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 âWunderbar Togetherâ, 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 âThe Ethics of Literatureâ (March 26â28), Max Kade Center, Washington University, St. Louis, 2010
- Max Kade Travel Grant from the Robert Bosch Foundation, for participants in the weekend seminar âMemory Culture and Gender Politics: The New German Family Novelâ (June 26â28, 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 â Praktiken â Poetiken. [forthcoming, de Gruyter Publishing 2022]
- âVocality in Contemporary Realismâ (forthcoming in Wiener Digitale Revue,
- âAnthropologische Argumente: Kunst und HumanitĂ€tâ (forthcoming in Hachmann, Schöll, Bohley, eds. Poetikvorlesungen: Formen â Praktiken â Poetiken)
- âDie Rolle der Verlage in deutschen Poetikvorlesungenâ (forthcoming in Hachmann, Schöll, Bohley, eds. Poetikvorlesungen: Formen â Praktiken â Poetiken)
- âAnglo-amerikanische Poetikvorlesungen 1892â1941â (forthcoming in Hachmann, Schöll, Bohley, eds. Poetikvorlesungen: Formen â Praktiken â Poetiken)
- âAnglo-amerikanische Poetikvorlesungen 1947â2018â (forthcoming in Hachmann, Schöll, Bohley, eds. Poetikvorlesungen: Formen â Praktiken â Poetiken)
- âKatalysatoren der Autofiktion: Poetikvorlesungen von Hilde Domin und Marlene Streeruwitzâ Alina Boy, Vanessa Höving, Katja Holweck, eds. Vexierbilder. Autorinneninszenierungen vom 19. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart. MĂŒnchen: Fink, 2021. 193â209.
- ââAlways conceal ⊠thy tenets, thy treasure, and thy traveling.â Irony and Ambiguity in Ilija Trojanowâs Travel Narratives About the Middle East.â Karin Baumgartner and Monika Shafi, eds. Anxious Journeys: Contemporary German Travel Literature. Camden House, 2019. 143â58.
- âLiterarisch-politische Wesen: Autofiktionen als Voraussetzungen des Politischen in Poetikvorlesungen von Daniel Barenboim, Robert Menasse, Salman Rushdie und Yoko Tawada.â Text und Kontext 40 (2018): 7â31.
- âPolitisches Engagement: Auf der Suche nach neuen Modellen.â Wirkendes Wort 66 (2016: 1): 143â160.
Zeit und Technoimagination. Eine neue Einbildungskraft in Romanen des 21. Jahrhunderts. WĂŒrzburg: Königshausen und Neumann, 2015. - âPoeta doctus docens: Poetikvorlesungen als Inszenierung von Bildung.â Sabine Kyora, ed. Subjektform âAutorâ â Autorschaftsinszenierungen als Praktiken der Subjektivierung. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2014. 137â155.
- âSprachloses Verstehen. Visuelle Kompetenz in Yoko Tawadas Kinoroman Das nackte Auge.â 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. 87â95.
- âDrafting the Techno-Imagination: A Future for Literary Writing?â Flusser Studies 18 (2014: November): 1â13.
- ââSieh auf deine Hand, bis sie zerfĂ€llt.â Entropie und Individualzeit in Thomas Lehrs Roman 42.â Gegenwartsliteratur. Ein germanistisches Jahrbuch 10 (2011): 234â253.
- âEin Moment der Unvorhersehbarkeit. Bruch mit der Notwendigkeit in E. T. A. Hoffmanns Die Fermate.â E.T.A. Hoffmann-Jahrbuch 15 (2007): 86â99.
- âDas Erhabene im Krieg: MedialitĂ€t der MaĂlosigkeit bei Raoul Schrott.â Christer Petersen, ed. Zeichen des Krieges in Literatur, Film und den Medien. Nordamerika und Europa. Krieg, Literatur, Medien, Film 1. Kiel: Verlag Ludwig, 2004. 312â335.
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
- Topics:
- GERM 4091 Topics in German Literature and Culture in Translation
- Topics:
- Laughing with Kafka
- Kafka, Freud, and the Rise of Psychology
- Topics:
- 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
- Topics:
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 â 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 âWunderbar Togetherâ, 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