Recent Faculty Publications

Professor Mary Helen Dupree’s essay “Inventorying the Audible Past: German-Language Recitation Anthologies in the Nineteenth Century” appeared in the anthology Taking Stock. Media Inventories of the Nineteenth Century, edited by Sean Franzel, Ilinca Iurascu, and Petra McGillen (2024).

Professor Dupree also received an honorable mention in the Goethe Society of North America’s annual essay prize competition for her essay “Mannheim and Company: Gender, Economics, and Moderate Sturm und Drang in J.M.R. Lenz’s Der Landprediger (1777),” which appeared in a special issue of German Life and Letters on “Radical and Moderate Sturm und Drang” edited by Ellwood Wiggins and Martin Wagner in 2023.

Professor Friederike Eigler published „Überlegungen zu Erpenbecks Poetologie am Beispiel von ‚Dinge, die verschwinden und ihren Bamberger Vorlesungen” in Text+Kritik Jenny Erpenbeck (Heft 246), ed. Anke Biendarra and Julia Schöll. 2025.

Professor Verena Kick’s article “Kafka on the Page: On the Relationship of Drawings, Writing, and the Page in Franz Kafka’s Draftsmanship” appeared in a special issue on Kafka’s drawings in The Germanic Review 99.2 (2024): 244-256. Together with her colleague in the Department of French and Francophone Studies, Prof. Jennifer Boum Make, Prof. Kick co-edited the special issue Transmedia Adaptations of Literary “Classics” in 20th- and 21st-Century Artistic Expression, which was published in Word & Image – A Journal of Verbal/Visual Inquiry 40.1 (2024).

Collaborative Project
Gegenwartsliteratur: A German Studies Yearbook is another example of collaborative work in the GUGD. Professor Friederike Eigler is Editor in Chief, Professor Astrid Weigert serves as Assistant Editor, and PhD candidate Lorna McCarron finished her two-year term as Editorial Assistant. In the fall of 2024 Gegenwartsliteratur appeared for the first time in open access with De Gruyter, an event that was celebrated at the De Gruyter book exhibit during last year’s GSA convention in Atlanta, Georgia. The special topic of the 2024 Yearbook is Utopia-Dystopia-Futurity; the volume comprises articles on Climate Fiction, humor in dystopian scenarios, and feminist novels on gendered violence, among other themes.