Dr. Gundela Hachman
Assistant Professor - Foreign Language and Literature
Master's Degree: MAT, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, German Literature and Applied Linguistics MA, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster, Germany, Linguistics of German, German Literature, Philosophy, Applied Cultural Studies; passed with sehr gut
PhD: PhD, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, German Literature; General Exams: Literature since 1945, Aesthetics and Poetics, passed with distinction
Phone: (225) 578-5171
E-mail: ghachmann@lsu.edu
Office: 320 Hodges Hall
Area of Interest
Teaching
GERM 4046 German Film
GERM 4031 German Poetry
GERM 4044 German Crime Fiction
GERM 4044 Radicalism, Extremism, and Protest in 1960s and 1970s
HRNS 2013 Sixties Radicalism in Germany and the US (co-taught with Dr. David Culbert, Dept. of History)
German language on all levels
German Literature and Film of the 20th Century
Modern and Postmodern Crime Fiction
Literature of the GDR
Research
19th, 20th, and 21st Century German Literature
Relations across Artistic Media
Contemporary Poetics and Literary Theory
History of German Crime Fiction
Literature and Science
Awards & Honors
DAAD/Max Kade Summer Research Grant, Max Kade Center, Washington University, St. Louis, 2012
Travel Grant from Teaching Enhancement Fund, Office of Academic Affairs, LSU, 2010
Max Kade Travel Grant from the Robert Bosch Stiftung, Max Kade Center, Washington
University, St.
Louis, MO
· for participation in weekend seminar “Ethics of Literature,” March 25-28, 2010
· for participants in weekend seminar “Memory Culture and Gender Politics: The New
German Family
Novel” (June 26-28, 2009, Deutsches Literaturarchiv, Marbach, Germany),
MLA Travel Grant, for graduate students to attend the convention, Modern Language
Association, 2008
Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Graduate School of Arts and Science, Harvard University,
2007
2 Certificates of Distinction in Teaching, Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning,
Harvard University,
2006 and 2009
Merit Fellowship, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, Spring
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
Selected Publications
Books
Die Technoimagination der Literatur. Eine neue Einbildungskraft in Romanen des 21. Jahrhunderts. Würzburg: Königshauen und Neumann, forthcoming in 2015.
Articles
“Politisches Engagement: Auf der Suche nach neuen Modellen.” (forthcoming)
“Poeta doctus docens: Poetikvorlesung 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.
“Die Entropie der Individualzeit. Wissenspoetik in Thomas Lehr’s Roman 42.” (under
submission)
“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.” Ed. Christer
Petersen. Zeichen des Krieges
in Literatur, Film und den Medien. Nordamerika und Europa. Krieg, Literatur, Medien,
Film 1. Kiel: Verlag Ludwig,
2004. 312-335.
Book Reviews
Review of Durs Grünbein. A Companion, ed. by Michael Eskin, Karen Leeder, and Christopher Young, Gegenwartsliteratur 13 (2014): 356-358.
Review of Das erste Jahrzehnt. Narrative und Poetiken des 21. Jahrhunderts, ed. by Julia Schöll and Johanna Bohley. Gegenwartsliteratur 12 (2013): 364-367.
Review of Early German and Austrian Detective Fiction. An Anthology, transl. and ed. by Mary W. Tannert and Henry
Kratz. Clues 26 (2008: 4): 73-74.
Review of W.G. Sebald and the Writing of History, ed. by J.J. Long and Anne Fuchs. Focus on German Studies 15
(2008): 139-141.
Presentations
“Time and Stasis. Thomas Lehr’s Novel 42 Completes the Visual Turn” – American Comparative
Literature
Association, 2009.
“Quantum Mechanics of Memory. The Uncertainty Principle in Helmut Krausser’s UC” –
Society for Literature,
Science and the Arts, 2007
“Literature Revisiting the Contact Zone. Alexander von Humboldt’s Science and Germany’s
Contemporary
Identity” – German Studies Association, 2007
“Inverse Memory in Rainald Goetz’ Abfall für alle” – German Studies Association, 2006
“Phenomenology of Memory. Conceptualizing the Past in W.G. Sebald’s novel Austerlitz”
– Northeast Modern
Language Association, 2006
“Dismantling Montage. Documentations in W.G. Sebald’s novel Austerlitz” – Cultural
Studies Conference,
Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, 2005
“‘Wer hat Angst vor’m Schwarzen Mann? – Niemand!?’ Blacks in Texts by U. Johnson,
P. Handke, B. Strauss,
and W.G. Sebald” – Graduate Student Workshop, Imaging Blackness in Germany and Austria,
Harvard, 2004
Dr. Gundela Hachmann – Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures – Louisiana State
University – 316 Hodges Hall
Baton Rouge, LA 70803 – Phone 225.578.6616 – Fax 225.578.5074
“Locality of Culture in Theodor Fontane’s Effi Briest” – Kentucky Foreign Languages
Conference, 2003
“Arabesques as Theory of Literature. Ornamental Descriptions in E.T.A. Hoffmann’s
Der goldene Topf” –Graduate
Student Conference, Back to the Text, Yale University, 2002
Notable activities
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