Caroline Schaumann CV

Employment Experience

Department of German Studies, Emory University, 2009-present. Associate Professor.
Affiliated faculty with Jewish Studies and the Psychoanalytic Program.

Department of German Studies, Emory University, 2002-2009. Assistant Professor.

German Department, Middlebury College, 1999–2002. Visiting Assistant Professor.

Department of German, UC Davis, 1993-1999. Teaching Assistant.

Department of Women’s Studies, UC Davis, Fall 1996. Teaching Assistant.

German Department, San Francisco State University, 1992-1993. Teaching Assistant.

Education

Ph.D., German, University of California, Davis. September 1999.
Dissertation: "Remembering Nazi Germany: Trauma and Testimony."
Director: Anna K. Kuhn; Readers: Gail Finney and Ursula Mahlendorf.

M.A., German, University of California, Davis. September 1994.
Coursework in German literature and culture and foreign language pedagogy.

Graduate Study, San Francisco State University. August 1992–May 1993.
Coursework in linguistics and German literature from the Middle Ages to the present.

Undergraduate/Graduate Studies, Freie Universität Berlin. October 1989–July 1992.
Major: German literature. Minors in Geography and History.

Undergraduate Studies, Justus Liebig Universität Giessen, October 1988–April 1989.

Areas of Specialization

• Postwar and post-Wall German literature and culture, German-Jewish literature
• Exploration and mountaineering literature and film
• Representations of the Holocaust
• Language pedagogy

Honors and Awards

Emory University

• Emory College Research Grant in Humanistic Inquiry, April 2009. European Studies Seminar Fellow, 2008-09.
• Hightower Fund for honoraria Ruth Klüger and Wibke Bruhns, spring 2008.
• Joint Activities Committee Award, January 2007.
• Institute for Comparative and International Studies Travel Grant, April 2005.
• Summer Stipends for Course Development, summers 2004 and 2003.
• Recognized for outstanding teaching at Phi Beta Kappa Society’s Fall Initiation, Emory University, November 2003.
• Teaching Consultation Grants, Center for Teaching and Curriculum, spring and fall 2003.
• Teaching Initiatives Grant, Center for Teaching and Curriculum, 2002.

External Funding

• Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach Grant, August 2006.
• Transatlantisches interkulturelles Nachwuchsförderungsprogramm Deutsch als Fremdsprache (TraiNDaF), AATG, Class of 2001.
• Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies (CAHS) Grant, Seminar for Faculty Teaching Holocaust Courses, Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C., 2000.
• Project 2001 Materials Production Grant, Center for Educational Technology, Middlebury, 2000.
• American Psychoanalytic Foundation Mentorship Program, 1999-2001.

Graduate Research, Teaching, and Dissertation Awards

• Max Hayman Endowment Fellowship, for psychoanalytically informed dissertation research, 1998.
• Quadrille Ball Scholarship, Institute of International Education, New York, 1998-99.
• UC Davis Fellowship, 1997-1998.
• Robert Stoller Foundation Dissertation Research Prize, 1998.
• UC Davis Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Campus Award, 1997.
• UC Davis Humanities Graduate Research Award, 1997.
• KAPLAN Award for Excellence in Student Teamwork, 1997.
• UC Davis Undergraduate Instruction Improvement Grants, 1995 and 1998.
• UC Berkeley Center for German and European Studies Presentation Grant, 1998.
• Departmental Travel Grant, to interview Ruth Klüger, 1998.
• Three Travel Awards from the University of California Psychoanalytic Consortium, 1997, 1998, and 1999.

Publications

Books

• Memory Matters: Generational Responses to Germany's Nazi Past in Recent Women's Literature. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2008.

Articles in Refereed Journals and Books

10. "Who Measures the World? Alexander von Humboldt's Chimborazo Climb in the Literary Imagination." Forthcoming: The German Quarterly (Fall 2009).

9. "Writing aber Loss across the Generations: Christoph Hein's Mama ist gegangen und Jakob Hein's Vielleicht ist es sogar schön (2004)." Forthcoming: Generational Shifts in Contemporary German Culture. Eds. Susanne Vees-Gulani and Laurel Cohen-Pfister. Camden House, 2009.

8. "'A Different Family Story:' German Wartime Suffering in Women’s Writing of Wibke Bruhns, Ute Scheub, and Christina von Braun." Germans as Victims in the Literary Fiction of the Berlin Republic. Ed. Stuart Taberner and Karina Berger. Rochester: Camden House, 2009. 102-17.

7. "Images and Imagination: Monika Maron's Pavel's Letters." Trajectories of Memory. Ed. Christina Guenther and Beth Griech-Polelle. Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008. 249-78.

6. "Ruth Klüger. weiter leben: Eine Jugend (1992)." Meisterwerke: Deutschsprachige Autorinnen im 20. Jahrhundert. Eds. Claudia Benthien and Inge Stephan. Köln: Böhlau, 2005. 217-31.

5. "Tanja Dückers’s Himmelskörper: A Third-Generation World War II Narrative." Gegenwartsliteratur: Ein germanistisches Jahrbuch IV (2005): 259-80.

4. "A 'German Book' For an American Audience: Ruth Klüger's Cultural Translation of Her Holocaust Memoirs." Shadows and Echoes3.1 (Spring 2005): 16-25.

3. "From weiter leben (1992) to Still Alive (2001): Ruth Klüger’s Cultural Translation of Her 'German Book' For an American Audience." The German Quarterly 77.3 (July 2004): 324-39.

2. "Our Own Private Erzählraum: Rewriting Bernhard Schlink's Der Vorleser on the Web."
Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German34.2 (Fall 2001): 150-57.

1. "Women Revisit the Third Reich: Autobiographical Writings by Melita Maschmann, Christa Wolf, and Eva Zeller." Glossen Heft 6 (January 1999), http://www.dickinson.edu/glossen.

Essays in Anthologies

5. "Jurek Becker." Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 299: Holocaust Novelists. Ed. Efraim Sicher. Detroit: Bruccoli Clark Layman, 2004. 36-43.

4. "Enhancing the Study of Literature with the Web: Collaborative Projects for Advanced German." Co-authored with Anne Green, Technology and the Language Teacher: The Theoretical, Historical, and Practical Interface. Eds. Lara Lomicka and Jessamine Cooke-Plagwitz. Boston: Heinle, 2004. 79-93.

3. "Was Survival Purely a Matter of Chance, or Was Survival Made Possible by a 'Will to Meaning' or Some Other Internal Characteristic?" History in Dispute, vol. 11: The Holocaust (2002): 220-25.

2. "Should Survivor Narratives Be Privileged as Presumably Trustworthy Accounts or Should they Be Subject to Critical Interpretation?" History in Dispute, vol. 11: The Holocaust (2002): 227-30.

1. Internationales Germanistenlexikon 1800-1950. Ed. Christoph König.
Entries for Wolfgang Paulsen and Raymond Max Immerwahr. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2003.

Reviews

13. Joanne Sayner. Womenwithout a Past? German Autobiographical Writings and Fascism.
German Quarterly 81.4 (Fall 2008): 518-20.

12. Arnold-de Simine, Silke. Memory Traces: 1989 and the Question of German Cultural Identity.
German Studies Review 30.3 (October 2007): 710-11.

11. Damiano, Carla A. Walter Kempowski's"Das Echolot:" Sifting and Exposing the Evidence via Montage. German Studies Review 30.1 (February 2007): 201-02.

10. Anderson, Susan C. and Bruce H. Tabb, eds. Water, Culture, and Politics in Germany and the American West. German Studies Review28.2 (May 2005): 129-30.

9. Brostoff, Anita, and Sheila Chamovitz, eds. Flares of Memory: Stories of Childhood during the Holocaust. German Quarterly 76.3 (Summer 2003): 360-61.

8. Cynthia Crane, Divided Lives: The Untold Stories of Jewish-Christian Women in Nazi Germany. German Studies Review25.3 (October 2002): 119-20.

7. Dan Diner, Beyond the Conceivable: Studies on Germany, Nazism, and the Holocaust.
National Identities 4.2 (July 2002): 190-192.

6. Ingo Lenick, Der Erzähler Heinrich Böll.
German Studies Review 22.3 (October 1999): 535-36.

5. Tankred Dorst, Harrys Kopf.
Focus on Literatur5.2 (Spring 1998): 117-19.

4.-1. Four Reviews in the Women in German Newsletter, (Spring 2003, Spring 2001, Spring 1999, Fall 1997).

Presentations

2008

• Co-organizer: Panel Getting into Place: Literary Embodiments of Landscape and the Natural World, MLA, SF, CA.
• Book Reading: Memory Matters. Emory University.
• "Measuring Kehlmann with Humboldt," GSA, St. Paul, MN.
• Roundtable. The Meaning of Culture: German Studies in the 21 st Century, UGA Athens, GA.

2007

• "Pop and Politics: Berlin Author Tanja Dückers." MLA, Chicago, IL.
• "The Aftermath of WWII in Recent Women’s Literature." WiG, Snowbird, UT.
• "Who Remembers What?" GSA, San Diego, CA.

2006

• "Beyond Fathers and Sons: Wibke Bruhns's Meines Vaters Land." GSA, Pittsburgh, PA.
• 'Images and Imagination: Monika Maron's Pawels Briefe." Trajectories of Memory, Bowling Green, OH.
• Introduction to Edelweiss Pirates. Atlanta Jewish Film Festival.

2005

• "Far Away, So Close: Barbara Honigmann’s Border Crossings as a Jew and a German Writer." The Fourteenth World Congress of the World Union of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, Israel.

2004

• "WW II in a Nutella-Jar: Tanja Dückers’s Himmelskörper." GSA, Washington, DC.

2003

• "Using the Web to Enhance the Study of Literature." MLA, San Diego, CA.
• "Remembering Kristallnacht." With Professor Deborah Lipstadt, Emory University.

2002

• "Teaching the Divided Germany and Reunification through Film."ACTFL, Salt Lake City, UT.
• "Collaboration in the Virtual Museum." ACTFL, Salt Lake City, UT.
• "From weiter leben to Still Alive." GSA, San Diego, CA.
• Commentator on panel "Bernhard Schlink." GSA, San Diego, CA.
• "Collaboration in the Virtual Museum." CALICO, Davis, CA.
• "Enhancing the Study of Literature with the Web." CALICO, Davis, CA.

2001

• "Creating Interactive Text on the Web: Bernhard Schlink's Der Vorleser." MLA, New Orleans.
• "Covering the Holocaust?" ACTFL, Washington, DC.
• "German-Jewish Love Affairs in Contemporary German Literature." GSA, Washington, DC.
• "Creating Interactive Text on the Web: Bernhard Schlink’s Der Vorleser." CALICO, Orlando, FL.

2000

• "The Collaboration in Virtual Space Project 2001." ACTFL, Boston, MA.
• "Of Authority, Authenticity, and Autobiography." Middlebury College, VT.

1999

• "Criteria for Evaluation of Multimedia Language Programs." ACTFL, Houston, TX.
• "Trauma and Testimony." GSA, Atlanta, GA.

1998:

• "Women Revisit the Third Reich." GSA, Salt Lake City, UT.
• "Reflections on the Ineffable: The Narratology of Holocaust Testimonies."
  Sixth Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, Haifa, Israel.

1997:

• "Community and Student-Centered Technology." ACTFL, Nashville, TN.
• "Gendered Testimonies: Ruth Klüger’s weiter leben." GSA , Washington DC.
• "Women and the Holocaust." Boundaries in Question, UC Berkeley.

Teaching Experience

New Courses Taught

Emory University

• "Germany's Cultural History," GER 302 (in German), Spring 2009.
• "German Postwar Film 1945-2008," GER340WR, Spring 2009.
• "German Culture after 1989," GER 330 (in German), Fall 2008.
• "Mountaineering in Literature and Film," GER 190 (freshman seminar), Fall 2003, Spring 2007, Fall 2008.
• "Representations of the Holocaust," GER/JS 190 (freshman seminar), Spring 2003, Spring 2006.
• "The Culture of Adolescence," GER 330 (in German), Fall 2005, Fall 2007.
• "Freedom, Fear, and Fate on the German Screen," GER 340/FILM 395, Fall 2004, Fall 2007.
• "Coming to Terms with Nazism?" CPLT 752/HIS 585 (graduate seminar, co-taught), Spring 2004.
• FAME (Freshman Advising and Mentoring), Fall 2003.
• "Intermediate German," GER 201: Fall 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005. GER 202: Spring 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007.
• "Beginning German," GER 101, Fall 2002.
• Supervised independent graduate studies and served on Ph.D. and Master’s exam committees in Jewish Studies, the Institute of Liberal Arts, and History.

Middlebury College

• "From Weimar to Hitler," GN 403 (in German), Fall 2001.
• "Advanced Writing Workshop," GN 304 (in German), Fall 2000.
• "Creating Interactive Text in German." (in German), GN 480, Spring 2000, 2002.
• "Coming to Terms with Nazism?" GN 308 (in German), Fall 1999.
• "Freud, Jokes, and the German Comedy," GN 432 (in German), Fall 1999.
• '"Intermediate German," GN 202, Spring 2000, 2001, 2002.
• "Intermediate German," GN 201, Fall 2000, 2001.
• "Beginning German," GN 103, Spring 2000, Fall 2001.
• "Beginning German," GN 102, Winter 2000, 2001.
• Supervised independent studies and senior theses.

Teaching Materials Authored

• Deutsch Na Klar! (Third Edition) CD-ROM.
  Co-authored with Christina Frei and Sabine von Mering. (McGraw-Hill, 2000).

• Fokus Deutsch Testing Program.
  Co-authored with Christina Frei. (McGraw-Hill, 2000).

• Interactive reading programs for Bernhard Schlink’s Der Vorleser and Benjamin Lebert’s Crazy, 2002.

Professional Development

• Oral Proficiency Tester Training (OPI), ACTFL, Philadelphia, 2003.
• Passages Mentoring Program, Emory, 2003-2004.
• Emory University Teaching Retreat, Callaway Gardens, GA, 2003.
• Goethe Institute Europa Fortbildungsseminar. Freiburg, Germany, 2001.
• Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies (CAHS) Seminar for Faculty Teaching Holocaust Courses. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C., 2000.
• AATG Summer Seminar From Margin To Center, Rockhurst College, Kansas City, MO, 1998.
• Workshop: DAF und Internet, Monterey Institute of International Studies, 1998.
• Workshop: Business German in the Nineties, Monterey Institute of International Studies, 1998.

Professional Affiliations

• Modern Language Association (MLA)
• German Studies Association (GSA)
• American Association of Teachers of German (AATG)
• Women in German (WiG)

Languages

• German: native speaker
• English: native command
• Spanish: competent reading, writing, speaking
• Latin: competent reading, writing