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German Studies in the United States
A Historical Handbook
Editor(s): Peter Uwe Hohendahl
Pages: viii & 576 pp.
Published: 2003
ISBN: 9780873529891 (paperback)
ISBN: 9780873529884 (hardcover)
"Without doubt, Hohendahl and his team have provided the most comprehensive inquiry on the historical, cultural, methodological, and organizational foundations of Germanics in the United States thus far."
István Gombocz, University of South Dakota
"This is a superb historical and critical study of Germanistik in the USA, the first of its kind, and it should be required reading for any student entering the field and for all the scholars already in the field."
Jack Zipes, University of Minnesota
In the United States, German studies traces its beginnings to the late nineteenth century, when research universities were founded on the German model. The dominance of German as a foreign language before World War I and the decline in enrollments during that war are salient points in the discipline's social history. Today German studies finds itself at a crossroads, facing unexpected change in the structure of higher education and in the cultural and economic support for studying language and literature.
Instead of taking a narrative or chronological approach, this volume foregrounds multiple, heterogeneous aspects of German as a discipline. They include
- the composition of the professoriat, employment patterns, the place of women
- the dramatic effects of World Wars I and II, and of the Soviet Sputnik success, on enrollments, jobs, and budgets
- the support--and indifference--of the large (once 4 million people) German American community
- the role of research universities, leading scholars, major books in the field
- the role of professional organizations, conferences, and journals
- the Americanization of German studies
- the role of Jewish scholars and of the Holocaust
- the fact of there having been two Germanys
German Studies in the United States is an important contribution to the history of higher education in this country.
Table of Contents
German Studies in the United States
1
The German Faculty: Organization and Experience
EDITED BY PATRICIA HERMINGHOUSE
Introduction
The History of the Organization of German Departments in the
United States
JOHN A. MCCARTHY
The Constituencies of Academics and the Priorities of Germanists
JEFFREY L. SAMMONS
How Split Were Our Values? The Well-Lived Life of the German
Professor in American Academe, 1938-99
LYNNE TATLOCK
Changing Employment Patterns in German Studies
GERHARD WEISS
2
Instruction
EDITED BY FRANK TROMMLER
Introduction
The Undergraduate Program
RUSSELL A. BERMAN
Finding Students: Toward a History of Germanics in the
United States
DAVID BENSELER
Teacher Development at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
RENATE A. SCHULZ
Textbooks
CORA LEE KLUGE
American Graduate Studies in German
SIMON RICHTER
German Literary History and the Canon in the United States
JEANNINE BLACKWELL
Practicing Disciplinarity and Interdisciplinarity in German Studies:
How Much and What Kind?
WOLFGANG NATTER
3
Approaches and Methods
EDITED BY PETER UWE HOHENDAHL
Introduction
Pedagogical Issues in German-Language Teaching: A Retrospective
RENATE A. SCHULZ
From Philology to the New Criticism, 1880-1970
PETER UWE HOHENDAHL
Oppositional Criticism: Marxism and Feminism, 1970-80
SARA LENNOX
From Deconstruction to Postcolonialism, 1980 to the Present
IRENE KACANDES
4
Research in Historical Perspective
EDITED BY JOHN A. McCARTHY
Introduction
The Development of Research from 1880 to the Present
JOST HERMAND
Medieval German Literary Research from the Late Nineteenth
Century to the Present
FRANCIS G. GENTRY
Linguistics
ORRIN W. ROBINSON
American Germanists and Research on Folklore and Fairy Tales
from 1970 to the Present
DONALD HAASE
Developments in German Jewish Studies from 1980 to
the Present
NOAH ISENBERG
The Study of GDR Literature and Culture, 1970-90
DAVID BATHRICK
5
Organizing the Profession
EDITED BY PATRICIA HERMINGHOUSE
Introduction
Founding Professional Organizations, 1870-1920: The Lehrerbund
and the MLA
CLIFFORD ALBRECHT BERND
History of the AATG
PATRICIA HERMINGHOUSE
The Role of Societies and Conferences
SARA FRIEDRICHSMEYER
The Emergence and Function of Professional Journals
JOHN A. McCARTHY
Monatshefte
CORA LEE KLUGE
Journals of the AATG: The German Quarterly, Die Unterrichtspraxis
PATRICIA HERMINGHOUSE
The Germanic Review
CARL NIEKERK
New German Critique
CARL NIEKERK
The Reorganization of the Profession after 1970
SARA FRIEDRICHSMEYER
6
The Changing Profile of the Professoriat
EDITED BY JOHN A. MCCARTHY
Introduction
The Development of the Professoriat, 1880-1941
GISELA HOECHERL-ALDEN
Germanistik in the Shadow of the Holocaust: The Development of
the Professoriat, 1942-70
MEIKE G. WERNER
Democratization of the Profession: Women and Minorities in
German, 1971-2000
ARLENE A. TERAOKA
7
Sociopolitical Dimensions
EDITED BY CORA LEE KLUGE
Introduction
Opportunities Forgone: Sociopolitical Dimensions of German
Studies in the United States
BRENT O. PETERSON
Cultural Exchange: The Historical Context of German
Kulturpolitik and German Studies in the United States
HINRICH C. SEEBA
Relations with Foreign Organizations
MANFRED STASSEN
Closing Remarks
Reflections on Writing a History of German Studies in the
United States
FRANK TROMMLER
Works Cited
Index
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