Interests

Liberal arts education, literary history, German-American literary relations

• Berlin in German Life and Letters (GETR 2770)
• Faust in Translation (GETR 2400)
• German Culture 1900-1945
• Germany Today (GETR 2000)
• Goethe in Translation
• Readings in Mediterranean Literature (USEM 1580)
• A Tale of Two Cities: Berlin and Munich (GETR  2559)
• 20th Century German Literature

Books

The Literary Contributions of Christoph Daniel Ebeling, Amsterdam: Editions RODOPI, 1978

Articles

“Christoph Daniel Ebeling, Hamburger Pädagoge und seine Briefe an Charles Burney,” Zeitschrift des Vereins für Hamburgische Geschichte, 61(1975), 33-58.

“Christoph Daniel Ebeling: American’s Friend in Eighteenth-Century Germany,” Monatshefte, 68(1976) 151-161

“Eighteenth-Century German Literature and Central Virginia: The Hessian Connection,” Longwood College Colloquium (Farmville, VA, 1978)

“Johann Diederich Gries und Jena’s Gesellschaft der Freien Männer,” Colloquia Germanica, 4 (1979), 347-356.

“Johann Diederich Gries nimmt Abschied von Hamburg: ein autobiographischer Bericht,” Jahrbuch des Freien Deutschen Hochstifts, 1977, 150-168.

Awards, Grants and Honors

Chester A. Titus Award (Residence Life), 1997

Z Society Distinguished Faculty Award, 1990

Raven Society, 1990

UVa Faculty Research Fellowships, 1974 and 1975

Summer Research Fellowships, DAAD, 1973, 1977, and 1985

DAAD- German Academic Exchange Service Fellowship (Hamburg), 1968-1969