Location: Bowdoin / Jill Suzanne Smith

German

Jill Suzanne Smith

Assistant Professor of German

Chair of Department of German (spring semester)

Contact Information

jsmith5@bowdoin.edu
207-725-3987
German
10 Sills Hall


Fall 2012

  • From Flowers of Evil to Pretty Woman: Prostitutes in Modern Western Culture (GLS 027)
  • From Flowers of Evil to Pretty Woman: Prostitutes in Modern Western Culture (GLS 027L1)
  • Intermediate German I: Germany within Europe (GER 203A)
  • Intermediate German I: Germany within Europe (GER 203B)
  • Advanced Independent Study and Honors in German (GER 401)


Jill Suzanne Smith: Bowdoin College: German

Education

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

Research & Teaching Interests

  • German literature, intellectual history, and culture, 19th & 20th century
  • Gender & sexuality studies
  • German-Jewish Studies: German Jews in the 19th and 20th centuries, literary and artistic representations of the Holocaust
  • Fin-de-Siècle Berlin & Vienna
  • The Weimar Republic: popular fiction, art, and film
  • Language pedagogy, curriculum development, teaching with technology

Curriculum vitae in PDF formpdf »

 “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

Spatial Turns. Space, Place, and Mobility in German Literary and Visual Culture.   The Many Faces of Weimar Cinema Rediscovering Germany's Filmic Legacy Edited by Christian Rogowski

"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

Translation

Fritz Breithaupt, "Culture of Images: Limitation in Goethe's Wahlverwandtschaften" in: Monatshefte 92.3 (Fall 2000) 302-320

Book Reviews

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

Publications in Progress

Book

Berlin Coquette: Prostitution, New Womanhood, and Desire in the German Capital, 1890-1933 (under review)

Article
“Reviving Tradition? German-Jewish Humor in Dani Levy’s Alles auf Zucker!”

 

 

 

  • Sydney B. Karofsky Prize for Junior Faculty, Bowdoin College, May 2010
  • Fulbright Junior Research Grant, Berlin, Germany, 2009-2010
  • Bowdoin Faculty Research Fellowship, 2009-2012
  • Women in German Dissertation Prize 2004, October 2005
  • DAAD Faculty Summer Seminar Fellowship, Seminar topic: "Beyond the National? Interdisciplinary German Studies & the Global," June-July 2005
  • Grant for Archival Research in Berlin, Germany, Humanities Development Fund, Union College, Summer 2004
  • Graduate Certificate Program in Technology and Language Instruction (funded by a Mellon Grant), National Institute of Technology and Liberal Education (NITLE), Center for Educational Technology, Middlebury College, June 2004
  • Elmer O. Wooley Award for Excellence in Graduate Study and Teaching, Indiana University, Bloomington, 2000
  • Chancellor's Fellowship, Indiana University, Bloomington, 1997
  • Fulbright Fellowship, Kamenz, Germany, 1994-1995