Academic Positions

2003- Assistant Professor of Modern Languages, Hampden-Sydney College
2001-03 Visiting Assistant Professor of Modern Languages, Hampden-Sydney College
Fall 2002 Adjunct Assistant Professor of German, Longwood University
2000-01 Lecturer, Indiana University

Education

1994-00 Ph.D., Indiana University
1986-89 Magister (political science, German, and philosophy), University of Bonn
1981-85 B.A. (German and history), magna cum laude, Bowdoin College
1983-84 University of Munich, Junior Year Abroad

Research and Teaching Interests

• Nietzsche and Nietzsche reception
• German philosophical tradition (1750-present)
• 19th-century science and culture
• fin-de-siècle Vienna
• German film and drama
• Weimar politics and culture

Publications

• “Gattung.” Nietzsche Dictionary, lemma entry (forthcoming).
• “Il sodalizio di Nietzsche con Paul Rée: ‘réealismo superiore’ o réeallineamento filosofico?” Rivista di Filosofia 2 (2005): 233-62. (“Nietzsche’s Partnership with Paul Rée: ‘Höherer Réealismus’ or Philosophical Réealignment?” Trans. Pietro Kobau.)
• “On the Way to the Anti-Darwin: Nietzsche’s Darwinian Meditations in the Middle Period.” Tijdschrift voor Filosofie 65 (2003): 657-78.
• “Nietzsche’s Early Darwinism: The ‘David Strauss’ Essay of 1873.” Nietzsche-Studien 30 (2001): 62-79.
• “The European Travel Game: Grammar Review in a Contextualized Setting.” Die Unterrichtspraxis 29 (1996): 250-52.

Translation

Langguth, Gerd. In Search of Security: A Socio-Psychological Portrait of Today's Germany. Praeger: Westport, CT, 1995. (212 pp.)

Research Presentations

• “‘Diese englischen Psychologen - was wollen sie eigentlich?’ Nietzsche's Critique of the 'Historians of Morals.” Fifteenth Annual Conference of the Friedrich Nietzsche Society (Cambridge University, UK, September 2005)
• “Translating Nietzsche’s Atheism(s): A World Beyond the Ethical Imperative.” Fourteenth Annual Conference of the Friedrich Nietzsche Society (University of Sussex, UK, September 2004)
• “‘Höherer Réealismus’ or Philosophical Réealignment?: Nietzsche, Paul Rée, and the Search for a ‘Tradition.’” Seventh Annual Conference of the Friedrich Nietzsche Society (St. Andrews, Scotland, September 1997)
• “Behind the Scenes at the Konvent zu W.: Sex, Power, and the Cultivation of Authority in Robert Musil’s Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törless.” Midwest Graduate Seminar in German Studies (Chicago, May 1995)

Professional Presentations

• Speech as President of AATG-Virginia in honor of the Salem High School German Honors Society; Salem VA (June 3, 2005)
• “A World of Opportunity: The AATG-PAD Program and Its Student Study Trips to Germany”; FLAVA/Richmond (October 15, 2005)

Citations

• Small, Robin. Nietzsche and Rée: A Star Friendship. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
• Stevens, Jacqueline. “On the Morals of Genealogy.” Political Theory 31 (2003): 558-88.

Editorial Review

“Cognitivism versus Naturalism in Ethics: Brentano, Nietzsche and Evolutionary Ethics” (Journal of Nietzsche Studies).

Book Review

Small, Robin. Nietzsche and Rée: A Star Friendship. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. On behalf of the Nietzsche Research Group, Radboud University, The Netherlands.

Research Project

Nietzsche Research Group. Radboud University, The Netherlands. Collaboration on Nietzsche Dictionary (http://www.kun.nl/filosofie/Nietzsche/woordenboek.html).

Magister Thesis

“Bildung und Macht: Strukturbedingungen der studentischen Radikalisierung in der Weimarer Republik.” Magister, University of Bonn (October 1989)

Professional Appointments

• President of the American Association of Teachers of German (AATG)-Virginia Chapter (2004-)
• Virginia Chapter Chair of AATG-Pedagogical Exchange Service Committee (PAD) (2004/2005)

College Teaching Experience

Upper-Level Courses:

• Advanced Conversation and Composition (Fall 2005)
• Georg Büchner: Life and Work (Fall 2004)
• German Culture through Film (Fall 2004)
• Survey of German Literature I (Fall 2001/2003)
• Survey of German Literature II (Spring 2003)
• German Culture and Film (Fall 2002)
• Independent Study: The Historikerstreit - From Habermas to Goldhagen (Spring 2002)
• German Film and Popular Culture (Fall 2001)

Language Instructor:

• First through Fourth Semester German (2001-05)
• Third Semester German (Longwood University) (Fall 2002)

Graduate Teaching Experience

Upper Level Courses:

• Youthful Rebellion in German Literature (Spring 2001)
• German Popular Film and Culture (Spring 2001)
• The Image of America in German Literature (Fall 2000)
• Introduction to German Literature (Fall 1999) (co-taught with professor)

Coordinator and Language Instructor:

• Fifth Semester German (Fall 2000, Spring 2001)
• Sixth Semester German (Spring 2000)

Language Instructor:

• Sixth Semester German (Spring 1997, Fall 1998, Spring 1999, Fall 1999)
• Fourth Semester German (Summer 1997)
• Fifth Semester German (Fall 1996)
• Second Semester German (Spring 1996, Summer 1996)
• First Semester German (Fall 1995)

Additional Teaching Experience

• ESL, Berlitz and Inlingua Schools, Bonn, Germany (1986-92)
• Introduction to Business English, Sparkasse Bonn (Summer 1988)

Academic Grants and Honors

• Hampden-Sydney College Summer Grant (2004/2005)
• Oskar Seidlin Fellowship, Indiana University (1997-98)
• Salaroglio Modern Foreign Language Scholarship, Indiana University (1997)
• Indiana University Fellowship (1994-95)
• High Honors in German and History, Bowdoin College (1985)
• James E. Bland History Prize, Bowdoin College (1985)
• James Bowdoin Scholar, Bowdoin College (1985)

Workshops

• “Deutsche Kochkunst: Kochen mit Sebastian Dickhaut”
  Goethe Institut-Sweet Briar Immersion Weekend (September 30-October 2, 2005)
• Proficiency Guidelines Pre-Term Workshop (Part II)
  Hampden-Sydney College (August 16-17, 2005)
• “Trainerworkshop: Fortbildung für Forbildnerinnen und Fortbildner” (Part II)
  Goethe Institut Washington DC (May 20-22, 2005)
• “Integrating Culture into the Classroom”
  University of Virginia, Center for the Liberal Arts (February 12, 2005)
• Proficiency Guidelines Pre-Term Workshop
  Hampden-Sydney College (August 16-17, 2004)
• “Trainerworkshop: Fortbildung für Forbildnerinnen und Fortbildner”
  Goethe Institut Washington DC (May 21-23, 2004)
• “Alt bewährt, neu erprobt: Old and New Teaching Techniques that Work”
  University of Virginia, Center for the Liberal Arts (April 17, 2004)
• “The New Germany in German Film”
  Goethe Institut-Sweet Briar College Seminar (November 11-13, 2003)
• “Faculty Academy on Instructional Technology”
  Mary Washington College (May 20, 2003)
• “Foreign Languages: Teaching with Technology”
  Washington & Lee University (April 25-26, 2003)
• “Film and Music in German Instruction”
  University of Virginia, Center for the Liberal Arts (March 29, 2003)
• “New Ideas and Methods for German Instruction”
  Goethe Institut-Sweet Briar College Immersion Weekend (October 11-13, 2002)

Membership in Professional Organizations

• American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
• American Association of Teachers of German
• Modern Language Association
• Friedrich Nietzsche Society
• Foreign Language Association of Virginia (FLAVA) Board

College Service

Advising:

Freshman advisor (2002/2004)

Committees:

• Fitness Center Committee (2004- )
• International Studies Committee (2003), Chair (2004/2005)
• Spanish Search Committee (2003/2004)
• German Honors Thesis Committee (Longwood University) (May 2003)
• Foreign Language Placement Exams Sub-Committee (2001-02)

Academic Advancement

• Blackboard Workshop: Online Quizzes and Tests (September 2003)
• Blackboard Workshop: Gradebooks (September 2003)

Academic Jobs

• Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, University of Bonn (1989-90)
• Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft, University of Bonn (1987-88)

Community Service

Habitat for Humanity (2003)

Extracurricular Activities

• German Club, Co-founder
• Stammtisch, weekly
• German Christmas Party, yearly
• Oktoberfest (2004), helped plan and organize
• Carnival (2005), organized with language clubs
• Weekly practice sessions for Munster Summer Program students (2005)

Languages

• German: native
• English: native
• Italian: intermediate-low
• French: intermediate-low
• Latin: reading knowledge

References

• Paul Eisenberg, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Indiana University (eisenber@indiana.edu)
• Ron Horwege, Professor of German, Sweet Briar College (horwege@sbc.edu)
• Robin Small, Associate Professor of Education, University of Aukland (r.small@aukland.ac.nz)
• Paul van Tongeren, Professor of Philosophy, Radboud University (pvtongeren@phil.ru.nl)

Updated September 26, 2005