Research

Book Cover of The The End-Times in Medieval German Literature

Research of Alexander Sager

Alexander Sager. “Thiu wirsa giburd: Cain’s legacy, Original Sin, and the End of the World in the Old Saxon Genesis.” The End-Times in Medieval German Literature. Sin, Evil, and the Apocalypse. Ed. Ernst Ralf Hinz and Scott E. Pincikowski. Rochester: Camden House, 2019. 7-26. This essay explores…
Dr. Sasha Spektor's book cover, The Reader as Accomplice: Narrative Ethics in Dostoevsky and Nabokov

Research of Alexander Spektor

Alexander Spektor. The Reader as Accomplice: Narrative Ethics in Dostoevsky and Nabokov. Reader as Accomplice: Narrative Ethics in Dostoevsky and Nabokov argues that Fyodor Dostoevsky and Vladimir Nabokov seek to affect the moral imagination of their readers by linking morally laden plots to the…
book cover of Comparative Literature, including Alexander Spektor's "Writing (as) Philosophy: Deconstructing Plato in Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky's 'In the Pupil.'"

Research of Alexander Spektor

Alexander Spektor. “Writing (as) Philosophy: Deconstructing Plato in Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky’s ‘In the Pupil.’” Comparative Literature 70.1 (March 2018): 46-59.  This essay investigates philosophic trends of Russian modernism through an analysis of Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky’s recently…
Book cover of Berna Guenli's book Faith Akin's Cinema

Research of Berna Gueneli

Berna Gueneli. Fatih Akin's Cinema and the New Sound of Europe. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019.  This book explores the transnational works of acclaimed Turkish-German filmmaker and auteur Fatih Akın. The first minority director in Germany to receive numerous national and…
Cover of Dr. Heide Crawford's book, The Origins of the Literary Vampire.

Research of Heide Crawford

Heide Crawford. The Origins of the Literary Vampire. Rowman & Littlefield (August 2016).  In this book Heide Crawford redirects scholarly attention to the body of German poetry and prose where vampire folklore becomes vampire literature. This book focuses on the adaptation of the vampire…
American Speech, a quarterly of Linguistic Usage, Duke University Press June 2020

Research of Joshua Bousquette

Joshua Bousquette. "From Bidialectal to Bilingual: Evidence for multi-stage language shift in Lester W. J. ‘Smoky’ Seifert’s 1946-1949 Wisconsin German Recordings." American Speech, A Quarterly of Linguistic Usage (June 2020): 1-30. Duke University Press.  The present work examines nominal…
Cover of linguistics academic journal Language Learning, with article co-authored by Dr. Joshua Bousquette

Research of Joshua Bousquette

Joshua Bousquette and Michael T. Putnam. "Redefining Language Death: Evidence From Moribund Grammars." Language Learning Vol. 70 Issue S1 (June 2019)  The present work presents a critical assessment of claims in recent literature that moribund language varieties exhibit accelerated language…
Cover of the book containing this article in German: Marjanne Goozé. “Der ‘verlorene’ Briefwechsel zwischen Henriette Herz und Friedrich Schleiermacher: Freundschaft, Religion und Nachruf.”

Research of Marjanne Goozé

Marjanne Goozé. “Der ‘verlorene’ Briefwechsel zwischen Henriette Herz und Friedrich Schleiermacher: Freundschaft, Religion und Nachruf.” “... nur Frauen können Briefe schreiben.” Facetten weiblicher Briefkultur nach 1750. Ed. Renata Dampc-Jarosz and Pawel Zarychta. Berlin: Peter Lang, 2019. 177-190…

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