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==Selected Recent Activities==
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|width="100pt"|'''1965 – 1971:'''||Study of Chemistry at University of Cologne, Germany
|'''2016:'''|| International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA), convention in '''Vienna, Austria''': Organizer of Group section # 17285 'Towards a New World Literature" https://icla2016.univie.ac.at/group-sections/
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|'''2006:'''||International Bachmann Symsposium, University of Vienna, Austria; Invited Speaker
|'''2014:'''|| German Studies Annual Convention 2014, '''Kansas, Missouri''': Organizer of 3 panels on "Toward a New World Literature"
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|'''2006:'''||Co-Organizer, three sessions on “Re/Valuing the Human,” American
|'''2014:'''|| German Studies Annual Convention 2014, '''Kansas, Missouri''': Presentation: Practicing (Un)Belonging - Tawada, the 'Specular Border Intellectual'
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|'''2005:'''||Co-Organizer (with Sara Lennox), three sessions on “ Crossing Borders: Towards a Transnational German Studies,” German Studies Conference, Milwaukee, WI
|'''2014:'''|| Comparative and German Literature, '''Kyoto University, Japan''', invited lecture: Lou Andreas-Salomé's Thought on Creativity
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|'''2005:'''||"Inventing Plentitude,” “Configurations of the Third. The Missing Link of
|'''2014:'''|| European Social Science History Conference, '''Vienna, Austria''', Presentation: Practicing (Un)Belonging - Tawada, the 'Specular Border Intellctual'
Modernity,” Conference at St. Johns College, Cambridge, UK.
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|'''2004:'''||“Networking Women. Trans-European and Circum-Atlantic Connections:” Invited Speaker, University of Florence, Italy
|'''2013:'''|| German Studies Annual Convention 2013, '''Denver, Co.''': Panel on Subject, Place, and Memory in the Work of Ingeborg Bachmann, and presentation on Benjamin in the panel: The Public Intellectual and Issues of Modern Social Complexity
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|'''2003:'''||German Research Society Symposium, “Frauen und Wissenschaft” Invited Speaker, Germany
|'''2012:'''|| Comparative Literature, '''University of Vienna (Austria)''', invited lecture: Benjamin––The Translator/Critic in the Age of Globalization"
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|'''2003'''||International Bachmann Symposium, Invited Speaker,  Rome,  Italy
|'''2011:'''|| Lou Andreas-Salomé '''Symposion, Göttingen (Germany)''', invited lecture: "Wort und Bild. Lou Andreas-Salomé and Benjamin"
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|'''2011:'''|| '''European University of St. Petersburg (Russia)''', invited lecture: "Gender, Nation, and Immigration in Contemporary Europe"
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|'''2011:'''|| '''University of Miami''', invited lecture:"Nachtrauer––Lou Andreas-Salomé's Rilke book"
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|'''2011:'''|| Yoko Tawada Workshop, '''University of Vienna (Austria)''', invited presentation: "The New Nomads––Yoko Tawada lesen"
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|'''2011:'''|| Respondent, '''MLA Convention, Los Angeles''': "Translation and the Construction of Transnational Memory"
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|'''2010:'''|| Ingeborg Bachmann Symposion at '''Syracuse University''', presentation: "Weiterdenken---–Bachmann, the Public Intellectual"
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|'''2009:'''||Presentation at the German Colloquium, '''Cornell University''', "Images and the Politics of Invention: Walter Benjamin and Lou Andreas-Salome"
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|'''2008:'''||Co-organizer (with Annemarie Fischer) of the conference "Inhabiting the Transnational", '''Binghamton University'''
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|'''2007:'''||"Poet in Dark Times: Ingeborg Bachmann," Invited lecture, '''University of Georgia
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|'''2006:'''||International Bachmann Symposium, '''University of Vienna, Austria'''; Invited Speaker
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|'''2006:'''||Co-Organizer, three sessions on “Re/Valuing the Human,” '''American Comparative Literature Association, Annual Meeting, Princeton, NJ'''
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|'''2005:'''||Co-Organizer (with Sara Lennox), three sessions on “ Crossing Borders: Towards a Transnational German Studies,” '''German Studies Conference, Milwaukee, WI'''
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|'''2005:'''||"Inventing Plentitude,” “Configurations of the Third. The Missing Link of Modernity,” '''Conference at St. Johns College, Cambridge, UK.'''
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|'''2004:'''||“Networking Women. Trans-European and Circum-Atlantic Connections:” Invited Speaker, '''University of Florence, Italy'''
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|'''2003:'''||German Research Society Symposium, “Frauen und Wissenschaft”, Invited Speaker, '''Germany'''
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|'''2003''':||International Bachmann Symposium, Invited Speaker,  '''Rome,  Italy'''
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|'''2001:'''||Keynote Address: “Sexing the Body: The Bio-Politics of Sexual Construction.”  
|'''2001:'''||Keynote Address: “Sexing the Body: The Bio-Politics of Sexual Construction.”  
Ninth Annual Interdisciplinary German Studies conference at the
'''Ninth Annual Interdisciplinary German Studies conference at the University of California at Berkeley'''
University of California at Berkeley
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|'''2001:'''||Luncheon Address: “The Translator/Critic in the Age of Globalization.” '''Kentucky Foreign Language Conference at the University of Kentucky at Lexington'''
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|'''2000:'''||Ida Cordella Beam Distinguished Visiting Professor. Spring, '''University of Iowa'''
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|'''1999/2000:'''||Kaethe-Leichter-Professor for Gender and Women’s Studies,<br>(endowed chair, Austrian Government) '''University of Vienna, Austria'''
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==Invited Lectures==
'''1.''' Väter und Söhne in der Literatur (Podiumsdiskussion) ‑ <br /> Düsseldorfer Literaturgespräch, Düsseldorf, 1979 <br/> (with Michael Krüger, Angela Präsent, Hans Ortheil)
'''2.''' Die Töchter ‑ Spurensuche nach dem Vaterbild ‑ <br /> Heinrich‑Heine‑Institut, Düsseldorf, 1979
'''3.''' Geschichte schreibender Frauen ‑ <br /> Gemeinschaft deutscher Künstlerinnen und Kunstfreunde, Hamburg, 1979
'''4.''' Das weibliche Ich. Überlegungen zu einer Analyse weiblicher Autoren ‑<br /> Universität Bielefeld, 1980
'''5.''' Deutsche Dichterinnen vom 16. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart ‑ <br /> IV. Seckbacher Literatur‑Seminar, Frankfurt, 1980
'''6.''' Autorinnen stellen sich vor ‑ Frauenforum im Revier (Seminar) ‑ <br /> Universität Dortmund, 1980
'''7.''' Die Schriftstellerin Fanny Lewald ‑ <br /> Evangelische Akademie Hamburg, 1981
'''8.''' "Chaos und Eros". Friedrich Schlegels "Lucinde". <br /> Ringvorlesung "Romantik". Universität Köln, 1982
'''9.''' Bertha von Suttner (1843‑1914) ‑ <br /> Ringvorlesung Universität Köln, 1982
'''10.''' Frau und Literatur. Neue Ansätze in der Literaturwissenschaft ‑ <br /> Ringvorlesung Universität Köln, 1983
'''11.''' Frau und Literatur. Neue Ansätze in der Literaturwissenschaft ‑ <br /> Universität Utrecht, 1984
'''12.''' Bertha von Suttner ‑ <br /> Universität Nijmegen, 1984
'''13.''' Frau und Literatur. Neue Ansätze in der Literaturwissenschaft ‑ <br /> Universität Nijmegen, 1984
'''14.''' Bertha von Suttner ‑ <br /> Deutsche Schule, Den Haag, 1984
'''15.''' Bertha von Suttner ‑ <br /> Goethe‑Institut, Amsterdam, 1984
'''16.''' Wege zum eigenen Ich. Zur Geschichte schreibender Frauen. Festvortrag <br /> zur Eröffnung der Ausstellung "Frauen sehen ihre Zeit" ‑ <br /> Literaturausstellung des Landes Rheinland‑Pfalz ‑ Mainz, 1984
'''17.''' Zwischen Widerstand und Anpassung. <br/> Frauenemanizipation und Literatur um die Jahrhundertwende (Seminar) - <br /> Katholische Akademie Freiburg ‑ Heidelberg, 1984
'''18.''' Bertha von Suttner ‑ Festvortrag zur Namensgebung ‑ <br /> Bertha‑von‑Suttner‑Schule, Nidderau b. Frankfurt, 1985
'''19.''' Wege zum eigenen Ich. Zur Geschichte schreibender Frauen ‑ <br /> Pirmasens, 1984 (Eröffnung der Literaturausstellung des Landes RPF)
'''20.''' Wege zum eigenen Ich. Zur Geschichte schreibender Frauen ‑ <br /> Zweibrücken, 1984 (Eröffnung der Literaturausstellung des Landes RPF)
'''21.''' Wege zum eigenen Ich. Zur Geschichte schreibender Frauen ‑<br /> Montabaur, 1985 (Eröffnung der Literaturausstellung des Landes RPF)
'''22.''' Wege zum eigenen Ich. Zur Geschichte schreibender Frauen ‑<br /> Bad Kreuznach, 1985 (Eröffnung der Literaturausstellung des Landes RPF)
'''23.''' Lou Andreas‑Salomé (Seminar) ‑<br /> Volkshochschule, Bochum, 1985
'''24.''' Schriftstellerin der Jahrhundertwende: Franziska Gräfin zu Reventlow ‑ <br /> Universität Osnabrück, 1985
'''25.''' Die Frau in der Literatur ‑ <br /> Fridjof‑Nansen‑Akademie, Ingelheim, 1986
'''26.''' Bertha von Sutter (Seminar) ‑ <br /> Volkshochschule, Düsseldorf, 1986
'''27.''' Frauen, Kunst und Alltagskultur ‑ Frauenforum im Revier ‑ <br /> Universität Dortmund, 1986
'''28''' Franziska Gräfin zu Reventlow (Seminar) ‑ <br /> Volkshochschule, Bochum, 1986
'''29.''' Wege zum eigenen Ich. Zur Geschichte schreibender Frauen ‑<br /> Landesbibliothek Hannover, 1986 (Eröff. der Literaturausstellung des Landes RPF)
'''30.''' Frauen schreiben. Überlegungen zu einer perspektivischen Literaturgeschichtsschreibung - <br /> Universität Paderborn, 1986
'''31.''' Frauen schreiben. Überlegungen zu einer perspektivischen Literaturgeschichtsschreibung - <br /> Universität Frankfurt, 1987
'''32.''' Wege zum eigenen Ich. Zur Geschichte schreibender Frauen ‑<br /> Grevenbroich, 1987 (Eröffnung der Literaturausstellung des Landes RPF)<br />
'''33.''' Wege zum eigenen Ich. Zur Geschichte schreibender Frauen ‑<br /> Volkshochschule Gummersbach, 1987 (Eröffnung der Literaturausstellung)
'''34.''' Reflections on a Perspective Literary History ‑ <br /> State University of New York at Binghamton, 1987
'''35.''' Frauen schreiben. Überlegungen zu einer perspektivischen Literaturgeschichtsschreibung ‑ <br /> Wissenschaftlicher Verein Mönchengladbach, 1987
'''36.''' Die Rolle der Frau in der Literatur ‑ <br /> Deutsche Auslandsgesellschaft, Lübeck, 1987
'''37.''' Frauen und Literatur: Von den Spuren eines Schiffs in den Wellen ‑ <br /> Volkshochschule Bochum, 1987
'''38.''' Bertha von Suttner ‑ Festvortrag zur Namensgebung ‑ <br /> Bertha von Suttner ‑ Realschule, Köln, 1988
'''39.''' Feminism and the History of Art and Literature ‑ <br /> SUNY Binghamton, Departmant of Art History, 1989
'''40.''' Women's Writing, Women's Art in the 1980's: Hélène Cixous and the écriture féminine. ‑ <br /> SUNY Binghamton, Department of Art History, 1989
'''41.''' Literary Historiography and the Challenge of Gender ‑ <br /> Dartmouth College, Hanover, 1989
'''42.''' Literary Historiography and the Challenge of Gender ‑ <br /> Yale University, 1989
'''43.''' Literary Historiography and the Challenge of Gender ‑ <br /> Princeton University, 1990
'''44.''' Feminist Literary Criticism (Seminar) ‑ <br /> Princeton University, 1990
'''45.''' Literary Historiography and the Challenge of Gender ‑ <br /> University of New Hampshire, Durham, 1990
'''46.''' Representation of Women (Seminar) ‑ <br /> University of New Hampshire, Durham, 1990
'''47.''' Frauen und Literatur. Neue Perspektiven in der Bundesrepublik und den USA ‑ <br /> Literarische Gesellschaft, Recklinghausen, 1990
'''48.''' Frauen und Literatur. Neue Perspektiven in der Bundesrepublik und den USA - <br /> Krefeld, 1990
'''49.''' 19th Century Women Writers and the Canon. <br /> Summer-Seminar: The Literary Canon and Beyond: German Popular Culture Reconsidered - <br /> Cornell University, 1991
'''50.''' Hölderlin and the Tragic (Seminar) - <br /> Collegium Philosophicum, Perugia (Italy) 1991
'''51.''' Heidegger and Antigone<br /> PIC- Conference (Philosophy, Interpretation, Culture) -<br /> Binghamton University, 1992
'''52.''' Alterity - Marginality - Difference. On Inventing Places for Women -<br /> University of Toronto, Canada, 1992.
'''53.''' The Poetry of Nelly Sachs -<br /> McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 1992.
'''54.''' Encounter with the Other/s - <br /> Amherster Kolloquium für Literatur, 1992
'''55.''' Borderlands: Überlegungen zu einem Neuentwurf <br /> der Nation von den Rändern - <br /> Conference: Nation, Kultur, Geschlechterverhältnisse –<br /> Humboldt Universität, Berlin, Germany, 1992
'''56.''' The Primitive and the Modern: Gottfried Benn and Else Lasker-Schüler -<br /> Conference: German Women Writers from Weimar <br /> to the Present (sponsored by the Goethe-Haus, Washington) <br /> University of Maryland, College Park, 1993
'''57.''' Nation, Gender and Immigration in the New Europe -<br /> McGill University, Montreal, 1993
'''58.''' Encounter with the Other/s -<br /> Bucknell University, 1993
'''59.''' Nation, Gender and Immigration in the New Europe -<br /> Cornell Univ. 1994
'''60.''' Nation, Gender and Immigration in the New Europe -<br /> PIC Conference (Philosophy, Interpretation, Culture)<br /> Binghamton University, 1994
'''61.''' Metamorphosen des Subjekts-<br /> Conference: “Autobiographien von Frauen”<br /> (sponsored by the Werner-Reimers-Stiftung)<br /> Bad Homburg v.d.H., 1994
'''62.''' Exil, Immigration, Borderline: Christa Wolfs ''Auf dem Weg nach Tabou'' -<br /> Universität Leipzig, 1994
'''63.''' Woman/Women in Expressionism: Gottfried Benn und Else Lasker-Schüler- <br /> Penn State University, University Park, October 1995
'''64.''' Nation und Translation: Konzepte von Nation ohne Nationalismus bei Kristeva, Montesquieu und Herder -<br /> Universität Dortmund, 1995
'''65.''' Representation of Women.<br /> University of Cincinnati, Ohio, March 1996
'''66.''' Neue Perspektiven der Autobiographiforschung.<br /> Karl-Franzens-Universitat, Graz, Austria, 1997
'''67.''' Die Neue Frau und der Künstler-und Bohemeroman der Jahrhundertwende<br /> Karl-Franzens-Universitat Graz, Austria, 1997
'''68.''' Weiblichkeit und ‘männliche Moderne’<br /> Symposion “Identiaet(en) in der Moderne,” <br /> Karl-Franzens-Universitat Graz 1997
'''69.''' Renaming the Human: Lou Andreas Salome’s Becoming Woman<br /> University of Iowa, 2000
'''70.''' Polyglot Spaces, Polyglot Practices--The Politics and Poetics of Mulilingual Textual Production<br /> University of Iowa, 2000
'''71.''' Reading Other/Wise: Woman, National Allegory and a Space in-Between in <br /> Leila Abouzeid’s ''The Year of the Elephant. A Moroccan Woman’s Journey Toward Independence, ''<br />University of Iowa, 2000.
'''72.''' The Translator/Critic in the Age of Globalization. Benjamin’s Theory of <br /> Translation and Postcolonial Thought<br />Penn State University, University Park, 2003
'''73.''' Lou Andreas-Salome: Reading Rilke and Kleist. Symposion “Gendered Academia” - <br /> Kloster Seon, Germany, 2004
'''74.''' Poet and Polyglot. Translinguale Imagination im Werk Ingeborg Bachmanns - <br / > Ingeborg Bachmann Symposium, Rome, Italy, 2004
'''75.''' Lou Andreas-Salome: Between East and West. Towards a Diversification of Modernism/Modernity - <br /> Conference “Networking Women,” University of Florence, November 2004
'''76.''' Lou Andreas-Salome: Inventing Plentitude, Conference “Configurations of the Third” - <br /> Cambridge University, 2005
'''77.''' Ausnahmezustand: Sprache und Gesetz in Bachmann and Agamben. Internationales Bachmann-Symposium - <br /> University of Vienna, 2006
'''78.''' Poet in Dark Times: Ingeborg Bachmann - <br /> University of Georgia, 2007
'''79.''' Images and the Politics of Invention: Walter Benjamin and Lou Andreas-Salome - <br /> German Colloquium, Cornell University, 2009
'''80.''' Bachmann-the Public Intellectual - <br /> Ingeborg Bachmann Symposium at Syracuse University, November 2010
'''81.''' In Transit: Yoko Tawada Lesen - <br /> Yoko Tawada Workshop, University of Vienna (Austria), March 2011
'''82.''' Nachtrauer - Lou Andreas-Salomé's Rilke Book - <br /> Lecture at the University of Miami, April 2011
'''83.''' Gender, Nation, and Immigration in Contemporary Europe - <br /> Lecture at the European University of St. Petersburg (Russia), June 2011
'''84.''' Wort und Bild: Lou Andreas-Salomé und Walter Benjamin -<br /> Lou Andreas-Salomé Symposium, Göttingen (Germany), June 2011
'''85.''' Benjamin: The Translator/Critic in the Age of Globalization - <br /> Comparative Literature, University of Vienna (Austria), November 2012
'''86.''' Benjamin's "Übersetzung" in Postcolonial Thought - <br /> Sympsion: "Benjamin's Figures," University of Leiden (Netherlands), August 2013
'''87.''' Lou Andreas-Salomé's Thought on Creativity - <br /> '''German and Comparative Literature, Kyoto University (Japan), 2014'''
==Papers at Professional Meetings==
'''1.'''            Feminismus und Moderne: Brennpunkt 1900 ‑ <br /> VII. '''Internationaler Germanisten Kongress, G&ouml;ttingen, 1985'''
'''2.'''            Ans&auml;tze und Modelle zur Erforschung des Beitrags von Frauen zur Literatur ‑ <br /> '''Deutscher Germanisten Kongress, Berlin, 1987'''
'''3.'''            Rethinking the Apollonian ‑ Dionysian.  Nietzsche's Perspectivism and the Aesthetic State ‑ '<br /> ''8th Annual Conference of Ancient Greek Philosophy, Baruch College, New York City, 1989 '''
'''4.'''                        Revolution, Narration and the Female Heroine in the Late 18th Century Novel ‑ <br /> '''MW American Society for 18th‑Century Studies, Columbus, OH, 1989'''
'''5.'''                        The &quot;Artist&quot; as &quot;Woman&quot; ‑ <br /> '''MLA Washington, D.C., 1989'''
'''6.'''                        The Question of the Other(s). German and American Perspectives - <br /> '''AATG Baden-Baden, 1992'''
'''7.'''                        Exile/Immigrant/Borderland: On Writing Postunification Identity - Christa Wolf's '''''Auf dem Weg nach Tabou'' &ndash;''''' <br /> '''German Studies Conference, Dallas, Texas, 1994'''<br>
'''8.'''                        Nietzsche and the Greek - <br /> '''13th Annual Conference of Ancient Greek Philosophy, Binghamton University, 1994'''
'''9.'''                        Thinking through Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism (Session of the Lessing Society) - <br /> '''MLA San Diego, 1994'''
'''10.''' Nation und Translation - <br />  '''Kongress des Internationalen Germanisten Verbandes, Vancouver, Canada, 1995'''
 
'''11.''' Vom Nationalen zum Transnationalen Kanon - <br />  '''Symposion der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft, Marbach a.Neckar, 1996'''
'''12'''. Commentator &lsquo;Savage Women:&rsquo; Taming Unruly Subjects in Imperial Germany - <br />  '''German Studies Conference, Salt Lake City, 1998'''
'''13.''' Back to the Future: Some Thoughts on Feminist Utopian Thinking in the Age of Globalization - <br />  '''Kentucky Foreign Language Conference at the University of Kentucky at Lexington, 2001.'''
'''14.''' Benjamin&rsquo;s Theory of Translation and Postcolonial Thought - <br />  '''German Studies Annual Convention, New Orleans, 2003'''
'''15.''' Beziehungsspiele-Handlungsr&auml;ume (Commentator) - <br />  '''German Studies Annual Convention, New Orleans, 2003 '''
'''16.''' Heinz Schlaffer&rsquo;s &ldquo;Die kurze Geschichte der Literatur&rdquo; (Commentator) - <br />  '''German Studies Annual Convention, New Orleans, 2003'''
'''17.''' Masculinity and Stylistic Creativity in Modern Culture - <br />  '''MLA, San Diego, 2003 '''
'''18.''' Manifesto for a Transnational German Studies - <br /> '''German Studies Annual Convention, Milwaukee, 2005'''
'''19.''' All in Two, Two in One, One in All &ndash; Lou Andreas-Salome&rsquo;s Re-Valuing the Human - <br />  '''ACLA Annual Convention, Princeton, 2006'''
'''20.''' East and West: Lou Andreas-Salome Russian Diary and the Politics of Invention - <br /> '''German Studies Annual Convention, Minneapolis, 2007'''
'''21.''' Benjamin’s Aufgabe des Übersetzers in Postcolonial Thought - <br /> '''ACLA’s Annual Convention, Harvard University, 2009'''
'''22.''' Respondent: Session on "Translation and the Construction of Transnational Memory" - <br /> '''MLA Convention, Los Angeles, January 2011'''
'''23.''' Benjamin's Translator/Critic and the Politics of Difference - <br /> '''German Studies Annual Conference, Denver, Colorado, 2013'''
'''24.''' Practicing (Un)belonging - Tawada, the 'Specular Border Intellectual' - <br /> '''European Social Science History Conference, Vienna (Austria), April 2014'''

Latest revision as of 18:37, 6 September 2015

Selected Recent Activities

2016: International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA), convention in Vienna, Austria: Organizer of Group section # 17285 'Towards a New World Literature" https://icla2016.univie.ac.at/group-sections/
2014: German Studies Annual Convention 2014, Kansas, Missouri: Organizer of 3 panels on "Toward a New World Literature"
2014: German Studies Annual Convention 2014, Kansas, Missouri: Presentation: Practicing (Un)Belonging - Tawada, the 'Specular Border Intellectual'
2014: Comparative and German Literature, Kyoto University, Japan, invited lecture: Lou Andreas-Salomé's Thought on Creativity
2014: European Social Science History Conference, Vienna, Austria, Presentation: Practicing (Un)Belonging - Tawada, the 'Specular Border Intellctual'
2013: German Studies Annual Convention 2013, Denver, Co.: Panel on Subject, Place, and Memory in the Work of Ingeborg Bachmann, and presentation on Benjamin in the panel: The Public Intellectual and Issues of Modern Social Complexity
2012: Comparative Literature, University of Vienna (Austria), invited lecture: Benjamin––The Translator/Critic in the Age of Globalization"
2011: Lou Andreas-Salomé Symposion, Göttingen (Germany), invited lecture: "Wort und Bild. Lou Andreas-Salomé and Benjamin"
2011: European University of St. Petersburg (Russia), invited lecture: "Gender, Nation, and Immigration in Contemporary Europe"
2011: University of Miami, invited lecture:"Nachtrauer––Lou Andreas-Salomé's Rilke book"
2011: Yoko Tawada Workshop, University of Vienna (Austria), invited presentation: "The New Nomads––Yoko Tawada lesen"
2011: Respondent, MLA Convention, Los Angeles: "Translation and the Construction of Transnational Memory"
2010: Ingeborg Bachmann Symposion at Syracuse University, presentation: "Weiterdenken---–Bachmann, the Public Intellectual"
2009: Presentation at the German Colloquium, Cornell University, "Images and the Politics of Invention: Walter Benjamin and Lou Andreas-Salome"
2008: Co-organizer (with Annemarie Fischer) of the conference "Inhabiting the Transnational", Binghamton University
2007: "Poet in Dark Times: Ingeborg Bachmann," Invited lecture, University of Georgia
2006: International Bachmann Symposium, University of Vienna, Austria; Invited Speaker
2006: Co-Organizer, three sessions on “Re/Valuing the Human,” American Comparative Literature Association, Annual Meeting, Princeton, NJ
2005: Co-Organizer (with Sara Lennox), three sessions on “ Crossing Borders: Towards a Transnational German Studies,” German Studies Conference, Milwaukee, WI
2005: "Inventing Plentitude,” “Configurations of the Third. The Missing Link of Modernity,” Conference at St. Johns College, Cambridge, UK.
2004: “Networking Women. Trans-European and Circum-Atlantic Connections:” Invited Speaker, University of Florence, Italy
2003: German Research Society Symposium, “Frauen und Wissenschaft”, Invited Speaker, Germany
2003: International Bachmann Symposium, Invited Speaker, Rome, Italy
2001: Keynote Address: “Sexing the Body: The Bio-Politics of Sexual Construction.”

Ninth Annual Interdisciplinary German Studies conference at the University of California at Berkeley

2001: Luncheon Address: “The Translator/Critic in the Age of Globalization.” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference at the University of Kentucky at Lexington
2000: Ida Cordella Beam Distinguished Visiting Professor. Spring, University of Iowa
1999/2000: Kaethe-Leichter-Professor for Gender and Women’s Studies,
(endowed chair, Austrian Government) University of Vienna, Austria

Invited Lectures

1. Väter und Söhne in der Literatur (Podiumsdiskussion) ‑
Düsseldorfer Literaturgespräch, Düsseldorf, 1979
(with Michael Krüger, Angela Präsent, Hans Ortheil)

2. Die Töchter ‑ Spurensuche nach dem Vaterbild ‑
Heinrich‑Heine‑Institut, Düsseldorf, 1979

3. Geschichte schreibender Frauen ‑
Gemeinschaft deutscher Künstlerinnen und Kunstfreunde, Hamburg, 1979

4. Das weibliche Ich. Überlegungen zu einer Analyse weiblicher Autoren ‑
Universität Bielefeld, 1980

5. Deutsche Dichterinnen vom 16. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart ‑
IV. Seckbacher Literatur‑Seminar, Frankfurt, 1980

6. Autorinnen stellen sich vor ‑ Frauenforum im Revier (Seminar) ‑
Universität Dortmund, 1980

7. Die Schriftstellerin Fanny Lewald ‑
Evangelische Akademie Hamburg, 1981

8. "Chaos und Eros". Friedrich Schlegels "Lucinde".
Ringvorlesung "Romantik". Universität Köln, 1982

9. Bertha von Suttner (1843‑1914) ‑
Ringvorlesung Universität Köln, 1982

10. Frau und Literatur. Neue Ansätze in der Literaturwissenschaft ‑
Ringvorlesung Universität Köln, 1983

11. Frau und Literatur. Neue Ansätze in der Literaturwissenschaft ‑
Universität Utrecht, 1984

12. Bertha von Suttner ‑
Universität Nijmegen, 1984

13. Frau und Literatur. Neue Ansätze in der Literaturwissenschaft ‑
Universität Nijmegen, 1984

14. Bertha von Suttner ‑
Deutsche Schule, Den Haag, 1984

15. Bertha von Suttner ‑
Goethe‑Institut, Amsterdam, 1984

16. Wege zum eigenen Ich. Zur Geschichte schreibender Frauen. Festvortrag
zur Eröffnung der Ausstellung "Frauen sehen ihre Zeit" ‑
Literaturausstellung des Landes Rheinland‑Pfalz ‑ Mainz, 1984

17. Zwischen Widerstand und Anpassung.
Frauenemanizipation und Literatur um die Jahrhundertwende (Seminar) -
Katholische Akademie Freiburg ‑ Heidelberg, 1984

18. Bertha von Suttner ‑ Festvortrag zur Namensgebung ‑
Bertha‑von‑Suttner‑Schule, Nidderau b. Frankfurt, 1985

19. Wege zum eigenen Ich. Zur Geschichte schreibender Frauen ‑
Pirmasens, 1984 (Eröffnung der Literaturausstellung des Landes RPF)

20. Wege zum eigenen Ich. Zur Geschichte schreibender Frauen ‑
Zweibrücken, 1984 (Eröffnung der Literaturausstellung des Landes RPF)

21. Wege zum eigenen Ich. Zur Geschichte schreibender Frauen ‑
Montabaur, 1985 (Eröffnung der Literaturausstellung des Landes RPF)

22. Wege zum eigenen Ich. Zur Geschichte schreibender Frauen ‑
Bad Kreuznach, 1985 (Eröffnung der Literaturausstellung des Landes RPF)

23. Lou Andreas‑Salomé (Seminar) ‑
Volkshochschule, Bochum, 1985

24. Schriftstellerin der Jahrhundertwende: Franziska Gräfin zu Reventlow ‑
Universität Osnabrück, 1985

25. Die Frau in der Literatur ‑
Fridjof‑Nansen‑Akademie, Ingelheim, 1986

26. Bertha von Sutter (Seminar) ‑
Volkshochschule, Düsseldorf, 1986

27. Frauen, Kunst und Alltagskultur ‑ Frauenforum im Revier ‑
Universität Dortmund, 1986

28 Franziska Gräfin zu Reventlow (Seminar) ‑
Volkshochschule, Bochum, 1986

29. Wege zum eigenen Ich. Zur Geschichte schreibender Frauen ‑
Landesbibliothek Hannover, 1986 (Eröff. der Literaturausstellung des Landes RPF)

30. Frauen schreiben. Überlegungen zu einer perspektivischen Literaturgeschichtsschreibung -
Universität Paderborn, 1986

31. Frauen schreiben. Überlegungen zu einer perspektivischen Literaturgeschichtsschreibung -
Universität Frankfurt, 1987

32. Wege zum eigenen Ich. Zur Geschichte schreibender Frauen ‑
Grevenbroich, 1987 (Eröffnung der Literaturausstellung des Landes RPF)

33. Wege zum eigenen Ich. Zur Geschichte schreibender Frauen ‑
Volkshochschule Gummersbach, 1987 (Eröffnung der Literaturausstellung)

34. Reflections on a Perspective Literary History ‑
State University of New York at Binghamton, 1987

35. Frauen schreiben. Überlegungen zu einer perspektivischen Literaturgeschichtsschreibung ‑
Wissenschaftlicher Verein Mönchengladbach, 1987

36. Die Rolle der Frau in der Literatur ‑
Deutsche Auslandsgesellschaft, Lübeck, 1987

37. Frauen und Literatur: Von den Spuren eines Schiffs in den Wellen ‑
Volkshochschule Bochum, 1987

38. Bertha von Suttner ‑ Festvortrag zur Namensgebung ‑
Bertha von Suttner ‑ Realschule, Köln, 1988

39. Feminism and the History of Art and Literature ‑
SUNY Binghamton, Departmant of Art History, 1989

40. Women's Writing, Women's Art in the 1980's: Hélène Cixous and the écriture féminine. ‑
SUNY Binghamton, Department of Art History, 1989

41. Literary Historiography and the Challenge of Gender ‑
Dartmouth College, Hanover, 1989

42. Literary Historiography and the Challenge of Gender ‑
Yale University, 1989

43. Literary Historiography and the Challenge of Gender ‑
Princeton University, 1990

44. Feminist Literary Criticism (Seminar) ‑
Princeton University, 1990

45. Literary Historiography and the Challenge of Gender ‑
University of New Hampshire, Durham, 1990

46. Representation of Women (Seminar) ‑
University of New Hampshire, Durham, 1990

47. Frauen und Literatur. Neue Perspektiven in der Bundesrepublik und den USA ‑
Literarische Gesellschaft, Recklinghausen, 1990

48. Frauen und Literatur. Neue Perspektiven in der Bundesrepublik und den USA -
Krefeld, 1990

49. 19th Century Women Writers and the Canon.
Summer-Seminar: The Literary Canon and Beyond: German Popular Culture Reconsidered -
Cornell University, 1991

50. Hölderlin and the Tragic (Seminar) -
Collegium Philosophicum, Perugia (Italy) 1991

51. Heidegger and Antigone
PIC- Conference (Philosophy, Interpretation, Culture) -
Binghamton University, 1992

52. Alterity - Marginality - Difference. On Inventing Places for Women -
University of Toronto, Canada, 1992.

53. The Poetry of Nelly Sachs -
McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 1992.

54. Encounter with the Other/s -
Amherster Kolloquium für Literatur, 1992

55. Borderlands: Überlegungen zu einem Neuentwurf
der Nation von den Rändern -
Conference: Nation, Kultur, Geschlechterverhältnisse –
Humboldt Universität, Berlin, Germany, 1992

56. The Primitive and the Modern: Gottfried Benn and Else Lasker-Schüler -
Conference: German Women Writers from Weimar
to the Present (sponsored by the Goethe-Haus, Washington)
University of Maryland, College Park, 1993

57. Nation, Gender and Immigration in the New Europe -
McGill University, Montreal, 1993

58. Encounter with the Other/s -
Bucknell University, 1993

59. Nation, Gender and Immigration in the New Europe -
Cornell Univ. 1994

60. Nation, Gender and Immigration in the New Europe -
PIC Conference (Philosophy, Interpretation, Culture)
Binghamton University, 1994

61. Metamorphosen des Subjekts-
Conference: “Autobiographien von Frauen”
(sponsored by the Werner-Reimers-Stiftung)
Bad Homburg v.d.H., 1994

62. Exil, Immigration, Borderline: Christa Wolfs Auf dem Weg nach Tabou -
Universität Leipzig, 1994

63. Woman/Women in Expressionism: Gottfried Benn und Else Lasker-Schüler-
Penn State University, University Park, October 1995

64. Nation und Translation: Konzepte von Nation ohne Nationalismus bei Kristeva, Montesquieu und Herder -
Universität Dortmund, 1995

65. Representation of Women.
University of Cincinnati, Ohio, March 1996

66. Neue Perspektiven der Autobiographiforschung.
Karl-Franzens-Universitat, Graz, Austria, 1997

67. Die Neue Frau und der Künstler-und Bohemeroman der Jahrhundertwende
Karl-Franzens-Universitat Graz, Austria, 1997

68. Weiblichkeit und ‘männliche Moderne’
Symposion “Identiaet(en) in der Moderne,”
Karl-Franzens-Universitat Graz 1997

69. Renaming the Human: Lou Andreas Salome’s Becoming Woman
University of Iowa, 2000

70. Polyglot Spaces, Polyglot Practices--The Politics and Poetics of Mulilingual Textual Production
University of Iowa, 2000

71. Reading Other/Wise: Woman, National Allegory and a Space in-Between in
Leila Abouzeid’s The Year of the Elephant. A Moroccan Woman’s Journey Toward Independence,
University of Iowa, 2000.

72. The Translator/Critic in the Age of Globalization. Benjamin’s Theory of
Translation and Postcolonial Thought
Penn State University, University Park, 2003

73. Lou Andreas-Salome: Reading Rilke and Kleist. Symposion “Gendered Academia” -
Kloster Seon, Germany, 2004

74. Poet and Polyglot. Translinguale Imagination im Werk Ingeborg Bachmanns -
Ingeborg Bachmann Symposium, Rome, Italy, 2004

75. Lou Andreas-Salome: Between East and West. Towards a Diversification of Modernism/Modernity -
Conference “Networking Women,” University of Florence, November 2004

76. Lou Andreas-Salome: Inventing Plentitude, Conference “Configurations of the Third” -
Cambridge University, 2005

77. Ausnahmezustand: Sprache und Gesetz in Bachmann and Agamben. Internationales Bachmann-Symposium -
University of Vienna, 2006

78. Poet in Dark Times: Ingeborg Bachmann -
University of Georgia, 2007

79. Images and the Politics of Invention: Walter Benjamin and Lou Andreas-Salome -
German Colloquium, Cornell University, 2009

80. Bachmann-the Public Intellectual -
Ingeborg Bachmann Symposium at Syracuse University, November 2010

81. In Transit: Yoko Tawada Lesen -
Yoko Tawada Workshop, University of Vienna (Austria), March 2011

82. Nachtrauer - Lou Andreas-Salomé's Rilke Book -
Lecture at the University of Miami, April 2011

83. Gender, Nation, and Immigration in Contemporary Europe -
Lecture at the European University of St. Petersburg (Russia), June 2011

84. Wort und Bild: Lou Andreas-Salomé und Walter Benjamin -
Lou Andreas-Salomé Symposium, Göttingen (Germany), June 2011

85. Benjamin: The Translator/Critic in the Age of Globalization -
Comparative Literature, University of Vienna (Austria), November 2012

86. Benjamin's "Übersetzung" in Postcolonial Thought -
Sympsion: "Benjamin's Figures," University of Leiden (Netherlands), August 2013

87. Lou Andreas-Salomé's Thought on Creativity -
German and Comparative Literature, Kyoto University (Japan), 2014


Papers at Professional Meetings

1. Feminismus und Moderne: Brennpunkt 1900 ‑
VII. Internationaler Germanisten Kongress, Göttingen, 1985

2. Ansätze und Modelle zur Erforschung des Beitrags von Frauen zur Literatur ‑
Deutscher Germanisten Kongress, Berlin, 1987

'3. Rethinking the Apollonian ‑ Dionysian. Nietzsche's Perspectivism and the Aesthetic State ‑ '
8th Annual Conference of Ancient Greek Philosophy, Baruch College, New York City, 1989

4. Revolution, Narration and the Female Heroine in the Late 18th Century Novel ‑
MW American Society for 18th‑Century Studies, Columbus, OH, 1989

5. The "Artist" as "Woman" ‑
MLA Washington, D.C., 1989

6. The Question of the Other(s). German and American Perspectives -
AATG Baden-Baden, 1992

7. Exile/Immigrant/Borderland: On Writing Postunification Identity - Christa Wolf's Auf dem Weg nach Tabou
German Studies Conference, Dallas, Texas, 1994

8. Nietzsche and the Greek -
13th Annual Conference of Ancient Greek Philosophy, Binghamton University, 1994

9. Thinking through Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism (Session of the Lessing Society) -
MLA San Diego, 1994

10. Nation und Translation -
Kongress des Internationalen Germanisten Verbandes, Vancouver, Canada, 1995

11. Vom Nationalen zum Transnationalen Kanon -
Symposion der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft, Marbach a.Neckar, 1996

12. Commentator ‘Savage Women:’ Taming Unruly Subjects in Imperial Germany -
German Studies Conference, Salt Lake City, 1998

13. Back to the Future: Some Thoughts on Feminist Utopian Thinking in the Age of Globalization -
Kentucky Foreign Language Conference at the University of Kentucky at Lexington, 2001.

14. Benjamin’s Theory of Translation and Postcolonial Thought -
German Studies Annual Convention, New Orleans, 2003

15. Beziehungsspiele-Handlungsräume (Commentator) -
German Studies Annual Convention, New Orleans, 2003

16. Heinz Schlaffer’s “Die kurze Geschichte der Literatur” (Commentator) -
German Studies Annual Convention, New Orleans, 2003

17. Masculinity and Stylistic Creativity in Modern Culture -
MLA, San Diego, 2003

18. Manifesto for a Transnational German Studies -
German Studies Annual Convention, Milwaukee, 2005

19. All in Two, Two in One, One in All – Lou Andreas-Salome’s Re-Valuing the Human -
ACLA Annual Convention, Princeton, 2006

20. East and West: Lou Andreas-Salome Russian Diary and the Politics of Invention -
German Studies Annual Convention, Minneapolis, 2007

21. Benjamin’s Aufgabe des Übersetzers in Postcolonial Thought -
ACLA’s Annual Convention, Harvard University, 2009

22. Respondent: Session on "Translation and the Construction of Transnational Memory" -
MLA Convention, Los Angeles, January 2011

23. Benjamin's Translator/Critic and the Politics of Difference -
German Studies Annual Conference, Denver, Colorado, 2013

24. Practicing (Un)belonging - Tawada, the 'Specular Border Intellectual' -
European Social Science History Conference, Vienna (Austria), April 2014