Curtis Lee Maughan

Curtis.L.Maughan@vanderbilt.edu

 

Vanderbilt University Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages 2301 Vanderbilt Place Nashville, TN 37235-1567

301 Demonbreun Unit 2002 Nashville, TN 37201 (805) 453-1103

 

Education

PhD in German Studies, Vanderbilt University, expected Spring 2017

MA in German Studies, California State University Long Beach, 2012

BA in English, Emphasis in Contemporary American Literature, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2005

Intensive Language Training and International Education

Humboldt University, Berlin, Summer 2014

Die Deutsche Sommerschule von Taos, New Mexico, 2009, 2010

 

Publications

2015                “Identity Formation through Cinematic Explorations of the Past: Harald Friedl’s Austrian Trilogy” in the Journal of Austrian Studies, special issue.

2014                With Jeffrey L. High, “Like No Other? Thomas Mann and Kleist’s Novellas” in Heinrich von Kleist. Artistic and Political Legacies, High, Jeffrey L. and Sophia Clark, eds., (Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2014).

 

Conference Papers

Fall 2012         “Thomas Mann on Schiller, Kleist, and Der Tod in Venedig,” Annual Conference of the German Studies Association, Milwaukee, WI

Spring 2012     “The International Appeal of Harald Friedl’s Viennese Portrait Aus der Zeit,” Annual Conference of the Austrian Studies Association (formerly MALCA), Long Beach, CA

Fall 2011         “Heinrich von Kleist, Friedrich von Trota, and the Quest for Truth,” “Kleistian (pre-) Occupations” Graduate Student Conference, California State University Long Beach

Spring 2011     “Crossing Freely: The Evolution of Freedom in Schiller’s Ode, Beethoven’s Symphony, and Klimt’s Frieze,” International Student Conference, Ilmenau University of Technology

Summer 2010  “Von Manhattan bis München: Walt Whitmans Einfluss auf das politische Erwachen von Thomas Mann,” Die Deutsche Sommerschule von Taos, NM

Spring 2010     “The Zivilisationsliterat Reconsidered: Thomas Mann and the Politics of Happiness,” 17^th Annual German Graduate Studies Conference, University of Virginia

 

Translations Published

2014                With Lisa Beesley, Hans Wedler, “No Home on Earth: Suicide in the Narratives of Heinrich von Kleist and David Foster Wallace,” in: Heinrich von Kleist: Artistic and Political Legacies, Jeffrey L. High, ed., (Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2014)

2011                With Henrik Sponsel, Walter Hinderer, “Where is this Schiller now?” in: Who is this Schiller [now]?, Jeffrey L. High, Nicholas Martin, and Norbert Oellers, eds., (Rochester: Camden House, 2011).

 

Teaching Experience

Fall 2014         Language Instructor, Vanderbilt – GER 101

Spring 2014     Teaching Assistant, Vanderbilt – GER 244, German Fairy Tales: From Brothers Grimm to Hollywood

Fall 2013         Teaching Assistant, Vanderbilt – EUS 201, Twentieth-Century Europe: Society and Culture

Spring 2013     Teaching Assistant, Vanderbilt – GER 244, German Fairy Tales: From Brothers Grimm to Hollywood

Summer 2012  Language Instructor, Die Deutsche Sommerschule von Taos, NM

Spring 2012     Co-Instructor, California State University Long Beach – German 370, Thomas Mann and Franz Kafka: Short Prose Fiction

Spring 2012     Language Instructor, California State University Long Beach – German 201 B

Fall 2011         Language Instructor, California State University Long Beach – German 201 A

2010 – 2011    English Teaching Assistant, Austrian Teaching Exchange – Vienna, Austria

Spring 2010     Language Instructor, California State University Long Beach – German 101 A

2008 – 2009    English Instructor, Deutsche Bank – Fokus Sprachschule, Frankfurt, Germany

 

Research and Editorial Assistantships

2011                Research Assistant, Jeffrey L. High, “Heinrich von Kleist and the German Novella of Modernity,” in: Kleist and Modernity – Kleist und die Moderne, Bernd Fischer and Tim Mehigan, eds., (Rochester: Camden House, 2011).

2011                Editorial Assistant, Harald Friedl, dir., Mein Leben als Apfelbaum

2010 – 2011    Editorial Assistant, Jeffrey L. High, Nicholas Martin, and Norbert Oellers, eds., Who is this Schiller [now]?, (Rochester: Camden House, 2011).

2010                Research Assistant, Jeffrey L. High, “Why is this Schiller [still] in the United States?,” in: Who is this Schiller [now]?, Jeffrey L. High, Nicholas Martin, and Norbert Oellers, eds., (Rochester: Camden House, 2011).

2009                Editorial Assistant, Jeffrey L. High, “Schiller, Coleridge, and the Reception of the German (Gothic) Tale,” in: Colloquia Germanica. 42.1, Theodore Fiedler and Harald Höbusch, eds., (Tübingen: Francke, 2009).

 

Honors and Scholarships

California State University Long Beach, Dean’s List, 2012

German Embassy “Do Deutsch” Speech Competition, California State University Long Beach – 1^st Place

Austrian Teaching Exchange, English Teaching Assistantship, 2010 – 2011

California State University Long Beach, Outstanding German Graduate Student Award, 2009 – 2010

California State University Long Beach, Amy Kimball Scholarship, 2010

German Embassy “Freedom Without Walls” Speech Competition, California State University Long Beach – 1^st Place, National – 3^rd Place, Fall 2009

Golden State Scholarship, 2001

 

 

 

 

 

Service to Department

Co-Founder, “The German Visual Culture Series,” Vanderbilt University, Spring 2013 – ongoing

Organizer and Moderator, “Cinema and Nature,” Round Table Discussion with Professors Lutz Koepnick and James McFarland and director Harald Friedl, in collaboration with the German Graduate Student Association, Vanderbilt University, Spring 2014

Organizer and Moderator, Screening of Aus der Zeit followed by Q&A with director Harald Friedl, International Lens Film Series, Vanderbilt University, Spring 2014

Treasurer, German Graduate Student Association, 2013 – 2014

Department Representative, German Graduate Student Association, 2012 – 2014

Conference Co-Organizer, “Dissonant Discourses,” 4^th Annual German Graduate Student Conference, Vanderbilt University, Spring 2014

Conference Organizer, “Kleistian (pre-)Occupations” Graduate Student Conference, CSULB, Fall 2011

Moderator, “Pre-occupied by the Past. Heinrich von Kleist, Literary Creation, and the Destruction of Cultural Forms,” Dr. Seán Allan, “Kleistian (pre-)Occupations,” Graduate Student Conference, California State University Long Beach, Fall 2011

Moderator, “Literature and Science II” Panel, 109th Annual Conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, Scripps College, Fall 2011

Moderator, “Faust: Von Marlowe bis Pacino,” Henrik Sponsel, Die Deutsche Sommerschule von Taos, New Mexico, Summer 2010

Moderator, “Taubenflug und Die Töchter der Róza Bukovská,” Zdenka Becker, Die Deutsche Sommerschule von Taos, New Mexico, Summer 2010

Moderator, “We Like to Watch: The Visual in Artistic Performance,” Panel C 8, 45th Annual Comparative Literature Conference, California State University Long Beach, Spring 2010

Conference Coordinator: “Who is this Schiller [now]?” California State University Long Beach, Fall 2009

Moderator, “Going Gothic: The Place of German Literature in the New Gothic Canon,” Jennifer Driscoll Colosimo, “Who is this Schiller [now]?” Conference, California State University Long Beach, Fall 2009

Moderator, “Berlin: Symphonie der Großstadt,” Melissa Etzler, Die Deutsche Sommerschule von Taos, New Mexico, Summer 2009

Member, German Club, California State University Long Beach, 2009 – 2012

 

Service to University

Vice President of Academic Affairs, Graduate Student Council, Vanderbilt University, 2013 –2014

Competition Organizer, “The 3 Minute Thesis Competition,” Graduate Student Council, Vanderbilt University, Spring 2014

Founder and Colloquium Organizer, “Looking Ahead: Making the Transition from Graduate School to the Professional World,” Graduate Student Council, Vanderbilt University, Fall 2013

Graduate Student Liaison, Center for Teaching Advisory Board, Vanderbilt University, 2013 –2014

Graduate Student Liaison, Graduate Development Network, Vanderbilt University, 2013 – 2014

Ad-Hoc Curricular Initiative Committee, California State University Long Beach, Spring 2012

 

Languages

English (native speaker)

German (near native speaker)

Spanish (intermediate reading, writing)

References

Professor Lutz Koepnick (lutz.koepnick@vanderbilt.edu)

Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

Professor Meike Werner (meike.werner@vanderbilt.Edu)

Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

Professor James McFarland (james.mcfarland@vanderbilt.edu)

Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

Professor Jeffrey L. High (jhigh@csulb.edu)

Department of German, California State University Long Beach, Long Beach, CA