Dept. of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures                       Piflaser Weg 10 B

The Pennsylvania University                                                                  D-84034 Landshut

S-311 Burrowes                                                                                  Tel./Telefax:  0871-29889

University Park, PA 16802

Tel.:  (814) 865-5481

 

                                                       CURRICULUM  VITAE

 

DEGREES:

1974     Ph.D., Comparative Literature, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island

             (Dissertation:  “The Iconography of War in d’Aubigné, Gryphius, and Milton”;

 directors:  Prof. Rosalie L. Colie and, after her death, Prof. Sears R. Jayne)

1967     „Pädagogisches Staatsexamen für das Lehramt an Gymnasien,“ Regensburg, Germany

1965     „Wissenschaftliches Staatsexamen für das Lehramt an Gymnasien,“ Munich

1959     “Abitur” (with distinction)

 

RECENT EMPLOYMENT:

1997-2000      Head, Dept. of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures, The

                        Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania

1995-2004      Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Penn State, Univ. Park

1986-95          Associate Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Penn State U.

1979-86          Assistant Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Penn State U.

1973-79          Assistant Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Northwestern

                        University, Evanston, Illinois

 

ACADEMIC HONORS AND MAJOR AWARDS:      

1985, 1992      Faculty Research Grant, American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia

1989                Penn State “Class of 1933” Award for Outstanding Contributions in the Humanities

1988                Supplementary Grant (Sabbatical Leave Funding), Fritz-Thyssen-Foundation, Cologne

1987                Research Grant, German Academic Exchange Service (“DAAD”)

1981-82           Volkswagen Foundation Fellowship, Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel

1969-72           University Fellowship, Brown University, Providence, RI

1967-68           Fulbright Exchange Lecturership, Trinity College, Hartford, CT

1960-61           Fulbright Exchange Scholarship, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN

 

 TEACHING/RESEARCH INTERESTS:

European Literature of the Early Modern Period (German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish)

Cultural History, the History of Ideas of the 16th and 17th Centuries

16th/17th-Century Emblematics, Mnemonics, and Hieroglyphics

17th-Century Pedagogy

17th-Century Polyhistors/Universal Scholars, 17^th-Centry Style:  Athanasius Kircher, Johann Joachim Becher

 

The Realist and Naturalist Novels; the German Novella

The Discovery of the Self through Diaries and Letters