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Professor Emerita, Germanics and Comparative Literature
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Joff Hanauer Distinguished Professor of Western Civilization Emerita (Germanics and Comparative Literature) -
Professor Emeritus, Comparative Literature and Germanics
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News
- Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Featured Scholar: Professor Sabine Wilke (December 10, 2019)
- Who (really) cares? (November 20, 2019)
- Yoko Tawada: Translating Transnational Identities (November 19, 2019)
- Katja Petrowskaja: "Vielleicht Esther" (November 18, 2019)
- Zuckungen, Gefühlsader and Voodoo Doughnuts in Portland, Oregon (November 18, 2019)
- Congratulations to Vanessa Hester: Hanauer Fellow 2018-19 and Bansleben Summer Dissertation Stipend (June 14, 2019)
- Newly Minted PhD and Dean’s Graduate Medalist: Verena Kick (June 14, 2019)
- Newly Minted PhD and Go-Map Scholar: Chase Emrys (June 14, 2019)
- Congratulations to Justin Mohler: Hanauer Fellow 2019-2020 and Bansleben Award for Excellence in Teaching (June 11, 2019)
- Congratulations to Matthew Childs: Hanauer Fellow 2019-2020 (June 11, 2019)
- Newly Minted PhD and 2017-18 Mellon Fellow for Reaching New Publics: Kristina Pilz (June 11, 2019)
- Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference (June 11, 2019)
- Emerita News: Jane K. Brown, Joff Hanauer Distinguished Professor of Western Civilization, (Germanics and Comparative Literature) (June 10, 2019)
- Rethinking Plant-Human Relationships in the Anthropocene: Meet our Alumna Heather Sullivan (PhD 1995) (June 10, 2019)
- New Faculty Publication by Ellwood Wiggins: Selected Works by J. M. R. Lenz (April 3, 2019)
- Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference 2019 (March 20, 2019)
- In Memory of our Emeritus Sammy McLean (March 18, 2019)
- New Faculty Publication by Sabine Wilke: Human-Nature Relations in German Literature: A Curated Stroll through a History of Entanglement (December 10, 2018)
- The Trouble with Sympathy (November 14, 2018)
- New Faculty Publication by Ellwood Wiggins: Odysseys of Recognition (September 19, 2018)
- Sympathy for the Devil (German 385) Team Projects, 2017 (June 13, 2018)
- Newly Minted PhD: Nathan Bates (June 12, 2018)
- German 304 Student Production: Leonce und Lena (June 12, 2018)
- Sabine Wilke named Joff Hanauer Distinguished Professor for Western Civilization (May 22, 2018)
- Spring 2018 UW Germanics Newsletter (March 14, 2018)
- Spring 2018 Course Descriptions (January 23, 2018)
- Visiting Scholar Spotlight: Birthe Hoffmann (University of Copenhagen) (December 12, 2017)
- NOW IN PRINT: Prof. Richard O. Block, Echoes of a Queer Messianic: From Frankenstein to Brokeback Mountain (October 30, 2017)
- Found in Translation: Amazon has become the biggest publisher of German-language fiction in the U.S. (April 18, 2017)
- Ghostwriting: W. G. Sebald’s Poetics of History (March 31, 2017)
- A tribute to Professor Hellmut Ammerlahn's scholarship upon his retirement by Professor Jane K. Brown (May 4, 2016)
- Richard Gray's graduate seminar in autumn 2015 :: W. G. Sebald’s Prose Fictions (May 21, 2015)
Research
- Ellwood Wiggins, Odysseys of Recognition: Performing Intersubjectivity in Homer, Aristotle, Shakespere, Goethe, and Kleist (Bucknell UP: Lewisberg, PA, 2019), Learn more
- Wiggins, Ellwood. "Reflecting and Performing Selves: The Fate of Recognition in Kleist's Penthesilea." German Studies Review 41, no. 2 (2018): 253-74. Learn more
- Richard T. Gray, Ghostwriting: W. G. Sebald’s Poetics of History. New Directions in German Studies. London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2017. Learn more
- Sympathy for the Devil: the Rhetoric of Compassion (German 390), Team Learning Projects, 2016 Learn more
- Ellwood Wiggins, "The Myth of Tragedy: Fictions of Dialogue in Mendelssohn's Letters on the Sentiments and Shaftesbury's The Moralists," Lessing Yearbook/Jahrbuch, XLIII (2016): 35-54. Learn more
- Ellwood Wiggins, "Cold War Compassion: The Politics of Pity in Tom Stoppard’s Neutral Ground and Heiner Müller’s Philoktet," Literatur für Leser, 4-15 (2015): 255-269. Learn more
- Ellwood Wiggins, "Pity Play: Sympathy and Spectatorship in Lessing’s Miss Sara Sampson and Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments," in Performing Knowledge, 1750-1850. Ed. Mary Helen Dupree and Sean B. Franzel. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2015. 85-112. Learn more
- Sympathy for the Devil: The Rhetoric of Compassion (German 390), Team Learning Projects, 2014 Learn more
- Naturtherapie und Subjektreflexion: Der hohe Norden bei Judith Hermann und Anna Kim. In: Arcadia: Internationale Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft / International Journal for Literary Studies 47:2 (2013): 421-446. Learn more
- Mahan, William M. "A Derridean-Kierkegaardian Interpretation of Writing: Imprisonment and Freedom." MA thesis University of Oregon, 2013. Print. Learn more
- Ellwood Wiggins, trans. Rüdiger Campe's The Game of Probability: Literature and Calculation from Pascal to Kleist. Stanford University Press: 2013. 504 pp. Learn more
- Hellmut Ammerlahn, "‘Key’ and ‘Treasure Chest’ Configurations in Goethe’s Works: A Comparative Overview in Poetological Perspective," in: Monatshefte 101/1 (2009), 1-18. Learn more
- Hellmut Ammerlahn, "The Marriage of Artist Novel and Bildungsroman. Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister: A Paradigm in Disguise," in: German Life and Letters 59/1 (2006), 25-46. Learn more
- Ammerlahn, Hellmut. Aufbau und Krise der Sinn-Gestalt. Tasso und die Prinzessin im Kontext der goetheschen Werke. Bern, Frankfurt/M., New York, Paris, 1990. 173 pages. Learn more
- Hellmut Ammerlahn, "Wilhelm Meisters Mignon - ein offenbares Rätsel. Name, Gestalt, Symbol, Wesen und Werden." Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte 42 (1968), 89–116. Learn more
- Publications Learn more
- Oehme, Annegret. “He Should Have Listened to His Wife.” The Construction of Women’s Roles in German and Yiddish Pre-modern Wigalois Adaptations. De Gruyter, 2019. Learn more
- Eric Scheufler. "Documents, Genealogies, Memories: Literary Models of Historiography in 19th Century German Historical Fiction." Diss., in progress. Learn more
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