Erdmann F. Waniek CV

Department of German Studies
Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322
Tel.: (404) 727-6439

February 24, 2006

EDUCATION

1969-72 University of Oregon; Ph.D. (1972) in German Language and Literature

Dissertation: “Moritz-Wackenroder: Zur Problematisierung des künstlerischen Bewußtseins”

Advisor: Wolfgang Leppmann

• University of Pennsylvania ; M.A. (1969) in English and American Literature

• Freie Universität Berlin

• Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg—Study of German, English and American Literature, Philosophy, Sociology

Areas of special interest: 18 th-20 th century literature; sociology and theory of Literature and the arts; the relation between the arts; the process of reading

ACADEMIC HONORS AND AWARDS

• Computer assisted-instruction
• Luce Faculty Seminar
• Sears Writing Fellow
• Research Grant, Emory University
• Research Grant, Emory University
• Summer Grant, Emory University
• NEH Summer Seminar, Irvine, California

1979/80 Research Grants, Emory University

1975/76 Humanities Faculty Development Grants, St. Olaf College

1968/72 Fulbright Travel Grant

1968-69 Exchange Scholarship from the University of Pennsylvania

EMPLOYMENT

• Associate Professor, Emory University
• Assistant Professor, Emory University

Summer Term 1977

Dozent, Literaturwissenschaftliches Seminar und Abteilung Deutsch als Fremdsprache, Universität Hamburg

• Assistant Professor and Tutor in the Paracollege, St. Olaf College, Northfield , Minnesota

• Visiting lecturer, Nr. Nissum Seminarium, Denmark Summer, Instructor, School for International Training of The Experiment in

1970 International Living Putney, Vermont

• Teaching Assistant, Department of German and Russian, University Oregon.

Courses taught: first, second, and third year German; Intensive German Tutorial; German Composition and Conversation; German Culture and Civilization; Reformation and Baroque; German Poetry; Goethe; Faust I and II; 18 th-Century German Drama; Early 19 th-Century German Literature; Novelle; Kafka; Thomas Mann; German Literature since 1945, both in translation and in the original; Survey Courses on 18 th- and 19 th-Century German Literature; German Literature in Translation. German for Reading Knowledge; Reading German Literature and/on Film. Seminars on: The Artist and Society; Sociology of Literature; Hermann Hesse and the Existential Novel on the Continent; The Experience of Alienation in the Modern Novel; Portraits of the Artist; Autonomy, the Self, and the Unconscious; Love and Death in (German) Drama. Senior Seminars with topics such as Revolution, Literature as Equipment for Living.

Tutorials and Independent Studies on How to Read a Book; The Study of Literature; Introduction to Comparative Literature; 18 th-Century Germany; The Rise of the Novel; Development of Modern Drama; Thomas Mann; Heinrich Böll; Christa Wolf; Bildungsroman; 19 th-Century Prose; 20 th-Century Novel.

Team-taught courses: 18 th-Century Europe; Europe between the Wars; Science as a Modern Cultural Ideal

Director of two Honors Theses,one on Goethe Faust II, one on Thomas Mann, Doktor Faustus.

Dissertations: Reader (7) and Advisor (1 on Heinrich Mann)

WORKIN PROGRESS : The Pursuit of Happiness: Wedding Journeys.

Monographs on: the “simple” text; portraits of the artist; travel from Moritz to Grass.

Two articles on Thomas Mann; two articles on Karl Philipp Moritz; one on Theodor Fontane; three reviews.

Translation of Dilthey, “Beiträge zum Studium der Individualität,” Forthcoming in the American Dilthey edition (ed. Rudolf Makkreel).

PUBLICATIONS : “Un Juego Peligroso: La Búsqueda del Autor en (Joc de Miralls) Carme Riera”. Alba de America, co-author, Cristina de la Torre. Argentina: Instituto Literario Y Cultural Hispanica, 1997.

“Silence and the Rehabilitation of Beauty. Twentieth-Century German Perspectives on the Poet’s Task, “ Signs of Change, ed. Stephen Barker (Albany: SUNY Press, 1996), 19-32.

“Apotheosis and Death of the Author: Goethe in Italica,” Neophilologus, 80 (1996), 75-90.

“Wilhelm Müllers Aktualität, Goethe Yearbook, VIII (1996), 288-304.

Memoriae Vis: Essays in Celebration of Arthur R. Evans, co-editor, ( Atlanta, 1993)

“Banale Tiefe in Wilhelm Müllers Winterreise,” Jahrbuch des Freien deutschen Hochstifts (1994), 141-189.

“Fluchtort Baum. Zur Geschichte einer Erfahrungsmetapher,” Colloquia Germanica, 26 (1993), 317-335.

“Cleverness: Three Versions of a Folktale,” written with Cristina de la Torre; in Memoriae Vis, 255-79.

“’Aber warum verbieten sie uns die Bäume?’ Frage und Antwort in Jurek Beckers Jakob der Lügner,” Seminar, 29 (1993), 279-93.

“Frieden, Schein und Schweigen. Brechts Ausruf über die Zeiten und drei Gegengedichte von Celan, Enzensberger und Fritz,” Wirkendes Wort, 42 (1992), 253-282.

“Johann Gottfried Herder,” Dictionary of Literary Biography (Columbia, S.C., 1990), vol. 97, pp 104-121.

“Knigge, Schiller, and Moritz: Three Models for the Writer,” Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth-Century, 264 (1989) 1156-1157.

“Von Hosen und Büchern. Fußnote zu einem Sudelbucheintrag Lichtenbergs,” Photorin, 9 (1985), 27-33.

“Pragmatic Lesson and Romantic Tale,” Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, 216 (1983), 369-70 (abstract).

“Karl Philipp Moritz’s Concept of the Whole in His ‘Versuch einer Vereinigung…’ (1785),” Studies in Eighteenth- Century Culture, 12 (1983), 213-22.

“Wunder und Rätsel: die gute Tat in Nathan der Weise, Lessing Yearbook, XIV (1982), 133-60.

“ Werther lesen und Werther als Leser,” Yearbook of the American Goethe Society, 1 (1982), 51-92.

“Beim zweiten Lesen: der Beginn von Fontanes Effi Briest als verdinglichtes tableau vivant, “ The German Quarterly, LV (1982), 164-74.

“Circle, Analogy, and Contrast, On Herder’s Style of Thought in his Journal, “ in: Johann Gottfried Herder. Innovator through the Ages, edited by Wulf Koepke ( Bonn, 1982), 64-84.

“Looking and Reading: In Search of a Tertium Comparationis,” Theories of Reading, Looking, and Listening, ed. Harry R. Garvin (Lewisburg, London, 1981), 131-8.

“Rousseau’s Confessions and Moritz’s Anton Reiser – narrative strategies for presenting the self,” Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, 192 (1980), 1307-13.

Translation of Franz Hohler, “Der Rand von Ostermundigen,” Dimension, VII, 3 (1974), 428-35.

“Foreign Language Instruction in the United States at the College Level,” Nissumske Årbøger 1972, 34-8.

“Adel, Bourgeoisie und Arbeiter in Georg Weerths Fragment eines Romans,” Proceedings Pacific Northwest Conference on Foreign Languages, XXII (1971), 85-92.

REVIEWS : Herder, Johann Gottfried. Wulf Kopeke, ed. Academic

Disciplines and the Pursuit of Knowledge . Columbia, S.C.: Camden House, 1996, forthcoming in Seminar.

Weerth, Georg. Referate des 1. Internationalen Georg-Weerth-Colloquiums 1992. (Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 1993), in Monatshefte,

Vol. 88.2, (Summer 1996), 247-250.

Karl Philipp Moritz. Text und Kritik: Zeitschrift für Literatur, 118/119 (April 1993), in Goethe Yearbook, VIII (1996), 351-6.

Bong, Jörg. Die Auflösung der Disharmonien. (Frankfurt am Main, 1993), in German Quarterly, Vol. 69.3, (Summer 1996), 347-349.

Norbert Ratz, Der Identitätsroman: Eine Strukturanalyse (Tübingen, 1988). Monatshefte , 82 (1990), 106-8.

George Sand, A Woman’s Version of the Faust Legend: “ The Seven Strings of the Lyre.” Edited by George A. Kennedy (Chapel Hill, 1989). JALS, 28 (July-Dec 1990), 80-81.

Richard Critchfield and Wulf Koepke, eds., Eighteenth-Century German Authors and their Aesthetic Theories: Literature and the Other Arts (Columbia, S.C., 1988), South Central Review, 7 (1990), 106-8.

Evelyn Keitel, Psychopathographien. Die Vermittlung psychotischerPhänomene durch Literatur (Heidelberg, 1986). South Atlantic Review, 54 (1989), 106-8.

Richard Littlejohns, Wackenroder-Studien: Gesammelte Aufsätze zur Biographie und Rezeption des Romantikers (Frankfurt/Main, 1987). Monatshefte, 81 (1989), 264-5.

Lothar Müller, Die kranke Seele und das Licht der Erkenntnis. Karl Philipp Moritz’ Anton Reiser (Frankfurt/Main, 1987). German Studies Review XI (1988), 498-500.

Helene M. Kastinger Riley, Die weibliche Muse. Sechs Essays über kunstlerisch schaffende Frauen der Goethezeit (Columbia, 1986). South Atlantic Review, 52 (1987), 135-7.

Martin Bollacher, Wackenroder und die Kunstauffassung der frühen Romantik (Darmstadt, 1983). Monatshefte, 78 (1986), 401-2.

Goethe Proceedings. Ed. By Clifford A. Bernd et al., ( Columbia, South Carolina, 1984). Goethe Yearbook, 3 (1986), 226-228.

Volker Ketteler, Soziale Erfahrung und Erzählen Königstein/Ts., 1979). Monatshefte, 77 (1985), 89-90.

Rolf Christian Zimmermann, Das Weltbild des jungen Goethe II . (München, 1979). The German Quarterly, LVI (1983), 138-41.

Walter K. Stewart, Time Structure in Drama: Goethe’s “Sturm und Drang ” Plays (Amsterdam, 1978). Monatshefte, 74, (1982), 202-3.

Robert M. Browning, German Poetry in the Age of the Enlightenment (University Park, 1978). Monatshefte, 73 (1981), 456-7.

Mark Boulby, Karl Philipp Moritz ( Toronto, 1979). The German Quarterly, LIII (1980), 226-7.

Leser und Lesen im 18. Jahrhundert (Heidelberg, 1977). Monatshefte , 72 (1980), 67-9.

Ulf Konrad Eggers, Aspekte zeitgenössischer Realismustheorie, (Bonn, 1976), Monatshefte, 71 (1979), 467-9.

Ludwig Völker, Langeweile (München, 1975). Monatshefte, 69 (1977), 423-4.

Roman Ingarden, Gegenstand und Aufgaben der Literaturwissen- schaft (Tübingen, 1976). Monatshefte, 69 (1977), 421-2.

PAPERS “Moritz in a Cave: Between Self and Other.” German Studies Round Table at Emory University, Oct. 6, 1999.

“Moritz in England Between Self and Other.” Tenth International Congress on the Enlightenment. Dublin, July 25-31, 1999.

“Feier und Farce. Dichte3r bei Handke und Kroetz.” AATG, Stanford, Aug. 1995.

“Kunst und Ehe: Hochzeitsreisen bei Fontane.” SAMLA, Baltimore, November 1994.

“Concluding Remarks” at the German Studies Colloquium, Emory, March, 1993.

“Von der Schwierigkeit des Bleibens. Schweigen, Verantwortung und Schreiben bei Christa Wolf und Don DeLillo,” AATG, Baden-Baden , August 1992.

“The Passions of the Observer. Jünger and Goethe in War,” IAPL, Berkeley, May 1992.

“Beschmutzte Natur: Goethes Novelle und Raabes Pfisters Mühle,” SAMLA, Atlanta, October 1991.

“The Poet’s Task and Silence. Brecht and Three Responses,” IAPL, Montreal, May 1991.

“Three Responses to Goethe,” German Studies Association, Milwaukee, October 1989.

“Jugend und Natürlichkeit: zu Lessings Der junge Gelehrte und Goethes Die Leiden des jungen Werthers, “ German Studies Association, Philadelphia, October 1988.

“Knigge, Schiller, and Moritz: Three Models for the Writer,” Seventh International Congress on Enlightenment, Budapest, July, 1987.

“Reading Kafka and Escher,” 20 th-Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, Kentucky, February, 1986.

“Johann Martin Chladenius’ ‘Sehepunkt’ and Karl Philipp Moritz’ Gesichtspunkt’” Midwest ASECS, Purdue University, October, 1985.

“The Poetry in Schubert’s Die Winterreise,” Emory University, October 1985. Congress on Enlightenment, Brussels, July 1983.

“Beim zweiten Lesen: der Beginn von Fontanes Effi Briest als verdinglichtes tableau vivant,” SAMLA, Louisville, 1981.

“Karl Philipp Moritz’ Concept of the Whole in His Essay ‘Versuch einer Vereinigung…’, “South Central Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies, Austin 1981.

“Kreis, Analogie und Gegensatz. Zu Herders Stil in seinem Journal ,” ASECS, San Francisco, 1980.

“Kafka’s Letter to his Father,” Georgia University Center Modern Languages Group, November 1979.

“Christa Wolf,” Goethe Institute Atlanta, October 1979. “Rousseaus’s Confessions and Moritz’ Anton Reiser—Narrative Strategies for Presenting the Self,” Fifth Congress of the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Pisa, Italy , September 1979.

“ Reading and Looking: In Search of a Tertium Comparationis,” Ninth Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association, Innsbruck, Austria, August 1979.

“ Reading for Meaning,” St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota , May 1978.

“Botho Strauß, Die Widmung,” Goethe Institute Atlanta, January 1979.

“Ambiguity, Indeterminacy and Openness,” Fifth Annual Conference on Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota, May 1978.

“Reading Werther and Werther’s Readings, “Language and Literature Group, St. Olaf College, February 1978. “Aesthetic

Education and the Writer’s Isolation,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Charlottesville, 1976.

“Peter Bichsels Realismus,” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, 1976.

“Lichtenberg and Hogarth: Realistic Vision and Social Novel,” Midwestern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Indiana University , 1975.

“What Do We Teach When We Teach Literature?” Language and Literature Group, St. Olaf College, 1974.

“The Sociology of Literature,” Language and Literature Group, St. Olaf College , 1974.

ACADEMIC SERVICE

Co-coordinator Emory German Studies Colloquium 1995.

Section Organizer and Chair, GSA, Washington 1993.

Section Chair, AATG, Baden-Baden 1992.

Chair, Section Theory and German Literature; MIFLC, Clemson U. Sept. 1989.

Chair, Department of German 1988-1995.

Coordinator of a German Studies Conference at Emory

University, September 29-October 1, 1988.

Division Head, German 1983-84; 1987-88.

Reader for the German Quarterly & Princeton University Press

Reviewer for NEH

SAMLA, section chair, 1986; nominating committee, 1987-90 Committee on General Education, 1984-6

Search Committee (Comp. Lit. Position), Emory University 1982

Committee on Liberal Studies, Emory University 1981-4

Freshman Advisor, Emory University 1980-82; 84-86; 87-91

Search Committee (Chair Position, Modern Languages and Classics) 1983-84

Academic Standards Committee 1983-6

ILA Literature, Art and Culture Committee 1983-84

Planning Committees for MLC Courses, Emory University 1979-81

Development Committee, Modern Languages and Classics, Emory University 1978-79

Library Coordinator, German Div., Emory University 1979-86; 87-

President, Language and Literature Group, St. Olaf Colleg1975-76

Foreign Language Coordinator, Paracollege, St. Olaf College 1973-78

Library Consultant, German Department, St. Olaf College 1973-76

German Film Series, St. Olaf College 1973-76

Chairman of the Committee for Divisional Courses, St. Olaf College 1973-74

Department representative of the Graduate Council, University of Oregon 1970-71

MEMBERSHIP

Modern Language Association of America

American Association of Teachers of German

American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

Goethe Society of North America