Christina Gerhardt

Assistant Professor
1890 East-West Road
Moore Hall 453
Honolulu  HI  96822

Phone: (808) 956-4182
Fax: (808) 956-9536
E-mail: cg2020@hawaii.edu

Affiliations

Education

  • Ph.D. University of Wisconsin at Madison.
  • M.A. University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Additional Study

  • Fulbright Faculty Seminar in German Studies, June 2011 (declined)
  • East German Film Institute, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, July 2009 (declined)
  • German Film Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, August, 2008
  • Cornell University, DAAD Summer Seminar in German Studies, June – July 2008
  • Cornell University, School of Criticism and Theory, Summer 1999
  • Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany, Spring Semester 1998
  • University of California at Berkeley, German, Fall Semester 1997

Areas of Interest

20th-century literature, theory, and film; film history and theory; critical and aesthetic theory; theories of modernity, modernist literature, and art; Weimar era literature, art, and film; two Germanies: literature, culture and film, 1945-1989; post-1989 literature, culture and film; gender studies; globalization and transnational studies; environmental humanities; theories and representations of social movements.

Teaching Experience

  • Department of German, University of California at Berkeley, 2000-2006

Awards and Grants

  • Humanities Council, Summer Research Award, University of Hawaii at Mānoa, June 2013
  • University Research Council, Faculty Travel Grant, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, March 2013
  • University Research Council, Faculty Travel Grant, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, June 2012
  • Fulbright Commission, German Studies Seminar, June-July 2012 (alternate)
  • DAAD Faculty Research Grant, Freie Universität, Berlin, June – August 2011
  • DAAD Faculty Grant, Marbach Literaturarchiv Seminar, July 2011 (declined)
  • Fulbright Faculty Seminar in German Studies, June 2011 (declined)
  • Columbia University, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, 2009-2010
  • Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung, Potsdam, Germany, Summer 2009
  • American Center for German Studies, Hunt Fellowship, Summer 2009 (alternate)
  • Harvard University, Center for European Studies, Visiting Scholar, 2008-2009
  • DAAD Grant, Summer Seminar in German Studies, Cornell University, June – July 2008
  • Fulbright Commission, Research Grant, 2007 – 2008
  • Freie Universität, Berlin Program for Advanced German Studies, Germany, 2006 – 2007
  • University of California at Berkeley, Professional Development Fund, July 2006
  • DAAD Grant, Center for Contemporary German Literature, Washington Univ, June 2006
  • University of California at Berkeley, Professional Development Fund, 2005-2006
  • Modern Languages Association, Graduate Student Travel Grant, December 2004
  • German Historical Institute, Young Scholar Award, May 2004

Publications

Books:

  • The Language of Nature in Theodor W. Adorno’s Writings (submitted / under review).

Edited Journals:

  • Adorno and Ethics. Ed. Christina Gerhardt. New German Critique 97 (2006).
  • Nominated for the Council of Editors of Literary Journals “2006 Best Special Issue” award.

Co-Edited Series in a Peer-Reviewed Journal:

  • “The Berlin School: The Dreileben Project,” German Studies Review 36.3 (October 2013).
  • A series of four articles on the 2011 Berlin School trilogy Dreileben (in press).

Articles (Peer-Reviewed Volumes and Journals):

  • “RAF as German and Family History: Von Trotta’s Marianne and Juliane and Petzold’s The State I Am in.” The Place of Politics in German Film. Ed. Martin Blumenthal-Barby (New York: Berghahn, volume under consideration). (submitted / under review). 29 ms pp.
  • “‘Aus den Orten eine Geschichte Gewinnen’: Christian Petzold’s Etwas Besseres als den Tod,” German Studies Review 36.3 (October 2013) (in press).
  • “On Natural History: Concepts of History in Kracauer and Adorno,” Culture in the Anteroom: The Legacies of Siegfried Kracauer. Eds. Gerd Gemünden and Johannes von Moltke (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 2012). 229-243.
  • “Working through the Past: Christian Petzold’s The State I am In.” Potsdamer Almanach.  Ed. Martin Sabrow. (Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2011). 31-42.
  • “Narrating Terrorism: Kristina Konrad’s Greater Freedom, Lesser Freedom.” Questioning the RAF: The Politics of Culture. Special issue. Ed. Karin Bauer. Seminar 47.1 (2011): 64-80.
  • “Thinking With: Animals in Schopenhauer, Horkheimer and Adorno.” Critical Theory and Animals. Ed. John Sanbonmatsu (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2011). 137-157.
  • “Frankfurt School.” The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest, 1500 to the Present.  8 vols. Ed. Immanuel Ness (Malden, Mass: Blackwell, 2009). 1253-1257.
  • “Theodor W. Adorno.” The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest, 1500 to the Present.  8 vols. Ed. Immanuel Ness (Malden, Mass: Blackwell, 2009). 12-13.
  • “Georg Lukács.” The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest, 1500 to the Present. 8 vols. Ed. Immanuel Ness (Malden, Mass: Blackwell, 2009). 2135-2137.
  • “Surveillance Mechanisms in Literature and Film: Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum by Böll and Schlöndorff / Von Trotta.” Literature and Film. Special Issue. Ed. P.M. Lutzeler. Gegenwartsliteratur 7 (2008): 69-83.
  • “Transnational Germany: Hito Steyerl’s Die leere Mitte and 200 Years of Border Crossings.” Women in German Yearbook 22 (2007): 205-223. muse.jhu.edu/demo/women_in_german_yearbook/v023/23.1gerhardt.html
  • “Adorno and Ethics: Introduction.” Adorno and Ethics. Ed. Christina Gerhardt. New German Critique 97 (2006): 1-4. ngc.dukejournals.org/content/vol33/issue1_97/
  • “The Ethics of Animals in Adorno and Kafka.” Adorno and Ethics. Ed. Christina Gerhardt. New German Critique 97 (2006): 159-178. ngc.dukejournals.org/content/vol33/issue1_97/
  • “The Allied Air Bombing Campaign of Germany in Herzog’s Little Dieter Needs to Fly.” Bombs Away: Representing the Air War over Europe and Japan. Amsterdamer Beiträge zur Germanistik 60. Eds. William Rasch and Wilfried Wilms (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2006). 345-354.
  • “Theodor W. Adorno,” Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism. 2nd ed. Eds. Michael Groden, Martin Kreiswirth, and Imre Szeman (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2004). 1-4.

Film Festival Reviews:

Film Reviews:

  • “The Baader Meinhof Complex,” Film Quarterly 63.2 (Winter 2009-2010): 60-61.

Guest Lectures (select):

Goethe Universität – Frankfurt am Main; Freie Universität Berlin; New York University (Deutsches Haus); CUNY Graduate Center; Harvard University; Rice University; University of Antwerp. Antwerp, Belgium; Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung. Potsdam, Germany; Goethe Institute New York; Wellesley College; Haverford College; University of California at Santa Cruz; Columbia University; University of California at Los Angeles; University of Jena, Germany; University of Leipzig, Germany; University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill; Humboldt Universität, Berlin, Germany; Pomona College; University of California at Berkeley; Kunstwerke Museum, Berlin, Germany; Universität Hannover, Hannover, Germany.

Recent Courses (select):

  • History of German Cinema – LLEA 338 / German 320
  • German Literature, 1750 to 1914 – German 312
  • German Literature, 1914 to the present – German 313
  • German Fascism and Propaganda – LLEA 342
  • Contemporary German Literature – German 415
 

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