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Professor Emeritus, Germanics and Comparative Literature -
Professor Emerita, Germanics and Comparative Literature
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Joff Hanauer Distinguished Professor of Western Civilization Emerita (Germanics and Comparative Literature) -
Adjunct Professor, Comparative Literature and Germanics
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Professor Emeritus, Germanics and Comparative Literature
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Assistant Professor of Germanics, Undergraduate Adviser
News
- 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)
- Richard Gray's graduate seminar in autumn 2015 :: W. G. Sebald’s Prose Fictions (May 21, 2015)
Research
- 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
- The Tele-Novel: Seriality and Visual Storytelling (German 390), Learning Team Projects, 2015 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
- Eric Scheufler. "Documents, Genealogies, Memories: Literary Models of Historiography in 19th Century German Historical Fiction." Diss., in progress. Learn more