Corina Liliana Petrescu
Curriculum vitae

Assistant Professor of German

EDUCATION:

  • Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI - 2006
  • M.A., University of Pittsburgh, PA - 2000
  • Undergraduate studies in German and American literature and linguistics, Universitatea Bucuresti, Romania, and Universität Augsburg, Germany - 1999

ACADEMIC AWARDS:

  • Marie Curie Workshop Series Grant, European Union 2008, 2006-2007
  • Research Fellowship, New Europe College, Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Bucharest, Romania 2005-2006
  • Volkswagen-Stiftung Travel Grant to the Paul Celan-Volkswagen Symposium at Washington University in St. Louis, MO 2005
  • Dissertation Fellowship from the DAAD at the Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelms-Universität Bonn 2003-2004
  • Scholarship for the Sommerschule Literaturwissenschaft in Marbach, Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach 2003
  • Edith M. Deuss Wisconsin Distinguished Graduate Fellowship, University of Wisconsin 2003
  • Doctoral Fellowship from the DAAD and the UW Center for German and European Studies 2001, 2002

    • RESEARCH INTERESTS:

    • National Socialist Germany; representations of 1968 in the German and Romanian imaginary; protest movements; transnational/ transcultural literature; German-Jewish relations from the 18th century to the present; Yiddish theater

    SCHOLARSHIPS:

    • “Romania,” co-authored with Serban Pavelescu. 1968 in Europe - A History of Protest and Activism, 1956-77. Eds. Martin Klimke and Joachim Scharloth. New York/London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. 262-275.
    • "Will to Power or Vox Populi? Hitler Biographies and the Question of Culpability," co-authored with Eric Ehrenreich and Matthew Lange. Unmasking Hitler: Cultural Representations of Adolf Hitler from the Weimar Republic to the Present. Eds. Klaus L. Berghahn and Jost Hermand. Oxford/New York: Peter Lang, 2005. 81-104.
    • “The Narrative of Apocalypse: Matthias Horx’ Es geht voran. Ein Ernstfall Roman and Günter Grass’ Die Rättin,“ New German Review 15/16 (1999-2000): 53-82.

      • Forthcoming:

    • “Performing Disapproval towards the Soviets: Nicolae Ceausescu’s Speech on 21 August 1968 in Romanian Media.” Between the Prague Spring and the French May 1968: Transnational Exchange and National Recontextualization of Protest Cultures. Eds. Martin Klimke, Jacco Pekelder, and Joachim Scharloth. Oxford/New York: Berghahn Books, 2008. 15 ms. pg.
    • “A Jewish State Theater in the People’s Republic of Romania? Notes on a Transitional Becoming (1944-1953) ,” New Europe College Yearbook 2008: 32 ms. pg.

      • Under Consideration:

    • “Kritik der Ideologien: Volker Brauns Iphigenie in Freiheit,“ Gegenwartsliteratur. Ein germanistisches Jahrbuch. 25 ms. pg.

      • Work in Progress:

    • Manuscript: Against All Odds: Models of Subversive Spaces in National Socialist Germany (Peter Lang, 2009)

      • Research in Progress:

    • I concentrate on contemporary transnational/ transcultural literature that reflects the pluralization of cultural identity in German-speaking countries. Taking Romanian-born ethnic German writer Eginald Schlattner as representative for this type of literature, I analyze aesthetic paradigms and narrative techniques employed to represent personal and cross-cultural identity.

    CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:

    • "Wie viele Seelen wohnen in manch einer Brust? Überlegungen zum Begriff transnational" at the XII Kongress der IVG Vielheit und Einheit der Germanistik weltweit, Warsaw, Poland (July - August 2010)
    • “When Transylvanian Saxons Became Germans: Self-Betrayal in Eginald Schlattner’s Der geköpfte Hahn“ at the German Studies Association conference, Minneapolis, MN (October 2008)
    • “Transnationale Literatur? Der Fall Eginald Schlattner“ at the conference “Geschichte trennt, aber Geschichten, die schaffen Nähe“ Zeitgenössische deutschsprachige Literatur aus/in Rumänien, New Europe College, Bucharest, Romania (January 2008)
    • “On Stage in the Wolf’s Lair: Jewish Performances in Wartime Bucharest” at the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association conference, Boston, MA (April 2007)
    • “License to Legitimacy: The Romanian Protest of 1968” at the Marie Curie Series workshop Tracing Protest Movements: Perspectives from Sociology, Political Science, and Media Science, Martin-Luther-Universität, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany (November 2006)
    • “Autorität und Liebe. Autorität der Liebe. Gedanken über das deutsche Schulsystem um 1900” at the 100th anniversary symposium of the German department at the Universitatea Bucuresti, Interkulturelle Grenzgänge, Bucharest, Romania (November 2005)
    • “The Jewish State Theater in Bucharest from 1948 to the Present” at the workshop Contemporary Transformations of the Cultural, Social, and Artistic Fabric of Europe, Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften, Vienna, Austria (June 2005)
    • “The Other Within: Marginalization and Inclusion in West German Society of the 1960s and 1970s” at the conference Gelebt, erinnert – und erforscht?: 1968 auf dem Weg vom kommunikativen zum kulturellen Gedächtnis, Interdisziplinäres Forschungskolloquium Protestbewegung, Heidelberg Center for American Studies, Heidelberg, Germany (July 2004)
    • “Politics Make Identity. Fin-de-siècle Vienna and the Jews” at the South Central MLA, Hot Springs, AR (November 2003)
    • “The Path to Terror: The West German Society of the 1960s and 1970s” at the graduate student conference at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (April 2003)
    • “Toleranz–Duldung–Emanzipation. Das aufgeklärte 18. Jahrhundert und die Judenfrage“ at the graduate student conference at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada (March 2002)
    • “The Narrative of Apocalypse: Günter Grass’ ‘Die Rättin’” at the conference of the Midwest Graduate Seminar in German Studies, University of Chicago, IL (April 2001)
    • “‘Tanz auf dem Vulkan.’ Genocide Mentality and the New German Wave” at the graduate student conference at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (March 2001)

    INVITED TALKS AND CONFERENCE APPEARANCES:

    • “Hoffnung stribt zuletzt: jiddisches Theater in Bukarest zwischen 1944 und 1948“ at the summer school Romanian as a Foreign Culture, Jena, Germany (March 2008)
    • Commentator for the panel “Studying Protest in Germany between 1945 and 1989 from an Interdisciplinary and Transnational Perspective” at the German Studies Association annual meeting, San Diego, CA (October 2007)
    • Moderator for the panel “Jews, Politics, and History” at the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association conference, Boston, MA (April 2007)
    • Commentator for the panel “Music and Counterculture” at the Marie Curie Series workshop Designing a New Life: Aesthetics and Lifestyles of Political and Social Protest, University of Zurich, Switzerland (March 2007)
    • Moderator for the panel “Labor Movements and Trade Unions in Europe” at the Marie Curie Series workshop Tracing Protest Movements: Perspectives from Sociology, Political Science, and Media Science, Martin-Luther-Universität, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany (November 2006)
    • “Reflections on Radu Gabrea’s Film Goldfaden’s Legacy: From New York to Jassy (2004)” at the panel discussion 130 Years of Jewish Theater in Romania (Jassy 1876), New Europe College, Bucharest, Romania (January 2006)
    • Chair for the panel “Politische Kultur und Öffentlichkeit” at the conference Gelebt, erinnert – und erforscht?: 1968 auf dem Weg vom kommunikativen zum kulturellen Gedächtnis, Heidelberg Center for American Studies, Heidelberg, Germany (July 2004)
    • “Will to Power or Vox Populi? Hitler Biographies and the Question of Culpability” (co-author with Eric Ehrenreich and Matthew Lange) at the 35th Wisconsin Workshop Unmasking Hitler: Cultural Representations of Adolf Hitler from the Weimar Republic to the Present, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (September 2002)
    • Moderator for the panel “Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll” at the graduate student conference Text and the City: Germany and City Life, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (April 2002)
    • Moderator for the panel “Representations of Identity in the Arts” at the graduate conference Bratwurst und Döner: Perspectives on German Identity, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (March 2001)
    • “1968 ? The Representation of the Student Movement in the German Media Twenty Years Later” at the panel discussion The Past Revisited: Topics on Memory in Post-War Germany, Center for West European Studies and European Union Center, University of Pittsburgh, PA (March 1999)

    TRANSLATIONS:

    • Mihaela Zaharia, “Ernst Jünger Strahlungen I und II.” Co-translated from German to Romanian with Mihaela Petrescu for the Romanian-German colloquium Ernst Jünger si secolul sau (Ernst Jünger und sein Jahrhundert), Goethe Institut Bukarest/ Fundatia Culturala Secolul 21, Bucharest, Romania (May 26-27, 1997).

    PEDAGOGICAL EXPERIENCE:

    • All levels of German language classes
    • Introduction to 19th century literature: Das 19. Jahrhundert auf deutschem Boden: Literatur und Rebellion
    • German reading for graduate students

    LANGUAGES:

    • Romanian and German - native speaker
    • English – near-native proficiency
    • French – intermediate proficiency
    • Yiddish – reading and writing knowledge

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