Kristin Kopp - Department of German & Russian Studies

Kristin Kopp
Department of German and Russian Studies
University of Missouri, Columbia
218A Strickland Hall
Columbia, MO 65211
Curriculum Vitae (Abridged)
Tel: (573) 882–3367
E-mail: [email protected]
Employment
2011–Present: Associate Professor of German Studies, University of Missouri, Columbia
Affiliated faculty member of the Film Studies Program
Affiliated faculty member of the Black Studies Program
General courses offered in German cultural history, German film and literature, and
advanced composition. Specialized courses offered on the cultural history of Blacks in
Germany, Turkish immigration, German colonial studies, Nazi ideology and propaganda,
and Weimar cinema.
2009: Guest Professor at the Carl von Ossietzky Universität, Oldenburg
(Summer semester): Offered graduate seminars on German colonialism and colonial
literature in the Department of History.
2005–2011: Assistant Professor of German Studies, University of Missouri, Columbia
Affiliated faculty member of the Film Studies Program
Courses offered on German cultural history, German film and literature, Turkish-German
studies, German colonial studies, and advanced composition and conversation.
2001–2005: Assistant Professor of German, Harvard University
Courses offered on contemporary German cinema, Turkish-German studies, German
primitivism, literature of the 19th and 20th centuries, beginning and intermediate intensive
language instruction.
1994–2000: Teaching and Research Assistant, University of California, Berkeley
Courses offered in German language and literature (first four semesters of curriculum),
German for translation, German colonial literature, and college composition. Research
assistant for Professor Anton Kaes.
Education
University of California, Berkeley, 1994–2001
May 2001: Ph.D. in German with Designated Emphasis in Film Studies
Dissertation Committee: Anton Kaes [chair], Hinrich C. Seeba, David Frick
Dissertation Title: Contesting Borders: German Colonial Discourse and the Loss of the
Eastern Territories
1995: M.A. in German
1992: B.A. with Honors in German
1992: B.A. in Molecular and Cell Biology
Foreign Study
1999–2000: Freie Universität Berlin
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1993–1994: Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Kraków, Poland
1989–1990: J.W. Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main
Fellowships
2015: University of Missouri Arts and Science Faculty Fellowship
Merit-based award in support of my ongoing scholarship
2013-2014: University of Missouri Research Council
In support of project „The History of Blacks in Germany“
2007-2008: Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Fellowship
Research and completion of monograph Germany’s Wild East
2007-2008: University of Missouri Research Board Fellowship (declined)
2006: University of Missouri Summer Research Fellowship
For archival research undertaken at the Herder Institute in Marburg, Germany
2000–2001: The Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities Fellowship
1999–2000: Social Science Research Council Fellowship: Berlin Program for
Advanced German and European Studies
1996–1997: Berkeley Language Center Fellowship
Grants and Scholarships
2011: University of Missouri Research Council Grant, To assist in covering publication costs
2006: University of Missouri Research Council Grant, In support of research undertaken in
Germany
1999: Humanities Research Council
1998–1999: Kościuszko Foundation Scholarship
Awards
2015: Winner of H-German Syllabus Contest: “Best Seminar or Topic Course” for syllabus “Black
Germany: The Cultural History of Africans and People of African Descent in the GermanSpeaking Lands from Antiquity to the Present”
2015: Winner of H-German Syllabus Contest: “The German-speaking lands before 1789” for
syllabus “Black Germany: The Cultural History of Africans and People of African Descent in
the German-Speaking Lands from Antiquity to the Present”
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Publications
Monograph
Kristin Kopp: Germany’s Wild East: Constructing Poland as Colonial Space (Ann Arbor:
University of Michigan Press, 2012)
Edited Volumes
Roger Cook, Lutz Koepnick, Kristin Kopp, and Brad Prager (eds.) Berlin School Glossary: An
ABC of the New Wave in German Cinema (Bristol/Chicago: Intellect Books, 2013)
Kristin Kopp and Joanna Niżyńska, eds.: Germany, Poland, and Postmemorial Relations: In
Search of a Livable Past (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012)
Kristin Kopp and Joanna Niżyńska, “Introduction: Between Entitlement and Reconciliation: Germany and
Poland’s Postmemory after 1989”
Wanda Jarząbek, “Shadows of Memory in Polish-German Relations (1989–2005)”
Stefan Guth, “History by Decree? The Commission of Historians of the German Democratic Republic and the
People’s Republic of Poland 1956-1990”
Paweł Lutomski, “’The Law Alleviates Concerns’: Legal Dimensions of Polish-German Reconciliation”
Heidi Hein-Kircher, “Eclipsing the Polish-German Past to Construct a Post-Socialist Polish Memory-Culture”
Angelika Bammer, “When Poland Was Home: Nostalgic Returns in Grass and Wolf”
Przemysław Czapliński, “Declaring War: Attitudes Towards the Years 1939-1945 in Polish Literature of the
Post-1990s”
Marek Zaleski, “Liberation from Memory? Memory, Postmemory or Subverted Memory in What Does the
Messenger Girl Do by Foks & Libera”
Jan T. Gross and Jesse Labov, “Interviews with Jan T. Gross (2007/2009)”
Jessie Labov, “Genre and Intervention: Reflections on the Reception of Neighbors and Fear”
Erica Lehrer, “Relocating Auschwitz: Affective Relations in the Jewish-German-Polish Troika”
Winson Chu, “The ‘Lodzermensch’: From Cultural Contamination to Marketable Multiculturalism”
Gregor Thum, “We Are Prussia Today”: Polish-German Variations on a Vanished State”
Kristin Kopp and Werner Michael Schwarz, eds.: Peter Altenberg: Ashantee. Afrika und
Wien um 1900. (Vienna: Löcker Verlag) 2008.
Kristin Kopp and Werner Michael Schwarz: Vorwort
Peter Altenberg: Ashantee (facsimile of the 1897 original)
Peter Altenberg: Unpublished letters, essays, and photos of the people shows
Werner Michael Schwarz; “Postliberales” Spektakel und Leidenschaft im Konjunktiv
Kristin Kopp: Peter Altenbergs literarischer Impressionismus
Sabrina K. Rahman: “Die Aschanti” von Peter Altenberg und “Der Neger” von Karl Kraus: die Frage
schwarzer Präsenz im spätkaiserlichen Wien
Sander L. Gilman: Schwarze Sexualität und modernes Bewusstsein in Peter Altenbergs Ashantee
Cindy Brewer and Rob Mc Farland: Von Den Mohikanern von Paris zu den Aschanti vom Prater:
Peter Altenberg und die kleine Form
Sylke Kirschnick: Zersplitternde Bilder. Zur Berliner Rezeption von Peter Altenbergs Ashantee
Peter Altenberg und Ashantee: Ausgewählte Bibliographie
Kristin Kopp and Klaus Müller-Richter, eds. Die Großstadt und das Primitive. Text, Politik,
Repräsentation (Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler Verlag) 2004.
Kristin Kopp and Klaus Müller-Richter: “Einführung”
Volker Barth: “Kontrollierte Träume: Der Orient auf der Pariser Weltausstellung von 1867”
Tony Bennett: “Evolution and the Politics of Vision”
Stephan Dietrich: “Der Wilde in der Großstadt. Literarische Exotismen von Altenberg bis Claire Goll“
Sara Hall: “Enforcing Cultural Order: Police Practice vs. the Magic of Mystery in Early German Cinema”
Siegfried Mattl: “Zigeuner, Landstreicher, Vagabunden: Zu Hanns Gross’ Encyclopädie der Kriminalistik”
Klaus Müller-Richter: “’Kulturhistorische Beute’: Das Primitive im Feuilleton”
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Sigrid Wadauer: “Das Primitive aus der Sicht des Primitiven”
Mark B. Sandberg: “Material Mobility and the Primitive in the Scandinavian Metropolis”
Werner Schwarz: “Anthropologische Spektakel und die Repräsentation des ‘Primitiven’”
Articles (selected)
“The Lustmord of Irmelin Rose,” in Werner Michael Schwarz and Ingo Zechner (eds.) Die
helle und die dunkle Seite der Moderne: Festschrift für Siegfried Mattl zum 60. Geburtstag
(Vienna: Turia + Kant, 2014), pp. 172-80.
“The Weimar ‘Drang nach Osten’: Colonial Depictions of Poland in German Interwar
Literature,” in Elaine Martin and Florian Krobb, eds. Weimar Colonialism: Discourses and
Legacies of Post-Imperialism in Germany after 1918 (Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2014), 189-208.
“’If your car is stolen, it will soon be in Poland’: Criminal Representations of Poland and the
Poles in German Fictional Film of the 1990s,” in Ewa Mazierska, Lars Kristensen, and Eva
Naripea (eds.), Postcolonial Approaches to Eastern European Cinema: Portraying
Neighbours on Screen (London: I. B. Tauris, 2014), pp. 41-66.
“Introduction: Between Entitlement and Reconciliation: Germany and Poland’s
Postmemory after 1989,” (with Joanna Niżyńska) in Kristin Kopp and Joanna Niżyńska
(eds.), Germany, Poland, and Postmemorial Relations: In Search of a Livable Past (New
York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), pp. 1-22.
“Gray Zones: On the Inclusion of ‘Poland’ in the Study of German Colonialism,” in Michael
Perraudin and Jürgen Zimmerer (eds.), German Colonialism and National Identity (New
York: Routledge, 2011), pp. 33-42.
“Arguing the Case for a Colonial Poland,” in Volker Langbehn and Mohammad Salama
(eds.), German Colonialism: Race, the Holocaust, and Postwar Germany (Columbia UP,
2011), pp. 146-163.
“Christoph Hochhäusler’s This Very Moment: The Berlin School and the Politics of Spatial
Aesthetics in the German-Polish Borderlands,” in Brad Prager and Jaimey Fisher (eds.), The
Collapse of the Conventional: The German Film and its Politics at the Turn of the New
Century (Detroit: Wayne State UP, 2010), pp. 285-308.
“Gustav Freytags Soll und Haben als imperiales Kartenwerk,” in Magdalena Marszałek and
Sylvia Sasse (eds.), Geopoetiken. Geographische Entwürfe in den mittel- und
osteuropäischen Literaturen (Berlin: Kulturverlag Kadmos, 2010), pp. 133-158. [German
translation of “Reinventing Poland as German Colonial Territory”]
“Reinventing Poland as German Colonial Territory in the Nineteenth Century: Gustav
Freytag's Soll und Haben as Colonial Novel,” in Robert L. Nelson (ed.), Germans, Poland, and
Colonial Expansion to the East: 1850 Through the Present (New York: Palgrave Macmillan,
2009), pp. 11-37.
“Peter Altenbergs literarischer Impressionismus,” in Kristin Kopp and Werner Michael
Schwarz, (eds.), Peter Altenberg: Ashantee. Afrika und Wien um 1900 (Vienna: Löcker
Verlag, 2008), pp. 141-149.
“Reconfigurando a fronteira da Fortaleza Europa,” in Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil: Novo
Cinema Independente Alemão: uma outra política do olhar (São Paulo: Centro Cultural
Banco do Brasil, 2009), pp. 50-68. [Portuguese translation of “Reconfiguring the Border of
Fortress Europe in Hans-Christian Schmid’s Lichter.”]
“Reconfiguring the Border of Fortress Europe in Hans-Christian Schmid’s Lichter,” Germanic
Review 82.1 (Winter 2007), pp. 31-53.
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“Ein Traumland Ost im deutschen Heimatfilm der 1950er Jahre? Kurt Hoffmanns Ich denke
oft an Piroschka,” in Gregor Thum (ed.), Traumland Osten. Deutsche Bilder vom östlichen
Europa im 20. Jahrhundert (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2006), pp. 138-156.
“Cartographic Claims: Colonial Mappings of Poland in German Territorial Revisionism,” in
Gail Finney (ed.), Visual Culture in Twentieth-Century Germany: The Text as Spectacle
(Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2006), pp. 199-213.
“’Ich stehe jetzt hier als einer von den Eroberern’: Soll und Haben als Kolonialroman,” in
Florian Krobb (ed.), 150 Jahre 'Soll und Haben' (1855) Studien zu Gustav Freytags
kontroversem Roman (Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2005), pp. 225-237.
“Constructing Racial Difference in Colonial Poland,” in Eric Ames, Marcia Klotz, Lora
Wildenthal (eds.), Germany’s Colonial Pasts (U of Nebraska P, 2005), pp. 76-96.
(co-authored with Klaus Müller-Richter) “Einleitung: Die ‘Großstadt’ und das ‘Primitive’.
Text, Politik und Repräsentation,” in Kristin Kopp and Klaus Müller-Richter (eds.), Die
‘Großstadt’ und das ‘Primitive’. Text, Politik und Repräsentation (Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler,
2004), pp. 5-28.
“The Ethnic Immigrant in the Metropolis, or Containing the ‘Slavic Flood’ in the Viennese
Wurstelprater,” in Werner Schwarz and Klaus Müller-Richter (eds.), Felix Salten:
Wurstelprater: ein Schlüsseltext zur Wiener Moderne (Vienna: Promedia-Verlag, 2004), pp.
181–195.
“Exterritorialized Heritage in Caroline Link’s Nirgendwo in Afrika,” New German Critique 87
(Fall 2002), pp. 106–132.
Guest Lectures (selected)
April 2016, University of California, Los Angeles. Graduate Conference Conflicts of Interest The Productive Power of Confrontation. Keynote lecture TBA
March 2016, University of Illinois. “Engaging Race Relations in the US by Teaching the
History of Blacks in Germany“
Oct. 2015, University of Missouri, Columbia, Black Studies Program. Keynote lecture:
“Engaging Race Relations in the US by Teaching the History of Blacks in Germany“
Oct. 2014, University of Missouri, Columbia, Honors College, guest lecture on E.T.A.
Hoffmann (with Martha Kelly)
Jan. 2014, University of Leipzig, Germany. Centre for Area Studies, Public Colloquium,
“Global Paradigms, Colonial Strategies, and German Eastward Expansion”
Oct. 2011, University of Missouri, Columbia, Black Studies Program, Faculty Research
Roundtable, “Blacks in Germany: Reimagining Race After Hitler”
Nov. 2010, University of Missouri, Columbia, Chancellor’s Diversity Initiative’s lecture
series: Diversity in Action, “Colonization inside Europe: German constructions of colonial
race and space across the continental "Wild East"”
May 2010, University of Haifa, Israel, Bucerius Institute for Research of Contemporary
German History and Society and the History of Science Forum, “Colonial Mappings:
Cartographic Propaganda and German Eastward Expansionism in the Interwar Period”
June 2009, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany, Oldenburger Ringvorlesung
zur Geschichte, “Polen kolonialisieren: Die Herstellung einer kolonialen Identität im
deutschen Diskurs des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts”
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Nov. 2008, University of Toronto, Canada, Munk Centre for International Studies, “Mapping
Eastern Europe as German Colonial Space: Persuasive Cartography and Territorial
Expansionism During the Interwar Period”
May. 2008, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany, Oldenburger Ringvorlesung
zur Geschichte, “Deutsche Kolonialphantasien in Osteuropa”
Nov. 2007, Europa Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany: Osteuropakolloquium,
“Deutsche Kolonialphantasien in Osteuropa”
Conference Papers Presented (Selected)
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Sept. 2016, Wrocław, Poland. Central Europe and Colonialism: Migrations, Knowledges, Perspectives,
Commodities: “On the Uses and the Absences of the Postcolonial in Polish and German Postmemory”
(with Joanna Niżyńska)
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March 2016, Valencia, Spain. European Social Science History Conference. Travel as a Commodity in
Twentieth-Century Cultural Industries: “Geopolitics of Travel: the Colonial Representations of Colin
Ross”
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April 2015, University of California, Berkeley. The Future of the Past : „Engaging Race Relations in the
US by Teaching the History of Blacks in Germany“
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Jan. 2015, Vancouver, Canada. Modern Languages Association. Crime, Power, and the Global:
Reconsidering Doctor Mabuse: „Doctor Mabuse’s Colonial Fantasies“
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Nov. 2014, Institut für Slawistik, Vienna, Austria. Meeting of the Doktoratkolleg Galizien. Roundtable.
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May 2014, IFK: Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften, Vienna, Austria.
Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley-Tübingen-Vienna International Working Group on the
Emergence of German Modernity. Modeling the Future: Risk and Simulation: “Scheerbarts Perpetuum
mobile: Roundtable Discussion”
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May 2013, Chapel Hill. Speculation/Spekulation: Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley-TübingenVienna International Working Group on the Emergence of German Modernity: “Speculations on the
Real in Petzold’s Yella.”
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Oct. 2012, German Studies Association. Panel Organization: Teaching Across the Color Line: Whiteness
and Black German Studies (Sara Lennox, Jeff Bowersox, Priscilla Layne, Peggy Piesche, Debra Prager).
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Oct. 2012, German Studies Association. Panel: Poland in the German Imagination: Literature and Film
in the Early Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Centuries: “Weimar Drang nach Osten: Colonial
Depictions of Poland in German Interwar Literature”
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June, 2012, University of Reykjavik, Iceland. Roundtable participant: Esoteric Modernity
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Apr. 2012, National University of Ireland, Maynooth. Weimar Colonialism: “Constructing German
Colonial Legitimacy in the Weimar Era: The Privileged Position of Polish Space”
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Oct. 2010, German Studies Association. Panel: Transnational Influences on German Modernism: The
Case of Northern and Eastern Europe: “Döblin’s Poland: Or, Searching for a Jewish Kulturboden in the
East”
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July 2010, XII. Kongress der Internationalen Vereinigung für Germanistik, Warsaw, Poland. Section:
Koloniale und postkoloniale deutschsprachige Literatur: „Koloniale Tropen in Polen?“