Kathleen M. Condray

Associate Professor
(Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Email: condray@uark.edu

Research and teaching interests:

Twentieth century literature, women's studies, minority literature and culture, and immigrant literature.

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 (Ariadne Press, 2008); “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.

Others:

She was selected for the Fulbright German Studies Seminar on the topic “International Migration and National Identities” and the NEH Summer Institute “German and European Studies in the U.S.—Changing World, Shifting Narratives.” In 2006, she begins a two year term as elected president of the state chapter of the American Association of Teachers of German. Dr. Condray enjoys working with honors students on thesis topics about German literature or German culture and also serves as an on-campus liaison for paid summer internships in Germany through the CDS organization and as the co-advisor for the German Cooking Club.