蜜桃APP

 

Gundela Hachmann 

Associate Professor of German 

Ph.D., Harvard University, 2008
Phone: 225-578-5170
E-mail: ghachmann@lsu.edu
Office: 306 Hodges Hall

Area of Interest

19th, 20th, and 21st Century German Literature

Transmedial Relations in Literature

Contemporary Poetics and Literary Theory

Literature and Science

Awards & Grants

• Manship Summer Research Grant, College of Humanities and Social Sciences at 蜜桃APP, 2020
• Gerd Bucerius Stipend, for research at the German Literature Archive (Deutsches Literaturarchiv, DLA) in Marbach, Germany, ZEIT Foundation Ebelin and Gerd Bucerius, May to June, 2019
• Campus Week 2019 鈥淲underbar Together鈥�, for the promotion of German studies at 蜜桃APP, principal investigator, Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, Washington D.C., 2019
• Manship Summer Research Grant, College of Humanities and Social Sciences at 蜜桃APP, 2018
• Manship Summer Research Grant, College of Humanities and Social Sciences at 蜜桃APP, 2016
• Summer Research Stipend, Office for Research and Economic Development at 蜜桃APP, Summer 2015
• Think Transatlantic Grant, for the organization of interdisciplinary symposium at 蜜桃APP, co-investigator, Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, Washington D.C., 2012
• Manship Summer Research Grant, College of Humanities and Social Sciences at 蜜桃APP, 2012
• DAAD/Max Kade Summer Research Grant, Max Kade Center, Washington University, St. Louis, 2012
• Do Deutsch Grant, for the promotion of German studies at 蜜桃APP, co-investigator, Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, Washington D.C., 2011
• Max Kade Travel Grant from Robert Bosch Foundation, for participation in symposium 鈥淭he Ethics of Literature鈥� (March 26鈥�28), Max Kade Center, Washington University, St. Louis, 2010
• Max Kade Travel Grant from the Robert Bosch Foundation, for participants in the weekend seminar 鈥淢emory Culture and Gender Politics: The New German Family Novel鈥� (June 26鈥�28, 2009, Deutsches Literaturarchiv, Marbach, Germany), Max Kade Center, Washington University, St. Louis, 2009
• Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, Harvard University, 2009
• Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, 2007
• Merit Fellowship, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, Spring 2006
• Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, Harvard University, 2006
• Bernhard Blume Award for excellence in course work in the first three terms of graduate study, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University, 2004

Research

• Gundela Hachmann, Julia Sch枚ll, Johanna Bohley, eds. Poetikvorlesungen: Formen 鈥� Praktiken 鈥� Poetiken. [forthcoming, de Gruyter Publishing 2022]
• 鈥淰ocality in Contemporary Realism鈥� (forthcoming in Wiener Digitale Revue,
• 鈥淎nthropologische Argumente: Kunst und Humanit盲t鈥� (forthcoming in Hachmann, Sch枚ll, Bohley, eds. Poetikvorlesungen: Formen 鈥� Praktiken 鈥� Poetiken)
• 鈥淒ie Rolle der Verlage in deutschen Poetikvorlesungen鈥� (forthcoming in Hachmann, Sch枚ll, Bohley, eds. Poetikvorlesungen: Formen 鈥� Praktiken 鈥� Poetiken)
• 鈥淎nglo-amerikanische Poetikvorlesungen 1892鈥�1941鈥� (forthcoming in Hachmann, Sch枚ll, Bohley, eds. Poetikvorlesungen: Formen 鈥� Praktiken 鈥� Poetiken)
• 鈥淎nglo-amerikanische Poetikvorlesungen 1947鈥�2018鈥� (forthcoming in Hachmann, Sch枚ll, Bohley, eds. Poetikvorlesungen: Formen 鈥� Praktiken 鈥� Poetiken)
• 鈥淜atalysatoren der Autofiktion: Poetikvorlesungen von Hilde Domin und Marlene Streeruwitz鈥� Alina Boy, Vanessa H枚ving, Katja Holweck, eds. Vexierbilder. Autorinneninszenierungen vom 19. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart. M眉nchen: Fink, 2021. 193鈥�209.
• 鈥溾�楢lways conceal 鈥� thy tenets, thy treasure, and thy traveling.鈥� Irony and Ambiguity in Ilija Trojanow鈥檚 Travel Narratives About the Middle East.鈥� Karin Baumgartner and Monika Shafi, eds. Anxious Journeys: Contemporary German Travel Literature. Camden House, 2019. 143鈥�58.
• 鈥淟iterarisch-politische Wesen: Autofiktionen als Voraussetzungen des Politischen in Poetikvorlesungen von Daniel Barenboim, Robert Menasse, Salman Rushdie und Yoko Tawada.鈥� Text und Kontext 40 (2018): 7鈥�31.
• 鈥淧olitisches Engagement: Auf der Suche nach neuen Modellen.鈥� Wirkendes Wort 66 (2016: 1): 143鈥�160.
  Zeit und Technoimagination. Eine neue Einbildungskraft in Romanen des 21. Jahrhunderts. W眉rzburg: K枚nigshausen und Neumann, 2015.
• 鈥淧oeta doctus docens: Poetikvorlesungen als Inszenierung von Bildung.鈥� Sabine Kyora, ed. Subjektform 鈥欰utor鈥� 鈥� Autorschaftsinszenierungen als Praktiken der Subjektivierung. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2014. 137鈥�155.
• 鈥淪prachloses Verstehen. Visuelle Kompetenz in Yoko Tawadas Kinoroman Das nackte Auge.鈥� Olivia C. Diaz Perez, Florian Gr盲fe, Rolf G. Renner, eds. Intermedialit盲t und Alterit盲t, Migration und Emigration. Tendenzen der deutschsprachigen Literatur. T眉bingen: Stauffenburg Verlag, 2014. 87鈥�95.
• 鈥淒rafting the Techno-Imagination: A Future for Literary Writing?鈥� Flusser Studies 18 (2014: November): 1鈥�13.
• 鈥溾�楽ieh auf deine Hand, bis sie zerf盲llt.鈥� Entropie und Individualzeit in Thomas Lehrs Roman 42.鈥� Gegenwartsliteratur. Ein germanistisches Jahrbuch 10 (2011): 234鈥�253.
• 鈥淓in Moment der Unvorhersehbarkeit. Bruch mit der Notwendigkeit in E. T. A. Hoffmanns Die Fermate.鈥� E.T.A. Hoffmann-Jahrbuch 15 (2007): 86鈥�99.
• 鈥淒as Erhabene im Krieg: Medialit盲t der Ma脽losigkeit bei Raoul Schrott.鈥� Christer Petersen, ed. Zeichen des Krieges in Literatur, Film und den Medien. Nordamerika und Europa. Krieg, Literatur, Medien, Film 1. Kiel: Verlag Ludwig, 2004. 312鈥�335.

Courses Taught

German Program

• GERM 1101 Beginning German 1
• GERM 1102 Beginning German 2
• GERM 2101 Intermediate German 1
• GERM 2102 Intermediate German 2
• GERM 3060 German Discourse
• GERM 3061 German for Business
• GERM 4031 German Poetry
• GERM 4044 Special Topics in 20th Century German Literature and Culture
  • Topics:
    • German Crime Fiction
    • Radicalism, Extremism, and Protest in 1960s and 1970s 
• GERM 4091 Topics in German Literature and Culture in Translation
  • Topics:
    • Laughing with Kafka
    • Kafka, Freud, and the Rise of Psychology 
• GERM 4046 German Film: Duplicity, Doubling, Duality in Film
• GERM 4061: Advanced German Discouse
• GERM 4915 Independent Study
  • Topics:
    • Relations between Germany and Israel 1945-present
    • Films of Volker Schl枚ndorff and Fatih Akin
    • Construction of Gender in German Film
    • Understanding National Socialism

Honors College:

HRNS 2013 Sixties Radicalism in Germany and the US (co-taught with Dr. David Culbert, Dept. of History)
HNRS 4000 Honors Thesis

Graduate Program in Comparative Literature:

CPLT 7010 Research Methods and Bibliography: Literary Theory from Antiquity to the Romantic Period
CPLT 7120 Topics in Theory of Criticism: Literary Anthropology
CPLT 8900 Independent Study

Notable Activities

• President, Louisiana Chapter of the American Association of Teachers of German (AATG), 2020 鈥� present
• Testing Chair, Louisiana Chapter of the Association of Teachers of German (LA-AATG), 2017-2020
• Secretary, Louisiana Chapter of the Association of Teachers of German (LA-AATG), 2017-2020
• Campus Week 2019 鈥淲underbar Together鈥�, for the promotion of German studies at 蜜桃APP
• Member-at-Large, 蜜桃APP Faculty Senate Executive Committee, August 2017-August 2018
• Transatlantic Relations: History, Legacy, Perspectives, interdisciplinary Symposium, 蜜桃APP, 2012 (organized in cooperation with the Office of Academic Programs Abroad at 蜜桃APP)
• Do Deutsch Campaign to promote German Studies at 蜜桃APP 2011