Curriculum Vitae
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,” 17th 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 – 1st 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 – 1st Place, National – 3rd 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,” 4th 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
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