Mary Helen Dupree Department of German Intercultural Center 461

Mary Helen Dupree
Department of German
Intercultural Center 461
3700 O St. NW
Washington, DC 20057-1048
(202) 687-5819
[email protected]
I. Education
Columbia University, Ph.D., German Literature, May 2006.
Columbia University, M.Phil., German Literature, May 2002.
Columbia University, M.A., German Literature, January 2000.
Swarthmore College, B.A. with High Honors, English and German Literature,
May 1996.
II. Employment
Assistant Professor, Department of German, Georgetown University, August 2008present.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of German and Slavic Studies, Rice University,
August 2006-May 2008.
III. Publications
Books
Dark Singing: Literary Declamation in Germany, 1750-1920. Book manuscript in
progress.
The Mask and the Quill: Actress-Writers in Germany from Enlightenment to
Romanticism. Bucknell, Pennsylvania: Bucknell University Press, 2011.
Edited Volumes
Performing Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century, ed. Mary Helen Dupree and
Sean Franzel. Berlin: De Gruyter, anticipated 2014. In progress.
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Articles
“Kleist in Irland: Zur Kleist-Rezeption im Werk John Banvilles.” Schreiben nach Kleist,
ed. Helmut Schneider, Anne Fleig and Christian Moser. Freiburg i. Br.: Rombach,
forthcoming 2013.
"'The Glazed Surface of Conviction': The Motif of the Broken Jug in Kleist's Der
zerbrochne Krug and Ian McEwan's Atonement. Heinrich von Kleist 1777-1811-2011:
Artistic and Political Legacies, ed. Jeffrey High. Amsterdam: Rodopi, forthcoming
2013.
“From 'Dark Singing' to a Science of the Voice: Gustav Anton von Seckendorff, the
Declamatory Concert and the Acoustic Turn Around 1800.” Deutsche
Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte 86, 3 (Fall 2012): 365396.
“Ein Geschöpf der Einbildung des Herrn Lessing: Fictions of Acting and Virtue in the
Postmortem Reception of Charlotte Ackermann (1757-1775).” Goethe Yearbook 16
(2009): 135-160.
“Elise in Weimar,” in Patricia Anne Simpson and Evelyn Moore, ed., The Enlightened
Eye: Goethe and Visual Culture. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007. 111-26.
Reviews
Review of Yoshio Tomishige and Soichiro Itoda, eds. Aufführungsdiskurse im 18.
Jahrhundert: Bühnenästhetik, Theaterkritik und Öffentlichkeit, in Lessing Yearbook 2013.
Review of Katherine Hirt, When Machines Play Chopin: Musical Spirit and Automation
in Nineteenth-Century German Literature, in Monatshefte 104, 1(Spring 2012): 120122.
Review of Alexander Mathäs, Narcissism and Paranoia in the Age of Goethe, in
German Quarterly 83 (2010): 251-52.
“To Perform, or Not to Perform, Femininity.” Review of Wendy Arons, Performance
and Femininity in Eighteenth-Century German Women’s Writing: The Impossible Act, in
IASL Online, 2008 (http://www.iaslonline.de/index.php?vorgang_id=2764).
Review of William Jay Smith's translation of Jules Laforgue, Berlin: The City and the
Court, in Sobriquet 11, 8 (Fall 2005)
(http://www.sobriquetmagazine.com/online/2005/12/berlin-city-and-court.html).
Translations
Translation of Sabine Frost, “The Whiteout of Text, or the Pleasures of Disruption,”
in Geert Gooris et al., Whiteout. The Unreliable Narrator. Leuven: Acco, 2011.
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Translation of Victoria Tkaczyk, “Ready for Takeoff: Robert Hooke’s Flying
Experiments,” trans. Mary Helen Dupree. Cabinet: Quarterly Magazine of Arts and
Culture 27 (Fall 2007): 44-49.
Translation of Günter Kunert, “Everyday History of a Berlin Street,” trans. Mary
Helen Dupree and Sybil Milton, The Legacy Project: Literary Sampler
(http://www.legacy-project.org/lit/display.html?ID=4),1999).
IV. Presentations and Talks
Conferences
“Last Wills: On the Mediality and Orality of Women’s Confessions in EighteenthCentury German Literature.” To be presented at 2013 ASECS annual convention,
Cleveland, OH, April 4-7, 2013.
“Romantic Declamation in Germany.” Romantic Media Studies roundtable, MLA
annual convention, Boston, MA, January 2013.
“Reviving Amalie: Using Marianne Ehrmann's Works in an Undergraduate
Curriculum.” ACTFL/ AATG annual convention, Philadelphia, PA, November 16-18,
2012.
“Madame Hensels gesammeltes Schweigen: Zur (Mit)wirkung von
Schauspielerinnen im Hamburger Theater und in der Hamburgischen Dramaturgie.“
Lessing Society international conference, Wolfenbüttel, Germany, November 7-9,
2012.
“Imagined (Acoustic) Communities and Literary Declamation Around 1800.” GSA
annual convention, Milwaukee, WI, October 4-7, 2012.
“The Theatre of Education: German Women Writers Respond to Madame de
Genlis, 1794-1800.” NEMLA annual convention, Rochester, NY, March 15-18,
2012.
“Beyond Disaffection: Graduate Mentoring and Collaboration in an Integrated
Language and Content Curriculum.” Symposium on the Future of German Studies,
Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA, February 23, 2012.
“Eine ‚Hör-Geschichte’ der Zukunft? Das Phantasma der akustischen Zukunft in
der Deklamationstheorie vor 1800.“ Presented at ISECS convention, Graz, Austria,
July 24-29, 2011.
“Ottilie’s Echo: Hierarchies of Seeing and Hearing in Goethe’s
Wahlverwandtschaften.” NEMLA annual convention, New Brunswick, NJ, April 7-
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10, 2011.
“Modernity as Antitheatrical Prejudice: Interrogating the Notion of Verbürgerlichung
in Eighteenth-Century German Theater.” Historiography Working Group, IFTR
annual convention, Munich, Germany, July 24-30, 2010.
“Signs of Life: Declamation and tableaux in the German Eighteenth Century.”
Annual Bloomington Eighteenth Century Workshop on “Forms of Life in the
Eighteenth Century,” May 12-14, 2010.
“From Stage to Page: Salon Performance and Print Culture Around 1800.” NEMLA
annual convention, Montréal, Québec, April 8-11, 2010.
“’Gedenke zu leben!’: Secular Funerals and the Oral Performance of Literature
Around 1800.” GSA annual convention, Washington, DC, October 2009.
“The Semantics of the Shawl: Attitüden and Cross-Dressing Around 1800.” Women
in German annual convention, Snowbird, Utah, October 23-26, 2008.
“At-One With Kleist: The Motif of the Broken Jug in Ian McEwan’s Atonement.”
GSA annual convention, Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 2-5, 2008.
“Performing Text as Music: The Declamatory Concert Around 1800.” ASECS
annual convention, Portland, Oregon, March 2008.
“Femininity on Tour: Henriette Hendel-Schütz and the Image of the Actress.” GSA
annual convention, San Diego, California, October 2007.
“Die Maske und die Feder. ‘Schreibende Schauspielerinnen’ zwischen Sturm und
Drang und Romantik.” Interdisziplinärer Studientag, Forschungsbibliothek Gotha,
Germany, July 2007.
“From Ackermann to Aurelie: Re-Reading Theatrical Doubles in the Wilhelm
Meister Novels.” ASECS annual convention, Atlanta, Georgia, March 2007.
“Risky Business: Gambling Addiction and Masculinity in Marianne Ehrmann’s Amalie.
Eine wahre Geschichte in Briefen.” MLA annual convention, Philadelphia, PA,
December 2006.
“Elise [Bürger] in Weimar: ‘Minor’ Women Writers, Theater and the Resistance to
Classicism.” ASECS annual convention, Montreal, Canada, March 2006.
Invited Talks
“Performing Schiller’s Johanna, Past and Present.” Invited talk at Klassisches
Oktoberfest of the American Goethe Society, Washington, DC, October 20, 2012.
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"Das ist nur Deklamation, zur Sache! Literarische Deklamation im Medienwandel um
1800." Invited talk at Seminar für allgemeine Rhetorik, Eberhard-Karls Universität
Tübingen, Germany, July 18, 2012.
“The Mask and the Quill: Women’s Writing and Theatrical Performance in
Germany, 1775-1815.” Invited talk at Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA,
February 24, 2012.
“From ‘Dark Singing’ to a Science of the Voice: Christian Gotthold Schocher and
the Theory of Literary Declamation around 1800.” Invited talk at Columbia
University Deutsches Haus, New York, NY, February 17, 2011.
“Vom ‘dunklen Gesang’ zur Wissenschaft der Stimme: Theorie und Praxis der
(literarischen) Deklamation um 1800.” Invited talk at Germanistisches Seminar der
Universität Bonn, Germany, December 10, 2010.
“Das deklamatorische Konzert und die Performanz des Wissens um 1800.” Institut
für Aufklärungsforschung lecture series, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle, Germany,
June 2009.
“The Mask and the Quill. ‘Actress-Writers’ from Enlightenment to Romanticism.”
Departmental Lecture Series, German and Slavic Studies, Rice University,
September 2007.
V. Fellowship Awards
Faculty of Languages and Linguistics (FLL) fellowship for summer research in Berlin,
Georgetown University, Summer 2009, 2010, 2012.
Herzog-Ernst-Stipendium for summer study at the Forschungsbibliothek Gotha,
Universität Erfurt, Germany, June-July 2007, June-July 2008.
Carl Schurz Fellowship for study at the Forschungsbibliothek Gotha, Universität
Erfurt, Germany, October 2005-March 2006.
Whiting Memorial Fellowship for study in Berlin, Germany. Fall 2004-Spring 2005.
Fulbright Year Fellowship for study in Berlin, Germany, Fall 2003-Spring 2004
(extended through August 2004).
VI. Academic Service
Treasurer, Lessing Society, Spring 2013-present.
Board Member, Lessing Society, Spring 2012-present.
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Humanities Assessment Initiative, Department of German, Georgetown University,
Fall 2011-present.
Faculty of Languages and Literatures Summer Grant Committee, Georgetown
University, 2011-2012
Director, Georgetown-At-Trier Program, Summer 2012.
Graduate Admissions Committee, Department of German, Georgetown University,
2010-2012.
Presenter, GU Orientation Week Prelude Program, September 2011.
Merit Committee, Department of German, Georgetown University, Spring 2011.
Georgetown College Executive Committee, Fall 2008-Spring 2009, Spring 2011.
Co-Organizer, German Department Student Speech Contest (Redewettbewerb),
Georgetown University, Spring 2010.
Fulbright Committee, Georgetown University, Fall 2009.
Text in Context Curriculum Design Committee, Department of German, Fall 2008Spring 2009.
Nominating Committee, Goethe Society of North America, Spring 2009.
Alumni Admissions Volunteer, Swarthmore College, Fall 2007-present.
VII. Collaborative Project
Member of Berlin-based interdisciplinary scholarly network on "Acoustic Histories
of Knowledge" (Wissensgeschichte des Hörens), funded by Deutsche
Forschungsgemeinschaft, 2012-present
VIII. Advising and Courses Taught
Undergraduate Courses
Intermediate through Advanced German
Text in Context: Reading Germany
Liebe, Lust, und Leidenschaft
Enter the Actress
Images of Childhood
Graduate Courses
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Private Lives, Public Virtues
Eighteenth Century Drama
Kleist: Aesthetics and Politics
The German Novel in the Long Eighteenth Century
Graduate Advising
M.A. students
Carolyn Osinski
Ashleigh Stall
Ph.D. students
Deva Kemmis (Reader, defended November 2012)
Tessa Wegener (Reader, defended December 20)
IX. Professional Organizations
Modern Language Association
Northeast Modern Language Association
American Association of Teachers of German
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
German Studies Association
Goethe Society of North America
Lessing Society