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Gundela Hachmann | LSU Foreign Languages and Literatures

Gundela Hachmann 

Gundela Hachmann

Associate Professor of German 

Ph.D., Harvard University, 2008
Phone: 225-578-5170
E-mail: ghachmann@lsu.edu
Office: 306 Hodges Hall

Area of Interest

19th, 20th, and 21st Century German Literature

Transmedial Relations in Literature

Contemporary Poetics and Literary Theory

Literature and Science

Awards & Grants

  • Manship Summer Research Grant, College of Humanities and Social Sciences at LSU, 2020
  • Gerd Bucerius Stipend, for research at the German Literature Archive (Deutsches Literaturarchiv, DLA) in Marbach, Germany, ZEIT Foundation Ebelin and Gerd Bucerius, May to June, 2019
  • Campus Week 2019 “Wunderbar Together”, for the promotion of German studies at LSU, principal investigator, Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, Washington D.C., 2019
  • Manship Summer Research Grant, College of Humanities and Social Sciences at LSU, 2018
  • Manship Summer Research Grant, College of Humanities and Social Sciences at LSU, 2016
  • Summer Research Stipend, Office for Research and Economic Development at LSU, Summer 2015
  • Think Transatlantic Grant, for the organization of interdisciplinary symposium at LSU, co-investigator, Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, Washington D.C., 2012
  • Manship Summer Research Grant, College of Humanities and Social Sciences at LSU, 2012
  • DAAD/Max Kade Summer Research Grant, Max Kade Center, Washington University, St. Louis, 2012
  • Do Deutsch Grant, for the promotion of German studies at LSU, co-investigator, Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, Washington D.C., 2011
  • Max Kade Travel Grant from Robert Bosch Foundation, for participation in symposium “The Ethics of Literature” (March 26–28), Max Kade Center, Washington University, St. Louis, 2010
  • Max Kade Travel Grant from the Robert Bosch Foundation, for participants in the weekend seminar “Memory Culture and Gender Politics: The New German Family Novel” (June 26–28, 2009, Deutsches Literaturarchiv, Marbach, Germany), Max Kade Center, Washington University, St. Louis, 2009
  • Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, Harvard University, 2009
  • Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, 2007
  • Merit Fellowship, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, Spring 2006
  • Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, Harvard University, 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

Research

  • Gundela Hachmann, Julia Schöll, Johanna Bohley, eds. Poetikvorlesungen: Formen – Praktiken – Poetiken. [forthcoming, de Gruyter Publishing 2022]
  • “Vocality in Contemporary Realism” (forthcoming in Wiener Digitale Revue,
  • “Anthropologische Argumente: Kunst und HumanitĂ€t” (forthcoming in Hachmann, Schöll, Bohley, eds. Poetikvorlesungen: Formen – Praktiken – Poetiken)
  • “Die Rolle der Verlage in deutschen Poetikvorlesungen” (forthcoming in Hachmann, Schöll, Bohley, eds. Poetikvorlesungen: Formen – Praktiken – Poetiken)
  • “Anglo-amerikanische Poetikvorlesungen 1892–1941” (forthcoming in Hachmann, Schöll, Bohley, eds. Poetikvorlesungen: Formen – Praktiken – Poetiken)
  • “Anglo-amerikanische Poetikvorlesungen 1947–2018” (forthcoming in Hachmann, Schöll, Bohley, eds. Poetikvorlesungen: Formen – Praktiken – Poetiken)
  • “Katalysatoren der Autofiktion: Poetikvorlesungen von Hilde Domin und Marlene Streeruwitz” Alina Boy, Vanessa Höving, Katja Holweck, eds. Vexierbilder. Autorinneninszenierungen vom 19. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart. MĂŒnchen: Fink, 2021. 193–209.
  • “‘Always conceal 
 thy tenets, thy treasure, and thy traveling.’ Irony and Ambiguity in Ilija Trojanow’s Travel Narratives About the Middle East.” Karin Baumgartner and Monika Shafi, eds. Anxious Journeys: Contemporary German Travel Literature. Camden House, 2019. 143–58.
  • “Literarisch-politische Wesen: Autofiktionen als Voraussetzungen des Politischen in Poetikvorlesungen von Daniel Barenboim, Robert Menasse, Salman Rushdie und Yoko Tawada.” Text und Kontext 40 (2018): 7–31.
  • “Politisches Engagement: Auf der Suche nach neuen Modellen.” Wirkendes Wort 66 (2016: 1): 143–160.
    Zeit und Technoimagination. Eine neue Einbildungskraft in Romanen des 21. Jahrhunderts. WĂŒrzburg: Königshausen und Neumann, 2015.
  • “Poeta doctus docens: Poetikvorlesungen 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 GrĂ€fe, Rolf G. Renner, eds. IntermedialitĂ€t und AlteritĂ€t, Migration und Emigration. Tendenzen der deutschsprachigen Literatur. TĂŒbingen: Stauffenburg Verlag, 2014. 87–95.
  • “Drafting the Techno-Imagination: A Future for Literary Writing?” Flusser Studies 18 (2014: November): 1–13.
  • “‘Sieh auf deine Hand, bis sie zerfĂ€llt.’ Entropie und Individualzeit in Thomas Lehrs Roman 42.” Gegenwartsliteratur. Ein germanistisches Jahrbuch 10 (2011): 234–253.
  • “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: MedialitĂ€t der Maßlosigkeit bei Raoul Schrott.” Christer Petersen, ed. Zeichen des Krieges in Literatur, Film und den Medien. Nordamerika und Europa. Krieg, Literatur, Medien, Film 1. Kiel: Verlag Ludwig, 2004. 312–335.

Courses Taught

German Program

  • GERM 1101 Beginning German 1
  • GERM 1102 Beginning German 2
  • GERM 2101 Intermediate German 1
  • GERM 2102 Intermediate German 2
  • GERM 3060 German Discourse
  • GERM 3061 German for Business
  • GERM 4031 German Poetry
  • GERM 4044 Special Topics in 20th Century German Literature and Culture
    • Topics:
      • German Crime Fiction
      • Radicalism, Extremism, and Protest in 1960s and 1970s 
  • GERM 4091 Topics in German Literature and Culture in Translation
    • Topics:
      • Laughing with Kafka
      • Kafka, Freud, and the Rise of Psychology 
  • GERM 4046 German Film: Duplicity, Doubling, Duality in Film
  • GERM 4061: Advanced German Discouse
  • GERM 4915 Independent Study
    • Topics:
      • Relations between Germany and Israel 1945-present
      • Films of Volker Schlöndorff and Fatih Akin
      • Construction of Gender in German Film
      • Understanding National Socialism

Honors College:

HRNS 2013 Sixties Radicalism in Germany and the US (co-taught with Dr. David Culbert, Dept. of History)
HNRS 4000 Honors Thesis

Graduate Program in Comparative Literature:

CPLT 7010 Research Methods and Bibliography: Literary Theory from Antiquity to the Romantic Period
CPLT 7120 Topics in Theory of Criticism: Literary Anthropology
CPLT 8900 Independent Study

Notable Activities

  • President, Louisiana Chapter of the American Association of Teachers of German (AATG), 2020 – present
  • Testing Chair, Louisiana Chapter of the Association of Teachers of German (LA-AATG), 2017-2020
  • Secretary, Louisiana Chapter of the Association of Teachers of German (LA-AATG), 2017-2020
  • Campus Week 2019 “Wunderbar Together”, for the promotion of German studies at LSU
  • Member-at-Large, LSU Faculty Senate Executive Committee, August 2017-August 2018
  • 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