|
One Brookings Drive Ridgley 325 Campus Box 1104 St. Louis, MO 63130 314-935-5106 |
One Brookings Drive Campus Box 1080 St. Louis, MO 63130 314-935-5151 314-935-5188 (Fax) |
Ph.D., 1974, University of Washington, Seattle, in Comparative Literature
(Medieval Studies)
M.A., 1971, University of Washington, Seattle, in Comparative Literature
B.A., 1969, University of Washington, Seattle, in Comparative Literature
Selected Faculty Positions:
1999 - present
Barbara Schaps Thomas and David M. Thomas Professor in the Humanities in Arts
and Sciences
1990 and 1996
Visiting Professor at Lausanne University, Lausanne, Switzerland
1986 - present
Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature,
Washington University in St. Louis
Administrative Positions:
1997 - present
Special Assistant to the Chancellor for Academic Affairs/Associate
Vice Chancellor
1995 - present
Associate Vice Chancellor, Washington University
1989 - 1998
Associate Provost, Washington University
Courses:
Undergraduate:
The German Fairy Tale; The Renaissance: Crises and New Beginnings; The European Middle Ages; The Reformation; History of the German Language; Literature and Cosmos: 1500-1700; The Construction of the Witch in the Early Modern Period. Witches, Ghosts, and Vampires: the Uncanny in German Literature.
Graduate:
Mysticism and Social Movements; Humanism and Reformation; Volksbuch; Magic and Literature (15th-16th centuries); Literature and the City (16th century Straßburg, Nürnberg, Augsburg); Narrenliteratur (16th century); The German Fairy Tale; Early Modern Biography and Autobiography; The Construction of the Witch; Travel and Discovery in Early Modern German Literature; Science, Knowledge, and Literature in Early Modern Germany; The Radical Reformation; The Construction of the Witch (1500-1700); Theory and Practice of Literary Translation.
Selected Fellowships and Awards:
| 1996 and 2002 | Research Fellow(Stipendiat), Herzog-August-Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, Germany |
| 1992 -1993 | Fulbright Senior Scholar Research Grant (Research) |
| 1991 | DAAD Summer Research Grant: Fellow at the Institut für Europäische Kulturgeschichte at Augsburg, Germany |
| 1988, 1984, 1983, 1982 | Washington University Faculty Summer Research Grants |
| 1980 | National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Research Grant |