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Muriel Cormican Associate Professor of German Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures University of West Georgia Carrollton, GA 30118 E-mail: mcormica@westga.edu Work phone: 678-839-5955 Home phone: 770-834-8021 Homepage: http://www.westga/~mcormica
Education 1999 Ph.D. in German, Indiana University, Bloomington Dissertation: Sex, Sexuality, and Gender: Cultural Critique in the Fictional Works of Lou Andreas-Salomé (Committee: William Rasch, chair; Marc A. Weiner; Katrin Sieg; Breon Mitchell) Minor: Comparative Literature with emphasis on film 1992 M.A. in German, University of Missouri, Columbia 1990 B.A. in German and French, National University of Ireland, Galway
Research and Professional Development Articles: “Goodbye Wenders: Lola rennt as German Film Manifesto.” German Studies Review, 30.1 (2007): 121-140.
“Thomas Brussig’s Ostalgie in Print and on Celluloid.” Processes of Transposition: German Literature and Film. Amsterdamer Beiträge zur Neueren Germanistik, 63. Eds. Christiane Schönfeld and Hermann Rasche. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2007 (251-268).
“Pro-porn Feminist Rhetoric and the Cinema of Monika Treut.” Women in German Yearbook, 19 (2003):179-199. (Winner of the University of West Georgia’s Graduate Faculty Research Award, 2005)
“Aimée und Jaguar and the Banality of Evil.” German Studies Review, 26.1 (2003): 104-119.
“Women’s Heterosexual Experience in Christa Wolf’s Kassandra: A Critique of GDR Feminism.” Philological Quarterly, 81.1 (2002): 109-128.
“Female Sexuality and the Dilemma of Self-Representation in Lou Andreas-Salomé’s Jutta.” Seminar. A Journal of Germanic Studies. 36:1 (Feb. 2000): 130-140.
“Authority and Resistance: Women in Lou Andreas-Salomé’s Das Haus.” Women in German Yearbook, 14 (1999):127-142.
Encyclopedia Entries: Lou Andreas-Salomé: A Biography. The Literary Encyclopedia. February 2007.
Christa Wolf: A Biography. The Literary Encyclopedia. November 2006.
Book Reviews: Henryk Broder. A Jew in the New Germany. Ed. Sander Gilman and Lilian Friedberg. (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2003). The German Quarterly, 78.4 (2005):545-547.
Rainer Hillenbrand. Isolde Kurz als Erzählerin. Ein Überblick . (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2000). Seminar. A Journal of Germanic Studies, XL, 1 (February 2004): 77-78.
Commodities of Desire: The Prostitute in Modern German Literature. Ed. Christiane Schönfeld. (Rochester: Camden House, 2000). The German Quarterly, 76.2 (Spring 2003): 243-4.
Marion Yorck von Warteburg . The Power of Solitude: My Life in The German Resistance. Julie M. Winter, trans. ( Lincoln : University Press of Nebraska , 2000). South Atlantic Review, Summer 2002: 85-87.
Conference Presentations: “Motion, Performance and Identity in Lou Andreas-Salomé’s Fiction.” German Studies Association, 31st Annual Convention, San Diego, CA, Oct 4-7, 2007.
“’High sein! Frei sein! Terror muss dabei sein!’: Models of Intervention and Engagement in Recent German Cinema.” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, KY, April 19-21, 2007.
“An Anatomy of Decadence in Women: Lou Andreas-Salomé’s Menschenkinder.” German Studies Association, 30th Annual Convention, Pittsburgh, PA, September 28-Oct 1, 2006.
“Das Wunder von Bern and Rosenstrasse: Redeeming the German Past?” SAMLA, Atlanta, GA, Nov. 4-6, 2005.
“Investment and Growth: German Studies and the Business Model.” Women in German 30th Annual Conference, Carrollton, KY, Oct 20-23, 2005.
Commentator on “Representing the City.” German Studies Association, 29th Annual Convention, Milwaukee, WI, Sept. 29-Oct 2, 2005.
“What Do You Do When the Other is a Perpetrator? Levinas and Der Vorleser.” German Studies Association, 29th Annual Convention, Milwaukee, WI, Sept. 29-Oct 2, 2005.
“The Gender of Decadence: Deviant Women in Lou Andreas-Salomé’s Fenitschka and Eine Ausschweifung.” NEMLA, Cambridge, MA, March 31-April 2, 2005.
“Women on Camera: Narrative Perspective in Lou Andreas-Salomé’s Menschenkinder.” Twentieth Century Literature Conference, Louisville, Kentucky, February 24-26, 2005.
“Ostalgie and the Shaping of National Memory in Helden wie wir and Sonnenallee.” German Studies Association 28th Annual Convention, Washington D.C., Oct. 6-10, 2004.
“When is a Woman not a Mother? Tracing Motherhood in Andreas-Salomé’s fictional works.” West Virginia University Colloquium on Literature and Film: Motherhood, Morgantown, WV, September 30-Oct. 2, 2004.
“Thomas Brussig’s Ostalgie in Print and on Celluloid.” 9th Annual Colloquium on German Literature and Film, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland, April 2-4, 2004.
“The Berlin that Wasn’t: Ostalgie in Thomas Brussig’s Sonnenallee.” NEMLA, Pittsburgh, PA, March 3-5, 2004.
“From Passive Horror to Active Pleasure: Lesbian Desire and Violence in Treut’s Taboo Parlor.” Kinsey Institute 50th Anniversary Conference on Women’s Sexualities, Indiana University, Bloomington, November 2003.
“Love not War: Jewish-German Relations in Recent German Cinema.” West Virginia University Colloquium on Literature and Film: The Evolution of War and its Representation in Literature and Film, Morgantown, WV, September 18-20, 2003.
“From Berlin to L.A.: Narrating Nation in Wings of Desire and City of Angels.” The Germans in Hollywood Today: Fifteenth Hollins Colloquium on German Film, Hollins University, Roanoke, VA, June 2003.
“Fluidity or Stasis? Transnational Migration and Identity Formation in Monika Treut’s Didn't Do it For Love.” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, Kentucky, April 2003.
“Cross-dressing and Comedy: The case of Hugo von Hofmannsthal.” Twentieth Century Literature Conference, Louisville, Kentucky, February 27, 2003.
“Slavic Stereotypes in Lou Andreas-Salomé’s Rodinka: Racist or Revisionist?” West Virginia University Colloquium on Racism in Literature and Film, Morgantown, West Virginia, October 2002.
“Masochism in Lou Andreas-Salomé’s Ma.” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, Kentucky, April 2002.
“Aimée und Jaguar and the Banality of Evil.” German Studies Association, Washington D.C., October 2001
“Gender, Madness, and Aesthetic Genius in Hoffman’s Der Sandmann.” SEASECS, Huntsville, Alabama, March 2001.
“Lou Andreas-Salomé’s Concept of Feminine Bliss: Reactionary of Progressive and Why Does it Matter?” International Conference on Madness and Bliss, Atlanta, Georgia, November 2000.
“The Pornographic Representation of Women in Monika Treut’s My Father is Coming.” Women's Studies Conference, Valdosta, Georgia, March 2000.
“Biographical Criticism and The Case of Lou Andreas-Salomé.” Biography Conference, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, February 2000.
“Notoriety Versus Fame: Reading Lou Andreas-Salomé’s Life...And Her Works?” International Conference On Borders And Foundations, Atlanta, Georgia, October 25, 1997.
“Constructed Formlessness: Paradox in Bettine von Arnim’s Die Günderode.” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, April 20, 1995.
“Fassbinder’s Pessimistic Feminism? Maria Braun and Petra von Kant.” Multidisciplinary Conference on Germanic Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington, April 8, 1995.
“Bettine von Arnim: Parasite or Innovator?” (Re)thinking the Canon: Plural Approaches, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, March 1994.
Grants/Fellowships/Awards: · Centennial Professor of the Humanities, UWG, 2008 ($4000) · Selection of German Composition Class by College Board as one of top ten Composition Classes in the U.S.A. ($1000) · UWG Faculty Research Grant, $1500, 2007 · UWG Laptop Award, 2007. · UWG Award for Significant Professional Accomplishments, 2006. · University of Texas-Austin, German Studies Workshop, 2006. All expenses paid. · Indiana University Trajectories Conference, 2006. All expenses paid. · AATG Georgia Leader of the Year Award, 2005 ($1000 travel award) · AATG Georgia Duden Award for Excellence in teaching German 2004 · UWG Faculty Research Grant, $1500, July 2003 · Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies Fellowship for Seminar on Literature and the Holocaust, Washington D.C., June 2003 · UWG Laptop Award for the development of an online course, UWG, 2001 · Elmer O. Woolley Award for Excellence in Research and Teaching, Indiana University, 1997. · Superior Graduate Achievement Award, University of Missouri, Columbia, 1992. Graduate Student Teaching Award, University of Missouri, Columbia, 1991.
Teaching Experience 2004-present: Associate Professor of German: Department of Foreign Language and Literatures, University of West Georgia. Summer Semesters 2006, 2007: Visiting Professor, Carl von Ossietzky Universität, Oldenburg, Germany, Germanistik and Anglistik. 1999- 2004: Assistant Professor of German: Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of West Georgia. Classes taught: Sexualität, Identität und Erzähltechnik in der Prosa Lou Andreas-Salomés (Hauptseminar, Carl von Ossietzky Universität, Oldenburg, Germany); Papists, Potatoes and Politics: A Cultural History of Irelan (Proseminar, Carl von Ossietzky Universität, Oldenburg, Germany); German Romanticism (GRMN 4785); The German Novelle (GRMN 4785); Introduction to the Art of Film (ENGL 2080); Contemporary German Cinema (GRMN 4250); Women in twentieth Century Germany (Twice as different courses: XIDS 2100 and GRMN 4785); Representations of the Holocaust in German Literature and Film (Honors class, HGRMN 4785); Short Forms in German Literature (GRMN 4785); Turn of the Century German and Austrian Culture (Twice as different courses: XIDS 2100 and GRMN 4210); Total Immersion (GRMN 3896); German Composition (GRMN 3102); German Conversation (GRMN 3101); First- through fourth-semester German language (GRMN 1001-GRMN 2002); Ireland: Past and Present (XIDS 2100); First semester French (FREN 1001) and independent studies on Contemporary German Literature and Wim Wenders (GRMN 4785).
1998: German Instructor: Goethe-Institute, Atlanta, GA. Classes taught: Beginning and intermediate German language classes.
1997: English Instructor: Department of English, State University of West Georgia Classes taught: (English Composition)
1996-7: Associate Instructor of German: Germanic Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington. Classes taught: third and fourth semester German.
Fall 1995: German Instructor: University of Nevada, Reno. Classes taught: German conversation
1992-1995: Associate Instructor of German: Germanic Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington Classes taught: First- through fourth semester German; Women in German Culture (WAC – together with Professor William Rasch); German Conversation
1990-1992: Teaching Assistant: German, Russian and Asian Studies, University of Missouri, Columbia Classes taught: first-third semester German. Coordinator of first semester German language classes.
Summer 1990: Animator for German: Euro-languages College, Galway, Ireland Co-coordinated and led total immersion activities for students of German in secondary schools.
Foreign Experience: 2006 and 2007: UWG/ Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg Faculty & Student Exchange, May-July. 2005: Study Abroad Exploratory Trip, Berlin and Oldenburg (June 2005) 2004: Research trip to Berlin and Oldenburg (May-June 2004) 2001: Research trip to Berlin, Vienna, Prague, and Weimar (July 2001). 2001: State University of West Georgia’s Studies Abroad Program in Tours, France (May-June 2001) 1998: Resident Director and German Grammar Teacher, Indiana University Honors Program in Foreign Languages for High School Students, Krefelder Akademie, Krefeld, Germany. 1997: German Grammar Teacher, Indiana University Honors Program in Foreign Languages for High School Students, Krefelder Akademie, Krefeld, Germany. 1994: Associate Instructor for German Composition and Conversation, Indiana University, Bloomington’s Overseas Program in Graz, Austria. 1990: Factory Work, Vita Gemüse, Reutlingen, Germany. 1988-9: Au Pair, Dornbirn, Austria. 1988: DAAD fellowship, University of Freiburg im Breisgau (June-July)
Service: State wide: 2004-2006: Co-editor of Das Rundschreiben, Newsletter for Georgia Chapter of AATG. 1999-present: Interviewer / Animator, State High School German Convention, Covington, GA
Committee Membership (Institutional): 2007- Honors Committee 2007- Post Tenure Review Appeals Committee 2006: Grade Appeals Committee 2005-present: Film Studies Committee 2005 & 2006: Chair, College of Arts and Sciences Tenure and Promotions Committee 2004 College of Arts and Sciences Tenure and Promotions Committee 2005-2007: Academic Policies and Procedures 2005-2007: Admissions Appeals Committee 2003-2005: Arts and Sciences Executive Committee 1999-2002: Writing Across the Curriculum (Chair of WAC, 2000-2001) 2001-2003: Arts and Sciences Executive Committee (secretary) 2001-2007: ARCH (Committee for the promotion of undergraduate research)
Committee Membership (Departmental): 2007: Third Year Review Committee 2006-present: Coordinator of German Section 2006: German Search Committee, Chair 2006: Tenure & Promotion Committee & Third Year Review Committee 2004-2006: Budget Committee 2005: Third Year Review Committee 2004: French Search Committee 2003-2004: Spanish Search Committee 2002-2004: Program Review Committee 2002-2006: International Film Series Committee (Chair, 2003-6) 2002-2006: Third Year Review Committee 2002-2006: Faculty Advisor to German Club 1999-present: Stammtisch 1999-present: Kaffeestunde 1999-present: German Film Series Committee 1999-present: Jewell Miles Burson Fellowship Selection Committee 1999-present: D.W. Henegar Fellowship Selection Committee
Other Service: 2007 Creator and Editor of Palimpsest, The Departmental Newsletter. 2007 Consultant, Crumbs From the Table of Joy, UWG Theatre Company. 2006 & 2007: Study Abroad, Oldenburg 2004 & 2005: English Department’s Film Search 2004-2006: Salary Compression Committee 2004: Big Night Arts Section, adjudicator. 2002-2005: Excel Center Undecided Majors Advising (20 hours per year) 2002: History Dept.’s German Historian Search 2000: Facilitator for the Writing Across The Curriculum Reading Group, State University of West Georgia. 2000-2001: Leader of Writing Across the Curriculum Faculty Workshops, State University of West Georgia 2002: SACS Accreditation 2000: Refereed article for Seminar. A Journal of Germanic Studies. 1999-2004: Organized (with Dr. John Blair) Dr. Günter Seefeldt’s campus visit to speak on Overseas Internship opportunities. 1999-present: Organized (with Dr. John Blair) and attended Kaffeestunde, Stammtisch, German picnics, etc.
Related Professional Experience 2003: Translated a publishing contract for Sybil Rosen, author of Speed of Light and other children’s books. 2003: Definition and application for German Major with my colleague Dr. John Blair. Approved by the Board of Regents, November 2003. 2000-2005: Savannah Sprachbad, a total immersion, pedagogical conference for teachers of German in Georgia. 2001-2003 Revision of course offerings & curriculum in German in preparation for application for German Major 1999-present: Grader for Graduate Reading Exam in German 2001: Judge for AATG Georgia’s High School student of the year competition. 1998: Translation of adoption papers for Immigration Service Application (together with Dr. John Blair.) 1997: Translator of technical documents for a court case on two- and four-stroke engines and the effects of their emissions on aquatic environments (6 texts with a total of almost 16,000 words). 1994-5: Conference Organizer for Graduate Student Multidisciplinary Conference on Germanic Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington. 1994-5: Graduate Student Representative to the Committee for Undergraduate Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington. 1994: Co-founder with Michael Getty of Indiana University Germanic Studies’ Graduate Student Conference 1993: Hedwig Leser Lecture Organizer, Indiana University, Bloomington.
Affiliations: · Modern Language Association · German Studies Association · American Association of Teachers of German · Women in German · SAMLA, NEMLA, etc
Languages: · Dutch, reading knowledge · English, native · French, reading with good conversational skills · Irish (Gaelic), reading knowledge with fair conversational skills · German, near native · Spanish, basic reading knowledge
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