SCOTT D. DENHAM

http://www.davidson.edu/academic/german/denham/denham.html

Education:

1990
Harvard University, Ph.D., Germanic Languages & Literatures. Dissertation: "Visions of War: The Ideology and Imagery of War Fictions in German Literature Before and After the Great War," directed by Professors Karl S. Guthke and Maria Tatar.

1989
Harvard University, A.M., Germanic Languages & Literatures.

1987-1988
Freie Universität, Berlin. Affiliated with the Free University through a German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) fellowship.

1984
The University of Chicago, B.A. (with honors); in German.

1982-1983
Study abroad, Philipps-Universität, Marburg.

Employment:

1990-pres.
Davidson College. Professor of German (2004).

1999-2002
Chair, Dept. of German & Russian, Davidson College.

1992-93 and 1996-97, 2003-2004
Resident Director, Davidson College an der Universität Würzburg.

1985-1990
Harvard University: Teaching Fellow, Dept. of Germanic Languages & Literatures; Teaching Fellow, Core Curriculum; Tutor, Department of History; Instructor, Harvard University Extension School.

Summers 1985-1989
Harvard University, Houghton Library Manuscript Department. Resident Scholar.       Analyzed and catalogued the pre-emigration papers of Walter Gropius; produced a 175-page publication, Walter Gropius Papers, 2 (1990), which serves scholars both at Harvard’s Houghton Library and at the Bauhaus-Archiv in Berlin.

 

Publications & Papers
Books:

W. G. Sebald. History - Memory - Trauma. Edited by Scott Denham and Mark R. McCulloh. Berlin: de Gruyter, forthcoming, 2005.

History and Literature: Essays in Honor of Karl S. Guthke. Edited by William C. Donahue and Scott Denham. Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag, 2000.

A User’s Guide to German Cultural Studies. Edited by Scott Denham, Irene Kacandes, and Jonathan Petropoulos. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997.

Visions of War: The Ideology and Imagery of War Fictions in German Literature Before and After the Great War. Germanic Studies in America Series. New York, Berne: Peter Lang, 1992.

A Sourcebook of German Studies Courses. Edited by Scott Denham. Self-published and distributed free, Davidson College, 1994.

Catalogue:

Walter Gropius Papers, 2. In-house publication of the Houghton Library, Harvard University. 1990. Housed in the reading rooms at Houghton and at the Bauhaus-Archiv, Berlin.

Translations:

"My Times," by Thomas Mann. Tranls. and intro. by Scott Denham. The New England Review. Forthcoming, 2004.

Internal and External Emigration: A Dialogue, by Friedrich Torberg. Transl. and intro. by Scott Denham. The New England Review 20.4 (Fall 1999): 36-56.

"The Weimar Myth: From City of the Arts to Global Village," by Gert Theile. Transl. by Scott Denham. In Unwrapping Goethe's Weimar: Essays in Cultural Studies and Local Knowledge. Eds. Burkhard Henke, Susanne Kord, and Simon Richter. Rochester: Camden House, 2000. 310-328.

Articles:

"Foreword: The Sebald Phenomenon," W. G. Sebald. History - Memory - Trauma. Edited by Scott Denham and Mark R. McCulloh. Berlin: de Gruyter, forthcoming, 2005.

"Die Rezeption Sebalds im englischsprachigen Ausland," W.G: Sebald: Politische Archäologie und melancholische Bastelei, edited by Claudia Öhlschläger and Michael Niehaus, forthcoming.

"Stories of Euthanasia in Germany." Issues in Integrative Studies 18 (2000): 7-25.   

"Schindler’s List in Germany and Austria: A Reception Study." In Memory, Memorialization, and Denial, ed. Peter Hayes. Evanston: Northwestern UP, 1999. 193-210.

"How to Read a Novel" (with Irene Kacandes), and "How to View a Building" (with Wallis Miller) in A User’s Guide to German Cultural Studies, eds. Scott Denham, Irene Kacandes, and Jonathan Petropoulos. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997. 456-57, 474-76.

"Mörderische Mentalität? Die doppelte Goldhagen-Rezeption in den USA." With Christopher R. Jackson. Evangelische Kommentare (5/97): 272-74.

"All Quiet on the Western Front." Masterplots: Twentieth Anniversary Revised Second Edition. Pasadena: Salem Press, 1997. 154-57.

"The American Council on Germany Seventeenth German-American Young Leaders Conference 1995." American Council on Germany Occasional Paper. New York: American Council on Germany, 1996.

"Schindler’s List in Germany and Austria: A Reception Study." German Politics and Society 13.1 (Spring 1995): 135-46.

"Some Current Views of German Modernism." Review article. German Politics and Society 28 (Spring 1993): 68-74.

"Franz Kafka in the GDR, 1949-1989." Journal of the Kafka Society of America 16/1 (June 1992): 31-39.

"Georg Trakl’s ‘Grodek.’" In Masterplots II: Poetry (Pasadena: Salem Press, 1992), 888-890.

"Die jüngste Jüngerei: Is Ernst Jünger Finding a Place in the German Pantheon?" German Politics & Society 22 (Spring 1991): 60-73.

Assorted brief encyclopedia articles and bibliographic entries, some forthcoming, in Salem Press Masterplots volumes, to date on Erich Maria Remarque, Thomas Mann, Arnold Zweig, Hermann Broch; in Garland’s Encyclopedia of Europe 1945 to the Present on Christa Wolf, Bertolt Brecht, Marion Dönhoff, Elias Canetti, Kurt Masur, Heinrich Böll, and Axel Springer; and in a Fitzroy Dearborn encyclopedia on autobiography.

Papers, Presentations, Meetings:

"Zum Luftkriegsroman als Geschichte." Literatur und Geschichte--Interdisziplinäre Ansätze zwischen Fakt und Fiktion, Center for Comparative European History, Free University of Berlin, 5 June 2004.

"Rezeptionstheoretische und -praktische Überlegungen zur Darstellung des Bombenkriegs im amerikanischen und deutschen Kriegsroman." Invited lecture, Dept. of Comparative Literature, Universität Mainz, 26 May 2004.

"Die Rezeption Sebalds im englischsprachigen Ausland." W.G: Sebald: Politische Archäologie und melancholische Bastelei," Internationale Tagung, Carl Friedrich von Siemens Stiftung München, 1-4 March, 2004.

Conference organizer, "W.G. Sebald: Works and Influences, The Third Occasional Davidson Symposium on German Studies," March 14-17, 2003, Davidson College. An international symposium on W.G. Sebald; secured major grant funding (see below).

"The Holocaust and Word War Two: a comparative look at truth and fiction and some guesses about how to know the difference between the two." Third Annual Alumni Distinguished Lecturer, Davidson College, April 19, 2002.

"Friedrich Torberg's Politics of Emigration." Austrian Writers Confront the Past, International Conference at the University of Pennsylvania, April 12-14, 2002.

"The System of Art and the Beauty of Science," panel discussion on genius, scientific creativity, artistic inspiration, aesthetics. Davidson College, 20 March 2002.

"Wagner in History." Charlotte Symphony Richard Wagner Symposium, Queens College, 17 March 2002.

"First-Year Writing Seminars and the Liberal Arts Curriculum." Realism, Idealism, and the Future of the Liberal Arts panel, annual meeting of the American Association of Colleges and Universities, Washington, D.C., Jan 19-22, 2000.

"From Theory to Practice: The Nazi Doctors." Presentation at the Symposium "Euthanasia in Germany (1920-1945): Implications for the Contemporary Right-to-Die Debate," Appalachian State University, Boone, NC, November 11-12, 1999.

"Writing at Davidson." Presentation, with Peter Krentz, Cornell University conference on writing the disciplines, John S. Knight Writing Program, Ithaca, NY, June 22-27, 1999.

"Remarks on the State of German Cultural Studies." Invited panelist, Duke University German studies symposium "Does the Past Have a Future," Durham, NC, Apr 16, 1999.

Co-planned and hosted "Technology and Foreign Language Pedagogy." Spring meeting, North Carolina Chapter, American Association of Teachers of German, Davidson College, Mar 20, 1999.

"German Cultural Studies: Theory, Research, Teaching." Planned all three sessions of the Division of Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century German Literature, Modern Language Association annual meeting, San Francisco, Dec 27-30, 1998.

"What the German Elections Mean for Them and Us." Invited lecture, with Louis L. Ortmayer, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC, Nov 19, 1998.

"Teaching the Holocaust for the First Time." Lessons and Legacies V, Holocaust Education Foundation biennial conference, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, Nov 6-9, 1998.

"Outsiders Insiders: the Greens after the Election," International Studies Association South annual meeting, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, Oct 30-31, 1998.

"Trends in Publishing in German Cultural Studies." Discussant, German Studies Association annual conference, Washington, D.C., 25-28 Sept., 1997.

"Betreuung an deutschen Hochschulen; Vorbereitung amerikanischer Studenten." Paper and presentation, Council on International Educational Exchange 1997 Resident Directors Meeting, Berlin, 20-21 February 1997.

"German Studies heute." Opening and host presentation to the North Carolina American Association of Teachers of German bi-annual meeting, Davidson College, 30 March 1996.

"German Identities Now," opening presentation, American Council on Germany Young Leaders Conference, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, 18-23 August, 1995.

"Special Session on German Studies: Charting German Studies in a Changing Political, Institutional and Intellectual Landscape: A Membership Forum on Revising the GSA ‘Guidelines for German Studies Programs,’" presenter, German Studies Association annual conference, Chicago, 22-24 Sept. 1995.

"Teaching the Culture and Literature Course Abroad," panel co-organizer and presenter, "Forschungsreise, Field Trip, or Package Tour: Organizing Excursions that Teach, Integrating Cultural Experiences with Cultural Studies," workshop presentation, American Association of Teachers of German/Internationaler Deutschlehrer Verband meeting, Stanford University, August 4-6, 1995.

"The State of German Studies Today," invited presentation to the German Studies Research Group, Harvard University, 20 April, 1995.

"Reassessing Gropius and the Bauhaus," session chair and organizer, Society of Architectural Historians annual meeting, Seattle, April 5-8, 1995.

Conference organizer, "German Studies as Cultural Studies: A Symposium," March 17-19, 1995, Davidson College. An international symposium on the theory and practice of interdisciplinary work in German Studies and cultural studies; secured major grant funding.

"Selling Colonies to the Homebodies: A Reception Study of Hans Grimm’s Volk ohne Raum," presented at the 1994 Modern Language Association convention, San Diego, CA, 27-30 Dec., 1994.

"Schindler’s List in Germany and Austria: A Reception Study," presented at the 1994 German Studies Association meeting, Dallas, TX, 29 Sept.-2 Oct., 1994.

"Schindler’s List in Germany and Austria: A Reception Study," presented at the third Lessons and Legacies conference on Holocaust Education, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, 22-24 October, 1994.

"Goethe’s Urpflanze as a Theory of Knowledge," to the Aspen Waldorf School Board of Directors, 7 Nov., 1994; and "Goethe, Hutchins, Paepcke, Steiner, or Why Talk About Goethe Here and Now?" public lecture sponsored by the Aspen Waldorf School, 8 Nov., 1994.

Session organizer and commentator, "Teaching German Studies Interdisciplinarily," German Studies Association conference, Washington, D.C., Oct. 7-10, 1993.

"‘Zu Kleist stehen heißt Deutsch sein!’: Kleistrezeption im ‘Kleistroman’ der NS-Zeit." Invited lecturer, Kleist-Gedenk-und-Forschungsstätte, Frankfurt/Oder, Jan. 28, 1993.

"‘Zu Kleist stehen heißt Deutsch sein!’ Fictional Representations of Heinrich von Kleist during the Third Reich." Paper presented at the 1992 Modern Language Association conference, New York, Dec. 27-30, 1992.

"Arnold Zweig’s ‘Die Bestie’ and German-Jewish Nationalism." Paper presented at the 1992 Modern Language Association conference, special session on Arnold Zweig, New York, Dec. 27-30, 1992.

"The Modernist Institution and Institutions of Modernism: Toward a Theoretical Definition." Paper presented at the 1992 University of Antwerp Conference "From Modernism to Avant-Garde," Antwerp, Belgium, May 21-24, 1992.

"The Insider as Outsider: Knowing Narrators in Doris Dörrie’s Short American Fictions." Paper presented at the 6th Annual Hollins Colloquium on German Film, April 2-5, 1992.

"Franz Kafka in the GDR, 1949-1989." Presented at the Kafka Society of America meeting, Modern Language Association conference, San Francisco, December 27-30, 1991.

"Ernst Jünger in the German Canon? Nationalism, Politics, and the Weight of the German Past." Presented at the 2nd Annual Conference on the Canon & Marginality, SUNY-Binghamton, May 3-4, 1991.

"Love and Marriage in Edgar Reitz’s Heimat." Presented to the 5th Annual Hollins Colloquium on German Film, Hollins College, April 4-7, 1991.

Reviews:        

Review essay: Hans Erich Nossack, Der Untergang, Jörg Friedrich, Der Brand; Gunter Grass, Im Krebsgang; Jens Rehn, Nichts in sicht; Ein Volk von Opfern: Die neue Debatte um den Bombenkrieg 1940-1945, ed. Lothar Kettenacker; and several other titles.  http://www.h-net.org/~german/discuss/WWII_bombing/WWII-bombing_index.htm . November 2003.

Watt, Roderick H., ed. An Annotated Edition of Victor Klemperer's LTI: Notizbuch eines Philologen, with English Notes and Commentary by Roderick H. Watt. Studies in German Thought and History, Vol. 17. Lewiston, Queenston, Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press, 1997. H-German@H-net.msu.edu. Forthcoming.

Klemperer, Victor. The Language of the Third Reich: LTI - Lingua Tertii Imperii, A Philologist's Notebook. Trans. Martin Brady. London & New Brunswick, NJ: The Athlone Press, 2000. H-German@H-net.msu.edu. Forthcoming.

Albert, Mechtild. Avantgarde und Faschismus: Spanische Erzählprosa 1925-1940. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1996. Letras Peninsulares 11.3 (Winter 1998-99): 869-71.

Ginsberg, Terri and Kirsten Moana Thompson, eds. Perspectives on German Cinema. New York: G.K. Hall & Co., 1996. H-NET Book Review. H-German@H-net.msu.edu (October, 1998).

Linder, Ann P. Princes of the Trenches: Narrating the German Experience of the First World War. Columbia, SC: Camden House, 1996. International Review of Modernism 1.1 (Fall/Winter 1997): 26-27.

Kniesche, Thomas and Stephen Brockmann, eds. Dancing on the Volcano: Essays on the Culture of the Weimar Republic. Columbia, SC: Camden House, 1994. German Quarterly 68.4 (Fall 1995): 474-75.

Reinhold Grimm and Jost Hermand, eds. High and Low Cultures: German Attempts at Mediation. (Monatshefte Occasional Volume 14). Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1994. German Studies Review 18.3 (Oct 1995): 564-565.

Peter Nusser. Trivialliteratur (Sammlung Metzler: Realien zur Literature, vol. 262). Stuttgart: Metzler, 1991. German Studies Review 17.3 (Oct 1994): 560-61.

Brenneke, Reinhard. Militanter Modernismus: Vergleichende Studien zum Frühwerk Ernst Jüngers. Stuttgart: M & P, Verlag für Wissenschaft und Forschung, 1992). German Quarterly (Spring 1994): 279-80.

Dempewolf, Eva. Blut und Tinte: Eine Interpretation der verschiedenen Fassungen von Ernst Jüngers Kriegstagebüchern vor dem politischen Hintergrund der Jahre 1920 bis 1980. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 1992. German Quarterly, 66/4 (Fall 1993): 565-567.

Koslowski, Peter. Der Mythos der Moderne: Die dichterische Philosophie Ernst Jüngers. Munich: Fink, 1991. German Quarterly 66/2 (Spring 1993): 263-64.

Baird, Jay W. To Die for Germany. Bloomington, Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1990. German Politics & Society 20 (Fall 1990): 95-98.

 

Fellowships, Grants, Prizes and Awards
Fellowships

1999 Fellow, Freeman Foundation Symposium, Salzburg Seminar Special Session on Searching for Common Values East and West, Salzburg, June 1-6, 1999.

1997 Fellowship award, DAAD/Cornell German Studies 1997 Summer Seminar. Declined.

1996 Fellow, Jesse Ball duPont Summer Seminar for Liberal Arts College Faculty, "Culture Wars and American Democracy," National Humanities Center. June 3-21, 1996. Declined.

1995 Fellow, American Council on Germany Young Leaders Conference, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, 18-23 August, 1995; conference rapporteur.

1993 Salzburg Seminar Fellow for the Seminar "Literature as a Political Force." Salzburg, July 11-25, 1993.

1992 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend. For initial research on Gropius Bauhaus Modernism: A Cultural History of a Modernist Institution [working title] at Harvard’s Houghton library and Graduate School of Design library, summer 1992.

Grants

2002 Max Kade Foundation: $5,000 grant secured for Davidson for "W.G. Sebald: Works and Influences," Third Occasional Davidson German Studies Symposium, Davidson 13-16 March 2003.

2002 DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service): $6,000 grant secured for Davidson for "W.G. Sebald: Works and Influences," Third Occasional Davidson German Studies Symposium, Davidson 13-16 March 2003.

2002 Davdison College McGaw lectureship: $6000 for "W.G. Sebald: Works and Influences," Third Occasional Davidson German Studies Symposium, Davidson 13-16 March 2003.

2001 National Endowment for the Humanities. $24,500 Education Development and Demonstration Focus grant program for developing a multi-semester, team-taught, interdisciplinary course, "Cultures and Civilizations" at Davidson College. Co-Director with Jonathan Berkey.

1998-99 Davidson College. Faculty summer research grant: $750 for research on Friedrich Torberg in Alt Aussee (interviews).

1998 DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Summer Study Visit scholarship: DM 7,500, for research on Ernst Jünger in Marbach at the Deutsches Literaturarchiv and in Berlin at various libraries. June-August 1998.

1997-98 Davidson College. Faculty summer research grant: $2,500 for research on Ernst Jünger in Marbach at the Deutsches Literaturarchiv and in Berlin at various libraries.

1996-97 Davidson College. Faculty research grants: $500 for work on Ernst Jünger at the Deutsches Literaturarchiv, Marbach am Neckar; $1000 publication subsidy for History and Literature: Essays in Honor of Karl S. Guthke, edited by William C. Donahue and Scott Denham (Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag, 1999).

1996 DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) $5,000 publication subsidy grant secured for A User’s Guide to German Cultural Studies, eds. Scott Denham, Irene Kacandes, and Jonathan Petropoulos (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997).

1995 DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) $8,000 grant secured for Davidson for "German Studies as Cultural Studies: A Symposium," held at Davidson 17-19 Mar 95.

1994 Southern Regional Education Board, Small Grants Program. $750 grant toward expenses while researching the Gropius papers and archives at Harvard’s Houghton Library, May-June 1994. (awarded 1993)

1994 Davidson College. Faculty summer research grant for work on Gropius Bauhaus Modernism: A Cultural History of a Modernist Institution [working title]. (awarded 1993)

1991 Davidson College. Faculty summer research grant for work on "Franz Kafka in the GDR, 1949-1989."

1989 Harvard University. William R. Kenan Fund Grant to Enhance Teaching Excellence and Effectiveness through Innovation: to develop my proposal for a graded cultural and literary reader for beginning students of German at Harvard.

1987-1988 DAAD Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Direktstipendium for dissertation research at the Freie Universität, Berlin. Also awarded a Germanistic Society of America/Quadrille Grant; declined.

Prizes, Awards

2002 Hunter-Hamilton Love of Teaching Award, Davidson College, May 2002. Davidson College's highest faculty honor, awarded to two faculty members each year.

1985-1989 Harvard University. Danforth Center for Teaching and Learning Certificate of Distinction in Teaching (twice).

1984-1986 Harvard University. Bernhard Blume Prize for academic excellence (twice).

National Committees; Editorial Work
National Committees

1995-97 German Studies Association. Member, Advisory Committee on German Studies Curricula.

1996-2001 Modern Language Association. Member, Executive Committee on Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Literature (sec’y, 1997; chair, 1998).

1996-99 Modern Language Association. Member, Delegate Assembly, South Region.

Editorial Work

2003 Manuscript review, University of Chicago Press

2001 Manuscript editor, Holocaust and Genocide Studies.

2001 Manuscript review for PMLA (Pulications of the Modern Language Association).

1995-2000 Associate Editor, Nabokov Studies.

1999 Manuscript review for Cornell University Press.

1999 Manuscript review for Berghahn Books.

1998-present Manuscript reviews for German Quarterly, and Mosaic.

1994 Manuscript review for Seminar.

1994-95 Textbook review for Harcourt/Holt.

External Instutional Service:

Application Reviewer, NEH summer stipend program, 2003

External Reviewer, Duke in Berlin programs, April 21-26, 2002.

Tenure Reviews for several other institutions.

NEH advisory committee member, Charlotte Symphony NEH grant proposal on the "Music of World War II," 2001-03.

State Testing Chair for national high school German examination, NC-AATG, with Burkhard Henke 1999-present.

 

Davidson College Institutional Service:

Department Chair (1999-2002).

Co-Director, Cultures and Civilizations Course Project, 2000-02.

Co-ordinator of Writing Courses (2000-2003)

Graduate Fellowships committee (1991-present, chair, 2002-03).

DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) campus fellowships representative.

Mellon Fellowships campus representative.

First- and Second-year academic adviser (1991-present).

Resident Director, Davidson College Würzburg, (1992-93, 1996-97, 2003-2005).

Financial Management Committee of the Self-Study (secretary, 1994-96).

Public Lectures Committee (1994-96; chair, 1995-96).

Departmental Search committees (1991-92, 1992-93, 1994-95, 1999-00, 01-02).

International Education Committee (1991-93).

Faculty reading group organizer (1993-98.).

International Student Association faculty adviser, (1997-1999).

College Union Board faculty adviser, (1998-2001).

Patterson Court Council adviser for student co-ed house "CoHo" (2000-present)

Committee on Campus and Religious Life, (1998-2001).

 

Professional Society Memberships:

Modern Language Association
German Studies Association
Kafka Society of America
American Council on Germany
American Association of Teachers of German

 

Teaching:

Cultures & Civilizations, a comparative, interdisciplinary great books course in the humanities
Elementary, intermediate, and advanced German language courses (including web-based language instruction)
German Composition and Conversation
German for Reading
Introductory German literature and culture courses
German Culture and History
Franz Kafka and Modernist Narrative
The Modern Novel and Narratology
Vergangenheitsbewältigung: Literature, Historiography, Film
Contemporary Germany
Postwar German Politics and Culture (team taught with a political scientist and cross-listed in the Dept of Political Science)
Culture and Society in Weimar and Nazi Germany
Günter Grass and Christa Wolf
The Holocaust
Weimar Culture and Society
First-Year Writing Seminar "War Stories"
German Historiography
Translation Praktikum
Schopenhauer in Context
Goethe and Thomas Mann
German Identity in Literature and Culture
Epic Love From Wolfram to Wolf
Senior Theses advised:
"Myth and Woman in Christa Wolf’s Kassandra and Voraussetzung einer Erzählung"; "The Fate of Victor Klemperer’s LTI"; "The Confessional Novel and J.M. Coetzee’s Silent Confessors"; "Tucholsky and Journalistic Culture in Berlin"; "Nonfiction Prose Writing and Journalism"; "Armenian Genocide, the German General Staff, and Holocaust Historiography in the Soviet Union, Armenia, and Germany"; "The West-German Press and German Identity"; "Urs Widmer’s Political Theater"; "Theater in the Kovno and Terezin Ghettos"; "Reading and Writing the Novella"; "Educational Reform and the German University System Today"; "Sorben und Deutschen: the Slavic Sorbian Culture in the GDR"; "Gastarbeiter and Post-1989 Farm Labor in Germany: A Comparative Study"; "Anne Frank in History and Culture"; "The Sorbian Minority through German History"; "Guestworkers and Migrants: a History of Foreign Labor in Germany."

Current Interests:

W.G. Sebald. I organized an international symposium on Sebald, held at Davidson in March, 2003. [http://www.davidson.edu/academic/german/denham/sebaldcfp.htm]

Gropius, the Bauhaus, and Modernism – long-term book project reassessing the place of high modernism in the twentieth centry (3-5 years from completion).

Cultural studies and interdisciplinarity within the academy – I am thinking of addressing this topic formally in the context of practical pedagogy following my teaching (2002-03) of the new humanities course "Cultures & Civilizations."

Friedrich Torberg – I have just recently begun a more in-depth look at this neglected writer and critic and I am sketching ideas for a study (monograph or long article) dedicated to his impact on postwar Austrian political and cultural life.

Ernst Jünger’s political journalism – translation and commentary in a book-length monograph

Writing across the curriculum and curricular reform at Davidson College – I recently taught a pilot first-year seminar as part of a move to reinvigorate student writing and critical inquiry at Davidson; I coordinated the first-year seminar writing program 2000-2002.

Technology and foreign language pedagogy – I have co-taught a pilot web-based German course (German 201, Fall 1998 and Fall 1999), attended several related workshops.