Birgit Tautz

Associate Professor of German

Phone (207) 798-7079
Title Assistant 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)

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.

Signs of Ethnic Difference

“White Masculinity at the Turn of Two Centuries: The Narrative Enactment of an Ideal in Karoline Fischer’s William der Neger (1817) and Hans Grimm’s Dina (1913)” (27pp.; forthcoming in Seminar, special issue on German Masculinities).

“Cutting, Pasting, Fabricating: Eighteenth-Century German Travel Texts and their Translators between Legitimacy and Community” German Quarterly 79(2006)2: 155-173. German Quarterly

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