Curriculum Vitae Tomislav Zelić, Ph.D. Department of German Studies University of Zadar Obala Kralja Petra Krešimira IV. br. 2 HR-23000 Zadar, Croatia Phone: +385-23-327400 Mobile: +385-95-9115078 Email: [email protected] or [email protected] Education 2009 2003 2001 1998 Ph.D., Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, European Institute, Columbia University in the City of New York, NY, USA Dissertation: The Paradox of Sovereignty in Modern German History Plays Committee: Professor Andreas Huyssen, Professor Harro Müller, Professor Stefan Andriopoulos, Professor Erk Grimm, and Professor Taylor Carman M.Phil., Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Columbia University in the City of New York, NY M.A., Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Columbia University in the City of New York, NY B.A. (equiv.), Philosophy and German Philology, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany Professional Experience 2007-present Assistant Professor Theory and History of German Literature University of Zadar, Croatia Courses: 18th Century German Drama (Summer 2009, 2010) Schiller’s Dramas (Summer 2008) Vormärz literature (Winter 2007/8-2009/10) Introduction to the Interpretation of Literature I (Winter 2007/8-2009/10) Introduction to the Interpretation of Literature II (Summer 2008-2010) 2007-present Freelance Translator Fields of Specialization: finance, business, law, humanities Clients: All Languages (Toronto, Canada), tolingo (Hamburg, Germany), Studio One Networks (New York), TransPerfect Translations (New York/London), Atlas Translations (London, UK), Quality Translation Services (New York), Deutsche Asset Management (New York), Vanenberg (Greece), KLEIO 2000-2007 2001-2007 2001-2003 2006/2007 2005/6 2004 2003/2004 2003 2001/2002 Academic Services (Netherlands), tbd translations (Switzerland), Studium (Croatia), Aion (Croatia) New York Times, Columbia University, Jewish Theological Seminary, Cardozo Law Review, Speiser & Krause, DZ Film Productions, Sesame Workshop, Wyser-Pratte; Schlam, Stone & Dolan (New York) Research Assistant, Professor Harro Müller, Columbia Instructor, Columbia University Courses: Intermediate German II (Spring 2003 and Spring 2007) Intermediate German I (Fall 2002 and Fall 2006) Accelerated Elementary German I & II (Summer 2003) Elementary German II (Spring 2002) Elementary German I (Fall 2001) Visiting Graduate Student, Graduiertenkolleg “Körperinszenierungen“, Institut für Theaterwissenschaft, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Committee Member, Graduate Student Conference, Literature and Space, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Columbia University Assistant Director, Deutsches Haus at Columbia University Proofreader, Richard A. Korb/Hubert Jannach, German for Reading Knowledge, Fourth Edition, (Boston: Heinle & Heinle, 1997). Graduate Student Representative, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Columbia University Graduate Student Advisory Council Representative, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University Published Translations 2009 2006 2005 2005 2004 2002 Theo Lieven, Brand Personality and Employee Behavior during Customer Telephone Calls, Dissertation, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, 2008 (forthcoming). Reinhold Martin, „Die Bildprobleme der Architektur: Waren wir je postmodern?“ In: Susanne Knaller und Harro Müller (Hrsg.), Authentizität, Diskussion eines ästhetischen Begriffs (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp), 289-315. Dirk Baecker, “Census,” Cardozo Law Review 26, no. 3 (2005), 869-886. Cornelia Vismann, “Two Critics of Law: Benjamin and Kraus,” Cardozo Law Review 26, no. 3 (2005), 943-956. William Rasch, Konflikt als Beruf, Die Grenzen des Politischen, (Berlin: Kulturverlag Kadmos, 2005), 226 pages. William Rasch, „Menschenrechte als Geopolitik: Carl Schmitt und die völkerrechtliche Form der amerikanischen Hegemonie,” in: Dirk Baecker, Peter Krieg, Fritz B. Simon (Hrsg.), Terror im System, Der 11. September und die Folgen (Heidelberg: Carl Auer Verlag, 2002), 130-158. Publications 2009 o “Propositional Attitude and Modality of Existence, Identity, and Prognostic Statements,” Synthesis philosophica (forthcoming) o „Programmatischer und poetischer Realismus bei Brecht und Kluge,“ Zagreber Germanistische Beiträge (in Vorbereitung) o „Gustav von Aschenbachs Ausflug an die ostadriatische Küste in Thomas Manns Novelle Der Tod in Venedig,“ in: Slavija Kabic/Goran Lovric (Hrsg.), Mobilität und Kontakt, Deutsche Sprache, Literatur und Kultur in ihrer Beziehung zum südosteuropäischen Raum, (Zadar: 2009). (in Vorbereitung) o „Ausnahmezustände in frühmodernen Geschichtsdramen von Kleist, Büchner und Grabbe,“ in: Oliver Ruf (Hrsg.), Ästhetik der Ausschließung, Ausnahmezustände in Geschichte, Theorie und literarischer Fiktion (Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2009), 179-200. 2008 o “On the Phenomenology of the Life-World,“ Synthesis philosophica 23 (2008), No. 2: 413-26. 2007 o „Konstellationen von Fiktion und Realität, Gegenwart und Geschichte in drei Romanen der 70er, 80er und 90er Jahre (Christa Wolf, Herta Müller und W.G. Sebald),” LiCuS, Journal of Literary Theory and Cultural Studies 2 (2007), No. 3: 113-126. o “Nietzsche’s Theory of Multiperspectivism Revisited,” Synthesis Philosophica 22 (2007), no. 1: 231-44. o „Der Wiedergänger der absoluten Souveränität - über Grabbe’s NapoleonDrama,“ Jahrbuch der Studienstiftung des Abgeordnetenhauses von Berlin (2007). 2005 o “Technological and Occult Media in Modern Mass Society, On Döblin’s City Novel Berlin Alexanderplatz,” EnterText 5 (2005), no. 2: 156-223. o „Zur Lyrik nach Auschwitz: Paul Celans Sprachgitter und Gottfried Benns Nur zwei Dinge,“ Zagreber Germanistische Beiträge 14 (2005): 73-88. o “Habermas and his Yugoslavia,” in: Lee Roberts (Ed.), Germany and the Imagined East (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2005), 50-68. o „Friedrich Schillers Nänie oder das Nachleben der neoklassizistischen Elegie,” Riječ 11 (Rijeka: Hrvatsko filološko društvo, 2005), no. 1: 187-95. Presentations 2009 o “Kleist’s Germania Myth,” Germania Remembered 1500-2009, Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, School of Advanced Studies, University of London, UK, November 19-20, 2009 o “Odradek,” Dritte Jahreskonferenz des Südosteuropäischen Germanistenverbandes (SOEGV): Nomen est Omen – Name und Idenität in Sprache, Literatur und Kultur, Ohrid, Mazedonien, 28.-30. Oktober 2009 2008 o „Gustav von Aschenbachs Ausflug an die ostadriatische Küste in Thomas Manns Novelle Tod in Venedig,“ Zweite Jahreskonferenz des Südosteuropäischen Germanistenverbandes (SOEGV): Mobilität und Kontakt, Deutsche Sprache, Literatur und Kultur in ihrer Beziehung zum südosteuropäischen Raum, Zadar, Kroatien, 20.-22. November 2008 2007 o „Ausnahmezustände in frühmodernen Geschichtsdramen von Kleist, Grabbe und Büchner,“ KCTOS (Knowledge, Creativity, and Transformation of Society), „Wissen, Kreativität und Transformationen von Gesellschaften“ Institut zur Erforschung und Förderung regionaler und transnationaler Kulturprozesse (INST), Vienna, Austria, December 7-9, 2007 o Skandal! Graduate Student Conference, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Deutsches Haus, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA, February 15-16, 2007 2006 o „Das Souveränitätsparadox im modernen deutschen Geschichtsdrama,“ Abgeordnetenhaus Berlin, Deutschland o Alles in Ordnung? Civil Order and its Breakdowns, Graduate Student Conference, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Deutsches Haus, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA, 1. travnja 2006. 2005 o “‘No one knows how to govern’ – the Permanent Crisis of Popular Sovereignty in Georg Büchner’s History Play Danton’s Death,” Dissertation Colloquium, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA o “Nostalgia and Utopia in Heiner Müller’s Germania Tod in Berlin,“ Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA o “The Total War Against the Absolute Enemy in Heinrich von Kleist’s ‘Patriotic Plays’ Die Hermannsschlacht (1808) and Prinz Friedrich von Homburg (1809),” Aesthetics of War, Graduate Student Conference, German Studies Department at McGill University 2004 o “Heinrich von Kleist’s Aesthetics of Horror in Hermann’s Battle,” Guest Lecture, Seminar: Geschichtsdrama, prof. dr. sc. Marijan Bobinac, Department of German Language and Literature, Philosophical Faculty, University of Zagreb, Croatia 2003 o “Habermas and his Yugoslavia,” Germany and the Imagined East, Interdisciplinary German Studies Conference, University of California at Berkeley, CA 2003 o “The Labor of the Concept in Literary Studies,” Figures of the Productive (Graduate Student Conference), Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Columbia University Fellowships and Awards 2008, 2007 Annual Travel Grant, University of Zadar, Croatia 2007 Goethe Summer Stipend, Columbia 2007-present listed in Who’s Who of Emerging Leaders (1st edition) and Who’s Who in American Education (8th edition) 2006/7 Teaching Assistant Fellowship, Columbia (tuition and stipend) 2006 Goethe Summer Stipend, Columbia 2005/2006 Mrs. Giles Whiting Dissertation Fellowship, Columbia (tuition and stipend) 2005/2006 Fellowship of the Study Foundation of the House of Representatives Berlin 2005 Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Summer Fellowship, Columbia 2004 Goethe Summer Stipend, Columbia 2004-present listed in Who’s Who in America (58th edition) 2003 Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Summer Stipend, Columbia 2002 & 2001 Max Kade Deutsches Haus Summer Stipend, Columbia 2000-2005 Faculty Fellowship, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Columbia University (tuition and stipend) Languages German (native fluency) Croatian (native fluency) English (near-native fluency) French (reading knowledge) Latin (reading knowledge) Professional Memberships Modern Language Association (MLA)