Caroline Schaumann CV

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.

Coursework in Middle High German and German literature from the Middle Ages to the present.

Minors in Geography and History.

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

Employment Experience

Department of German Studies, Emory University, 2002-present. Assistant Professor. Affiliated faculty with Jewish

Studies and the Psychoanalytic Program.

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.

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

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

Book

• 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

“‘Diese mühevollen Exkursionen:’ Alexander von Humboldt’s Chimborazo Climb in the Literary

Imagination.” Accepted for publication The German Quarterly.

“‘A Different Family Story:’ German Wartime Suffering in Women’s Writing of Wibke Bruhns, Ute Scheub,

and Christina von Braun.” Forthcoming: ‘Germans as Victims’ in the Literary Fiction of the Berlin Republic . Ed.

Stuart Taberner and Karina Berger. Rochester: Camden House, 2008.

“Images and Imagination: Monika Maron’s Pavel’s Letters.” Forthcoming: Trajectories of Memory. Ed. Christina

Guenther and Beth Griech-Polelle. Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008.

“Ruth Klüger. weiter leben: Eine Jugend (1992).” Meisterwerke: Deutschsprachige Autorinnen im 20. Jahrhundert. Eds.

Claudia Benthien and Inge Stephan. Köln: Böhlau, 2005. 217-31.

“Tanja Dückers’s Himmelskörper: A Third-Generation World War II Narrative.” Gegenwartsliteratur: Ein

germanistisches Jahrbuch IV (2005): 259-80.

“A ‘German Book’ For an American Audience: Ruth Klüger’s Cultural Translation of Her Holocaust

Memoirs.” Shadows and Echoes3.1 (Spring 2005): 16-25.

“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.

“Our Own Private Erzählraum: Rewriting Bernhard Schlink’s Der Vorleser on the Web.”

Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German34.2 (Fall 2001): 150-57.

“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

• “Jurek Becker.” Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 299: Holocaust Novelists.

Ed. Efraim Sicher. Detroit: Bruccoli Clark Layman, 2004. 36-43.

2. “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.

4. “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.

• Internationales Germanistenlexikon 1800-1950 . Ed. Christoph König.

Entries for Wolfgang Paulsen and Raymond Max Immerwahr. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2003.

Reviews

1. Joanne Sayner. Womenwithout a Past? German Autobiographical Writings and Fascism.

Forthcoming: German Quarterly 81.4 (Fall 2008).

2. Arnold-de Simine, Silke. Memory Traces: 1989 and the Question of German Cultural Identity.

German Studies Review 30.3 (October 2007): 710-11.

3. Damiano, Carla A. Walter Kempowski’s “Das Echolot:” Sifting and Exposing the Evidence via Montage.

German Studies Review 30.1 (February 2007): 201-02.

4. 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.

5. Brostoff, Anita, and Sheila Chamovitz, eds. Flares of Memory: Stories of Childhood during the Holocaust.

German Quarterly 76.3 (Summer 2003): 360-61.

6. 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 Identities4.2 (July 2002): 190-192.

8. Ingo Lenick, Der Erzähler Heinrich Böll .

German Studies Review22.3 (October 1999): 535-36.

Tankred Dorst, Harrys Kopf.

Focus on Literatur5.2 (Spring 1998): 117-19.

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 :

• “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 202, Spring 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007.
• “Intermediate German,” GER 201, Fall 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005.
• “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.

Academic Service

Emory Department of German Studies

• Organized readings by authors Ruth Klüger and Wibke Bruhns, 2008.
• Contributor, departmental newsletter, spring 2007 and 2008.
• Organized departmental film series, fall 2004 and 2007.
• Member, Search Committee for Yiddish, 2007.
• Member, Search Committee for German, 2005, 2003.
• Chair, Selection Committee for a Visiting Professorship in German Studies, 2004.
• Curriculum Committee, 2005-09.
• Departmental Honor Code Liaison, 2003-09.

Emory College

• Panel discussion: Faculty Authors, Emory University, Fall 2008.
• Freshman Orientation, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007.
• Freshman Advising and Mentoring Program (FAME), Emory University, Fall 2003.
• Honor Code Appeal Panel, Emory University, November 2003.
• Faculty Representative, Students Helping Organize Awareness of the Holocaust (SHOAH), 2003-05.

National Professional Service

• Editorial Board Women in German Yearbook (2008), Seminar (2008), and Holocaust and Genocide Studies (2007).
• Panel Organizer, GSA 2007, MLA 2008, ACTFL 2009.
• Member, German Resources on the Web (GROW) Committee, AATG, 2002-2004.
• Co-organizer, “Women in German Annual Conference” Aptos, CA, October 1998.
• Co-organizer, AATG Northern California Spring Meeting, UC Davis, March 1998.

Middlebury College and UC Davis

• Member, task force on Middlebury’s international peak of excellence, 2000–2001.
• Member, committee “Recruiting and Retaining Students of German,” UC Davis, 1995–1996.
• Member, organizing committee “Picnic Day 1994,” UC Davis, April 1994.
• Peer-Coordinator in German Language Instruction, UC Davis, 1994–1999.

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