Assistant Professor of German
Chair of Department of German (spring semester)
jsmith5@bowdoin.edu
207-725-3987
German
10 Sills Hall
Ph.D. , Germanic Studies. Indiana University, Bloomington
Ph.D. Minor in Jewish Studies. Indiana University, Bloomington
M.A. , Germanic Studies. Indiana University, Bloomington
B.A., German. Amherst College
“Just How Naughty was Berlin? The Geography of Prostitution and Female Sexuality in Curt Moreck’s Erotic Travel Guide” in: Spatial Turns: Space, Place, and Mobility in German Literary and Visual Culture, Eds. Barbara Mennel & Jaimey Fischer (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2010) 53-77
"Richard Oswald & the Social Hygiene Film: Promoting Public Health or Promiscuity?" in The Many Faces of Weimar German Cinema, Ed. Christian Rogowski (Rochester: Camden House, 2010) 13-30
“Working Girls: White-Collar Workers and Prostitutes in Late Weimar Fiction” in: The German Quarterly 81.4 (Fall 2008) 449-470
"A Female Old Shatterhand? Colonial Heroes and Heroines in Lydia Höpker's Tales of Southwest Africa" in: Women in German Yearbook 19 (December 2003) 141-158
Fritz Breithaupt, "Culture of Images: Limitation in Goethe's Wahlverwandtschaften" in: Monatshefte 92.3 (Fall 2000) 302-320
Stephanie Günther. Weiblichkeitsentwürfe des Fin de Siècle Berliner Autorinnen. Alice Berend, Margarete Böhme, Clara Viebig. Bonn: Bouvier, 2007, in: German Studies Review 33.1 (February 2010) 212
David A. Brenner. German-Jewish Popular Culture before the Holocaust. Kafka’s kitsch. London: Routledge, 2008, in:German Studies Review (October 2009) 661
Walter Frisch. German Modernism: Music and the Arts, Berkeley: U of CA Press, 2005, in: Studies in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Literature 33.1 (Winter 2009) 187-189
Christiane Schönfeld, Ed. Commodities of Desire: The Prostitute in Modern German Literature, Rochester: Camden House, 2000, in: Women in German Newsletter (Summer 2002) 12-14
Berlin Coquette: Prostitution, New Womanhood, and Desire in the German Capital, 1890-1933 (under review)
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“Reviving Tradition? German-Jewish Humor in Dani Levy’s Alles auf Zucker!”