Birgit Tautz

Associate Professor of German

Fall 2009

  • Elementary German I (GER 101A)
  • Elementary German I (GER 101B)
  • German Classicism (GER 313)
  • Advanced Independent Study and Honors in German (GER 401)
Phone (207) 798-7079
Title Associate Professor
Department German
2nd Title Chair
2nd Department GERMAN
Work Location 108 Sills Hall
E-Mail btautz@bowdoin.edu
Birgit Tautz: Bowdoin College German Department

Education:

Diplomgermanistik Leipzig
M.A. Wisconsin
Ph.D. Minnesota

Teaching Areas:

18th and 19th century German literature, culture, and philosophy, Romanticism, as well as in manifestations of race, ethnic, and cultural differences in literature and film; German language through Culture; Nazi Cinema

Research Interests:

Romanticism for the New Century: explores recurrence of Romanticism/Romantic patterns and themes in contemporary literature, film, and performance (ca. 1990-today)

An eighteenth-century project on Boundaries of (German) Literature.

Selected Publications:

Ethnic Differences cover

Reading and Seeing Ethnic Differences in the Enlightenment:
From China to Africa (New York: Palgrave, 2007)
[reviewed in Choice; Nov. 2007; German Studies Review XXXII (2008)2: 422-423]

Ed., Colors 1800/1900/2000: Signs of Ethnic Difference. (Amsterdamer Signs of Ethnic DifferenceBeiträge zur Neueren Germanistik, eds. Anthonya Visser et al. Vol. 56) Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi 2004.
[reviewed in Seminar-online 2005; German Quarterly 79.1 (2006): 144-145; Monatshefte 99.1 (2007): 114-116; The Germanic Review 82.3 (2007): 286-287]

“Das Haburgische Parterre': Johann Christoph Bodes Westindier und die Verortung des Globalen", Zeitschrift für Germanistik 1 (2009) 183-190.

“Charlotte Kerners/Rolf Schübels Blueprint: Buch und Film," Gegenwartsliteratur:ein germanistisches Jahrbuch (2008) 114-137.

"A Fairy Tale Reality? Elfriede Jelinek's Snow White, Sleeping Beauty and the Mythologization of Contemporary Reality," Women in German Yearbook 24 (2008) 165-184.

Curriculum Vitae in PDF form