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Martha Helfer |
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Professor, Department Chair
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Ph.D., Stanford University |
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172 College Ave German House Room 103 |
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(732) 932-0338 or (732) 932-7201 ext. 12 |
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Spring 2012 Office Hours: |
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Mondays, 3:00 - 4:00, and by appointment |
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Research Interests: |
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Literature of the Age of Goethe, Romantic aesthetic and philosophical theories, German intellectual history (18th-20th-century), questions of gender and the construction of subjectivity, philosophical approaches to literature, representations of Jews in German critical discourse
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Honors/Awards |
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Publications: |
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Books: |
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- 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.
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Edited volumes: |
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Nexus 1: Essays in German Jewish Studies , co-editor with Bill Donahue, Camden House, 2011.
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Commitment and Compassion: Essays on Georg Büchner , co-editor, with Patrick Fortmann, Rodopi, 2012. (please click here for publishing information)
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Rereading Romanticism, Amsterdam/Atlanta: Rodopi, 2000 .
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Articles (selected) |
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- “ ‘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.
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- “The Fairy Tale Jew,” Neue Lektüren/New Readings, ed. Gerhard Knapp and Norbert Eke, Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik 67 (Rodopi: 2009), 31-42.
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- “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.
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“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.]
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“‘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).
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“‘Confessions of an Improper Man’: Friedrich Schlegel’s Lucinde,” Outing Goethe and His Age, ed. Alice Kuzniar (Stanford: Stanford UP, 1996): 174-193.
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Professional Activities: |
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Current: |
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Co-editor, Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik |
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Co-editor, Nexus: Essays in German Jewish Studies |
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Co-founder and co-organizer, German and Jewish Studies Workshop |
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Editorial Board, Goethe Society of North America book series at Bucknell University Press |
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Editorial Board, Athenäum |
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Editorial Board, German Studies Review |
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Past: |
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Executive Committee, MLA, Division on 18th - and early 19th -Century German Literature |
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Executive Committee, German Studies Association |
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Program Committee, German Studies Association |
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Executive Committee, Goethe Society of North America |
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Book Review Editor, Goethe Yearbook |
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Secretary-Treasurer, Goethe Society of North America |
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Recent Courses Taught: |
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Graduate: |
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What’s so Great about Goethe? (German 625, Fall 2010) |
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German Romanticism (German 523, Fall 2009) |
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Undergraduate: |
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Intro to Literary and Cultural Analysis: Enchanted Worlds (German 302, Spring 2010) |
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