CV - Texas Tech University Departments

CV - Texas Tech University Departments

ANITA McCHESNEY, Ph.D.
Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures
Tel. (806) 742-3145, x 262
Texas Tech University
Fax. (806) 742-3306
Box 42071
E-mail: [email protected]
Lubbock, TX 79409
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EMPLOYMENT
20102006- 2010
2005-2006
Assistant Professor of German, Department of Classical & Modern Languages and Literatures
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
Assistant Professor of German, Department of German and Russian,
University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
Visiting Instructor of German, Department of International Languages and Cultures,
St. Mary’s College, St. Mary’s City, MD
EDUCATION
Ph.D. – German
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Dissertation: “The Probability of Truth: Framing Detection from Heinrich von Kleist to
Gerhard Roth”
M.A. – German
Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH
B.A. – German and English, summa cum laude
Walla Walla College, College Place, WA
2005
1999
1997
Experience Abroad
2011
2004
2000
1997-98
1994-96
Vienna, Austria; Berlin, Germany
Summer research, funded by the Texas Tech University Humanities Fellowship
University of Konstanz, Constance, Germany
Research and Study, funded by the Baden-Württemberg Stipend
Salzburg, Austria
Research and Study, funded by the Cornelia Hohenberg Kaye Memorial Grant
University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
Bowling Green State University Year Study Abroad Program
Seminar Schloß Bogenhofen, Braunau, Austria
Walla Walla College Year Study Abroad Program
PUBLICATIONS
Book in Progress
Mediated Truth: The Detective Story and its German Context
Articles
“The Case of the Austrian Crime Novel.” German Crime Fiction: Established Traditions and New
Voices. (Accepted for Publication.)
“Wie bei einer schlecht belichteten Fotografie”: Constructions of Austrian History and Media in
Gerhard Roth’s Orkus.” Zeitenwende: Österreichische Literatur seit dem Millennium, 20002010. Eds. Michael Boehringer and Susanne Hochreiter. Vienna: Praesens Verlag, 2011. 371388.
“Intermedialität und die Verwandlung des literarischen Erzählens bei Christoph Ransmayr.” Eds.
Manfred Mittermayer and Renate Langer. Die Rampe. Porträt Christoph Ransmayr. 03 (2009):
54-59.“The Female Poetics of Crime in E.T.A. Hoffmann’s ‘Mademoiselle Scuderi.’” Women
in German Yearbook: Feminist Studies in German Literature & Culture. 24 (2008): 1-24.
“On the Repeating History of Destruction: Media and the Index in Sebald and Ransmayr.” MLN:
German Edition. 121.3 (April 2006): 699-719.
“Media and the Archaeology of Austrian History in Gerhard Roth’s Der Stille Ozean.” Modern Austrian
Literature. 38. 1/2 (2005): 1-18.
“From Fiction to Reality: Hypertextuality, the Detective Schema, and the Epic Vision of Peter Handke's
Der Hausierer.” Visions and Visionaries in Literature and Film of Modern Austria. Ed.
Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger & Pamela S. Saur. New York: P. Lang, 2004. 130-146.
Book Reviews
Marven, Lyn and Stuart Taberner, eds., Emerging German-Language Novelists of the Twenty-First
Century. Rochester: Camden House, 2011. Journal of Austrian Studies. 45.3-4 (2012):
(Forthcoming)
Fuchs, Christoph. Recht und Ordnung oder “Come and Shoot in Austria.” Österreichische
KriminalFilmGeschichte(n). Wien: Synema, 2010. Journal of Austrian Studies. 45.1-2 (2012)
(Forthcoming)
Gottwald, Herwig and Andreas Freinschlag. Peter Handke. UTB Profile. Böhlau, 2009. Modern
Austrian Literature. 44. 1-2 (2011): 116-118.
Lieb, Claudia. Crash. Der Unfall der Moderne. Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2009. Modern Austrian Literature.
43.2 (2010): 105-106.
Grave, Jaap, Peter Sprengel and Hans Vandevoorde, eds. Anarchismus und Utopie in der Literatur um
1900: Deutschland, Flandern und die Niederlande. Canadian Review of Comparative
Literature. Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée. [Toronto] 2008.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
“Detecting the Past: National Socialism and the Holocaust in Recent Crime Fiction.” Will present at the
GSA Annual Conference (Milwaukee, WI. October 2012)
“From the Island of the Blessed to the Underworld: Transforming Austria’s Global Image in Gerhard
Roth’s Orkus.” Presented at the Annual Conference of the Austrian Studies Association
(formerly MALCA) (Long Beach, CA April 2012)
“‘Wie bei einer schlecht belichteten Fotografie.‘ Austrian History and Media in Gerhard Roth’s Orkus.”
Presented at the GSA Annual Conference (Louisville, KY. September 2011)
“Rewriting Violence and Identity in Heinrich von Kleist’s Prose.”
Presented at the International Kleist Conference (Exeter, UK. July 2011)
“Criminalized Austria in a Criminalized Europe: Gerhard Roth’s Orkus.”
Presented at the MLA National Convention. (Los Angeles, CA. January 2011)
“‘Wie bei einer schlecht belichteten Fotografie.‘ Austrian History and Media in Gerhard Roth’s Orkus.”
Presented at the MALCA Annual International Symposium (Vienna, Austria. May 2010)
“Early Detectives, Early Media: Mediating Truth in the Crime Stories of Heinrich von Kleist.”
Presented at the annual ACLA Conference (New Orleans, LA. April 2010)
“Detection in the New Shadowy Realm of Signs: Detective Literature after Postmodernism.” Presented
at the annual ACLA Conference (Cambridge, MA. March 2009)
“Representing Knowledge through the Imaginative Logic of the Detective.”
Presented at the International SSLA Conference (Berlin, Germany. June 2008)
“Visuality and Performance in the Detective Novel.”
Presented at the MALCA Annual International Symposium (Seattle, WA. April 2008)
“The ‘Female’ Poetics of Crime in E.T.A. Hoffmann’s ‘Das Fräulein von Scuderi.’”
Presented at the MLA National Convention. (Chicago, IL. December 2007)
“Teaching ‘68. “The Ambiguity of Violence and Revolution in a Class on 20th-Century German
Literature and Culture.” Presented at the ACTFL Annual Conference (Nashville, TN. November
2006)
“Verity, Verisimilitude, or Reality? Reconsidering the ‘Realistic’ Novella Die Judenbuche.” Presented
at the GSA Annual Conference (Pittsburg, PA. September 2006)
“On the Repeating History of Destruction: Media and the Observer in Contemporary Austrian
Literature.” Presented at “Genre, Form, Media: A Colloquium in Honor of Bianca Theisen”
(Baltimore, MD. October 2005)
“Student Learning in Action: Promoting Self-Regulation and Autonomy.”
Presented at the ACTFL Annual Conference (Chicago, IL. November 2004)
“Media and the Archaeology of Austrian History in Gerhard Roth’s Der stille Ozean.” Presented at the
GSA Annual Conference (Washington D.C. October 2004)
“The Duplicity of Truth and Fiction in Annette von Droste-Hülshoff’s Die Judenbuche.” Presented at
the Stanford University Graduate Student Conference (Stanford, CA. March 2004)
“Verity and Verisimilitude in the German Detective Novel: E.T.A. Hoffmann’s ‘Das Fräulein von
Scuderi.’” Presented at the Yale University Graduate Student Conference. (New Haven, CT.
April 2003)
“Literature in the Intermediate German Classroom.”
Presented at the ACTFL Annual Conference. (Washington D.C. November 2001)
“From Fiction to Reality: Inter-textuality and Poetology in Peter Handke's Der Hausierer.” Presented at
the MALCA Annual International Symposium (Easton, PA. October 2001)
“Le Vrai et le Vraisemblable in Peter Handke’s Der Hausierer.”
Invited Lecture: BGSU graduate study abroad program. (Salzburg, Austria. May 2001)
CONFERENCE PANEL COMMENTATOR & MODERATOR
“Realism, Representation, Doubling in Visual Culture.” GSA Annual Conference (Louisville, KY.
September 2011)
“The Racial Politics of Jazz, Swing, Blues.” Annual Conference, “The Space Between: Literature and
Culture 1914-1945.” (Notre Dame, IN. July 2009)
“Rethinking the Nineteenth Century: Transatlantic Traffic in Books.” GSA Annual Conference.
(Pittsburg, PA. September 2006)
TEACHING
2010-
Assistant Professor of German, Department of Classical and Modern Languages and
Literatures, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
A Second Course in German
Fourth-semester, intermediate German language and culture course
Advanced German Conversation and Composition
Third-year conversation and composition course
“Crime and Society in German Detective Novels”
Fourth-year literature seminar
“Germany after the Wall: Dealing with the Past to Construct a Future”
Graduate Seminar in Modern German Literature
“Visual Histories: German Identity in Film”
Graduate Seminar on German Cinema
Graduate Directed Study: Language and Trauma in German Immigrant Literature
Master’s Thesis Advisor: Pardis Safadel: “Heimat ist kein Ort! Identitätskonstrukte im Werk von Emine
Özdamar and SAID”
2006-2010
Assistant Professor of German, Department of German and Russian Languages and
Literatures, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
Beginning German I and II
“Justice in the German Detective Novel”
First-year, university writing seminar (in English)
“Specters, Spectators and the Spectacular in the German Novella”
Second-year literature seminar (in English)
Advanced German Stylistics and Composition
Third-year German writing course
Advanced German Conversation
Third-year conversation course
“Discourses of Unity/Disunity: Representing Germany after 1990”
Advanced literature and film course, cross-listed as a Graduate seminar
“Verbrechen, Detektion und Gerechtigkeit im deutschen Kriminalroman”
Fourth-year literature course, cross-listed as a Graduate seminar
Directed Student Research Project: German/Italian language equality in South Tirol, Italy
Directed Senior Honor’s Thesis: Philip Alday, “Gleichberechtigung in Grenzregionen am Beispiel
Südtirols”
2005-2006
Visiting Instructor of German, Department of International Languages &
Cultures, St. Mary’s College, St. Mary’s, MD
Beginning German I and II
“Berlin: Exploring the German Capital in the 20th and 21st Centuries”
Second-year literature seminar (in English) combined with 10-day cultural trip to Berlin
“German Culture and Civilization: Violence in German Society, Politics and Media 1945-89”
Fourth-year, advanced literature and culture course
Directed Independent Study on Bernhard Schlink’s Der Vorleser
2000-2005
Teaching Assistant, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Beginning German I
Intermediate German I and II
Advanced German: “Germany 1945-89”; “Contemporary Germany: German Culture post 1989”
“Introduction to German Literature and Culture: German Identity 1900-1945”
“The Novella”
1998-1999
Teaching Assistant, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH
Beginning German II
ACADEMIC SERVICE
2007- present Solicited Reviewer for Manuscripts, Journal of Modern Austrian Literature
2010- present Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
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Graduate Advisor
Comparative Literature Committee, Member
German Club Advisor
Guest Lecture: “Teaching L2 ‘Literature’” in Graduate Linguistic Course
(LING 5383: Professor Greta Gorsuch, November 10, 2010)
2006-2010 University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
2009-2010
2006-2010
2008-2009
2008
2007, 2008
2007-2008
Fall 2007
2006-2007
2006-2007
2006
Review Committee for Central European Studies Program in Innsbruck, Austria
Coordinator: annual search for Max Kade Distinguished Visiting Professor
Department Representative on Faculty Senate
Senior Thesis Advisor
Faculty Representative, Admissions Open House
Member: Clusters Committee to review German curriculum
Discussion Group Leader, First-year Orientation
Member: Search Committee for Assistant Professor of German
Member: Equipment Restoration and Renewal Program Committee
Contributor and Reader, German MA Comprehensive Examinations
2005-2006 St. Mary’s College, St. Mary’s City, MD
2005-2006
Member: International Council; Committee for Co-Curricular Activities
EVENT ORGANIZER
2011
Organized campus-wide intercultural carnival event, emphasizing connections between diverse
traditions (March 2011)
2010
Organized and moderated multimedia event “Writing Photography in the Novels of Gerhard
Roth: Re-Imaging and Re-Imagining Literature“ (Austrian Cultural Forum, New York.,
November 2010)
2009
Organized multimedia exhibit “Writing about War” on Austrian author Ingeborg Bachmann
(University of Notre Dame, February 6- March 1, 2009)
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2010
2010
2009
2008
2004
2000
2000
Humanities Fellowship, Texas Tech University
ISLA Grant for Travel to International Conferences, University of Notre Dame
ISLA Mini-Conference Grant; Nanovic Institute Exhibit Grant, University of Notre Dame
ISLA International Conference Travel Grant; Nanovic Institute Travel Grant, University of
Notre Dame
Research Stipend, awarded by the Landesstiftung Baden-Württemberg
J. Brian O’Key Research Grant, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Cornelia Hohenberg Kaye Memorial Grant for Research in Austria, Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore, MD
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Association of Teachers of German (AATG)
American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA)
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)
German Studies Association (GSA)
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Modern Austrian Literature and Culture Association (MALCA)