Jill Suzanne Smith

Assistant Professor of German

On leave for the 2009-10 academic year

Phone (207) 725-3987
Title Assistant Professor
Department German
Work Location 10 Sills Hall
E-Mail jsmith5@bowdoin.edu
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

PUBLICATIONS

Articles

women in german 19 “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 (in press)

“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

David A. Brenner. German-Jewish Popular Culture before the Holocaust. Kafka’s kitsch. London: Routledge, 2008, in: German Studies Review (forthcoming, May 2009)

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)

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

Self-Conscious Commodities: Literary, Cultural, and Social Discourses on Prostitution in Berlin: 1880-1933 [ Book Abstract » ]

Article

“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 (under review)

“When East is West and West is East: Images of Jewishness in Dani Levy’s Alles auf Zucker!”

SELECTED FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS

  • 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

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