Professional Record
Lisabeth M. Hock, Associate Professor of German
Classical and Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures , Wayne State University
457 Manoogian Hall, 906 W. Warren Avenue, Detroit, Michigan 48202
Tel.: 313-577-3514, E-mail:lhock@wayne.edu
Internet: http://www.langlab.wayne.edu/lhock/index.html
Academic Employment
Education
Publications
Presentations Related to Research
Presentations Related to Teaching and Mentoring
Other Conference Activities
Awards and Fellowships
Teaching
Service
Memberships
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Academic Employment
Wayne State University: Assistant Professor of German, 2001-2008; Associate Professor of German, 2008-
The College of Wooster: Visiting Assistant Professor of German, 1998-2001
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Education
Washington University, St. Louis: Ph.D. in Germanic Languages and Literatures, 1998
Dissertation: "Replicas of a Female Prometheus: The Textual Personae of Bettina von Arnim"
Director: Professor Lynne Tatlock
Research Abroad: Free University, Berlin (fellowship year), 1993-94
University of Kansas, Lawrence: Master of Arts in Germanic Languages and Literatures, 1991
Thesis: "Alltag und Utopie in den Werken von Christa Wolf"
Research Abroad: Humboldt University, Berlin, GDR (Fulbright Grant), 1988-89
University of Kansas, Lawrence: Bachelor of Arts in German, with Distinction, 1987
Study Abroad: Friedrich Alexander University, Erlangen, 1983-84
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Publications
Book:
- Replicas of a Female Prometheus: The Textual Personae of Bettina von Arnim. North American Studies in Nineteenth-Century German Literature. Ed. Jeffrey Sammons. New York: Lang, 2001.
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Articles:
- "The MLA Report and the Urban, Public Institution." Neues Curriculum. Journal for Best Practices in Higher Education German Studies 1.1 (2009): 4-11.
- "Bettina von Arnim."The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales. Ed. Donald Haase. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2007. 68.
- "The Melancholy Pro(creation) of Franziska zu Reventlow and Gabriele Reuter." The Women in German Yearbook 23 (2007): 102-125.
- "Information Literacy Across the German-Studies Curriculum." Die Unterrichtspraxis 40.1 (Spring 2007): 46-56.
- "Shades of Melancholy in Gabriele Reuter's Aus guter Familie." The German Quarterly. 79.4 (Fall 2006): 443-464.
- "Sonderbare, heisshungrige und edle Gestalten: Bettina von Arnims Darstellung von Juden und Judentum im Kontext ihrer Zeit und ihres Werkes." Salons der Romantik. Beitraege eines Wiepersdorfer Kolloquiums. Ed. Hartwig Schultz. Berlin: De Gruyter, 1997. 317-341.
- "Cultural Transformations and its Academic Contexts: Reflections of the Past, Present, and Future of GDR Studies: Editorial Introduction" with Brigitte Rossbacher. GDR Bulletin 24 (1997): 1-6.
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Reviews and Translation:
- Review of Politiken des Wahnsinns. Weibliche Psychopathologie in Texten deutscher Autoren zwischen Sptaufklrung und Fin de sicle by Claudia Hauser. The German Quarterly. 82.1 (Winter 2009):121-122.
- Review of The Wasting Heroine in German Fiction by Women 1770-1917 by Anna Richards. The German Quarterly. 79.1 (Winter 2006): 114-115.
- Review of The German Legacy in East Central Europe as Recorded in Recent German-Language Literature, by Valentina Glajar. The German Quarterly 78.4 (2005): 554-555.
- Review of A History of Women's Writing in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, ed. Jo Catling. Gegenwartsliteratur 2 (2003): 343-345.
- Review of Animal triste, by Monika Maron. GDR Bulletin 24 (1997): 98-99.
- "Looking over the Fence." Translation of "Ein Blick ueber den Zaun" by Barbara Frischmuth. World Literature Today 69.3 (1995): 459-462.
- Review of Stille Zeile sechs, by Monika Maron. GDR Bulletin 18.2 (1992): 34-35.
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CD:
- Blickpunkte I. CD-ROM. Gambier, OH: The Five Colleges of Ohio Consortium, Inc., 2001.
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Presentations Related to Research on Literature and Culture
- Years of Change: Hedwig Dohms Become the Woman You Are (1894). Humanities Center Brown Bag Colloquium Series, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, April 22, 2008.
- "Giving Voice to Melancholy's Silence. The Friendship of Bettina von Arnim and Karoline von Guenderode." Humanities Center Fall Symposium on Silence and Silencing. Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. November 9, 2007.
- "Women and Melancholy in Nineteenth-Century German Psychiatry." Journeys into Madness Conference at the Wellcome Centre and Medical Library, London, England. October 11-12, 2007.
- "Information Literacy Across the Foreign Language Curriculum." Faculty Lecture presented at Carleton and St. Olaf Colleges. Northfield, Minnesota. May 3, 2007.
- "If research projects come from the Internet, then babies must come from storks (Or: All the things your Google search never told you)." Language Majors Research Workshop with students at Carleton and St. Olaf Colleges. Northfield, Minnesota. May 4, 2007.
- "Nineteenth-Century German Psychiatry and the Gender of Melancholy." The 22nd Annual Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference. Kansas City, Kansas, April 19-21, 2007.
- "Information Literacy Across the German Studies Curriculum." Poster Presentation. The Women in German Annual Conference, Snowbird, Utah, Oct. 19-22, 2006.
- "Melancholy, Reproduction, and Artistic Production in Franziska zu Reventlow's Ellen Olestjerne and Gabriele Reuter's Das Traenenhaus." Annual Conference of the German Studies Association, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Sept. 30-Oct. 2, 2005.
- "Shades of Melancholy in Gabriele Reuter's From a Good Family." Humanities Center Faculty Fellows Conference on the Body, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, April 8, 2005.
- "The Gender of Melancholy in Nineteenth-Century German Psychiatry." Humanities Center Brown Bag Colloquium Series, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, March 29, 2005.
- "The Gendering of Melancholy in Nineteenth-Century German Psychiatry." Poster Presentation. Women in German Annual Conference, Carrollton, Kentucky, October 21-24, 2004.
- "Shades of Melancholy in Gabriele Reuter's From a Good Family." Annual Meeting of the Society for Literature and Science, Durham, South Carolina, October 14-17, 2004.
- "Gabriele Reuter's From a Good Family (1895) in the Context of Late-Nineteenth-Century German Psychiatry." Women, Health, and Representation, University of New England, Westbrook College Campus, June 17-19, 2004.
- "Melancholy and the Female Artist in Bettina von Arnim's Die Guenderode." Meeting of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters, Hope College, Holland, Michigan, March 21-22, 2003.
- "The Transformation of Eros in the Epistolary Texts of Bettina von Arnim." Annual Conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association, Bellingham, Washington, November 8-10, 2002.
- "From Self-Fashioning to Monarch-Making: Bettina von Arnim's Koenigsbuecher." Tales Told by Women. German Women's Writings of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Athens, Georgia, May 31-June 2, 2002.
- "From Kulturkunde to Cultural Studies: Information Literacy and Writing in Advanced German" Annual Conference of the Modern Language Association, New Orleans, December 27-30, 2001.
- "Shaping Citizens of this World and Heirs to the Next: The Memoirs of Margarethe Elizabeth Milow (1748-1794)." Annual Conference of the Modern Language Association, San Francisco, December 27-30, 1998.
- "Moving in the Shadows in Order to Ascend Olympus: The Appropriation of Genius in Bettina von Arnim's Goethe- and Daemonenbuecher." Annual Conference of the Modern Language Association, Washington, D.C., December 27-30, 1996.
- "In Their Own Images: Recreations of Bettina von Arnim in Works by Grass, Kundera, Kirsch, and Wolf." Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, Kentucky, April 20-22, 1995.
- "Sonderbare, heisshungrige und edle Gestalten: Bettina von Arnims Darstellung von Juden und Judentum im Kontext ihrer Zeit und ihres Werkes." Die Schriftstellerinnen der Romantik und ihre Salons: Wissenschaftliches Kolloquium auf Schloss Wiepersdorf, July 1-4, 1994.
- "Liselotte von der Pfalz: An Outsider's Identity at the Court of the Sun King." Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, Kentucky, April 22-24, 1993.
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Presentations Related to Pedagogy Research, Teaching, and Mentoring
- "Panel Discussion on Teacher/ Librarian Collaboration." Michigan Information Literacy Initiative Meetig, Oakland Community College, Farmington Hills, Michigan, June 19, 2009.
- Getting Started on Your Dissertation: The Prospectus and Beyond. Scholarly Communication for Graduate Students Writing Workshop Series, Deans Office, Wayne State University. April 10, 2009.
- A Career in German Studies. Lecture and Discussion with Graduate Students at Washington University, St. Louis. Feb. 17, 2009.
- An Evolutionary Approach to Teaching Language and Culture with Technology. Together with Sandra Hobbs and Sangeetha Gopolakrishnan. Panel presented by the Digital Media Learning Colaboratory and the Foreign Language Technology Center. Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. November 14, 2008.
- "The MLA Report on Foreign Language Education and the Urban, Public Institution." The Women in German Annual Conference, Snowbird, Utah, Oct. 23-26, 2008.
- "Getting Started on Your Dissertation." Workshop for the Modern Languages Graduate Forum, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, December 1, 2005; November 12, 2007.
- "Information Literacy Across the Foreign Language Curriculum." Brown Bag Series of the Foreign Language Technology Center, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, September 19, 2007
- Round Table Participant. "Faculty Careers at Teaching Intensive Institutions." Best Practices in German Studies: Recruitment and Pre-Professional Mentoring Event. Michigan State University German Program, East Lansing, Michigan, December 2, 2005.
- "Digital Interviews, Listening Skills, and Cultural Understanding." Brown Bag Series of the Foreign Language Technology Center, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, October 28, 2004.
- "Creating a Trans-Atlantic Community." Lilly North Conference, Traverse City, Michigan, September 24-26, 2004.
- "Art and Grammar across six semesters of language teaching." German Immersion Day sponsored by the Wayne State University German Department.. Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Detroit, Michigan, April 1, 2004.
- "Conversations with Real, Live, Digital Germans." Enhancing Teaching through Technology. Wayne State University Conference, Detroit, March 6, 2003.
- "Pedagogy and Technology in the German Classroom." Annual Conference of the Michigan Foreign Language Association, Lansing, Michigan, October 25-27, 2001.
- "Digitized Talking Heads: Video in Intermediate German." Annual Conference of the Northeast Modern Language Association, Hartford, CT, March 30-31, 2001.
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Other Conference Activities
- Faculty Supervisor of Women-in-German-sponsored MLA panel organized by WSU Ph.D. candidates Pauline Ebert and Alexandra Pákh. Women and Crime in the German Context. Annual Conference of the Modern Language Association, Chicago, December 27-30, 2007.
- Panel Co-Organizer with Tracie Matysik. Women, Health, and Medicine. Pre-20th-Century Panel. The Women in German Annual Conference, Snowbird, Utah, Oct. 19-22, 2006.
- Panel Organizer. Women's Despair, Women's Genius. Annual Conference of the German Studies Association, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Sept. 30-Oct. 2, 2005.
- Session Organizer. Romanticism. Annual Conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association, Portland, Oregon, November 5-7, 2004.
- Co-Organizer with Katrin Voelkner of Women-in-German Panel. Culinary Narratives as Cultural Memory. Annual Conference of the Modern Language Association, New York, December 27-30, 2002.
- Respondent to the panel, "Shaping Consciousness: Literary Didacticism and Civic Pedagogy." Annual Conference of the German Studies Association, San Diego, California, October 3-6, 2002.
- Special Session Organizer. Authors without Texts: Women Writers as Cultural Icons. Annual Conference of the Modern Language Association, Chicago, December 27-30, 1999.
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Awards and Fellowships
- The President's Award for Excellence in Teaching, Wayne State University, 2008
- "German Composition and Conversation II" (GER 3200) identified as one of the top 10 courses in the national study of German courses conducted by the Educational Policy Improvement Center (EPIC). The course has been designated a best practice course in German and will serve as a model for the redesign of the Advanced Placement (AP) equivalent course, 2007
- The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Teaching Award, Wayne State University, 2007
- Sabbatical Leave, Fall 2006
- Humanities Center Innovative Projects in the Humanities Award, 2006
- Humanities Center Resident Scholar, Wayne State University, 2005-2006
- Wayne State University College of Liberal Arts, Summer Technology Institute Participant, 2004
- Humanities Center Resident Scholar, Wayne State University, 2004-2005
- Humanities Center Faculty Fellowship, Wayne State University, 2004-2005
- University Research Grant, Wayne State University, 2003
- Minority/Women Summer Grant, Wayne State University, 2003 (declined)
- College of Liberal Arts Research and Inquiry Grant, Wayne State University, 2003 (declined)
- Summer Grant, Stiftung Weimarer Klassik, Weimar, Germany, 2002
- Minority/Women Summer Grant, Wayne State University, 2002
- The Five Colleges of Ohio Information Literacy Faculty Grant Award, 2000
- Faculty Development Award, The College of Wooster, 2000 and 1999
- Ohio 5 Grant for the Development of CALL materials, 1999
- Elizabeth Hospes Celis Travel Fellowship, Summer 1998
- Dean's Teaching Award, Washington University, April 1998
- Dissertation Fellowship, Washington University, 1996-97
- Direct Exchange, Free University, Berlin, 1993-94
- Departmental Fellowship, Washington University, 1991-92
- Fulbright Scholarship, Humboldt University, Berlin, GDR, 1988-89
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Teaching
Teaching philosophy, syllabi, course materials, and evaluations: available on my digital teaching portfolio.
Wayne State University
Graduate Thesis Advisor:
- Alexandra Pákh-Kelly, "Building the German Nation. The Role of the Detective in Social Dialogue," Doctoral Thesis (in progress)
- Aida Dismondy, "Frank Wedekind's Spring Awakening and its Twenty-First-Century Reception on Broadway," Master's Essay, 2008.
Honors Thesis Advisor:
- Janai Gilmore, "The Ruhr Area Meets the Rustbelt: An Analysis of the Decline and Re-emergence of Two Former Industrial Regions," Senior Honors Paper in German, 2008
- Maria Rousseva, "Infanticide and Gender Portrayal in Goethe's Faust and Wedekind's Fruehlings Erwachen," Senior Honors Paper in German, Winter 2003.
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The College of Wooster
Independent Study Advisor:
- Naomi Kresge, "Walls Broken." (Translations of poems by writers from or associated with the German Democratic Republic, and a translation of an interview with Elke Erb), Senior Independent Study in German and English, Spring 2001.
- Eric Flowers, "Finding the True Self: A Study of Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha, Steppenwolf, and Glass Bead Game," Senior Independent Study in German, Spring 2001.
- Jonathan Eichen, "'In Russia they hated us because we were German, and in Germany they hate us because we are Russian': The Story of the Volga Germans," Junior Independent Study in International Studies, Fall 2000.
- Norm Hirshy, "Masculinity in the Texts of Max Frisch," Senior Independent Study in German, Spring 2000.
- Naomi Kresge "Ein Hemd aus Feuer: Sprache und Identitaetssuche in zwei Texten von Emine Sevgi Oezdamar," Junior Independent Study in German, Fall 1999.
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Internet Activities:
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Sevice
National Level
- External Reviewer: The Women in German Yearbook, 2009; Unterrichtspraxis, 2009, 2007, 2006; Lifewriting Annual, 2005; Prentice Hall Textbooks, 2004 and 2008
- Steering Committee Member, The Coalition of Women in German, 2009-2011
- Co-Webmistress for Website of the Coalition of Women in German, 2001-2006
- Suzanne Zantrop Travel Award Committee of the Coalition of Women in German, 2001-2002
- Managing Editor, GDR Bulletin, 1995-1998
- Book Review Editor. GDR Bulletin, 1992-1993, 1994-1995
University and College Levels, WSU
- President's Award for Excellence in Teaching, Selection Committee Member: 2009, 2007
- The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Teaching Award, Selection Committee Member: 2008
- College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Merit/ Salary Evaluation Committee: 2009-2011, 2005-2007
- College Scholar Days Evaluator: Interviewer (2009, 2008, 2007); Essay Reader (2006, 2005)
- Humanities Center Advisory Board: 2002-2003, 2004-2005
Classical and Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures, WSU
- CMLLC Promotion and Tenure Committee, 2009
- CMLLC German and French Search Committees, 2008-2009
- CMLLC Graduate Committee, 2009, 2008
- CMLLC Space Committee, 2007
- European Studies Initiative Committee, 2003-Present
- German Area Library Liaison, 2001-Present
- German Area Concordia and Faulhaber German Scholarship Committees, 2001-Present
- German and Slavic Studies General Scholarship Committee, 2001-Present
- Mentor of 5 successful undergraduate applicants for DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) undergraduate scholarships for study abroadGerman Department Graduate Mentor, 2001-2007
- Delta Phil Alpha (German Honor Society) Adviser, 2001-2005
- Slavic Studies Curriculum Committee, Winter 2004
- Uwe K. Faulhaber Annual Workshop for Applied German Studies
- 2007: Campus visit by German poet Esther Dischereit and percussionist Ray Kaczynski, 21-22 March 2007.
- 2004: Co-chair of German Immersion Day, Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, 1 April 2004
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Memberships
- American Association of Teachers of German
- American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
- German Studies Association
- Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Association
- Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, & Letters
- Michigan World Language Association
- Modern Language Association
- Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
- Society for Literature and Science
- Women in German
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