Curriculum vitae
CARL NIEKERK
I. Personal History and Professional Experience
A. Educational Background
-- Washington University, St. Louis, PhD. in German, May 1994
-- University of Groningen, Netherlands, MA in German (cum laude), incl. teaching certificate, July 1987
-- University of Tübingen, non-degree, Spring Semesters 1992 and 1993; University of Freiburg, non-degree, Fall Semester 1987 – Spring Semester 1988; University of Dijon, non-degree, Summer 1987
B. Academic Positions
-- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Professor of Germanic Languages (2011-present), Associate Professor (2003-2011), Assistant Professor (1997 - 2003); affiliate appointments in French (since 2012), the Program in Jewish Culture and Society (since 2008) and the Program in Comparative and World Literature (since 2006)
-- University of Akron/Ohio, Assistant Professor of German and Coordinator of German Program (1995 - 1997)
-- Westminster College/Missouri, Visiting Assistant Professor of German (1994 - 1995)
II. Publications
A. Books
— Enlightenment Anthropology: Defining Humanity in an Era of Exploration and Colonialism. Accepted for publication (pending minor revisions) by Penn State University Press, forthcoming 2023.
— Reading Mahler: German Culture and Jewish Identity in Fin-de-siècle Vienna. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2010. Pp. 322. Second edition [Paperback]: August 2013.
Reviews: Colloquia Germanica 43.4 (2010) [published October 2013]: 343-345 (Gabriel Cooper); ’Mahler hören und lesen. Über Carl Niekerks kulturhistorisches Komponistenporträt Reading Mahler,’ Literaturkritik.de (8.14.2013) <http://www. literaturkritik.de/public/rezension.php?rez_id=18262> (Peter Müller); German History <http://gh.oxfordjournals.org.proxy2.library.illinois.edu/content/ early/2011/11/14/gerhis.ghr103.full.pdf+html> (John E. Toews); Monatshefte 104.1 (2012): 140-142 (James L. Zychowicz); Modern Language Review 197.1 (2012): 311, 312 (Andrew Barker); Modern Austrian Literature 44.3-4 (2011): 79-80 (Zoë Lang); Austrian Studies 19 (2011): 217, 218 (Julian Johnson); 'Reading Mahler's Reading,' Austrian Studies Newsletter M23.2 (Fall 2011): 16, 22 <http://www.cas.umn.edu/assetts/pdf/ASN%20fall%202011-web> (Gary B. Cohen); 'Scrisoare pentru melomani: Lecturi mahleriene,’ Suplimentul de cultura, no. 314 (May 14-20, 2011): 13 <http://www.suplimentuldecultura.ro /numarpdf/SDC_314_low-res.pdf> (Victor Eskenasy); reprinted as ‘Centenarul morţii lui Gustav Mahler,’ Atheneum. Revista de Cultura a Romanilor din Canada 5.16.2011 <http://www.atheneum.ca/stiri-atheneum/centenarul-mortii-lui-gustav-mahler>; Association of Jewish Libraries Reviews 1.2 (May/June 2011): 27 <http://www.jewishlibraries.org/main/Portals/0/AJL_Assets/ documents/Publications/newsletter/ ajlreviews_201105.pdf> (Nira G. Wolfe); Choice (January 2011) 48-2586 (M. Meckna); Musica Judaica Online Reviews (12.27.2010) < http://mjoreviews.org/2010/12/27/ reading-mahler-german-culture-and-jewish-identity-in-fin-de-siecle-vienna/#more-563> (John J. Sheinbaum)
-- Zwischen Naturgeschichte und Anthropologie: Lichtenberg im Kontext der Spätaufklärung. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 2005. Studien zur deutschen Literatur, vol. 176; Series eds.: Wilfried Barner, Georg Braungart, and Conrad Wiedemann. Pp. 396.
Reviews: Annual Bulletin of the Japanese Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies 23 (2008): 47, 48 (Haru Hamanaka); Arbitrium 25.2 (2007): 196-200 (Albrecht Beutel); L’Homme 182/2007: 253, 254 (Jacques Galinier); IASLonline (1.20.2010) <http://www.iaslonline.de/index.php?vorgang_id=1426> (Michael Ansel); Jahrbuch der ungarischen Germanistik 2006: 407-409 (Endre Hárs); Modern Language Review 102.3 (2007): 878 (Matthew Bell); Monatshefte 98.4 (2006): 624-626 (Gunhild Berg).
-- #Bildungskrisen: Die Frage nach dem Subjekt in Goethes ‘Unterhaltungen deutscher Ausgewanderten.’ Tübingen: Stauffenburg, 1995. Stauffenburg Colloquium, vol. 38. Pp. 172.
Reviews: Deutsche Bücher 28.2 (1998): 116, 117 (Gerhard Kluge); Germanistik 37.3/4 (1996): 937 (Norbert Gabriel);The Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies 57 (1995): 761 (David Hill).
B. Books and Journal Issues Edited or Co-Edited
German Quarterly
— Volume 94 (2021)
94.1, incl. Forum “Deutsche Literatur – global” (edited by Andreas Martin Widmann);
94.2: Focus: “German Fairy Tales and Folklore in a Global Context” (edited by Laurie R. Johnson, Angelika Kraemer, and Carl Niekerk); cross-over issue with Die Unterrichtspraxis / Teaching German, issue 27.1 (May 2021);
94.3: Focus: “World Literature / World Culture,” including Forum on “World Literature” (edited by B. Venkat Mani)
94.4, incl. Thank you.”
— Volume 93 (2020)
93.1, incl. Forum “Asian German Studies” (edited by Chunjie Zhang);
93.2: Focus: “The Eighteenth Century,” incl. Forum on “New Approaches to Eighteenth-Century Literature, Culture, and Theory” (edited by Carl Niekerk);
93.3: Focus: “The Long Nineteenth Century,” including Forum “Human Rights and German Intellectual History in a Transnational Perspective” (edited by Claudia Breger, Imke Meyer, Johannes von Moltke, and Carl Niekerk);
93.4.
— Volume 92 (2019)
92.1;
92.2: Focus: “Visual Culture,” incl. Forum on “Visual Studies” (edited by Maria Makela);
92.3: Focus: “Identities”;
92.4: Forum: “Does German Cultural Studies need the Nation-State Model?” (edited by Carl Niekerk; 21 contributions), incl. introduction (pp. 431–32).
— Vol. 91 (2018): 91.1: focus: “The Politics of German Literature,” incl. “From the editor” (pp. vii–viii);
— Vol. 90 (2017): 90.1; 90.2: focus: “Migration in / and German Culture,” incl. “Forum: Migration Studies”; 90.3: focus: “From Modernism to Fascism,” incl. “Forum: Intellectual and Artistic Responses to Early Fascism—The Historians’ Perspective”; 90.4
— Vol. 89 (2016): 89.1: focus: “Revisiting the Classics,” incl. “From the editor” (pp. vii–viii); 89.2: focus: “Austrian Studies,” incl. “Forum: Austrian Studies,” ed. by Elizabeth Loentz and Carl Niekerk (pp. 221-39); introduction (with Loentz) (p. 221); 89.3: focus: “Rereading Romanticism,” incl. “Forum on Romanticism”; 89.4.
Lessing Yearbook
— Lessing Yearbook / Jahrbuch, vol. XLVIII (2021). Focus: Eighteenth-Century Catasrophes / Katastrophen des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts. Edited and with an introduction by Carl Niekerk and Gabriela Stoicea, with Thomas Martinec (book reviews). Göttingen: Wallstein, 2021.
— Lessing Yearbook / Jahrbuch, vol. XLVII (2020). Edited by Carl Niekerk, in cooperation with Monika Nenon (book reviews). Göttingen: Wallstein, 2020.
— Lessing Yearbook / Jahrbuch, vol. XLVI (2019). Focus: The Enlightenment – German, French, and Italian / Die Aufklärung – Deutsch, Französisch und Italienisch. Edited and with an introduction by Carl Niekerk, in cooperation with Monika Nenon (book reviews). Göttingen: Wallstein, 2019.
-- Lessing Yearbook / Jahrbuch, vol. XLV (2018). Edited by Carl Niekerk with Monika Nenon (book reviews). Göttingen: Wallstein, [November] 2018; with a special section on Lessing’s Laughter / Lessings Gelächter (4 contributions), edited and with an introduction by Mary Bricker and Carl Niekerk.
-- Lessing Yearbook / Jahrbuch, vol. XLIV (2017). Focus: Lessing, the Enlightenment, and the First Sexual Revolution / Lessing, die Aufklärung und die erste sexuelle Revolution. Edited by Carl Niekerk and Heidi Schlipphacke, in cooperation with Monika Nenon (book reviews). Göttingen: Wallstein, [November] 2017.
-- Lessing Yearbook / Jahrbuch, vol. XLIII (2016). Edited by Carl Niekerk in cooperation with Monika Fick and Monika Nenon (book reviews). Göttingen: Wallstein, [October] 2016.
-- Lessing Yearbook / Jahrbuch, vol. XLII (2015). Edited by Monika Fick, Carl Niekerk, and Monika Nenon (book reviews). Göttingen: Wallstein, 2015.
-- Lessing Yearbook / Jahrbuch, vol. XL (2012 / 2013). Edited by Monika Fick in Cooperation with Carl NIekerk and Monika Nenon (book reviews). Göttingen: Wallstein, 2013.
Collections:
— Die Ökonomie des Skandals. Gesellschaft, Sexualität, Gender und Judentum bei Arthur Schnitzler, edited by Carl Niekerk and Margrit Vogt. Goettingen: Wallstein, 2020. Introduction, with Margrit Vogt, + 11 essays. Pp. 288.
-- The Radical Enlightenment in Germany: A Cultural Perspective. Leyden, Boston: Brill/Rodopi Publishers, Leyden. Series: IFAVL. Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, vol. 195, edited by Norbert Bachleitner a.o. Introduction + 14 essays.
— On Margins and Contact Zones: 500 Years of Dutch-German Cultural Interaction, edited by Carl Niekerk and Simon Richter, special issue of Journal of Dutch Literature 9.1 (2018). Introduction (with Simon Richter) + 8 essays. Pp. 128.
-- Approaches to Kurban Said’s Ali and Nino: Love, Identity, and Intercultural Conflict, co-edited with Cori Crane. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2017. Pp. x + 278.
-- Contemplating Violence: Critical Studies in Modern German Culture, co-edited with Stefani Engelstein (U. of Missouri / Columbia). Amsterdam / New York: Rodopi Publishers, 2011.
Reviews: Modern Language Review 107.3 (2012): 998-1000 (Sarah Colvin); German Studies Review 35.1 (2012): 151-152 (Jeffrey L. Sammons); 'Toxische Nebeneffekte der Aufklärung. Stefani Engelstein und Carl Niekerk versammeln Aufsätze über Gewalt in der deutschen Kulturgeschichte,' Literaturkritik.de (9.14.2011) <http://www.literaturkritik.de/public/rezension.php?rez id=15907> (Hans-Joachim Hahn)
-- Special issue of JEGP on the ‘German Late Enlightenment’ (Vol. 102, No. 3, July 2003), with contributions by Katherine Arens, Kai Hammermeister, Almut Spalding, and Heidi Schlipphacke.
-- One Hundred Years of Masochism: Literary Texts, Social and Cultural Contexts, eds. Michael C. Finke and Carl Niekerk, foreword Sander L. Gilman. Series: Psychoanalysis and Culture, vol. 10; Series eds.: J.J. Baneke, H. Hillenaar, H. de Jong, K. Nuijten, E.M. Wiersema, and W. Schönau. Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, 2000. Pp. 215.
Reviews: Bulletin of the History of Medicine 76.1 (2002): 170, 171 (Chandak Sengoopta); Freiburger literaturpsychologische Gespräche 22 (2003): 308-312 (Michael Gratzke); German Studies Review 25.3 (2002): 580, 581 (Astrid Klocke); Miscelánea 24 (2001): 153-156 (Maite Escudero Alias); Tijdschrift voor Psychoanalyse 7 (2001): 246, 247 (H.J. Hillenaar).
C. Chapters in Books
— “Romantic Philosophy as Anthropology,” in: The Palgrave Handbook of German Romantic Philosophy, edited by Elizabeth Millán Brusslan, Palgrave-Macmillan 2021, pp. 511–33.
— “Mahler and Death,” in: Mahler in Context, edited by Charles Youmans, Cambridge University Press, 2021, pp. 225–31.
— Article (with Laurie Johnson): “Fascism in the Classroom in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix,” in: Lessons from Hogwarts: Essays on the Pedagogy of Harry Potter, edited by Marcie Rovan and Melissa Wehler, McFarland 2020, pp. 121–35.
— (with Margrit Vogt) “Einleitung: Die Ökonomie des Skandals,” in: Die Ökonomie des Skandals (see: Books edited or co-edited), pp. 7–14.
— “Öffentlichkeit und Skandal. Zu einer historischen Konstellation im Werke Arthur Schnitzlers um 1900,” in: Die Ökonomie des Skandals (see: Books edited or co-edited), pp. 131–62.
— “Tzvetan Todorov’s Concept of Enlightenment,” in: Tzvetan Todorov: Thinker, Critic, Humanist, ed. by Henk de Berg and Karine Zbinden. Rochester, NY: Camden House Publishers, 2020, pp. 92–108.
— “Enlightened Citizenship in Lessing’s Emilia Galotti and Mozart’s Lucio Silla,” in: Taking Stock – Twenty-Five Years of Comparative Literary Research, edited by Norbert Bachleitner, Achim Hölter, and John McCarthy. Leiden / Boston: Brill, 2019, pp. 156–86.
— “Schreiben außerhalb der Nation und die niederländisch-deutsche Kontaktzone: Hans Keilson, Nico Rost und Albert Vigoleis Thelen,” in: Im Abseits der Gruppe 47. Albert Vigoleis Thelen und andere 'Unzeitgemäße' im Literaturbetrieb der 1950er und 1960er Jahre, ed. by Heinz Eickmans, Jürgen Pütz, and Werner Jung. Düsseldorf: Universitätsverlag Rhein-Ruhr, 2019, pp. 125–43.
— Article: “Toleranz, Kolonialismus und die ‘Unschuld der Weißen’. Zur Triangulierung der interkulturellen Kommunikation in Der schwarze Herr Bahßetup,” in: Albert Vigoleis Thelen – ein moderner Tragelaph. Perspektiven auf ein vielgestaltiges Werk, edited by Moritz Wagner and Magnus Wieland, Düsseldorf: Aisthesis Verlag, 2019, pp. 135–56.
— Article: “Buffon, Blumenbach, Lichtenberg, and the Origins of Modern Anthropology,” in: Johann Friedrich Blumenbach: Race and Natural History, 1750-1850, ed. by Nicolaas Rupke and Gerhard Lauer. Oxon, UK, New York: Routledge, 2019, pp. 27–52.
— “Introduction: How Radical was the German Enlightenment?”, in: The Radical Enlightenment in Germany. A Cultural Perspective (see: Books edited or co-edited), pp. 1–45.
— “Radicalism in Lessing’s Domestic Drama (Miß Sara Sampson, Minna von Barnhelm, and Emilia Galotti),” in: The Radical Enlightenment in Germany. Cultural Perspectives (see: Books edited or co-edited), pp. 131–62.
— (with Robert Leucht) “Erzählungen vom ‘wahren’ Volk – Überlegungen zu einer Narratologie des Populismus,” in: Literaturwissenschaften in der Krise. Zur Rolle und Relevanz literarischer Praktiken in globalen Krisenzeiten, ed. by Russell West-Pavlov and Anya Heise-von der Lippe. Tübingen: Narr / Francke / Attempto, 2018. Pp. 109–31.
— “Mozarts intermediale imagination des Orients”, forthcoming in Literatur in der Medienkonkurrenz, ed. by Volker Doerr and Rolf Goebel, Aisthesis Verlag, 2018. 115–134.
— “Buffon, Blumenbach, Lichtenberg, and the Origins of Modern Anthropology,” in: Johann Friedrich Blumenbach: Race and Natural History, 1750-1850, ed. by Nicolaas Rupke and Gerhard Lauer. Oxon, UK, New York: Routledge, 2019, pp. 27–52.
— (with Robert Leucht) “Erzählungen vom ‘wahren’ Volk – Überlegungen zu einer narratologie desPopulismus,” forthcoming in: Literaturwissenschaften in der Krise. Zur Rolle und Relevanz literarischer Praktiken in globalen Krisenzeiten, ed. by Russell West-Pavlov and Anya Heise-von der Lippe. Tübingen: Narr / Francke / Attempto, 2018.
— (with Cori Crane) “Introduction: Ali and Nino as World Literature,” in Approaches to Kurban Said’s ‘Ali and Nino’ (see: Books edited or co-edited), 1–14.
— “Between Orientalism and Occidentalism: Culture, Identity, and the ‘Clash of Civilizations’ in Ali and Nino” (see: Books edited or co-edited), 227–250.
— “Tourism, Ethnography, and Aesthetic Modernism: Louis Couperus in Africa,” in Travel Writing in Dutch and German, 1790-1930: Modernity, Regionality, Mobility, ed. by Alison E. Martin, Lut Missine, and Beatrix van Dam. New York/London: Routledge, 2017. 139–155.
— “Lessings Körperlichkeits-Entwürfe zwischen Richardson und Diderot,” in Lessing und die Sinne, ed. by Alexander Košenina and Stefanie Stockhorst. Hannover: Wehrhahn Verlag, 2016. 99-121.
— “The Problem of China: Asia and Enlightenment Anthropology (Buffon, de Pauw, Blumenbach, Herder),” in China in the German Enlightenment, ed. by Bettina Brandt and Daniel L. Purdy; Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016. 97-117.
— “Transkulturation und die Unmöglichkeit der Liebe als Passion: Bodo Kirchhoffs Infanta (1990),“ in: Nach der Utopie der Liebe? Literarische Liebesentwürfe und Beziehungsmodelle nach der romantischen Liebe, ed. by Henriette Herwig und Miriam Seidler. Würzburg: Ergon Verlag, 2014. 169-188.
— “Violence, Gender, and the Construction of the Other in the Story of Inkle and Yarico,” in: Gender Matters: Discourses of Violence in Early Modern Literature and the Arts, ed. by Mara Wade. Amsterdam / New York: Rodopi, 2014. 367-380.
— “Hans Keilson im Exil. Zur jüdisch-niederländisch-deutschen Transkulturation,” in: Die vergangene Zeit bleibt die erlittene Zeit. Untersuchungen zum Werk von Hans Keilson, ed. by Simone Schröder, Ulrike Weymann, and Andreas Martin Widmann. Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann, 2013. 105-126.
-- “The Legacy of Enlightenment Anthropology and the Construction of the Primitive Other in Kleist’s ‘Die Verlobung in St. Domingo,’” in: Heinrich von Kleist: Style and Concept. Explorations in Literary Dissonance, ed. by Dieter Sevin and Christoph Zeller. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2013. 231-243.
-- “Translating the Pacific: Georg Forster’s ‘A Voyage round the World’ / ‘Reise um die Welt’ (1777-1780),” in: Travel Narratives in Translation, 1750-1830: Nationalism, Ideology, Gender, ed. by Alison E. Martin and Susan Pickford. New York: Routledge, 2012. 110-132.
-- (together with Stefani Engelstein): “Introduction. Violence, Culture, Aesthetics: Germany 1789-1938,” in: Contemplating Violence. 13-32. (see Books Edited or Co-Edited)
-- “Constructing the Fascist Subject: Violence, Gender, and Sexuality in Ödön von Horváth’s Jugend ohne Gott,” in: Contemplating Violence. 139-161.
-- “Romanticism and Other Cultures,” in: The Cambridge Companion to German Romanticism, ed. Nicholas Saul. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2009. 147-162.
— “Casanova's Radical Enlightenment,” in: The Promise and Limits of Enlightenment. Festschrift for John A. McCarthy, ed. Richard E. Schade and Dieter Sevin. Amsterdam / New York: Rodopi, 2007. 75-92.
— “Mahler, Rembrandt, and the Dark Side of German Culture,” in: Legacies of Modernism. Art and Politics in Northern Europe, 1890-1950, eds. Patrizia C. McBride, Richard W. McCormick, and Monika Zagar. New York: Palgrave, 2007. 29-40.
— ”Mahler en Rembrandt,” De Gids 170.2 (February 2006): 166-174.
— Essays on “Germanic Review” and “New German Critique,” in: German Studies in the United States. A Historical Handbook, ed. Peter U. Hohendahl. New York: MLA, 2003. 366-377.
— “‘Gute Freunde aller Orten’ Lichtenbergs Sicht der Nicht-Europäer,” in: Literaturwissenschaft als Kulturwissenschaft: Interkulturalität und Alterität — Interdisziplinarität und Medialität — Konzeptionalisierungen und Mythographie. Akten des X. Internationalen Germanistenkongresses Wien 2000, Bd. 9, ed. Peter Wiesinger. Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang, 2003. 217-222.
— “Men in Pain: Disease and Displacement in Kleist’s Der Findling,” in: Kleists Erzählungen und Dramen. Neue Studien, eds. Paul Michael Lützeler and David Pan. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2001. 107-119.
— (together with Laurie R. Johnson) “German Poetry 1750-1850,” The Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation, ed. Peter France. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2000. 309-313.
— “Race and Gender in Multatuli’s Max Havelaar and Love Letters.” One Hundred Years of Masochism: Studies in the Culture of Psychoanalysis (see Books Edited or Co-Edited) 171-190.
— “Vom Kreislauf der Geschichte. Moderne, Postmoderne, Prämoderne: Christoph Ransmayrs Morbus Kitahara.” Die Erfindung der Welt: Zum Werk von Christoph Ransmayr, ed. Uwe Wittstock. Frankfurt a.M.: Fischer Taschenbuchverlag, March 1997. Fischer Taschenbuch 13433. 158-180.
D. Articles
— “Johann Gottfried Herder, Enlightenment Anthropology, and the Jew as a ‘Parasitic Plant’”; accepted for publication by the Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook (Oxford UP) (revisions accepted).
— “Zemlinsky contra Mahler: Aesthetic Modernism, the Jewish Body, and the Violence of Fairy Tales”; accepted by German Studies Review (2022, second issue).
— “Der Anfang und das Ende der niederländischen Republik in Kleists Der zerbrochne Krug,” in: Jahrbuch der deutschen Schiller-Gesellschaft, vol. 65 (2021), 115–36. [ open access: https://www.wallstein-verlag.de/9783835350854-005.html ]
— “Zur Narrativisierung der Natur. Johann Friedrich Blumenbachs Beyträge zur Naturgeschichte (1790) zwischen Naturgeschichte und Anthropologie,” in: Rhetorik, Geschichte, Natur, special issue of Jahrbuch Rhetorik, vol. 38 (2019), edited by Benjamin Biebuyck, pp. 18–37.
— “Robinson Crusoe, Inkle and Yarico en het Europese koloniale project” [“Robinson Crusoe, Inkle and Yarico, and the European Colonial Project”], in: Jaarboek De Achttiende Eeuw, focus: 300 Years Robinson Crusoe, vol. 51 (2019), pp. 21–33.
— “L.H. Wieners In zee gaat niets verloren en de Nederlandse Herinneringscultuur” [“L.H. Wiener’s At Sea Nothing is lost and Dutch Memory Culture”], in: Vooys, special issue “Politiek en literatuur” [“Politics and Literature”], 36.3 (2018): 58–62.
— “Literatures of the Contact Zone: Hans Keilson, Nico Rost, Albert Vigoleis Thelen, and the Literary Spaces of the Late 1940s and Early 1950s,” in: On Margins and Contact Zones: 500 Years of Dutch-German Cultural Interaction, edited by Carl Niekerk and Simon Richter, special issue of Journal of Dutch Literature 9.1 (2018): 112–27.
— “World Literature without Goethe: On Pramoedya Ananta Toer’s Labor Camp Memoirs The Mute’s Soliloquy,” in: Goethe, Worlds, Literatures, edited by Daniel Purdy, Stefan Uhlig, and Chunjie Zhang; special issue of Seminar 54.2 (2018): 247–66.
— “Colonial/Postcolonial Chronotopes in Pramoedya Ananta Toer’s The Girl from the Coast,” in: Symposium 71.1 (2017): 14-27.
— “Het verhaal van een ansichtkaart. Over een foto uit Nederlands Indië” [“The Story of a Postcard: About a Photograph from the Dutch Indies”], in: De parelduiker 21.2 (2016): 37-43.
— (with Margrit Vogt) Article: “Die widersprüchliche Ordnung der Dinge. Objekte, Körper und Identitäten in Der zerbrochne Krug, Amphitryon und den Kant-Briefen,” in: Kleist Jahrbuch 2015: 130-149.
— “Der Orient-Diskurs in Lessings Hamburgischer Dramaturgie,” in: Lessings Hamburgische Dramaturgie im Kontext des europäischen theaters im 18. Jahrhundert, ed. by Monika Fick and Monika Nenon, special issue of Lessing Yearbook / Jahrbuch XLI (2014): 175-190.
-- “Radical Thinking and the Dialogic Mode in Karl Philipp Moritz’s Andreas-Hartknopf-Novels,” in: The Eighteenth-Century Novel, ed. by Matt Erlin and Sean Franzel, special issue of Seminar, 49.2 (May 2013): 191-208.
-- “Reading Proust with Sacher-Masoch,” in: Comparatio. Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft 4.1 (2012): 53-69.
-- “De Eerste Wereldoorlog en het zwijgen van Karl Kraus” [“World War One and Karl Kraus’s Silence”], in: Oorlog [War], special issue of Vooys. Tijdschrift voor letteren 30.3 (2012): 10-19.
-- “Tussen neoromantiek en avant-garde” [“Between Neoromanticism and Avant-garde”], in: De laatste vragen van Gustav Mahler [Gustav Mahler’s Final Questions], ed. by Rob Riemen: 123-137. Special issue of Nexus 59 (2011).
-- “Image, Sound, and Text: Aesthetic Education in the Age of New Media in Josef Haslinger’s Das Vaterspiel (2000),” in: The Austrian Noughties: Films, Texts, Debates, ed. by Allyson Fiddler, Jon Hughes, and Florian Krobb: 22-36. Special issue of Austrian Studies 19 (2011).
-- "The Postmodern Moment and the Return of History in Doron Rabinovici's Ohnehin (2004)," Germanistik in Ireland. Jahrbuch der / Yearbook of the Association of Third-Level Teachers of German in Ireland 6 (2011), special issue: After Postmodernism / Nach der Postmoderne, ed. by Rachel MagShamhráin and Sabine Strümper-Krobb: 55-70.
-- “Modernity, Sexuality, and Gender in Pramoedya Ananta Toer’s This Earth of Mankind (1980), ” Symposium 65.2 (2011): 77-98.
-- “Vienna around 1900 and the Crisis of Public Art (Klimt, Mahler, Schnitzler),” Neophilologus 95.1 (2011): 95-107.
-- “Poetik der Metonymie: Alterität in Christoph Ransmayrs Der fliegende Berg”; Literatur für Leser 3/08 (2008): 177-193.
-- ”Mahler’s Goethe,” Musical Quarterly (Oxford UP) 89.2-3 (2006 [actual date of publication: early 2008]): 237-272.
-- “Man and Orangutan in Eighteenth-Century Thinking: Retracing the Early History of Dutch and German Anthropology,” Monatshefte 96.4(2004): 477-502.
-- “Mahler contra Wagner: The Philosophical Legacy of Romanticism in Mahler’s Third and Fourth Symphonies,” German Quarterly 77.2 (2004): 189-210; a shorter version was published in: Sound Matters: Essays on the Acoustics of German Culture, eds. Nora M. Alter and Lutz Koepnick. New York: Berghahn, 2004. 49-64.
-- “Der anthropologische Diskurs in Lessings Nathan der Weise,” Neophilologus, 88 (2004): 227-42.
-- “Rethinking a Problematic Constellation: Postcolonialism and its Germanic Contexts (Pramoedya Ananta Toer / Multatuli),” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, special issue on Comparative (Post)Colonialisms, 23.1 & 2 (2003): 58-69.
-- “Spätaufklärung — Rethinking the Late Eighteenth Century in German Literary History,” JEGP, 102.3 (July 2003): 317-35.
-- “Wieland und die Irrwege der Aufklärung. Öffentlichkeitskritik in der Geschichte der Abderiten,” Lessing Yearbook XXXIII, 2001: 233-59.
-- “Lessing in the Netherlands: The Case of Theodorus Cornelis van Stockum,” Lessing Yearbook XXXII, 2000. Proceedings of the Lessing Society Conference »Lesssing International — Lessing Reception Abroad« held at Vanderbilt University, Nashville Tennessee, 28-31 October 1999: 179-94.
-- “Kleists Männer, ihre Sexualität und die Nation.” Weimarer Beiträge, 45.4 (1999): 569-83.
-- “Foucault, Freud, Musil: Macht und Masochismus in den Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törleß.” Zeitschrift für deutsche Philologie, 116.4 (December 1997): 545-66.
-- “Sexual Imagery in Goethe’s Faust II.” Seminar, 33.1 (February 1997): 1-21.
-- “‘Individuum est ineffabile.’ Bildung, der Physiognomikstreit und die Frage nach dem Subjekt in Goethes Wilhelm-Meister-Projekt.” Colloquia Germanica, 28.1 (1995): 1-33.
-- “Der Umgang mit dem Untergang: Projektion als erzählerisches Prinzip in Thomas Bernhards Untergeher.” Monatshefte 85.4 (1993): 464-77.
E. Book Reviews
— Beobachtung und Urteil. Literarische Aufklärung bei Lessing und Wieland, by Hendrikje Schauer. Das achtzehnte Jahrhundert, 45.2 (2021): 315–16.
— >>Komteß Mizzi<<. Eine Chronik aus dem Wien um 1900, edited by Walter Schübler, Journal of Austrian Studies, 54.3 (2021): 121–24.
— The Quest for Redemption: Central European Jewish Thought in Joseph Roth’s Works, by Rares G. Piloiu. Journal of Austrian Studies, 53.2 (2020): 99–101.
— Anthropologie und Ästhetik. Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven, edited by Britta Herrmann. Monatshefte 112.3 (2020): 529–31.
— Transculturality and German Discourse in the Age of European Colonialism, by Chunjie Zhang. The Germanic Review 93.2 (2018): 212–14.
— Recoding World Literature: Libraries, Print Culture, and Germany’s Pact with Books, by B. Venkat Mani. Goethe Yearbook 25 (2018): 308–10.
— Nietzsche’s Jewish Problem: Between Anti-Semitism and Anti-Judaism, by Robert Holub. German Quarterly 90.4 (2017): 500–02.
— Der ganze Mensch – die ganze Menschheit. Völkerkundliche Anthropologie, Literatur und Ästhetik um 1800. Edited by Stefan Hermes and Sebastian Kaufmann. Monatshefte 108.3 (2016): 413–15.
— (Re-)Writing the Radical: Enlightenment, Revolution and Cultural Transfer in 1790s Germany, Britain and France. Edited by Maike Oergel. Monatshefte 107.3 (2015): 494-497.
— Von Kunstworten und –werten. Die Entstehung der deutschen Kunstkritik in Periodika der Aufklärung, by Margrit Vogt. German Studies Review 38.1 (2015): 159-161.
— Lessing and the German Enlightenment, ed. by Ritchie Robertson. Monatshefte 106.3 (Fall 2014): 497-499.
— Der Fall Esra. Ein Roman vor Gericht. Über die neuen Grenzen der Literaturfreiheit, by Uwe Wittstock. German Studies Review 37.2 (2014): 473-475.
— Gustav Mahler, by Jens Malte Fischer. Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 32.2 (Spring 2014): 151-153.
– Berlin Psychoanalytic: Psychoanalysis and Culture in Weimar Republic Germany and beyond, by Veronika Fuechtner. Nexus (10.31.2012) <https://www.nexus-instituut.nl/leestafel/139-berlin-psychoanalytic>
– The Anatomy of Blackness: Science and Slavery in an Age of Enlightenment, by Andrew S. Curran. Centaurus 54.3 (2012): 252-254.
– Literarische Anthropologie. Die Neuentdeckung des Menschen, by Alexander Košenina. Monatshefte 102.1 (2010): 90-92.
-- Turning to Nature in Germany: Hiking, Nudism, and Conservation,1900-1940, by John Alexander Williams. Monatshefte 101.3 (2009): 439, 440.
-- Masochismus und Kolonialismus. Literatur, Film und Pädagogik, by Sabine Wilke. German Quarterly 82.1 (2009): 136, 137.
-- The German Invention of Race. Sara Eigen and Mark Larrimore, eds. Monatshefte 99. 4 (2007): 563-566.
-- Zwischen Empirisierung und Konstruktionsleistung: Anthropologie im 18. Jahrhundert. Jörn Garber and Heinz Thoma, eds. Monatshefte 99.1 (2007): 103-106.
-- Physiognomy in Profile: Lavater's Impact on European Culture, Melissa Percival and Graeme Tytler, eds. Seminar 42.4 (2006): 440-41.
-- Spinoza’s Modernity. Mendelssohn, Lessing, and Heine, by Willi Goetschel. Monatshefte 97.1 (2005): 533-35.
-- About Face: German Physiognomic Thought from Lavater to Auschwitz, by Richard T. Gray. German Quarterly 78.3 (2005): 407-09.
-- Weltbewußtsein. Alexander von Humboldt und das unvollendete Projekt einer anderen Moderne, by Ottmar Ette. Monatshefte 97.1 (2005): 115-17.
-- Balancing Acts: Intercultural Encounters in Contemporary German and Austrian Literature, by Monika Shafi. Gegenwartsliteratur. Ein germanistisches Jahrbuch / A German Studies Yearbook 3 (2004): 331-33.
-- Nathans Ende? Von Lessing bis Tabori: Zur deutsch-jüdischen Rezeption von »Nathan der Weise«, by Barbara Fischer. Seminar 40.2 (2004): 171-73.
-- Kant, Herder, and the Birth of Anthropology, by John H. Zammito. Monatshefte 96.1 (2004): 124-26.
-- Aufklärung als Dialog. Wielands antithetische Prosa, by Bernhard Budde. Seminar 38.3 (2002): 279-81.
-- Self-Generation: Biology, Philosophy, and Literature around 1800, by Helmut Müller-Sievers. Seminar 37.1 (2001): 77-79.
-- Literatur in der Diktatur. Schreiben im Nationalsozialismus und DDR-Sozialismus, ed. Günther Rüther. German Quarterly 73.3 (2000): 330-31.
-- Das Goethe-Tabu: Protest und Menschenrechte im klassischen Weimar, by W. Daniel Wilson. JEGP 99.3 (2000): 428-30.
-- In der Sprache der Täter: Neue Lektüren deutschsprachiger Nachkriegs- und Gegenwartsliteratur, ed. Stephan Braese. German Quarterly 72.3 (1999): 322-23.
-- Die Verwaltung des Abenteuers: Massenkultur um 1800 am Beispiel Christian August Vulpius, by Roberto Simanowski. German Quarterly 72.3 (1999): 300-01.
-- Geschichten der Physiognomik: Text, Bild, Wissen, eds. Rüdiger Campe and Manfred Schneider. Seminar 35.3 (1999): 279-80.
-- Troubled Pleasures: Dutch Colonial Literature from the East Indies 1600-1950, by E.M. Beekman. JEGP 98.2 (1999): 310-12.
-- Austria and other Margins: Reading Culture, by Katherine Arens. German Studies Review 22.2 (1999): 356-7.
-- Leibhafter Sinn. Der andere Diskurs der Moderne, by Georg Braungart. Lessing Yearbook XXX, 1998: 235-36.
-- Kulturstreit - Streitkultur. German Literature Since the Wall, eds. Peter Monteath and Reinhard Alter. Seminar 34.4 (1998): 466-67.
-- Lebensgeschichte als Körpergeschichte: Studien zum Bildungsroman im 18. Jahrhundert, by Thomas Kahlcke. German Studies Review 21.3 (1998): 590-91.
-- Literatur und politische Aktualität, eds. Elrud Ibsch and Ferdinand van Ingen. GDR Bulletin 24 (1997): 96-97.
-- Franz Kafka, the Jewish Patient, by Sander L. Gilman. Deutsche Bücher 26.2 (1996): 138-41.
-- Physiognomie und Pathognomie: Zur literarischen Darstellung von Individualität,eds. Wolfram Groddeck and Ulrich Stadler. Zeitschrift für Germanistik. Neue Folge 5.1 (1996): 199-202.
-- The Berkeley Conference on Dutch Literature. Europe 1992: Dutch Literature in an International Context, eds. Johan P. Snapper, Thomas F. Shannon. Literatuur 11.3 (May/June 1994): 186-87.
-- The New Historicism, ed. H. Aram Veeser. Forum der Letteren 34.3 (1993): 234-37.
-- Chronist ohne Botschaft. Christoph Hein. Ein Arbeitsbuch, ed. Klaus Hammer. Deutsche Bücher 23.2 (1993): 150-54.
-- Die Geburt des Partisanen aus dem Geist der Poesie. Heinrich von Kleist und die Strategie der Befreiungskriege, by Wolf Kittler. German Quarterly 64.3 (1991): 395-96.
-- Signs of the Times. Deconstruction and the Fall of Paul de Man, by David Lehman. Vrij Nederland 46 (August 3, 1991): 73.
F. Other
-- Essay: “Why Hermeneutics? Rereading Hans-Georg Gadamer’s Wahrheit und Methode,” Monatshefte 96.2 (2004): 163-68.
-- Diskussionsbeitrag, Lessing Yearbook XXXII, 2000: 422-24.
-- Lexicon Entries on “Cynical Reason,” “Manfred Frank,” “Jürgen Habermas,” and “Neostructuralism,” in: Encyclopedia of Postmodernism, eds. Victor E. Taylor and Charles E. Winquist. New York, London: Routledge, 2001. 77-78, 135-136, 168-169, and 263.
-- Essay: “Grenzüberschreitungen: Cees Nootebooms Berliner Notizen,” Neue Rundschau 104.1 (1993): 162-64.
IIIa. Service to Disciplinary and Professional Societies or Associations
Co-editor (with Monika Fick and Monika Nenon, book reviews), Lessing Yearbook / Jahrbuch, 2012/13 and 2015; principal / managing editor 2016—2020
Book Review Editor Literature and Culture, German Studies Review, September 2012—2016
Member, National/International Advisory Board, Monatshefte, 2013—2015
Member, Board, International Lessing Society, 2012—…
Member, Editorial Board, Journal of English and Germanic Philology, January 2001—January 2003
Member, Executive Committee, Discussion Group Netherlandic Language and Literature, MLA, 1997-2002
IIIb. Service: Department / College / Campus
2013-2014
Department Head
Committee for Study Abroad Review, Campus
Ad-hoc undergraduate curriculum advisory committee, Provost’s office
Ad-hoc Committee on Majors and Minors, SLCL (chair)
Faculty Appeals Committee, SLCL
Coordinator Graduate reading exams, Dept.
2012-2013
Department Head
Committee for Study Abroad Review, Campus
Ad-hoc Committee on Majors and Minors, SLCL (chair)
Faculty Appeals Committee, SLCL
Coordinator Graduate reading exams, Dept.
2011-2012
Department Head
Coordinator Graduate reading exams, Dept.
2010-2011
Advisory Committee, Dept.
Undergraduate Matters Committee, Dept.
Member, Search Committee Scandinavian Lecturer (Summer 2010)
Taskforce Program in Translation Studies
Coordinator Graduate reading exams, Dept.
2009-2010
Advisory Committee, Dept.
Awards Committee, Dept.
Mediation Committee, Dept.
Executive Committee, School of Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics
Executive Committee, Graduate College
Literatures and Languages Planning Team, Library (Fall 2009)
LAS Courses and Curricula Committee (chair)
Taskforce Program in Translation Studies
MA Program Committee, Program in Translation Studies
2008-2009
Graduate advisor
Advisory Committee
Admissions and financial aid committee
Awards committee
Committee member Twentieth Century Search (postponed)
Executive Committee School of Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics
LAS Courses and Curricula Committee
Taskforce Program in Translation Studies
MA Program Committee, Program in Translation Studies
2007-2008
Graduate Advisor
Advisory Committee
Courses and Curricula Committee
LAS Courses and Curricula Committee
Search Committee AIEP position (chair)
2006-2007
Undergraduate Advisor
Advisory Committee
Courses and Curricula Committee
Scandinavian search (chair)
Lecturer search
LAS Courses and Curricula Committee
2005-2006
Undergraduate Advisor
Advisory Committee
Courses and Curricula Committee (chair)
Humanities Honors and Scholarships Committee (LAS)
Faculty Senate
2004-2005
Undergraduate Advisor
Advisory Committee
Courses and Curricula Committee
Coordinator GER 211/212
Humanities Honors and Scholarships Committee (LAS)
Faculty Senate
2003-2004
Undergraduate Advisor
Advisory Committee
Courses and Curricula Committee
Coordinator GER 211/212
Organizer Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft (Fall)
Mellon Post Doc. Search Committee (LAS)
2002-2003
Undergraduate Advisor
Advisory Committee
Courses and Curricula Committee
Coordinator GER 211/212
Mellon Post Doc. Search Committee (LAS)
2001-2002
Undergraduate Advisor
Advisory Committee
Courses and Curricula Committee
Honors and Awards Committee
Coordinator GER 211/212
2000-2001
20th-century Search Committee
Advisory Committee
Courses and Curricula Committee
German Club
Coordinator GER 211/212
2000-1999
20th-century Search Committee
Advisory Committee
Financial Aid Committee
German Club
Coordinator GER 211/212
1998-1999
Advisory Committee
Committee Courses and Curricula
Financial Aid Committee
Delta Phi Alpha
Coordinator GER 211/212
1997-1998
Financial Aid Committee
20th-century Search Committee
Committee Capricious Grading
Grievance Committee
German High School Day
Delta Phi Alpha
IV. Honors, Recognitions, and Outstanding Achievements
— Associate member, Chicago Center for Jewish Studies, University of Chicago (since 2010)
— Excellence in Undergraduate Advising Awards, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Campus (2008)
— Alumni Discretionary Award, UIUC (Fall 2004, Fall 2006)
— Faculty Development Grant, MELLON Foundation (Fall 2003)
— Research Grant, University of Regensburg/Vielberth-Stiftung (Summer 2000)
— Award for Best Article of 1997, selected by the Editorial Committee of Seminar
— NEH/DAAD Summer Research Grant, Cornell University (Summer 1995)
— Dissertation Fellowship, Washington University (Spring Semester 1993)
V. Summary of Instruction
Fall 2013: GER 270 ‘History of Sexuality’
GER 576 ‘Sexuality Literature, and Film since 1774’ (graduate seminar)
Spring 2013: EURO 199 / GER 199 / GLBL 199 ‘Europe in Trouble’
Fall 2012: GER 270
Spring 2012: GER 211 ‘Advanced Conversation and Composition 1’
Fall 2011: GER 270
Spring 2011: GER 211
Fall 2010: GER 201 ‘German Popular Culture’
GER 270
GER 471 ‘Eighteenth- and Early-nineteenth-century German Literature and Culture’
Spring 2010: GER 211 b
GER 211 X
GER 593 Ind. Study (Pol. Sci.) ‘Immigration in the Netherlands today’
Fall 2009: GER 270
GER 573 ‘The Enlightenment and Other Cultures’
Spring 2009: GER 211
GER 332 ‘Adolescence in German Literature’
Fall 2008: GER 270
GER 471
Spring 2008: GER 211
GER 332
Fall 2007: GER 270 ‘History of Sexuality’
GER 575 ‘From Modernism to Fascism: Austrian Literature 1893-1938’
Spring 2007: GER 472
Fall 2006: GER 199 Discovery Course ‘History of Sexuality’
GER 471
Spring 2006: GER 211b
GER 211d
Fall 2005: GER 573 ‘Goethe’s Modernity’
Spring 2005: GER 211
GER 575 ‘20th-c. Austrian Literature’
Fall 2004: GER 199 Discovery Course ‘History of Sexuality’
GER 471
SABBATICAL / MELLON GRANT
Spring 2003: GER 211
Fall 2002: GER 371
GER 470 ‘Germanic Colonialism and Postcolonialism’
Spring 2002: GER 396 ‘20th-c. Austrian Lit.’
Fall 2001: GER 199 ‘History of Sexuality’
GER 473 ‘Radical Enlightenment’
Fall 2000: GER 371
GER 470 ‘The Anthropological Beginnings of the German Novel’
Spring 2000: GER 211GER 231
Fall 1999: GER 320 ‘German Cultural History’
GER 371
Spring 1999: GER 211
GER 231
Fall 1998: GER 211
GER 470 ‘Introduction to Theory’
Spring 1998: GER 231
GER 374 ‘Poetics’
Fall 1997: GER 231
GER 301
VI. Other Media
— Introduction Josef Haslinger, Narrating Integration: One Story at a Time, Conference U. of Illinois, October 28, 2011:
http://eucenterillinois.blogspot.com/2011/11/narrating-integration-one-story-at-time.html [Video]
— Contribution to debate A Sense of Crisis, part of Gustav Mahler’s Ultimate Questions on Man, Art and God, Mahler Centennial conference, organized by the Nexus Institute in conjunction with the Concertgebouw Orchestra at The Amsterdam Music Theater (Opera House), May 14, 2011: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU3WkRyf0iE [Video]
— Participant in public radio program Encounter (Australian Broadcast Corporation), Mahler’s Resurrection, on Mahler’s Second Symphony (December 5, 2010) http://www.abc.net.au/rn/encounter/stories/2010/3080219.htm [transcript]
— Websites: http://carlniekerk.weebly.com/
http://illinois.academia.edu/CarlNiekerk