curriculum vita - Austin Peay State University

curriculum vita - Austin Peay State University

CURRICULUM VITA
NORBERT PUSZKAR
CURRENT POSITION
Assistant Professor of German, Austin Peay State University, August 2003 Present
PRIOR POSITIONS
Instructor, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Georgia State
University, Atlanta, Georgia, 1999 - 2003
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures,
University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, 1997-1999
Assistant Professor, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, University of
North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota, 1989-1991
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures,
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1988-1989
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian
and African Languages Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, 19871988
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Literature,
Austin College, Sherman, Texas, 1985-1987
OTHER RELATED POSITIONS
Instructor, Intensive German for Officers of the Foreign Service and the Department
of Justice, inlingua, Arlington, Virginia, 1995-1997
Lecturer in English, Volkhochschule [community college], Berlin, Germany, 19921995
Instructor in German, inlingua, Berlin, Germany, 1991-1992
EDUCATION
PH. D., German, University of Southern California, 1985
Dissertation: “Symbolik, Bildlichkeit und Mimesis sozialer Verhältnisse in
Goethes Wahlverwandtschaften” [Symbolism, imagery and mimesis of social
structures in Goethe’s Elective Affinities]
MAGISTER ARTIUM [Master of Arts], “magna cum laude,” Freie Universität Berlin,
1977
Major: Comparative Literature
Minors: German, History
COURSES TAUGHT
Elementary and Intermediate German; Advanced Composition; Advanced
Conversation; Advanced Grammar; German Phonetics and Pronunciation; German
for Graduate Students; Introduction to Reading German Literature I & II; Introduction
to German Literature; Topics in German Literature; Survey of German Literature I &
II; Classicism; Romanticism; Romanticism to Naturalism; 20th Century German
Literature I & II; German Literature from Expressionism to Brecht; Contemporary
German Literature and Culture; German Civilization, Culture, and Geography I & II;
Contemporary German Culture; German Cultural Traditions II (1790-1990); German
Civilization; German Culture and Civilization; “Berlin in the Twenties;” Production of
German Play; Independent Study, Liberal Arts in University Life [APSU 1000], Study
Abroad in German Speaking Countries.
PUBLICATIONS - LITERARY CRITICISM (* refereed publications)
*“‘Scheide Blick’: Abschluss und Ausschluss in Goethes Italienischer Reise.”
[’Parting view:’ closure and exclusion in Goethe’s Italian Journey] Études
Germaniques 57 (2002): 649-670.
Review of Bernd Leistner (ed.), Deutsche Erzählprosa der frühen Restaurationszeit.
[German narrative prose of the restauration period] German Studies Review 19
(1996): 551-552.
Review of Uwe Blasig, Die religiöse Entwicklung des frühen C.M. Wieland. [The
religious development of the young C.M. Wieland]. German Studies Review 14
(1991): 387-388.
*“Innere Form und sozialer Organismus: Goethes Metamorphose der Pflanzen.”
[Inner form and social organism: Goethe’s Metamorphosis of Plants] Études
Germaniques 45 (1990): 10-24.
*“Frauen und Bilder: Luciane und Ottilie.” [Women and images: Luciane and Ottilie]
Neophilologus 73 (1989): 397-410.
*“Verwandtschaft und Wahlverwandtschaft.” [Family relationship and elective affinity]
Goethe Yearbook 4 (1987): 161-183.
*“Tradition und Moderne: H.C. Artmanns Sprachspiele.” [Tradition and modernism:
H.C. Artmann’s language games] Modern Austrian Literature
20 (1987): 91-108.
*“Dämonisches und Dämon: Zur Rolle des Schreibens in Goethes Wahlverwandtschaften.” [The demonic and character: The role of writing in Goethe’s Elective
Affinities] German Quarterly 59 (1986): 414-430.
PUBLICATIONS - TEACHING METHODOLOGY
*“Kommunikative Spiele für die ersten Wochen.” [Communicative games for the first
Weeks] Unterrichtspraxis [The practice of teaching] 20 (1987): 77-79.
Instructors’ Guide and Annotations for Instructors’ Annotated Edition of Deutsch
natürlich! [German naturally/of course!]. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986.
PUBLICATIONS - TRANSLATIONS
Michael Connolly. Das Comeback [The Comeback]. München: Wilhelm Heyne
Verlag, 1999.
Michael Connolly. Der letzte Coyote. [The Last Coyote] München: Wilhelm Heyne
Verlag, 1997.
Michael Connolly. Die Frau im Beton. [The Concrete Blonde] München: Wilhelm
Heyne Verlag, 1996.
Michael Connolly. Schwarzes Eis. [Black Ice] München: Wilhelm Heyne Verlag,
1996.
Ingeborg Flagge (ed.). Jahrbuch für Licht und Architektur 1995. [Yearbook for light
and architecture] Berlin: Ernst & Sohn, Verlag für Architektur, 1996.
Ingeborg Flagge (ed.). Jahrbuch für Licht und Architektur 1994. Berlin: Ernst & Sohn,
Verlag für Architektur, 1995.
Ingeborg Flagge (ed.). Jahrbuch für Licht und Architektur 1993. Berlin: Ernst & Sohn,
Verlag für Architektur, 1994.
Kristin Feireiss (ed.). Mario Campi, Franco Pessina. Berlin: Ernst & Sohn, Verlag für
Architektur, 1994.
PUBLICATIONS - JOURNALISM
From 1991 to 1993, I wrote a series of articles under the caption “Letter from Berlin”
for the Grand Forks Herald, North Dakota. These articles examined social, cultural,
political, and environmental issues particularly relevant to post-unification Germany.
CONFERENCE PAPERS
“’After Auschwitz One Cannot Write Poems Anymore’ like Rilke: Celan’s
‘Sprachgitter’ and Rilke’s ‘Der Panther’” Twentieth Century Literature Conference,
University of Louisville. Louisville, KY. February 2006.
“Tieck’s Der blonde Eckbert [The blonde Eckbert]: Incest, Literature and Culture.“
Annual Conference of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism.
Montreal, Canada. August 2005.
“The ‘Thistle’s Pith’ and the ‘Big Feast of Consumption:’ Food and Culture in
Goethe’s Italian Journey.” The 2004 Meeting of the Midwest American Society for
Eighteenth-Century Studies. St. Louis, MO. October 2004.
“Hans Scholz’s Am grünen Strand der Spree [On the Green Banks of the Spree].
What fills the Absence and Silence of the Holocaust in a West-German Novel?“
Twentieth Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville. Louisville, KY.
February 2004.
“Harry Domela: Der falsche Prinz. ‘Der Kaiser ging und’ ... ein Obdachloser reist als
sein Enkel durch die Weimarer Republik.” [The Fake Prince: ‘The Emperor left
and’ …a homeless man travels as his grandson through the Weimar Republic]
GSA [German Studies Association] Annual Conference. New Orleans, LA.
September 2003.
“Market and Scenery: The City in E.T.A. Hoffmann’s ‘My Cousin’s Corner Window’.”
Annual Conference of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism.
New York, NY. August 2003.
“Goethe’s encounters with Emma Hart and the Duchess of Giovane in Naples:
Women as classical and romantic art.” SCSECS Annual Meeting [South-Central
Society for Eighteenth Century Studies]. Fort Worth, TX. March 2003.
“Christa Wolf’s What remains: language, facts and power.” 20th-Century Literature
Conference. University of Louisville, KY. February 2003.
“Romantisierung der Erzählgrenzen: Hans Joachim Schädlichs Erzählungen
‘Satzsuchung’ und ‘Oktoberhimmel’.” [Romanitification of the borders of narration:
Hans Joachim Schädlich’s stories ‘Sentence Visitation’ and ‘October Sky’] GSA
Annual Conference. Atlanta, GA. October 1999.
“German Unification: A Mystery.” GSA: Annual Conference. Washington, D.C.
September 1997.
“Monika Maron: Archäologie des Sprachverlusts.” [Monika Maron: archeology of lost
language] GSA: Annual Conference. Dallas, TX. September 1994.
“Letzte Blicke: das visuelle Element als erzählerisches Notmittel bei Goethe.” [Last
Looks: How the visual saves the narrative in Goethe] AATG [American
Association of Teachers of German] Annual Meeting. Nashville, TN. November
1990.
“The times, they are a-changing: East Berlin in the Summer of 1990.” North Dakota
Teachers’ Conference. Minot, ND. October 1990.
“Ein privater Dialog: Annette von Droste-Hülshoffs Gedichte.” [A private dialogue:
Annette von Droste- Hülshoff’s poetry] GSA: Annual Conference. Buffalo, NY.
October 1990.
“The Public Stage: ‘Lebenswelt’ [Life-World] as Seen by Goethe in Italy.” SCSECS
Annual Meeting. Albuquerque, NM. March 1990.
“Burke-Moritz-Goethe: Dionysian Aesthetics.” WSECS Annual Meeting [Western
Society for Eighteenth Century Studies]. Colorado Springs, CO. February 1990.
“Goethe’s Roman Carnival: Liberty and Equality in the Frenzy of Madness.” CSECS
Annual Meeting. Fayetteville, AR. March 1988.
“Social Organism and Organic Society: Goethe’s Metamorphosis of Plants.”
SCSECS Annual Meeting. Denton, TX. March 1987.
“‘Als ich...’: Landeskunde persönlich.” [‘As I …:’ a personal approach to cultural
studies] AATG Annual Meeting. Berlin (West).July 1986.
“An Application of Picture Stories for Teaching Communication.” Texas AATG
Conference. San Antonio, TX. May 1986.
COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS
Foreign Language Committee, Department of Languages and Literature, 2003present, APSU
Scholarships and Awards Committee, Department of Languages and Literature,
2004-present, APSU
Academic Honors and Awards Committee, 2004-2005, APSU
OTHER UNIVERSITY SERVICE
Freshman Advisor, 2005-2006, Department of Languages and Literature, APSU
APSU International Night, October 2005
Guest-Lecture: “Perspectives on Germany within Europe,” International Studies
Program, APSU, March 2005
Edelweiss Club Scholarship Award Ceremony, April 2005
Freshman Advisor, 2004-2005, Department of Languages and Literature, APSU
AP Day, November 2004
APSU International Night, October 2004
Edelweiss Club Scholarship Award Ceremony, May 2004
Asanbe Diversity Symposium Panel Discussion, March 2004
Phonathon for the Foreign Language Study Abroad Scholarship Fund, APSU,
October 2003
APSU International Night, October 2003
AP Day, November 2003
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Mid-Continent Consortium for International Education, Board of Directors,
2003 - 2004
Moderator, “The Artist and the Metropolis.” Twenty-Seventh Annual Conference
of the German Studies Association. New Orleans, LA. September 2003
Review of the Praxis Test in German for the State of Tennessee. Nashville, TN.
November 2003
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Modern Languages Association (MLA)
German Studies Association (GSA)
American Association of Teachers of German (AATG)
North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR)
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS)
Midwest American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (MWASECS)
South-Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (SCSECS)
Tennessee Foreign Languages Teaching Association (TFLTA)
Tennessee American Association of Teachers of German (TAATG)
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Member, Edelweiss Club of Clarksville
Bread and Words, November 2005
Volunteer, Oktoberfest, Clarksville, annually since 2003
Volunteer, Edelweiss Club, RiverFest, September 2004
Volunteer, Edelweiss Club, Rivers and Spires Festival, April 2004
Volunteer, Edelweiss Club Christmas Exhibit, Customs House Museum,
December 2003
Workshop on Foreign Languages, Rossview High School, November 2003
HONORS
Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers, 2002