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German

Birgit Tautz

Associate Professor of German

Contact Information

btautz@bowdoin.edu
Telephone: 2077987079
German
GERMAN
108 Sills Hall


Spring 2013

  • On leave of absence for spring semester of the 2012-13 academic year.
  • Birgit Tautz currently serves as the Book Review Editor of the North American Goethe Society, the pre-eminent research organization in 18th century German Studies. All inquiries and suggestions re: reviews should be directed to her at 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)

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