Education

• PhD University of Wisconsin (Madison) 1979
• MA University of Wisconsin (Madison) 1975
• BA Vorprüfung Johann Gutenberg University (Germany) 1973

Teaching

German literature, culture, theater and language

Publications

Gabrielle Bersier (co-author with Nancy Boerner & Peter Boerner), Goethe: Journeys of the Mind. London: Haus Publishing, 2019.

Wunschbild und Wirklichkeit.Deutsche Utopien im 18. Jahrhundert (Carl Winter 1981), Goethes Rätselparodie der Romantik.Eine neue Leseart der ‘Wahlverwandtschaften’(Niemeyer 1997), Wege des Heilens.Goethes physiologische Autobiographie ‘Dichtung und Wahrheit’ (Königshausen & Neumann 2014),

Book Chapters, Articles in journals including: Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte, Eighteenth-Century Life, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Goethe-Jahrbuch, Goethe Yearbook, Jahrbuch des Freien Deutschen Hochstifts,Monatshefte, Recherches Germaniques, Word & Image

Awards

Teaching Excellence Recognition Award 2000

Indiana Association of Teachers of German Post-Secondary Teacher of the Year 2000

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship 2001-2002

IUPUI Engaged Department Initiative 2005-2008

New Frontiers in the Arts and Humanities Grant 2008-2009

Academic Interests

Goethe, German classicism and romanticism, philosophy of nature, literature-science relations, parody, autobiography, literature-arts relations, intermediality, German theater

Service

Departmental Chair (World Languages and Cultures) 2002-2012