• Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award (Rutgers Graduate School New Brunswick, 2007-2008)

• Max Kade Award for Best Article in German Quarterly (1998)

• The Word Unheard: Legacies of Anti-Semitism in German Literature and Culture, Northwestern University Press, 2011.
• The Retreat of Representation: The Concept of Darstellung in German Critical Discourse , Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996.

Edited volumes:

• Nexus 1: Essays in German Jewish Studies , co-editor with Bill Donahue, Camden House, 2011.

• Commitment and Compassion: Essays on Georg Büchner , co-editor, with Patrick Fortmann, Rodopi, 2012. (please click here for publishing information)

• Rereading Romanticism, Amsterdam/Atlanta: Rodopi, 2000 .

Articles (selected)

• “ ‘Ein heimlich Ding’: Das Selbst als Objekt bei Annette von Droste-Hülshoff,” in Redigierte Tradition, ed. Claudia Liebrand, Irmtraud Hnilica, and Thomas Wortmann (Schöningh, 2010), 271-279.

• “The Fairy Tale Jew,” Neue Lektüren/New Readings, ed. Gerhard Knapp and Norbert Eke, Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik 67 (Rodopi: 2009), 31-42.

• “Die Judenbuche” [The Jews’ Beech Tree]. The Literary Encyclopedia, 23 Aug. 2006. <http://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=16918>.

• “Annette von Droste-Hülshoff,” The Literary Encyclopedia, 12 July 2006, <http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5444> .

• “The Male Muses of Romanticism: The Poetics of Gender in Novalis, E.T.A. Hoffmann, and Eichendorff.” The German Quarterly 78.3 (2005): 299-319.

• “Natural Anti-Semitism: Stifter’s Abdias,” Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift 78.2 (2004): 261-86. [Reprinted in Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism , Volume 198 (Gale, Cengage Learning 2008): 306-320.]

• “Romanticism and Gender Studies,” Camden House History of German Literature: The Literature of German Romanticism , ed. Dennis Mahoney (Camden House 2004): 229-49.

• “Wilhelm Meister’s Women,” Goethe Yearbook 11 (2002): 229-54.

• “Framing the Jew: Grillparzer’s Die Jüdin von Toledo.” German Quarterly 75.2 (2002): 160-80.

• “‘Wer wagt es, eitlen Blutes Drang zu messen?’: Reading Blood in Annette von Droste-Hülshoff’s Die Judenbuche.” German Quarterly 71.3 (1998): 228-253. Best Article Award, German Quarterly 1998 (Max Kade Prize).

• “Dorothea Schlegel’s Florentin: Constructing a Feminist Romantic Aesthetic.” German Quarterly 69.4 (1996): 144-160.

• “‘Confessions of an Improper Man’: Friedrich Schlegel’s Lucinde,” Outing Goethe and His Age, ed. Alice Kuzniar (Stanford: Stanford UP, 1996): 174-193.

Professional Activities:

Co-editor, Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik

Co-editor, Nexus: Essays in German Jewish Studies

Co-founder and co-organizer, German and Jewish Studies Workshop

Editorial Board, Goethe Society of North America book series at Bucknell University Press

Editorial Board, Athenäum

Executive Committee, MLA, Division on 18th - and early 19th -Century German Literature

Executive Committee, German Studies Association

Program Committee, German Studies Association

Executive Committee, Goethe Society of North America

Book Review Editor, Goethe Yearbook

Secretary-Treasurer, Goethe Society of North America

What’s so Great about Goethe? (German 625, Fall 2010)

German Romanticism (German 523, Fall 2009)

Intro to Literary and Cultural Analysis: Enchanted Worlds (German 302, Spring 2010)