CURRICULUM VITAE - Cornell University College of Arts and

CURRICULUM VITAE
DAVID BATHRICK
Department of Theatre, Film & Dance
Ave.
Cornell University
430 College Ave.
U.S.A.
Ithaca, NY 14850
Tel: 607-254-2700
Fax: 607-254-2733
e-mail: [email protected]
DEGREES
Home 111 Stewart
Ithaca, NY 14850
Tel: 607-272-9251
Lürmanstr. 8
28209 Bremen
Germany
Tel: 0421-243-9297
1959
Dartmouth College, B.A.,
1962
University of Chicago, M.A.
1970
University of Chicago, Ph.D.
ACADEMIC HONORS
1960-62
1964-65
1967-68
1972
1975
1976
1982-83
1982-83
1990-91
1995
College Teachers
1996
1996
1998-
Ford Foundation Grant
Johann Wolfgang Goethe Fellow
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD)
Fulbright Fellowship (awarded, but not accepted)
University of Wisconsin Research Grant
University of Wisconsin Research Grant
Institute for Research in the Humanities
International Research Exchange Fellowship (IREX)
Visiting Research Professor, Humboldt Univ, Berlin
1985-87
Vilas Associate - University of
Wisconsin
Society for the Humanities Fellow - Cornell University
Director, NEH Summer Seminar for
Director, NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers
GSA/DAAD Book of the Year Prize:The Powers of Speech
Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Theatre, Film & Dance
and German Studies
1998-9
Institut für kulturwissenschaftliche Deutschstudien
Universität Bremen
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1961-67
University of Chicago Laboratory Schools
Teacher of German
1969-70
St. Xavier College, Chicago, Illinois
Assistant Professorial Lecturer
1969-70
Goodman School of Drama, Chicago, Illinois
Lecturer in Modern Drama
1970-87
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
Professor
1982
Humboldt University, Berlin, GDR
Visiting Research Professor
1983
Free University, West Berlin
Visiting Exchange Professor
1986
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Visiting Professor
1987Cornell University
Professor of German Studies and Theatre, Film & Dance
1991-94
Chair of the Department of German Studies
Cornell University
1995- Chair of Theatre, Film & Dance
Cornell University
SCHOLARSHIP
BOOKS
The Dialectic and the Early Brecht: Trommeln in der Nacht (Göppingen, 1975)
The Powers of Speech: The Politics of Culture in the GDR (University of Nebraska
Press, 1995)
Seeing is Believing: Visual Culture in the Third Reich (forthcoming)
EDITORIAL WORK
Co-Editor and Co-Founder of New German Critique, An Interdisciplinary Journal of
German Studies, 1973-
Modernity and The Text: Re-Visions of German Modernism, co-edited with Andreas
Huyssen (New York: Columbia University Press, 1989)
ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
1) "Anschauungsmaterial für Marx: Brecht Returns to Trommeln in der Nacht," Brecht
Heute, vol.II (1972), 136-148.
2) "Moderne Kunst und Klassenkampf," Exil und innere Emigration, ed. R.Grimm, J.
Hermand (Frankfurt, 1972), 89-109.
3) "Brecht's Marxism and America," Essays on Brecht and Politics (Chapel Hill, 1974),
209-225.
4) "Die ästhetisch-utopische Dimension der 'Weigerung' im Denken Herbert Marcuses,"
Deutsches utopisches Denken im 20.Jahrhundert, ed. R. Grimm, J.Hermand (Stuttgart,
1974), 104-119.
5) "The Dialectics of Legitimation: Brecht in the GDR," New German Critique 2 (Spring
1974)90-103.
6) "An Introduction to Karl Korsch," New German Critique 3 (Fall 1974): 3-11.
7) "Ein Ui kommt nach Cicero: Brecht in Chicago," Brecht Heute, vol.IV (1975), 136148.
8) "The Politics of Reception Theory in the GDR," Minnesota Review (1975):125-134.
9) "Producing Revolution: Heiner Müller's Mauser," New German Critique 8 (Spring
1976)110-121 (co-authored with Andreas Huyssen).
10) "On Leaving Exile: American Germanistik in its Social Context," German Studies in
the United States, ed. by W. F. W.Lohnes and V. Nollendorfs (Madison, 1976),252-257.
11) "Agroprop: Kollektivismus und Drama in der DDR," Geschichte im
Gegenwartsdrama, ed. R. Grimm, J. Hermand (Berlin, 1976), 96-111.
12) "Concerning Legends," New German Critique 9 (Fall 1976): 139-152.
13) "Marx contra NietzscheNotizen zu einer Rezeption," Marx und Nietzsche, ed. R.
Grimm, J. Hermand (Berlin, 1978), 98-122 (co-authored with Paul Breines).
14) "The Politics of Culture: Rudolf Bahro and Opposition in the GDR," New
German Critique 15 (Fall 1978): 3-24.
15) "Geschichtsbewußtsein als Selbstbewußtsein: Literatur der DDR," Neues Handbuch
der Literaturwissenschaft, vol.22, ed. J. Hermand (Wiesbaden, 1979), 273-314.
16) "Reading Walter Benjamin East and West," Colloquia Germanica, 3 (1979)246-255.
17) "Affirmative and Negative Culture: The Avant-garde in the GDR," Social Research
(Spring 1980)166-187.Reprinted in The Technological Imagination, ed. by T. de
Lauretis, A. Huyssen, K. Woodward (Madison, 1981), 107-122.
18) "Rudolf Bahro's Neo_Leninism in Context," New German Critique 21 (Fall
1980)147-153.
19) "Die Zerstörung oder der Anfang von Vernunft: Lyrik und Naturbeherrschung in der
DDR," Natur und Natürlichkeit ed. R. Grimm, J. Hermand (Königstein, 1981),150-167.
20) "A One-Sided History: Brecht's Hitler Plays," Literature and History, ed. L. Schulze,
W. Wetzels (Lanham, New York, London, 1983), 181_196.
21) "Kultur und Öffentlichkeit in der DDR," Literatur der DDR in den siebziger Jahren,
ed. P. Hohendahl, P. Herminghouse (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1983), 51-82.
22) "Marxism and Modernism," New German Critique 33 (Fall 1984)207-218.
23) "'The Theater of the White Revolution is Over': The Third World in the Works of
Peter Weiss and Heiner Müller," Blacks and German Culture, R. Grimm, J. Hermand
(Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1986), 135-149.
24) "Die Berliner Avantgarde der 20er Jahre:.Das Beispiel Franz Jung," Literarisches
Leben in Berlin, Vol. II (Berlin, 1987), 45-78.
25) "Agitproptheater in der DDR. Auseinandersetzung mit einer Tradition," in: Dramatik
der DDR, ed. U. Profitlich (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1987), 128-149.
26) "Patricide or Regeneration: Brecht's Baal and Roundheads in the GDR," Theatre
Journal 394 (December, 1987): 434-447.
27) "Speaking the Other's Silence: Franz Jung's Der Fall Gross," Modernity and The
Text: Revisions of German Modernism, ed. D. Bathrick, A. Huyssen (New York:
Columbia University Press, 1989), 19-35.
28) "Literaturkritik als Kulturkritik: Marxistische Tendenzen in den USA," Germanistik in
den USA: Neue Entwicklungen und Methoden ed. F. Trommler (Westdeutscher Verlag,
1989), 122-146.
29) "Mythologies from the Age of the Golden Heart: Bela Balazs on Film and
Literature," Millenium, 22 (Winter/Spring 1989-1990).
30) "Closing the Gaps: Erwin Piscator's Theatre of the Spectacle," Journal of
Communication Inquiry 131 (Winter 1989).
31) "Love, History, and Dickens: The Love of Jeanne Ney (1927)" The Films of G. W.
PabstAn Extraterritorial Cinema, ed. E. Rentschler (New Brunswick: Rutgers University
Press, 1990), 52-61.
32) "Breaking and Mending the National Dialogue," German Politics and SocietyThe
GDR at Forty, 17 (Summer 1989): 27-38.
33) "Productive Mis-Reading: GDR Literature in the USA," GDR Bulletin 162 (Fall
1990): 1-5.
34) "Max Schmeling on the Canvas: The Boxer as Icon of Weimar Culture," New
German Critique 51 (Fall 1990)113-137.
35) "Cultural Studies," Introduction to Scholarship, ed. J. Gibaldi (New York: MLA
Publications, 1992) 320-342.
36) "The End of the Wall before the End of the Wall," German Studies Review 142
(May 1991): 297-312.
37) "Der ungleichzeitige Modernist: Bela Balazs in Berlin," Filmkultur zur Zeit der
Weimarer Republik, ed. U. Jung and W. Schatzberg (Munich, London, New York, Paris:
K. G. Sauer, 1992), 26-38.
38) "Crossing Borders," German Politics and Society 27 (Fall 1992): 77-87.
39) "Inscribing History, Prohibiting Desire: Fassbinder's Lili Marleen," New German
Critique 63 (Fall 1994).
40) "Lion Feuchtwanger's Jud Süss," Jewish Writing in Germany, edited by Sander
Gilman and Jack Zipes (New Haven: Yale UP, 1996).
41) "Anti-Neo-Nazism as Cinematic Practice: Bonengel's Beruf Neo-Nazi," New
German Critique 67 (Winter 1996)
42) "Cultural Studies im Lichte der Massenmedien,” Zeitschrift für Germanistik. Neue
Folge 3 (1996): 535-544.
43) "Die Provokation der Bilder,” Theater der Zeit 1 (1997)XLIV-XLV. Reprinted in New
German Critique 73 (Winter 1998).
44) "Making the National Family with the Radio: The Nazi Wunschkonzert,”
Modernism/Modernity 41 (1997)116-127.
45) "Rereading Stephan Hermlin: Residues of Difference in the Postwall Public
Sphere,” in: What Remains? East German Culture and the Postwar Public, AICGS
Research Report No. 5 (Wahington D.C.1997), 90-100.
46) "From UFA to DEFA: Past as Present in Early GDR Films,” in: Jost Hermand &
Marc Silberman eds., Contentious MemoriesLooking Back at the GDR (New York:
Peter Lang, 1998), 169-188.
47) "Die Repräsentanz des Schriftstellers in der DDR,” inDer Schriftsteller als
IntellektuellerStudien und Text zur Sozialgeschichte der Literatur (Tübingen: Niemeyer,
2000).
48) "Performance Theater in the Age of Post-Drama,” in: United States and Germany in
the Era of the Cold War (forthcoming)
49) "Language and Power,” in The Powers of Intellectuals in Contemporary Germany,
ed. Michael Geyer (Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1999) (forthcoming)
50) Radio und Film für ein modernes DeutschlandDas Wunschkonzert,” in Djungel
Großstadt, Irmbert Schenk (hrsg.) (Marburg: Schüren Verlag, 1999).
51) "Modernity writ German: State of the Art as Art of the State,” in Cultural History
through a National Socialist Lens: Essays on the Cinema in the Third Reich, ed. Robert
Reimer (New YorkCamden House, 2000).
52) "Kino in Ruinen: Gegenwarts- und Vergangenheitsbewältigung im Berliner Kino
1945-48,” in Erlebnisort Kino, Irmbert Schenk (hrsg.) (MarburgSchüren Verlag, 2000).
53) "Rescreening the Holocaust: The Children’s Stories,” New German Critique 80
(Spring/Summer 2000). Reprinted in Babylon
54) "Seeing is Believing: Hitler’s Mein Kampf as Bildungsroman,” in: Kultur und
Staatsgewalt. (Forthcoming)
55) "1976: The Case of Wolf Biermann,” in The New History of German Literature, ed.
David Wellbery, et. al. (Forthcoming).
PROFESSIONAL
SERVICE
Editorial Board of Monatshefte
Editorial Board of GDR Newsletter
Editorial Board of Diacritics
Member of Association of Teachers of German
Member of Modern Language Association
Member of German Studies Association
Member of International Brecht Society
Vice President of International Brecht Society (1978)
Member of American Association of Slavic Studies
Member of Program Committee of IREX (1984-89)
Publications Committee for MLA (1991-94)
Division of Twentieth-Century German Literature (1994-99)