Literatures and Cultures
Kimpel Hall,
University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, AR 72701
Phone: 479.575.2951
Fax: 479.575.6795
Email the department:
flan01@uark.edu
Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences
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german Faculty
KATHLEEN CONDRAY
Publications
- “Landscapes of Suffering: The Depiction of Rural Austria in Anna Mitgutsch’s Die Züchtigung (1985).” In: Beyond Vienna: Contemporary Literature from the Austrian Provinces. Riverside, CA: Ariadne Press. Forthcoming.
- “The Colonization of Germany: Migrant and German Identity in Wladimir Kaminer’s Mein deutsches Dschungelbuch.” Seminar: forthcoming, September 2006.
- “Language and Power, Homoeroticism and Illness: A Reading of Jan Peter Bremer’s Der Fürst spricht.” Monatshefte 96.4 (2004): 521-534.
- Women Writers of the Journal Jugend from 1919-1940: "Das Gehirn unsrer lieben Schwestern". Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen, 2003.
- "'Heute ist eine Frau überall überflüssig': Working Women in the Texts of Women Writers of the Journal Jugend during the Weimar Republic and Third Reich." In: The Marketing of Eros: Performance, Sexuality and Consumer Culture. Essen: Die Blaue Eule, 2003. 123-37.
- Teaching Ideas. Vol. V. (Co-edited with John Lalande and Michael May). Cherry Hill, NJ: American Association of Teachers of German, 1999.
Review of Irene Guenther. Nazi Chic? Fashioning Women in the Third Reich. Oxford: Berg, 2004. German Studies Review XXVIII, vol. 3 (October 2005): 667-68.
- Review of Hyde Flippo. When in Germany, Do as the Germans Do: The Clued-In Guide to German Life, Language, and Culture. Chicago: McGraw-Hill, 2002. Die Unterrichtspraxis 37.1 (2004): 77.
- Review of Barbara Kosta and Helga Kraft, eds. Writing against Boundaries: Nationality, Ethnicity and Gender in the German-speaking Context (Amsterdamer Publikationen zur Sprache und Literatur 153). Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2001. German Studies Review XXVII, vol. 3 (October 2004): 673-74.
- Review of Bernd Widdig. Culture and Inflation in Weimar Germany. Berkeley: U of California Press, 2001. German Quarterly 76.4 (Summer 2003): 345-46.
- Review of Digitale Bibliothek Deutscher Klassiker. Frankfurt am Main: Deutscher Klassiker Verlag/Chadwyck-Healey, 2003. German Studies Review XXVI (3): 608-09.
- Review of Ulrike Cohen, Christiane Lemcke, and Nicoletta Grandi. Herzlich Willkommen Neu: Deutsch in Restaurant und Tourismus. Lehrbuch. Arbeitsbuch. Berlin: Langenscheidt, 2001. Die Unterrichtspraxis: Teaching German 36.1: 102-103.
- Review of Debbie Pinfold. The Child's View of the Third Reich in German Literature. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2001. German Studies Review XXV (Oct. 2002): 650-651.
- Review of A History of Women's Writing in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Ed. Jo Catling. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000. German Studies Review XXIV (February 2001): 264-265.
(B.A., University of Arkansas, 1994, summa cum laude; M.A., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1996; Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2001) Dr. Kathleen Condray is a former Sturgis Fellow who returned to her alma mater in 1999. Her research and teaching interests include twentieth century literature, minority literature and culture, immigrant literature, and technology. Her book Women Writers of the Journal “Jugend” from 1919-1940 was published in 2003, and her articles have been published in Monatshefte and Seminar. She has presented her research at numerous national and international conferences. She was selected for the Fulbright German Studies Seminar on the topic “International Migration and National Identities,” the NEH Summer Institute “German and European Studies in the U.S.—Changing World, Shifting Narratives,” and the AATG Berlin Summer Seminar “Neuer Blick, Neue Stimmen: Interkulturelles Leben und Wirken (New Vision, New Voices: Intercultural Life and Impact). Dr. Condray is the recipient of the 2007 Fulbright College Master Teacher Award. She enjoys working with honors students on thesis topics about German literature and culture and also serves as an on-campus liaison for paid summer internships in Germany through the CDS organization.
JENNIFER HOYERPublications
- “Eine Disputierkunst? Identität und Integration.” Rose Ausländer als Dichterin zwischen den Welten. Martin Hainz and Clemens Stepina, eds. edition art + science, Summer 2010.
- “Painting Sand: Nelly Sachs and the Grabschrift.” The German Quarterly 82.1 (Winter 2009) 20-37.
- “Nightingalewords.” “Lichtersprache aus den Rissen.” Nelly Sachs – Werk und Wirkung. Ariane Huml, ed. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen. 2008.
- “Sternverdunkelung by Nelly Sachs.” Encyclopedia entry. Literary Encyclopedia online: http://www.litencyc.com/. 2008.
- “Bookmarks of a Journey.” GSD magazine. Fall 2006
- “In den Wohnungen des Todes by Nelly Sachs.” Encyclopedia entry. Literary Encyclopedia online: http://www.litencyc.com/. 2006.
- “Eli by Nelly Sachs.” Encyclopedia entry. Literary Encyclopedia online: http://www.litencyc.com/. 2006.
- “Und Niemand Weiss Weiter by Nelly Sachs.” Encyclopedia entry.Literary Encyclopedia online: http://www.litencyc.com/. 2006.
- “Teaching ‘Process Editing’ Skills with Computers: From Theory to Practice on a Larger Scale.” Unterrichtspraxis 35 (2003), with Jeffrey L. High and Ray Wakefield.
(B.A., English and German, Tulsa University, 1997; M.A. Modern German Lit, University of Minnesota, 1999; Ph.D. Modern German Lit, University of Minnesota, 2007) Dr. Jennifer Hoyer joined the faculty of the UA German program in fall 2007. Research interests include German-Jewish history and literature, poetry, 20th-century perceptions of Medieval and Early Modern literature,literary relationships between Germany and Sweden, and the works of Silke Hassler. She is currently working on a book on the early and post-World War II work of poet Nelly Sachs, on whom she has presented and published nationally and internationally. Hoyer has taught courses in German Cinema, German History and Civilization, Comparative Literature, Modern German literature, Poetry, Poetry and Auschwitz, and German language courses from First Semester to Advanced Stylistics for Graduate Students. She is on the planning committee for the annual Northwest Arkansas Holocaust Education conference, the Comparative Literature Steering Committee, the Women’s Studies Steering Committee, the Netzwerklehrer (Teaching Network member) of the Goethe Institute’s Midwest Region, and as the U of A’s Testing Chair for the Goethe Exams. Hoyer has been and continues to be involved in the German Summer School in Taos Ski Valley, NM.