Faculty Council, University Scholars

1994                            Member, Committee for Library Fellowships, Special Collections, Van Pelt Library

1993-present               Member, Committee on the Graduate Certificate in Womens Studies

1993-1995                   Member, Senate Executive Committee, University of Pennsylvania

1993-94                       Member, Nominating Committee, Faculty Senate

1993 (Fall term)          Member, Search Committee, Position in Modern Japanese

                                                 Literature

1992-1994                   Member, Post-doctoral Mellon Fellowship Committee

1992-1993,                 

1999-present               Freshmen (and Sophomore) Academic Advisor

1992                            Member, DAAD committee

1991-present               Member, Faculty Advisory Board, Womens Studies Program

1991-1992                   Member, International Studies Task Force

1991-1993                   Member, Senate Committee on Academic Freedom and Responsibility

1990-1993                   Member, Hearing Board of the University Student Judicial System

1989-present               Member, Advisory Committee, Comparative Litera­ture Undergraduate Program

1989-present               Member, Administrative Committee, Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory

1989-present               Member, Committee on Graduate Student Admis­sions, Program in Compar­ative Lite­rature and Critical Theory

 

Karl-Franzens-Universitt Graz

 

2007- present              Board Member, Centrum fr Jdische Studien (Center for Jewish

                                                Studies)

 

Hochschule fr Jdische Studien Heidelberg

 

2003 (Spring)              Evaluator for the Hiring Committee (Berufungskommission), C4-

Professur in Hebrischer und jdischer Literatur (full professorship in Hebrew and Jewish Literature)

 

Universitt Potsdam:

 

1993 (Spring term)      Member, Hiring Committee (Berufungskommission), C4-Professur

in neuere deutsche Literatur

 

The Johns Hopkins University:

 

1983-85, 1986-89       Library Coordinator, German Depart­ment

1989                            Member, Committee, Milton S. Eisenhower Symposium

1986, 1987-89             Member, Board of the Humanities Honors Program

1987                            Member, selection commit­tee, DAAD Fellow­ships

1986 (Fall term)          Member, selection committee for the Benefi­cial Hodson

                                                Scholar­ships

1985 (Spring term)      Member, selection committee for the Mellon Fellowships in the Humanities

1984-1989                   B.A­./M­.A.Th­esis Ad­visor and Committee Member, Humani­ties Honors Pro­gram

1983 (Fall term)          Member, Humanities Computer Users Support Group

 

Harvard University:

 

1979-80                       Member, Committee on Graduate Education, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

1979-80                       Member, Student Council, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

 

Hochschule der Knste Berlin:

 

1976-78                       Member, Faculty Council

1976-78                       Member, Board of Examiners

1975-78                       helped develop program and lecture cur­riculum, Department of Visual Communica­tion

 

 

Other Professional Service

 

2008 (Spring)              Member, Selection Committee, Career Development Fellowship,

                                                Leo Baeck Institute, New York

2008 (Spring)              Member, Quality Review Committee, Department of Germanic

                                                Studies, University College Cork, Ireland

2008 (Spring)              Member, Review Committee, Department of Germanic Languages

                                                and Literatures, University of Virginia

2008-present               Member, Selection Committee, Leo Baeck Fellowship Programme

for Doctoral Candidates (Leo Baeck Institute London and the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes)

2007-2010                   Member, Program Committee, Modern Language Association

2006                            Co-Chair, Award and Dinner Committee, Wyck-Strickland Award

                                                (Architecture/Architectural History), Philadelphia.

2005-present               Member, AJS International Cooperation Committee, Association

for Jewish Studies.

2003-present               Reviewer in Eighteenth-Century Studies and German-Jewish

Studies, German Quarterly.

2003-present               Faculty Fellow, Kings Court English House, University of

                                                Pennsylvania.

2000-present               Member, Academic Advisory Committee, Leo Baeck Institute New

                                                York.

Fall 2000                     External Dissertation Examiner, Department of German, McGill

                                                University, Montreal.

November 1998          Member, External Review Committee, Program in Comparative  Literature, Dartmouth College.

May 1997                    Member, External Review Committee, Departments of Comparative Literature, German, Romance Languages, and                                                            the Multimedia Center; Northwestern University.

1996                            Outside Examiner, Department of Modern Languages, Swarthmore

                                                College.

1995                            Second Dissertation Reader/Evaluator, Ruhr-Universitt Bochum.

1994-2003                   Member, Board of Directors, Kafka Society of America.

1994                            Outside Dissertation Reader and Examiner, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario.

1994                            Outside Examiner, Department of Modern Languages, Swarthmore College.

1993                            Member, Academic Advisory Council, Leo Baeck Institute, New York.

1993                            Member, Academic Advisory Board, Exhibition on Antisemitism.

                                                Jdisches Museum Wien, Vienna, Austria.

1992-1995                   President, Poe Studies Association.

1992                            Member, ASECS selection committee, Clifford Prize.

1990                            Faculty Fellow, Modern Languages College House, University of Pennsylvania.

1990-91                       Acting president, Poe Studies Association.

1987-91                       Vice-president and program director, Poe Studies Association.

1991                                        Reviewer, NEH Fellowship applications.

1986-87                       Vice-president, Goethe Society of America, Maryland Chapter.

1985                            Member, nominating committee, Poe Studies Association.

April 1985                   Faculty Sponsor, Womens Film Festival, The Johns Hopkins University

1984-85                       organized film series, German Film of the Seven­ties, The Johns Hopkins Univer­sity.

April 1984                   organized exhibition:  Franz Kafka:  Photo­graphs, Ever­green House, The Johns Hop­kins Uni­ver­sity (in coop­era­t­ion with the Austri­an Insti­tute, New York).

1984 (Spring term)      organized film series, German Film l933-l944 in conjunction with a course on literature, film and aesthetic theory of this period, German Depart­ment, The Johns Hopkins University.

1983 (December)        Faculty Sponsor, First Womens Film Festi­val, Uni­versity of Maryland Baltimore County/The Johns Hopkins University.

1978 (June)                 Delegate and interpreter for the Berlin exhibi­tion at the Art and Poster Biennale, Warsaw.

 

Member, Editorial Boards

 

2007-present               Member, Editorial Board, Transversal

2007-present               Member, External Board, Konturen: Interdisciplinary Journal for

German Cultural Analysis

2006-present               New Studies in the Age of Goethe: book Series, in conjunction

with the Goethe Society of America, Bucknell University Press

2005-present               Germanistik in Ireland

2002-2004                   The Edgar Allan Poe Review

1998-2001                   (Faculty), Other Voices: The (e) Journal of Cultural Criticism

(http://dept.english.upenn.edu/-ov).

1995-present               The Lessing Yearbook

1994-2003                   Journal of the Kafka Society of America

1994-1997                   German Quarterly

1983-1990                   MLN (Modern Language Notes)

 

Member, Editorial Advisory Boards

1997-present               Poe Studies

1995-1998                   Member (Comparative Literature, German), Editorial Advisory Board, Eighteenth-Century Studies

 

 

Editorial Advisor (Books)

 

1992                            Zeit/Schriften (series), Fischer Verlag

1992                             Jdischer Verlag im Suhrkamp Verlag

1996-1998                            Member, Editorial Advisory Board, exempla aesthetica, book

                                    series, fromann-holzboog Verlag Stuttgart-Bad Canstatt.

1994-present               Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Medienkultur, book series, Springer Verlag Berlin.

1989                            Suhrkamp Verlag

1986-1987                   Leo Baeck Institute

1981-1985                   Die Frau in der Literatur (series), Ullstein Verlag

1975-1982                   Wissenschaftliches Taschenbuch (series), Ullstein Verlag

 

Reader (publishing houses), 1984-present

 

University of Wisconsin Press, Bedford/St. Martins Press, Cambridge University Press, Palgrave, Modern Language Association, University of Illinois Press, Princeton University Press, Oxford University Press, The University of Chicago Press, Harvard University Press, University of Michigan Press, Yale University Press, Cornell University Press, Wayne State University Press, University of Indiana Press, SUNY Press, The Johns Hopkins University Press, The University of Pennsylvania Press, The University of Nebraska Press

 

Reader (journals), 1986-present

 

Nashim, PMLA, ESQ (Emerson Society Quarterly), Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, Lessing Year-Book, German Quarterly, South Atlantic Review, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Poe Studies, Word and Image, Austrian Literature, Journal for the History of Ideas, Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy, Jewish Culture and History

 

Evaluator (foundations)

 

NEH, ACLS, Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Israel Foundation, German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research, Leo Baeck Institute Fellowships and Publications

 

Languages

                                   

German, Polish           (native ability)

French, Latin               (excellent reading knowledge)

Italian                          (good reading knowledge)

Russian                       (reading knowledge)