LM
Unit: College of Arts and Sciences
Department: Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
Office location and address
New Cabell Hall, Room 239
1605 Jefferson Park Ave
Charlottesville,
Virginia
22904
Education
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, Yale University, 1976
M.Phil. in Comparative Literature, Yale University, 1973
B.A. in German Literature, Reed College, 1969
M.Phil. in Comparative Literature, Yale University, 1973
B.A. in German Literature, Reed College, 1969
Publications
Courses
Credits: 1–4
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject of English Literature. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 1–4
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of German in translation. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at: http://www.virginia.edu/german/Undergraduate/Courses.
Credits: 3
This course takes up topics in the study of literature in English in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
Introduction to the work of Franz Kafka, with comparisons to the literary tradition he worked with and the literary tradition he formed.
Credits: 3
In formulating his model of the psyche and his theory of psychoanalysis, Freud availed himself of analogies drawn from different disciplines, including literature. Freud's ideas were then taken up by many twentieth-century literary writers. After introducing Freud's theories through a reading of his major works, the course will turn to literary works that engage with Freud.
Credits: 3
Childhood autobiography and childhood narrative from Romanticism to the present.
Credits: 3
Cross-cultural readings in women's childhood narratives. Emphasis on formal as well as thematic aspects.
Credits: 3
Cross-cultural readings in women's childhood narratives. Emphasis on formal as well as thematic aspects. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at: http://www.virginia.edu/german/Undergraduate/Courses.
Credits: 3
Comparative studies in the European novel. Dominant novel types, including the fictional memoir, the novel in letters, and the comic "history."
Credits: 3
Interdisciplinary course on memory. Readings from literature, philosophy, history, psychology, and neuroscience.
Credits: 1–12
Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Doctoral Research
Credits: 1–12
For doctoral dissertation, taken under the supervision of a dissertation director.
Honors
Page Barbour grant for “Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Memory” conference (2016)
University of Virginia Summer Grant 2013
Arts and Sciences Support for Research in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, April-May 2013
Faculty Research Grant, University of Virginia 2007
Sesquicentennial Associateship 1993-94, 1999-2000, 2005-06, 2012-2013
Fulbright Senior Fellowship to Berlin 1994-95
Guggenheim Fellowship, 1987-88
Summer Institute for the Study of Avant-Gardes, Harvard, 1987
Yale University Senior Faculty Fellowship, 1984-85
Morse Fellowship, 1981-82
DAAD Fellowship for dissertation research in Germany 1974-75
Yale University Fellowship 1970-73
Fulbright Grant to Germany 1969-70
Woodrow Wilson Fellow 1969-70
Phi Beta Kappa 1969