Visiting Assistant Professor of German
mhuff@bowdoin.edu
207-798-4146
German
208 Dudley Coe Building
Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century German Literature and Culture; Contemporary German and Austrian Cinema; German Poetry; Applied Linguistics
Multilingual Austria in Literature and Film; Cognitive Approaches to Literature; Performative Theory / Speech Act Theory; Translation Theory
Das Geständnis und seine Instanzen, Eds. Anders Engberg-Pedersen, Michael Huffmaster, Eric Nordhausen, and Vrääth Öhner, Vienna: Turia+Kant, 2010
"Multilingual Practices in Foreign Language Pedagogy," with Claire Kramsch, Multilingual Practices as a Pedagogical Tool, Eds. Jasone
Cenoz and Durk Gorter, Multilingual Education: New Perspectives 3, Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2012 (forthcoming)
"Judging Torleß's Confession: Literature as Language," Das Geständnis und seine Instanzen, Eds. Anders Engberg-Pedersen et al., Vienna: Turia+Kant, 2010
"The Political Promise of Translation," with Claire Kramsch, Fremdsprachen Lehren und Lernen 37, Eds. Claus Gnutzmann, Frank Königs
and Ekkehard Zöfgen (2008)
"Arabella Fields: Black Nightingale or Black Chameleon?" Blackness, Transnational, special issue of Österreichische Zeitschrift für
Geschichtswissenschaften 17.4 (2006)
"Making New Enemies: How Slavs Replace the Turks in G. W. Pabst's Der Schatz," Germany and the Imagined East, Ed. Lee Roberts, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2006
Reading Kafka's Mind: The Cognitive Poetics of a Multilingual Imagination
The Poetry of Grammar, the Grammar of Poetry: A Manual
"How to Write an Allegory: The Conceptual Structure of Kafka's Ein Bericht für eine Akademie" (targeted 2012 submission)
"Between Germany and the Orient: The Topography of Austrian Identity in Schnitzler's Traumnovelle" (targeted 2012 submission)
"Image Schemas in Kafkaesque Space," MLA Convention, Boston, January 3-6, 2013
"Reading Kafka's Mind: The Cognitive Poetics of a Multilingual Imagination," Bates College, January 30, 2012
"The Grammar of Poetry, the Poetry of Grammar," MLA Convention, Seattle, January 5-8, 2012
"Kafka's Multilingual, Jewish Imagination," Jews and/or Jewish Austrians in Modern Austrian Literature and Culture, MALCA Conference, Washington and Jefferson College, April 7-10, 2011
"The Bodily Basis of Semantics and Thought," Embodied Learning Symposium, Marlboro College, April 6-10, 2011
"Digital Immigrants Fostering the Multilingual Subjectivities of Digital Natives," The Digital Native Language Learners are Here: How Do We Effectively Teach Language to the Digital Native? NERALLT Conference, College of the Holy Cross, October 20-21, 2010
"Musil's Verwirrungen: Judging Törleß's Confession," Geständnis und Urteil - Confession and Judgment, BTWH Conference, University of Vienna, June 11-14, 2009
"Between Germany and the Orient: The Topography of Austrian Identity in Schnitzler's Traumnovelle," Verfreundete Nachbarn, MALCA Symposium, Emory University, April 23-26, 2009
"Translation as a Point of Entry into the Poetics of Mind," MLA Convention, San Francisco, December 27-30, 2008
Faculty Professional Development Grant, Marlboro College, 2011
German Department Summer Grant, University of California, Berkeley, 2009
Jutta Landa Travel Award, 2009
UC Language Consortium Summer Workshop on Cognitive Grammar and Language Teaching, UC Irvine, 2008
Graduate Division Summer Grant, University of California, Berkeley, 2008
Dean's Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley, 2007-2008
German Department Summer Grant, University of California, Berkeley, 2007
Berkeley Language Center Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley, 2007
Max Kade Travel Award, 2007
German Department Summer Grant, University of California, Berkeley, 2005
Institute of European Studies Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley, 2002-2004
Ministry of Education Fellowship, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, 1995-1997
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