Recent Faculty Publications

Professor Mary Helen Dupree’s book The Speaking Muse: Literary Declamation in Germany 1750-1920 was published by Bloomsbury Academic last year, as part of the “New Directions in German Studies” series. Working at the intersection of print history and performance studies, the book explores how an artistic culture of literary declamation emerged in the eighteenth century, leading to the development of a new type of performance known as the “declamatory concert” as well as new textual genres such the declamation handbook and the recitation anthology. It is the first book-length monograph on the topic in English and is attentive to the ways in which women and members of marginalized groups used declamation to gain access to the literary communication circuit.

Professor Verena Kick’s article “Experiencing German History Through the Presence of the Personal Artifact in Thomas Heise’s Heimat ist ein Raum aus Zeit (2019)” appeared in The German Quarterly 98.2 (2025): 1-17.