Gundela Hachmann | LSU Foreign Languages and Literatures

 

Gundela Hachmann 

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 LSU, 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 “Wunderbar Together”, for the promotion of German studies at LSU, principal investigator, Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, Washington D.C., 2019
  • Manship Summer Research Grant, College of Humanities and Social Sciences at LSU, 2018
  • Manship Summer Research Grant, College of Humanities and Social Sciences at LSU, 2016
  • Summer Research Stipend, Office for Research and Economic Development at LSU, Summer 2015
  • Think Transatlantic Grant, for the organization of interdisciplinary symposium at LSU, co-investigator, Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, Washington D.C., 2012
  • Manship Summer Research Grant, College of Humanities and Social Sciences at LSU, 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 LSU, 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 “The Ethics of Literature” (March 26–28), Max Kade Center, Washington University, St. Louis, 2010
  • Max Kade Travel Grant from the Robert Bosch Foundation, for participants in the weekend seminar “Memory Culture and Gender Politics: The New German Family Novel” (June 26–28, 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 Schöll, Johanna Bohley, eds. Poetikvorlesungen: Formen – Praktiken – Poetiken. [forthcoming, de Gruyter Publishing 2022]
  • “Vocality in Contemporary Realism” (forthcoming in Wiener Digitale Revue, https://www.univie.ac.at/wdr/)
  • “Anthropologische Argumente: Kunst und Humanität” (forthcoming in Hachmann, Schöll, Bohley, eds. Poetikvorlesungen: Formen – Praktiken – Poetiken)
  • “Die Rolle der Verlage in deutschen Poetikvorlesungen” (forthcoming in Hachmann, Schöll, Bohley, eds. Poetikvorlesungen: Formen – Praktiken – Poetiken)
  • “Anglo-amerikanische Poetikvorlesungen 1892–1941” (forthcoming in Hachmann, Schöll, Bohley, eds. Poetikvorlesungen: Formen – Praktiken – Poetiken)
  • “Anglo-amerikanische Poetikvorlesungen 1947–2018” (forthcoming in Hachmann, Schöll, Bohley, eds. Poetikvorlesungen: Formen – Praktiken – Poetiken)
  • “Katalysatoren der Autofiktion: Poetikvorlesungen von Hilde Domin und Marlene Streeruwitz” Alina Boy, Vanessa Höving, Katja Holweck, eds. Vexierbilder. Autorinneninszenierungen vom 19. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart. München: Fink, 2021. 193–209.
  • “‘Always conceal … thy tenets, thy treasure, and thy traveling.’ Irony and Ambiguity in Ilija Trojanow’s Travel Narratives About the Middle East.” Karin Baumgartner and Monika Shafi, eds. Anxious Journeys: Contemporary German Travel Literature. Camden House, 2019. 143–58.
  • “Literarisch-politische Wesen: Autofiktionen als Voraussetzungen des Politischen in Poetikvorlesungen von Daniel Barenboim, Robert Menasse, Salman Rushdie und Yoko Tawada.” Text und Kontext 40 (2018): 7–31.
  • “Politisches Engagement: Auf der Suche nach neuen Modellen.” Wirkendes Wort 66 (2016: 1): 143–160.
    Zeit und Technoimagination. Eine neue Einbildungskraft in Romanen des 21. Jahrhunderts. Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann, 2015.
  • “Poeta doctus docens: Poetikvorlesungen als Inszenierung von Bildung.“ Sabine Kyora, ed. Subjektform ‚Autor‘ – Autorschaftsinszenierungen als Praktiken der Subjektivierung. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2014. 137–155.
  • “Sprachloses Verstehen. Visuelle Kompetenz in Yoko Tawadas Kinoroman Das nackte Auge.“ Olivia C. Diaz Perez, Florian Gräfe, Rolf G. Renner, eds. Intermedialität und Alterität, Migration und Emigration. Tendenzen der deutschsprachigen Literatur. Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag, 2014. 87–95.
  • “Drafting the Techno-Imagination: A Future for Literary Writing?” Flusser Studies 18 (2014: November): 1–13. http://www.flusserstudies.net/
  • “‘Sieh auf deine Hand, bis sie zerfällt.’ Entropie und Individualzeit in Thomas Lehrs Roman 42.” Gegenwartsliteratur. Ein germanistisches Jahrbuch 10 (2011): 234–253.
  • “Ein Moment der Unvorhersehbarkeit. Bruch mit der Notwendigkeit in E. T. A. Hoffmanns Die Fermate.” E.T.A. Hoffmann-Jahrbuch 15 (2007): 86–99.
  • “Das Erhabene im Krieg: Medialität der Maßlosigkeit bei Raoul Schrott.” Christer Petersen, ed. Zeichen des Krieges in Literatur, Film und den Medien. Nordamerika und Europa. Krieg, Literatur, Medien, Film 1. Kiel: Verlag Ludwig, 2004. 312–335.

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 Schlöndorff 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 – 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 “Wunderbar Together”, for the promotion of German studies at LSU
  • Member-at-Large, LSU Faculty Senate Executive Committee, August 2017-August 2018
  • Transatlantic Relations: History, Legacy, Perspectives, interdisciplinary Symposium, LSU, 2012 (organized in cooperation with the Office of Academic Programs Abroad at LSU)
  • Do Deutsch Campaign to promote German Studies at LSU 2011

 

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