Education
PhD in German (magna cum laude), minors in Communication Arts (media studies) and Germanic linguistics, University of Wisconsin – Madison, Aug 2001

MA in German (with distinction), University of Wisconsin – Madison, May 1994

BA in Germanic Languages and Literatures (with distinction), University of Kansas, May 1992

Positions held
Associate Professor of German, Bowling Green State University, May 2008-present

Assistant Professor of German, Bowling Green State University, Aug 2001-May 2008

Visiting Instructor of German, Beloit College, Jan-May 2001

Lecturer in German, University of Wisconsin – Madison, Sep-Dec 1996

Teaching experience at BGSU
Undergraduate: Seminar in German Studies ("Interwar" Sp 2008, “Weimar Culture” Sp 2003), Intro to German Literature, Modern German Literature in Translation, German Culture & Civilization, Contemporary Germany, German Composition and Conversation, Intermediate German, Elementary Language and Culture

Undergraduate/graduate: Seminar in German Studies/Topics in German Studies (“Weimar Culture” Sp 2002), The German Film (Survey of German Cinema Sp 2007 & 2006, “Weimar Cinema and Its Refractions” Sp 2003), Drama Workshop (2004 & 2008, including full productions in German); Advanced Composition and Conversation

Graduate: Seminar in German Studies ("Berlin and Hollywood" F 2007; “Russia, Germany, America: Film Texts in Context” Sp 2004, with Irina Stakhanova; “Weimar Culture” Sp 2003), Introduction to Graduate Studies in German, German Culture & Civilization

Extensive graduate research advising

Publications
"The Body in Time: Paths to Strength and Beauty (1925)," in The Many Faces of Weimar Cinema, ed. Christian Rogowski (Rochester: Camden House), forthcoming.

"Brecht and Exile: Poetry after Weimar, Poetics during Blitzkrieg," Monatshefte 101:1 (2009), 37-55.

"By a Thread: Civilization in Fritz Lang's Fury," Journal of Film and Video 60:3-4 (2008), 72-89.

“Kuhle Wampe and the Problem of Corporal Culture,” Cinema Journal 47:1 (2007), 3-25.

“Rationalisation, Race, and the Weimar Response to Jazz,” German Life and Letters, 60:1 (2007), 75-97.

“In Training: Brecht, Sport, and Modern Subjectivity (1920-1927),” The Brecht Yearbook / Das Brecht-Jahrbuch 31 (2006), 241-261.

“Athletics, Aesthetics, and Politics in the Weimar Press,” German Studies Review 28:1 (2005), 85-106

Reviews

• Peter Jelavich, Berlin Alexanderplatz: Radio, Film, and the Death of Weimar Culture, in Monatshefte 100:1 (2008), 169-172.
• Andreas Killen, Berlin Electropolis: Shock, Nerves, and German Modernity, in Monatshefte 99:2 (2007), 243-245.
• Sebastian Kleinschmidt and Therese Hörnigk, ed., Brecht und der Sport, in The Brecht Yearbook / Das Brecht Jahrbuch 32 (2007), 457-459.
• Sabina Becker and Ute Maack, ed., Kurt Tucholsky: Das literarische und publizistische Werk, in Monatshefte 97:1 (2005), 140-143.
• Janet Ward, Weimar Surfaces: Urban Visual Culture in 1920s Germany, in Monatshefte 94:4 (2002), 558-560

Invited papers
"Reading with an Anxious Ear," Looking after Siegfried Kracauer (Dartmouth College), Nov 2008

“Zivilisation in Brand gesteckt: Fritz Langs Fury (1936),” Fachbereich Germanistik guest lecture series (U Salzburg, Austria), Jun 2005

“Brecht’s Hollyworld,”  Symposium on The Hollywood Songbook: Brecht and Eisler in Exile (Susquehanna U), Oct 2003

Refereed conference papers
"Tucholsky and Kracauer as Feuilletonists: Voice, Noise, and Silence," 33rd Annual German Studies Association Conference (Washington, DC), Oct 2009

"Triangulating Schloss Gripsholm," 122nd Modern Language Association Convention (Chicago), Dec 2007

"Of Mass Destruction," 31st Annual German Studies Association Conference (San Diego), Oct 2007

“Mack the Knife, Comrade Kurt, and the Man Who Wasn’t There,” 121st Modern Language Association Convention (Philadelphia), Dec 2006

“By a Thread: Civilization in Fritz Lang’s Fury,” 30th Annual German Studies Association Conference (Pittsburgh), Oct 2006

“Brecht on the Exile Writer’s Criminal Imperative,” 120th Modern Language Association Convention (Washington, DC), Dec 2005

“Americanization, Aryanization, Narration: Stories of Max Schmeling,” 29th Annual German Studies Association Conference (Milwaukee), Oct 2005

“Schmeling, Sharkey, and the Transatlantic Significance of a Low Blow,” 9th Int’l Congress of the European Committee for Sport History (Crotone, Italy), Sep 2004

Service

• H-German Advisory Board, 2006-2008
• BGSU German undergraduate advisor, Nov 2005-Jun 2008
• BGSU Faculty Senate, 2002-2003, 2005-2006
• Director, BGSU Academic Year Abroad in Salzburg, Austria, 2004-2005, 2008-2009
  

Series and panels organized:

• "War and Interwar," 31st Annual German Studies Association Conference (San Diego), Oct 2007, with Paul Steege (History, Villanova University)
• “Approaching Civilization,” 30th Annual German Studies Association Conference (Pittsburgh), Oct 2006
• “Beyond Antifascism: Modernity and German Exile Writing," 121st Modern Language Association Convention (Washington, D. C.), Dec 2005
• “Cultures of Contest: Sport and Society from Republic to Reich," 29th German Studies Association Conference (Milwaukee), Sep/Oct 2005, with David Imhoof (History, Susquehanna University)
• “The Holocaust and the Moving Image,” BGSU, Mar-Apr 2004
• “Weimar Exotica," Midwest Modern Language Association Convention (Chicago), Nov 2003
• “Nazi Cinema Studies: What is at Stake?" 27th German Studies Association Conference (New Orleans), Sep 2003
• “Nazi Entertainment Cinema I: Machineries of Spectacle," 26th German Studies Association Conference (San Diego), Oct 2002
• “Nazi Entertainment Cinema II: (Dis)continuities," 26th German Studies Association Conference (San Diego), Oct 2002

Membership in professional organizations

• American Association of Teachers of German
• German Studies Association
• International Brecht Society
• Modern Language Association
• Society for Cinema and Media Studies