Course - Fall 2008

     FLG300 Introduction to German Literature

Course - Fall 2007

     FLG300 Introduction to German Literature

Course - Fall 2006

       FLG 316  German Lyric in Poetry and Song

Course - Fall 2005

        FLG 323 Twentieth Century German Literature

 


Office Hours - Fall 2008: m-th, 9:30-10:10 and by appt.

Since receiving my Ph.D. from Yale University many, many years ago, I have taught at the University of Rochester's Eastman School of Music, University of Texas, Arlington, and now here at NC State.  At Eastman, I was part of the Department of Humanities and taught all levels of German language and literature.  My last five years there, I also became Chair of the Department.  In 1991, I accepted the position of Chair of the Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literatures at U Texas, Arlington and for three years, from 1998-2001 was Dean of the College of Liberal Arts. I joined the faculty of NC State in 2003, when I was hired as Department Head of Foreign Languages and Literatures. 

I enjoy teaching all levels. The semesters I teach literature classes (especially poetry or 20th century literature), I think they are my favorite topics to teach.  Then I have a semester in which I teach basic language or German grammar, and I am equally happy teaching those classes. 

My publications have been primarily in the field of 20th century German and comparative literature, especially on the works of Franz Kafka.  My most recent books are A Franz Kafka Encyclopedia, Greenwood Press, 2005, written with 3 colleagues, and a volume I edited with Thomas Adam, entitled Traveling Between Worlds: German-American Encounters, Texas A & M Press, 2006.  My current project is a book that will bring together my ideas on Kafka, which I plan to call Kafka Fragments.

Links to German Language Broadcasts:

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Last updated, 7 June 2004