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 海角社区, 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 鈥淲underbar Together鈥�, for the promotion of German studies at 海角社区, principal investigator, Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, Washington D.C., 2019
Manship Summer Research Grant, College of Humanities and Social Sciences at 海角社区, 2018
Manship Summer Research Grant, College of Humanities and Social Sciences at 海角社区, 2016
Summer Research Stipend, Office for Research and Economic Development at 海角社区, Summer 2015
Think Transatlantic Grant, for the organization of interdisciplinary symposium at 海角社区, co-investigator, Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, Washington D.C., 2012
Manship Summer Research Grant, College of Humanities and Social Sciences at 海角社区, 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 海角社区, 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 鈥淭he Ethics of Literature鈥� (March 26鈥�28), Max Kade Center, Washington University, St. Louis, 2010
Max Kade Travel Grant from the Robert Bosch Foundation, for participants in the weekend seminar 鈥淢emory Culture and Gender Politics: The New German Family Novel鈥� (June 26鈥�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 Sch枚ll, Johanna Bohley, eds. Poetikvorlesungen: Formen 鈥� Praktiken 鈥� Poetiken. [forthcoming, de Gruyter Publishing 2022]
鈥淰ocality in Contemporary Realism鈥� (forthcoming in Wiener Digitale Revue,
鈥淎nthropologische Argumente: Kunst und Humanit盲t鈥� (forthcoming in Hachmann, Sch枚ll, Bohley, eds. Poetikvorlesungen: Formen 鈥� Praktiken 鈥� Poetiken)
鈥淒ie Rolle der Verlage in deutschen Poetikvorlesungen鈥� (forthcoming in Hachmann, Sch枚ll, Bohley, eds. Poetikvorlesungen: Formen 鈥� Praktiken 鈥� Poetiken)
鈥淎nglo-amerikanische Poetikvorlesungen 1892鈥�1941鈥� (forthcoming in Hachmann, Sch枚ll, Bohley, eds. Poetikvorlesungen: Formen 鈥� Praktiken 鈥� Poetiken)
鈥淎nglo-amerikanische Poetikvorlesungen 1947鈥�2018鈥� (forthcoming in Hachmann, Sch枚ll, Bohley, eds. Poetikvorlesungen: Formen 鈥� Praktiken 鈥� Poetiken)
鈥淜atalysatoren der Autofiktion: Poetikvorlesungen von Hilde Domin und Marlene Streeruwitz鈥� Alina Boy, Vanessa H枚ving, Katja Holweck, eds. Vexierbilder. Autorinneninszenierungen vom 19. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart. M眉nchen: Fink, 2021. 193鈥�209.
鈥溾€楢lways conceal 鈥� thy tenets, thy treasure, and thy traveling.鈥� Irony and Ambiguity in Ilija Trojanow鈥檚 Travel Narratives About the Middle East.鈥� Karin Baumgartner and Monika Shafi, eds. Anxious Journeys: Contemporary German Travel Literature. Camden House, 2019. 143鈥�58.
鈥淟iterarisch-politische Wesen: Autofiktionen als Voraussetzungen des Politischen in Poetikvorlesungen von Daniel Barenboim, Robert Menasse, Salman Rushdie und Yoko Tawada.鈥� Text und Kontext 40 (2018): 7鈥�31.
鈥淧olitisches Engagement: Auf der Suche nach neuen Modellen.鈥� Wirkendes Wort 66 (2016: 1): 143鈥�160.
Zeit und Technoimagination. Eine neue Einbildungskraft in Romanen des 21. Jahrhunderts. W眉rzburg: K枚nigshausen und Neumann, 2015.
鈥淧oeta doctus docens: Poetikvorlesungen als Inszenierung von Bildung.鈥� Sabine Kyora, ed. Subjektform 鈥欰utor鈥� 鈥� Autorschaftsinszenierungen als Praktiken der Subjektivierung. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2014. 137鈥�155.
鈥淪prachloses Verstehen. Visuelle Kompetenz in Yoko Tawadas Kinoroman Das nackte Auge.鈥� Olivia C. Diaz Perez, Florian Gr盲fe, Rolf G. Renner, eds. Intermedialit盲t und Alterit盲t, Migration und Emigration. Tendenzen der deutschsprachigen Literatur. T眉bingen: Stauffenburg Verlag, 2014. 87鈥�95.
鈥淒rafting the Techno-Imagination: A Future for Literary Writing?鈥� Flusser Studies 18 (2014: November): 1鈥�13.
鈥溾€楽ieh auf deine Hand, bis sie zerf盲llt.鈥� Entropie und Individualzeit in Thomas Lehrs Roman 42.鈥� Gegenwartsliteratur. Ein germanistisches Jahrbuch 10 (2011): 234鈥�253.
鈥淓in Moment der Unvorhersehbarkeit. Bruch mit der Notwendigkeit in E. T. A. Hoffmanns Die Fermate.鈥� E.T.A. Hoffmann-Jahrbuch 15 (2007): 86鈥�99.
鈥淒as Erhabene im Krieg: Medialit盲t der Ma脽losigkeit bei Raoul Schrott.鈥� 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鈥�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 Schl枚ndorff 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 鈥� 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 鈥淲underbar Together鈥�, for the promotion of German studies at 海角社区
Member-at-Large, 海角社区 Faculty Senate Executive Committee, August 2017-August 2018
Transatlantic Relations: History, Legacy, Perspectives, interdisciplinary Symposium, 海角社区, 2012 (organized in cooperation with the Office of Academic Programs Abroad at 海角社区)
Do Deutsch Campaign to promote German Studies at 海角社区 2011