Birgit Tautz

Associate Professor of German

Fall 2008

  • Intermediate German I (GER 203A)
  • Intermediate German I (GER 203B)
  • Realism, Nation and Popular Fictions of Community in Nineteenth-Century German Culture (GER 315)
  • Advanced Independent Study and Honors in German (GER 401)
Phone (207) 798-7079
Title Associate Professor
Department GERMAN
2nd Title Chair
2nd Department GERMAN
Work Location 108 Sills Hall
E-Mail btautz@bowdoin.edu
Birgit Tautz: Bowdoin College German Department

Education:

Diplomgermanistik Leipzig
M.A. Wisconsin
Ph.D. Minnesota

Teaching Areas:

18th and 19th century German literature, culture, and philosophy, Romanticism, as well as in manifestations of race, ethnic, and cultural differences in literature and film; German language through Culture; Nazi Cinema

Research Interests:

Romanticism for the New Century: explores recurrence of Romanticism/Romantic patterns and themes in contemporary literature, film, and performance (ca. 1990-today)

An eighteenth-century project on Boundaries of (German) Literature.

Selected Publications:

Ethnic Differences cover

Reading and Seeing Ethnic Differences in the Enlightenment:
From China to Africa (New York: Palgrave, 2007)
[reviewed in Choice; Nov. 2007; German Studies Review XXXII (2008)2: 422-423]

Ed., Colors 1800/1900/2000: Signs of Ethnic Difference. (Amsterdamer Signs of Ethnic DifferenceBeiträge zur Neueren Germanistik, eds. Anthonya Visser et al. Vol. 56) Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi 2004.
[reviewed in Seminar-online 2005; German Quarterly 79.1 (2006): 144-145; Monatshefte 99.1 (2007): 114-116; The Germanic Review 82.3 (2007): 286-287]

“Das Haburgische Parterre': Johann Christoph Bodes Westindier und die Verortung des Globalen" 18 pp., to appear in Zeitschrift für Germanistik 1 (2009).

“Charlotte Kerners/Rolf Schübels Blueprint: Buch und Film," 26 pp.m to appear in Gegenwartsliteratur:ein germanistisches Jahrbuch 2008

"A Fairy Tale Reality? Elfriede Jelinek's Snow White, Sleeping Beauty and the Mythologization of Contemporary Reality," 28 pp., to appear in Women in German Yearbook 24 (2008).

Curriculum Vitae in PDF form