Location: Bowdoin / Birgit Tautz

German

Birgit Tautz

Associate Professor of German

Contact Information

btautz@bowdoin.edu
(207) 798-7079
German
108 Sills Hall


Spring 2012

  • On leave for the 2011-12 academic year.
  • Birgit Tautz is a Humboldt Fellow for the 2011-12 academic year. She is in Germany and can only be reached by e-mail.


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)

Translating the World: Remaking late Eighteenth-Century Literature between Hamburg and Weimar" - This book project explores the interrelations of global perception/knowledge and local/regional literary production through the lens of patronage, translation, religion, canon formation, among others.

 

Ethnic Differences coverReading 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 Beiträge 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]

“Michel Foucault trifft Yoko Tawada: Sprache und ethnologische Poetologie als Heterotopien. Ein Versuch”Außenraum – Mitraum – Innenraum. Heterotopien für Kultur und Gesellschaft, Eds. Hamid Tafiazoli und Richard Gray, Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2012, 169-191.

“Saal-Nixe” in: Andere Klassik: Goethes Schwager Vulpius, Alexander Kosenina (ed.) Hannover: Wehrhahn, 2012, 152-153.

“Felix Aestheticus: Colloquium in Honor of Jochen Schulte-Sasse,” two-part DVD, co-edited with undergraduate student Liz Gary, Bowdoin ’11, June 2011.

Signs of Ethnic Difference"Traveling Ideas of (the British) Empire: Translating the Caribbean World for the Eighteenth-Century German Stage" Publications of the English Goethe Society 79.2 (2010) 95-111.

“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

  • Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers; 2011-12, 2013
  • Phocas Award, Bowdoin College Coastal Studies; 2010
  • DAAD Summer Seminar Fellowship (“Narratives of Modernity” U of Chicago, dir. David Wellbery)
  • German Embassy Partnership Project Grant “Freedom without Walls”; 2009
  • Bowdoin Professional Organizations Grant; 2008-2010
  • CBB Mellon Research Grant; 2008–2009 (with Arne Koch, Colby College)
  • Fletcher Family Research Award; 2007–2009 (for “Literature between Technology, Mediality, Society”)
  • Faculty Leave Supplement (for full-year sabbatical); 2007-2008
  • Faculty Research Award, Bowdoin College; 2006 – 2008 (for transatlantic literary relations, especially theater and translation, in the eighteenth-century)
  • Faculty Development Grant, Curriculum Fund (for Nazi Cinema), Bowdoin College; 2003 – 2005
  • Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel, guest in research cooperation; January 2003 and 2007
  • Junior Faculty Research award (start-up), Bowdoin College; Autumn 2002
  • Faculty Development travel grant to Japan and China, Lawrence University/Freeman Foundation (declined); Summer 2002