Peter C. Pfeiffer Professor of German

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1 CURRICULUM VITAE Peter C. Pfeiffer Professor of German German Department, ICC N. 20 th Place Georgetown University Arlington, VA Washington, DC I. DEGREES EARNED Ph.D. German Literature, University of California, Irvine, M.A. German Literature, Washington University, St. Louis, B.A. equivalence (Zwischenprüfung) in German Literature, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, Preliminary B.A. equivalence Exams in Physics and Inorganic Chemistry, Universität Stuttgart Hohenheim II. ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL HISTORY Experience Summary: 2009-present Professor of German, Georgetown University Associate Professor of German, Georgetown University Assistant Professor of German, Georgetown University Assistant Professor of German, University of Houston Visiting Assistant Professor of German, University of Iowa, Iowa City Lecturer in German, University of California, Irvine. Research Interests: 19 th to 20 th century German and Austrian literature; social change and literary form; literary history; aesthetics and economic concepts; representations of death; notions and representations of work in modernity.

2 Administrative Experience: ; Chair, Department of German, Georgetown University ; managed, modernized, and reconfigured administration, procedures, academic planning, internal and external outreach efforts of Department guided a three year comprehensive undergraduate curriculum renewal project, including learning outcomes assessment (Developing Multiple Literacies) coordinated and directed departmental self study; managed departmental review raised funds for curriculum support ($ 100,000) and summer study abroad program ($ 250,000; Heinz Prechter Scholarship); graduate student support ($ 260,000), and study abroad experience ($ 300,000) developed service learning colloquium and research colloquium in collaboration with local institutions for Georgetown-at-Trier summer program led (with Prof. Byrnes) departmental participation in Department of Educationfunded assessment project (PI: Prof. John Norris, University of Hawai i) led cross-institutional initiative on assessment of foreign language learning outcomes with a focus on humanities learning and development of a consortium organization to spearhead this effort (with NFLRC at University of Hawai i, University of Notre Dame, Emory University, and Rice University) spearheaded initiative on regularizing non tenure-track faculty career tracks instituted effort on integrating technology for intensified learning 2003 President, Association of Departments of Foreign Languages (ADFL) President of the leading professional organization of foreign language department chairs, representing approximately 1,000 foreign language departments chaired Executive Committee initiated review of summer seminars, leading to the first joint summer seminar with Association of Departments of English (ADE) review of by-laws search for new executive director of ADFL ; Convener, Faculty of Languages and Linguistics (FLL) ; inaugurated the position; established basic procedures, coordinated academic policy among eight departments; reconfigured FLL through integration of Classics Department

3 established faculty development series, web-based alumni network, Graduate Student Research Colloquium series across departments; collaboration between graduate departments on Second Language Acquisition, including non-fll departments developed concept for building administrative capacity to support less commonly taught languages and to introduce a coherent program in Hindi/Urdu developed a framework document for non-tenure-stream faculty track led effort to develop the Georgetown Institute for Multilingual Studies since 1997 Director, European Studies Certificate Program, Georgetown University provided academic and general administrative supervision for small interdisciplinary undergraduate minor open to students from all schools of Georgetown University updated requirements and program configuration to allow regional emphases Director, German Studies Certificate Program, Georgetown University provided academic and general administrative supervision for small interdisciplinary undergraduate minor merged this program with European Studies Certificate Program III. PUBLICATIONS Books: B6 Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: Tragödie, Erzählung, Heimatfilm. (Tübingen: Francke Verlag, 2008). (A monograph exploring the relationship of aesthetics, gender, and history in dramas and prose works of the most famous Austrian woman author of the 19 th century; including sections on photographic representations of Ebner as author and cinematic representations of her works in Heimat-films, merging Anglo- American and German research on Ebner.) B 5 B 4 Text and Nation: Cross-Disciplinary Essays on Cultural and National Identities ed. with Laura García-Moreno (Columbia, S.C.: Camden House, 1996). (Introduction by Laura García-Moreno and Peter C. Pfeiffer; Essays by Benedict Anderson, K. Anthony Appiah, Homi Bhabha, Norma Field, Joshua Fishman, Barbara Harlowe, Peter Hulme, Walter D. Mignolo, Lisa Saltzman, Pierre Taminiaux, and Katie Trumpener) Cultural Transformations in the New Germany ed. with Friederike Eigler (Columbia, S.C.: Camden House, 1993). (Introduction by Friederike Eigler and Peter C. Pfeiffer; Essays by Peter C. Pfeiffer, Joyce Mushaben, Hermann Glaser, Erika Nielsen, Patricia Herminghouse, Karen Jankowsky, Wolfgang Emmerich, Peter Geist, Friederike Eigler, Therese Hörnigk, Matthias Rau, Jürgen U. Ohlau)

4 B 3 B 2 Thomas Mann's "Doctor Faustus": A Novel at the Margin of Modernism Thomas Mann Symposium, Irvine ed. with Herbert Lehnert (Columbia, S.C.: Camden House, 1991). (Includes English versions of essays from B1 plus responses by additional scholars.) Aphorismus und Romanstruktur: Zu Robert Musils "Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften (Bonn: Bouvier, 1990). (A monograph exploring the relationship between aphoristic discourse and narrative, especially novels. Drawing on historical models exemplified by Johann Wolfgang Goethe and Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, the main textual focus lies with Robert Musil s Mann ohne Eigenschaften [Man without Qualities].) B 1 Zur Modernität des "Doktor Faustus" von Thomas Mann: Thomas Mann Symposium Irvine 1988, Thomas Mann Jahrbuch II ed. with Herbert Lehnert, general eds. E. Heftrich and H. Wysling (Frankfurt/M.: Vittorio Klostermann, 1989). (Foreword by Herbert Lehnert and Peter C. Pfeiffer; Essays by Herbert Lehnert, Helmut Koopmann, Manfred Dierks, John Fetzer, Brigitte Prutti, Egon Schwarz, Ehrhard Bahr, Hans Vaget, Hannelore Mundt) Articles/Chapters: a. in journals and scholarly books: A 24 Mercantilist Treasure, Capitalist Circulation, and Establishing Gender Distinctions in the Grimm Bother s Fairy Tale Hänsel und Gretel, Victoriographies: A Journal of Nineteenth- Century Writing, (forthcoming 2016). A 23»Jede Schicht ist ein Kunstwerk«: Zwangsarbeit, Arbeit und Wortproduktion in Herta Müllers Atemschaukel, Kritische Ausgabe. Zeitschrift für Germanistik und Literatur 27 (Oktober 2014): A 22 A 21 [with Theodore J. Cachey, Jr., University of Notre Dame], The Uses of Use-Focused Assessment: Two Chairs Perspectives, in Useful Evaluation ed. by John Norris (NFLRC: Honolulu, 2015), Selling a New World Experience: Balduin Möllhausen s Novelistic Imagination of America, in, The German Bestseller in the Late Nineteenth Century ed. by Charlotte Woodford and Benedict Schofield (Rochester and London, UK: Camden House, 2012), A 20 Magie des Ästhetischen: Stifters Novelle Granit und die anthropologische Notwendigkeit der Literatur, in, Magie der Geschichten. Weltverkehr, Literatur und Anthropologie in der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts ed. by Michael Neumann and Kerstin Stüssel (Konstanz: Konstanz University Press, 2011),

5 A 19 [with Heidi Byrnes], Curriculum, Learning, and Identity of Majors: A Case Study of Program Outcomes Evaluation, in, Toward useful program evaluation in college foreign language education ed. by John Norris, Castle Sinicrope, Yukiko Watanabe (Honolulu, HI: National Foreign Language Research Center, 2009), pp A 18 A 17 A 16 A 15 The Currency of Values and the Work of Interpretation: Adalbert Stifter s Der Nachsommer, Jahrbuch des Adalbert-Stifter-Institutes des Landes Oberösterreich Band 11, 2006, pp ; simultaneously published as History, Text, Value. Essays on Adalbert Stifter. Londoner Symposium edited by Michael Minden, Martin Swales, Godela Weiss-Sussex. London: School of Advanced Studies, University of London, 2006, pp In This Together: Language and Literature in the Academy, ADFL Bulletin 36.1 (Fall 2004): 9-11 and ADE Bulletin 36.1 (Winter 2004): 7-9. [with John Norris] Exploring the Use and Usefulness of ACTFL Guidelines oral proficiency ratings in college foreign language departments, Foreign Language Annals. Special Issue: Oral Proficiency Testing 36.4 (Winter 2003): Korrespondenz und Wahlverwandtschaft: Zum Literarischen in W. G. Sebalds Die Ringe des Saturn, in Gegenwartsliteratur. Ein germanistisches Jahrbuch/A German Studies Yearbook (Tübingen: Narr, 2003), A 14 Im Kanon und um den Kanon herum: Das Beispiel Marie von Ebner Eschenbachs, in Akten des X. Internationalen Germanistentages Wien 2000: Zeitenwende Die Germanistik auf dem Weg vom 20. ins 21. Jahrhundert hg. von Peter Wiesinger vol. 8 (Bern, Berlin, etc.: Peter Lang, 2003), pp A 13 A 12 A 11 A 10 A 9 Preparing Graduate Students to Teach Literature and Language in a Foreign Language Department, ADFL Bulletin 34.1 (Fall 2002), pp The Future of German: An Administrative Perspective, Teaching of German in America ed. by George Peters (Cherry Hill, NJ: AATG, 2002), pp Geschlecht, Geschichte, Kreativität: Zu einer neuen Beurteilung der Schriften Marie von Ebner-Eschenbachs, in, Zeitschrift für deutsche Philologie. Sonderheft zum Band 120: Realismus? Zur deutschen Prosa-Literatur des 19. Jahrhunderts (2001): Moltkes Hand: Zur Darstellung von Geschichte bei Fontane, in, Theodor Fontane. Am Ende des Jahrhunderts Vol. 3: Geschichte, Vergessen, Großstadt, Moderne hg. Hannah Delf von Wolzogen in Zusammenarbeit mit Helmuth Nürnberger (Würzburg: Könighausen und Neumann, 2000), pp "1893. Hugo von Hofmannsthal worries about his Jewish mixed ancestry," Yale Companion to Jewish Writing and Thought in German Culture, ed. by Sander Gilman and Jack Zipes (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997),

6 A 8 A 7 A 6 A 5 A 4 A 3 A 2 "'Den Tod aus dem Bereich des Romans fernhalten': Zur ästhetischen Funktion des Todes in der Literatur des bürgerlichen Realismus," The Germanic Review LXX.1 (1995): "Geschichte, Leidenspathos, feminine Subjektivität: Marie von Ebner-Eschenbachs Autobiographie Meine Kinderjahre," Monatshefte 87.1 (1995): "Tod, Entstellung, Häßlichkeit: Fontanes Schach von Wuthenow," Zeitschrift für deutsche Philologie (1994): (partial reprint in Theodor Fontane Schach von Wuthenow Materialien und Texte hg. v. Harald Tanzer [Stuttgart: Reclam, 2004], ) "The National Identity of the GDR: Antifascism, Historiography, Literature," Cultural Transformations in the New Germany ed. by F. Eigler and P. C. Pfeiffer (Columbia, S.C.: Camden House, 1993), "Tote und Geschichte(n): Christoph Heins Drachenblut und Horns Ende," German Studies Review 16.1 (Feb. 1993): "Fontanes Effi Briest: Zur Gestaltung epistemologischer Probleme des Realismus," German Quarterly 63 (1990): "Nicht Fisch und nicht Fleisch: Robert Musils ästhetische Reaktion auf den Nationalsozialismus," Robert Musils Kakanien: Subjekt und Geschichte ed. by Josef Strutz (München: Fink, 1987), A 1 "Zu Gerhart Hauptmanns Der arme Heinrich," Neue Germanistik Fall 1982, b. other articles, encyclopedia and dictionary entries, newspaper articles etc.: E 16 Konferenzbericht Mediale Darstellung von Arbeit seit 1960 (Universität Duisburg- Essen, März 2015), Zeitschrift für Germanistik. Neue Folge XXV (2015): E 15 Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, on E 14 O que temos a comemorar, Jornal do Brasil, Nov. 8, 2009, p. 27. ( morar.asp; with an erroneous byline) E 13 The Discipline of Foreign Language Studies and Reforming Foreign Language Education, The Modern Language Journal 92 (2008): E 12 What is Austrian Literature? a response to Sigrid Löffler. Forum zur deutschen Literaturgeschichtsschreibung. Modern Austrian Literature 40.4 (2007):

7 E 11 E 10 E 9 E 8 E 7 Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: Marie Roland, in, Werklexikon deutscher Prosaautorinnen und Dramatikerinnen hg. v. Gudrun Loster-Schneider, Gaby Pailer (Tübingen, Basel: Franke Verlag, 2006), pp Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: Božena, in, Werklexikon deutscher Prosaautorinnen und Dramatikerinnen hg. v. Gudrun Loster-Schneider, Gaby Pailer (Tübingen, Basel: Franke Verlag, 2006), pp Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: Bertram Vogelweid, in, Werklexikon deutscher Prosaautorinnen und Dramatikerinnen hg. v. Gudrun Loster-Schneider, Gaby Pailer (Tübingen, Basel: Franke Verlag, 2006), pp Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: Das Schädliche, in, Werklexikon deutscher Prosaautorinnen und Dramatikerinnen hg. v. Gudrun Loster-Schneider, Gaby Pailer (Tübingen, Basel: Franke Verlag, 2006), pp "Advanced Literacies in a Multilingual Society: Introduction," ADFL Bulletin 37.1 (Fall 2005): 5-6. E 6 "Theodor Storm," in, Modern Germany: An Encyclopedia of History, People, and Culture, ed. by Dieter K. Buse and Juergen C. Doerr (New York, London, UK: Garland, 1998) p E 5 E 4 E 3 "Realism," The Feminist Encyclopedia of German Literature, ed. by Friederike Eigler, Susanne Kord (Westport, CT, London: Greenwood Press, 1997), Introduction, with Laura García-Moreno, in, Text and Nation: Cross-Disciplinary Essays on Cultural and National Identities ed. with Laura García-Moreno (Columbia, S.C.: Camden House, 1996). "Botho Strauß," Dictionary of Literary Biography vol. 124, Twentieth Century German Dramatists, , ed. by James Hardin and Wolfgang Elfe (Detroit, London: Bruccoli Clark Layman Gale, 1993), E 2 Introduction, with Friederike Eigler, in, Cultural Transformations in the New Germany ed. by F. Eigler and P. C. Pfeiffer (Columbia, S.C.: Camden House, 1993), 1-8. E 1 "Martin Kessel," Dictionary of Literary Biography vol. 56, German Fiction Writers, , ed. by James Hardin (Detroit: Bruccoli Clark Layman, 1987), Book Reviews: R 33 Unerwartete Entdeckungen. Beiträge zur österreichischen Literatur des 19. Jahrhunderts. Ed. by Julia Danielczyk, Ulrike Tanzer, Austrian Studies (forthcoming).

8 R 32 R 31 R 30 Literarische Ökonomik. Ed. by Iuditha Balint and Sebastian Zilles, German Studies Review (forthcoming). Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: Aus Franzensbad. Das Gemeindekind. Leseausgabe in vier Bänden. Bd 1. Hg. von Evelyne Polt-Heinzl, Daniela Strigl, Ulrike Tanzer, Jahrbuch der Raabegesellschaft (2015): Eine Literaturgeschichte: Österreich seit 1650 by Klaus Zeyringer und Helmut Gollner, German Studies Review 37.2 (May 2014): R 29 Out of Place. German Realism, Displacement and Modernity by John B. Lyon, German Quarterly 87.1 (Winter 2014): R 28 R 27 R 26 R 25 R 24 R 23 R 22 R 21 Kindred by Choice. Germans and American Indians since 1800 by H. Glenn Penny, Times Literary Supplement Sept. 20, 2013, p Women and Death 3. Women s Representations of Death in German Culture since 1500 ed. by Clare Bielby and Anna Richards, Women s History Review 21.3 (July 2012): Österreichische Schriftstellerinnen Eine Literaturgeschichte by Sigrid Schmid- Bortenschlager, German Quarterly (Fall 2010): Money Matters. Economics and the German Cultural Imagination, by Richard T. Gray, German Quarterly 83:2 (Spring 2010): No Place Like Home: Locations of Heimat in German Cinema by Johannes von Moltke, German Quarterly 81.3 (Summer 2008): German Literature of the Nineteenth Century ed. by Clayton Koelb, Eric Downing, German Quarterly 79.3 (Summer 2006): The Bells in Their Silence. Travels Through Germany by Michael Gorra, German Politics and Society 23.2 (Summer 2005): W.G. Sebald A Critical Companion ed. by J.J. Long, Anne Whitehead, The German Quarterly 78.4 (Fall 2005): R 20 Understanding W. G. Sebald by Mark. R. McCulloh, Studies in 20 th & 21 st Century Literature 29.1 (Winter 2005): R 19 Literature and German Reunification by Stephen Brockmann, Gegenwartsliteratur. Ein germanistisches Jahrbuch/A German Studies Yearbook (Tübingen: Narr, 2003), R 18 Double Exposures by Eric Downing, Monatshefte 94.2 (Summer 2002): R 17 Fontane und Hölderlin: Romantik-Auffassung und Hölderlin-Bild in Vor dem Sturm by Rolf

9 Zuberbühler, Monatshefte 93.1 (Spring 2001), pp R 16 R 15 R 14 R 13 R 12 R 11 R 10 R 9 R 8 Literatur und Nation. Die Gründung des Deutschen Reiches 1871 in der deutschsprachigen Literatur by Klaus Amman, Karl Wagner (eds.), German Studies Review XXI.1 (1998): Cambridge History of German Literature ed. by Helen Watanabe-O Kelly, Seminar 34.4 (Nov. 1998): Bürgerlicher Realismus und Gründerzeit by Edward McInnes, Gerhard Plumpe (eds.) [Hansers Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur vom 16. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart vol. 6], Seminar 34.2 (1998): Of Reason and Love: The Life and Works of Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach by Carl Steiner, German Studies Review 20.2 (May 1997): Maulwurfsarchäologie: Zum Verhältnis von Geschichte und Anthropologie in Wilhelm Raabes historischen Erzähltexten by Julia Bertschik, Seminar 33.2 (1997): Die Konfiguration des Gegenständlichen: Eine Studie zur geschichtlichen Denkintention in den Texten Theodor Fontanes by Kerstin Dingeldein, German Studies Review 20.3 (1997): Stations of the Divided Subject: Contestation and Ideological Legitimation in German Bourgeois Literature, by Richard T. Gray, German Quarterly 70.1 (1997): The Guises of Modesty: Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach's Female Artists by Ferrel V. Rose, German Studies Review 18.2 (1995): Worthörig wider Willen: Darstellungsproblematik und Sprachreflexion in der Prosa Adalbert Stifters by Eva Geulen, German Quarterly 67.1 (1994): R 7 Interpretationen: Fontanes Novellen und Romane ed. by Christian Grawe, German Studies Review 16.2 (1993): R 6 R 5 "Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre" und der Roman des Nebeneinander by Waltraud Maierhofer, Goethe Yearbook VI ed. by Thomas P. Saine (Columbia, S.C.: Camden House, 1992), Männerweiblichkeit by Gerhard Härle; Music, Love, Death and Thomas Mann's "Doctor Faustus" by John Francis Fetzer; Heinrich Manns Beitrag zur Justizkritik der Moderne by Elke Segelcke, Monatshefte 83.4 (1991): R 4 Text und Kritik. Sonderband: Theodor Fontane hg. von Heinz Ludwig Arnold, German Quarterly 64 (1991): R 3 Zitadellenkultur: Die schöne Kunst des Untergangs in der Kultur der achtziger Jahre by Otto K. Werckmeister, German Studies Review 24 (1991):

10 R 2 Nach der Natur: Über Politik und Ästhetik by Karl Heinz Bohrer, German Quarterly 63 (1990): R 1 "Gehen" von Thomas Bernhard by Bernhard Fischer, German Quarterly 60 (1987): Translations: T 2 T 1 Wolfgang Emmerich, "Do We Need to Rewrite Post-war German Literary History? --- A German Perspective," in, Cultural Transformations in Germany Since 1989 ed. by F. Eigler and P.C. Pfeiffer (Columbia, S.C.: Camden House, 1993), Manfred Dierks, "Doctor Faustus and Recent Theories of Narcissism: New Perspectives" in, Thomas Mann's "Doctor Faustus": A Novel at the Margin of Modernism ed. by H. Lehnert and P.C. Pfeiffer (Columbia, S.C.: Camden House, 1991), IV. SELECTED LECTURES, PRESENTATIONS: L 86 L 85 Zur kulturellen Signatur der DDR: Ein Rückblick 25 Jahre nach der Vereinigung, Middlebury College, July 23, Mercantilist Treasure, Capitalist Circulation, and Establishing Gender Distinctions in the Grimm Bother s Fairy Tale Hänsel und Gretel, Getting and Spending Conference, KU Leuven, Belgium, Dec L 84 Humanities Learning Assessment, AATG Annual Conference, Orlando, FL, Nov L 83 L 82 L 81 L 80 L 79 L 78 Women, Work, Emancipation: Lorenz Diefenbach s Arbeit macht frei and Ilse Frapan s Arbeit, German Studies Association Conference, Denver, CO, Oct "Responding to accountability mandates in the humanities: One foreign language department s response," MLA Convention, Boston, MA, Jan Socialist Women s Work and Fulfillment in Sara Kirsch s The Panther Woman, German Studies Association Conference, Milwaukee, WI, Oct Challenges to Graduate Education in the Humanities, MLA Convention, Seattle, WA, Jan Destruction of the Individual through Work: Herta Müllers Atemschaukel, German Studies Association Conference, Louisville, KY, Sept Writing a Woman s Biography: The Case of Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, MLA Convention, Los Angeles, CA, Jan

11 L 77 L 76 Selling a New World Experience: Balduin Möllhausen s Novellistic Imagination of America, Mt. Holyoke College, MA, Nov Working Out: Organizing the Modern Self in Adalbert Stifter and Gottfried Keller, German Studies Association Conference, Oakland, CA, Oct L 75 Practicing Assessment, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN, March L 74 L 73 L 72 L 71 L 70 L 69 L 68 " Kohle ist tot : Responses to Death as a Cultural Signature of the GDR, German Studies Association Conference, Washington, DC, Oct Balduin Möllhausens Reiseberichte und Abenteurromane aus dem (noch) Wilden Westen, The Tradition of the Bestseller: Success, Identification and Complexity in the Nineteenth- Century German Novel , Jesus College, University of Cambridge, UK, April 17-18, Magie des Ästhetischen: Stifters Granit, Magie der Geschichten. Schreiben, Forschen und Reisen in der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts, TU Dresden, Germany, March 12-14, 2009, and University of California, Irvine, Jan Moderne Heimat: Franz Antels Krambambuli Verfilmungen, Middelbury College Sommerschule, VT, July Wie sah Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach aus? Öffentliches Dichterbild und Rezeptionssteuerung, TU Dresden, Germany, May Cinematic Space, Mobility and Social Change in Austrian Heimatfilm, Conference on Cinema and Social Change in Germany and Austria, University of Waterloo, Canada, May Performing History: Grillparzer's Ein Bruderzwist in Habsburg and Ebner-Eschenbach's Die Freiherren von Gemperlein, MALCA Conference 2008, University of Washington, Seattle, April L 67 L 66 L 65 L 64 Curricular Reform, Student Outcomes, and Identity of Majors: A Case Study of German Program Outcomes Assessment, (with Heidi Byrnes), Evaluation Summit, NFLRC/University of Hawai i, Mānoa, March Narrating a European Germany: Dieter Forte s Das Muster, German Studies Association Conference, San Diego, CA, Oct The Usefulness of Evaluation within and across Foreign Language Departments, ADFL Summer Seminar West, University of Hawai i, Mānoa, June Ebner-Eschenbach s Krambambuli as Film, Kentucky Foreign Language Conference,

12 Lexington, KY, April L 63 L 62 L 61 L 60 L 59 L 58 L 57 L 56 L 55 L 54 L 53 L 52 L 51 Topographie des Realismus: Monumente in Gottfried Kellers Romeo und Julia auf dem Dorfe, MLA Convention, Philadelphia, PA, Dec Die Entschuldung der Welt: Adalbert Stifters Novelle Granit und die Funktion von Literatur im Leben, German Department, University of Washington, Seattle, Oct Heimat and Modernity in Austrian Heimatfilm, German Studies Association Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, Oct Selling and Buying Art: Gottfried Keller s Der grüne Heinrich and Stifter s Der Nachsommer, Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, KY, April History and the Process of Civilization: Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach s Das Gemeindekind, German Studies Association Annual Conference, Milwaukee, WI, Oct Bruderzwiste und Frauenintrigen: Grillparzer und Ebner-Eschenbach, Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, KY, April Adalbert Stifter s Money Thing, CGES Faculty Research Seminar, Georgetown University, March 21, 2005 and XIII Annual Conference on Cross-Currents in Literature, Film and the Visual Arts, National University of Ireland, University College, Cork, 6-8 May What did Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Look Like? Literary Reception and Pictorial Representation, Rocky Mountain MLA, Boulder, CO, Sept Spurlosigkeit: Adalbert Stifter's Challenge to Hermeneutics, Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, KY, April The Currency of Values and the Work of Interpretation: Adalbert Stifter s Der Nachsommer, Stifter and Modernism, Conference at the Institute for Germanic Studies, University of London, London, Dec , 2003 Integrating all Aspects of a Language Department's Curriculum, in session, Language for all purposes: a genre-based pedagogy from literature/culture to business courses, AATG Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, Nov The Place of Curriculum-Independent Assessment, in session Linking Curriculum-Based and Curriculum-Independent Assessment: Articulation and Accountability, ACTFL Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, Nov Renaissance Redux: Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach s Künstlernovelle Agave, Time, Space, Gender: German Women Writers of the 18th and 19th Centuries Conference, Washington, DC, May 2003 and German Studies Association Annual Convention, New Orleans, LA, Sept

13 L 50 L 49 L 48 In This Together: Language and Literature in the Academy, Joint ADFL/ADE Summer Seminar West, Snowbird, UT, June, Hochgeschwellt der Zeitenstrom : Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach s Historical Drama Marie Roland, Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, KY, April The First Year on the Job, Pre-convention Workshop for Job Seekers in Foreign Languages, MLA Convention., New York, Dec L 47 Taking Hold of Internationalization, ACTFL Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, Nov L 46 L 45 L 44 L 43 L 42 L 41 L 40 L 39 L 38 L 37 L 36 L 35 W.G. Sebald s Die Ringe des Saturn: Literature and History, GSA Annual Conference, San Diego, CA, Oct Grimms Hänsel und Gretel: Von Frauen und der Inflation, Middlebury College Sommerschule, Aug From Rome: Classical Antiquity as Metaphor in Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach s Writings, Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, KY, April Preparing Graduate Students to Teach Literature in the Current Higher Education Environment, MLA, New Orleans, Dec Uneasy Balance: Professional and Personal Demands on a Department Chair, ADFL Summer Seminar West, Austin, TX, June, History and the Female Creative Process in Marie Ebner-Eschenbach, Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, KY, April Im Kanon und um den Kanon herum: Das Beispiel Marie Ebner-Eschenbachs, Internationaler Germanisten Congress, Vienna (Austria), Sept Poetical Economy: Money, Value, and Work in Stifter s Der Nachsommer, Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, KY, April Poetical Economy of Cultural Change: Lessing s Nathan the Wise and the Grimms Hansel and Gretel, Prescott College, AZ, March Wechselndes Glück: Zu Werk und Wirkung von Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, American Goethe Society, Washington, DC, Feb Contemporary Germany and Business German, Developing Multiple Literacies: A Model Undergraduate Curriculum for German Studies, ACTFL/AATG Conference, Dallas, TX, November Memory of the Dead, Narrative of the Nation: The Buchenwald Memorial and the Vietnam

14 Veterans Memorial, Narrative and Memory Conference, Georgetown University, November L 34 L 33 L 32 L 31 L 30 Ebner-Eschenbachs Das Schädliche and Die Freiherrn von Gemperlein, Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, KY, April Narrating the Nation: The Buchenwald Memorial and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Prescott College, AZ, 12 March Das Jagdvergnügen an meiner Grenze versalzen: Geschlechterkampf bei Ebner- Eschenbach, University of California/Irvine, 22 Feb Developing Multiple Literacies: A Model Integrated German Studies Curriculum, University of California/Irvine, 19 Feb Moltkes Hand: Zur Darstellung von Geschichte in Fontanes Romanen, International Symposium Theodor Fontane. Am Ende des Jahrhunderts, Potsdam (Germany), 9 Sept L 29 Content-based Instruction, ADFL Conference West, Victoria, BC, June 26-28, L 28 L 27 From ich bin ich to Leo... Herr Leo : Historical Subjectivity in Fontane, Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, KY, April Cultural Change, Economic Exchange, John Carroll Scholars Program, Georgetown University (with Pietra Rivoli, McDonough School of Business), March 3, L 26 Literature and Multiple Literacies, ACTFL/AATG Conference Nashville, TN, Nov L 25 L 24 L 23 Geschichte der Zerstörung: W.G. Sebalds Die Ringe des Saturn, German Studies Assoc. Meeting/ Washington, DC, Sept Recent Literature on Germany s Nazi Past, American University Semester in Washington Program, Feb Der Stille Ozean: A film by Gerhard Roth, Austrian Embassy, Washington, November L 22 "Imperial Fantasy and Realism in Theodor Fontane," MLA/Chicago, Dec L 21 "Wissenschaftliche und romaneske Imagination der neuen Welt," Internationaler Germanisten Verband (IVG) World Congress, Vancouver August L 20 "Unified Germany: National Identity as Cultural Challenge," Lafayette College, April L 19 "National Monuments as the Rhetoric of Identity," presented at international symposium "The Science of Rhetoric and the Arts of Persuasion," Georgetown University, March 1994.

15 L 18 L 17 L 16 L 15 L 14 L 13 L 12 L 11 L 10 L 9 L 8 L 7 L 6 "From a Timeless Diary: Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach's 'Small' Semi-Autobiographical Texts," MLA, Toronto, December "The 'Nazi Thing' and Studying German," Center for German and European Studies (CGES) Faculty Seminar, Georgetown University, Feb "Representations of Death in Nineteenth Century German Bourgeois Culture," German Department Research Colloquium, Georgetown University, Feb "Preußische Geschichte als Geschichte der Romanästhetik: Fontanes Schach von Wuthenow und Die Poggenpuhls," German Studies Assoc. Conference, Minneapolis, October "Deutsche Reiseberichte aus Amerika: Balduin Möllhausen und Paul Wilhelm von Württemberg," AATG Conference, Baden-Baden, July "Culture and Literature in Post-Unification Germany," Foreign Service Institute, Rosslyn, VA, July "DDR-Staatsidentität: Antifaschismus, Historiographie, Literatur," "Cultural Transformations in Germany Since 1989," Georgetown University, April " Den Tod aus dem Bereich des Romans fernhalten : Zur ästhetischen Funktion des Todes in der bürgerlichen Kultur des 19. Jahrhunderts," German Studies Assoc. Conference/ Los Angeles, September "Die Geburt der bürgerlichen Tragödie aus dem Geist der Abnutzung: Gottfried Kellers Romeo und Julia auf dem Dorfe," MLA/Chicago, December "Verbrauchte Gesichter, gemischte Gefühle: Ästhetisierter Tod in Theodor Fontanes Schach von Wuthenow," MLA/Chicago, December " Das Vergangene als befremdliche oder vertraute Gegenwart und Zukunft : Zu Christoph Heins Drachenblut und Horns Ende," AATG/Boston, November "Fiktionalisierter Mengele, biographischer Meckel: Zwei Versuche, sich mit dem Nationalsozialismus auseinanderzusetzen (Ch. Meckel/P. Schneider)," AATG/Boston, November Zur Gestaltung epistemologischer Probleme des Realismus in Fontanes Effi Briest," University of Houston, February, L 5 "Discourse Ethics: On Robert Musil's Modernity," University of Chicago, November 1988 and University of Alabama, Birmingham, February L 4 "Heim ins Reich der Möglichkeiten: Zu Musils Modernität und dem zweiten Band des Mann

16 Pfeiffer, CV 16 ohne Eigenschaften," Musil-Archiv, Klagenfurt/Austria, July L 3 L 2 L 1 "Making the Transition: Towards Solving the Problems of Intermediate German," AATG Annual Meeting - Southern California Chapter, Irvine, May "Die Trauerränder der Zeichen: Zu Faßbinders Fontane: Effi Briest," M/MLA, Columbus/Ohio, November "Nicht Fisch und nicht Fleisch: Robert Musils ästhetische Reaktion auf den Nationalsozialismus," Musil-Archiv, Klagenfurt/Austria, July V. TEACHING EXPERIENCE Taught all levels of undergraduate courses, from first year German to senior seminars, and graduate courses in German and English (detailed list available). Senior Honor s Theses mentored: Andrew Moore Coflan (2011) Elisabeth Browne Harvey (2011) Kirrin Hough (2009) Kenneth Wong (2009; co-mentor with Felicitas Hoppe) Theresa Adamski (2008) Karen Schaefer (2007) Christina Tippmann (2006) Suzanne Johnson (2001) Kimberly Jaeger (2001) Cyrus Griswold (2001) Ivan Parkinson (2000) Ingrid Lundgren (1999) Jessica Walker (1997) M.A. Mentor Anna Zimmer (summer 2008) Colin Bezener (summer 2001) Susanne Wunner (spring 1998) Ph.D. Dissertation Mentor Jason Ager, The Golem: Figure of Film and Literature through the Ages (Dec. 2012) Peter Weise, Schalom, Genosse Schriftsteller : Jewish German Writing in the German Democratic Republic (Dec. 2004) James Martin, The Crisis of Cultural Knowledge in Contemporary Austrian and German Fiction (Jan. 2004) Anna Helm-Kurz, The Intersections of the Material and the Poetic Economy: Stifter s

17 Pfeiffer, CV 17 Nachsommer and Freytag s Soll und Haben (Dec. 2002) Walter Rankin, The Literate Citizen and the Pedagogical State: Defoe s Robinson Crusoe, Campe s Robinson der Jüngere, and Lessing s Nathan der Weise (Jan. 1998) Rebecca Gault, "'Erziehung durch Spuk': Effi Briest and the Ghost of Discourse" (Aug.1993) Ph.D. Dissertation Reader Anna Zimmer (2012); Brooke Kreitinger (2012); Jens Kugele (2011); Wendy Wilson (2009); Mark Lauer (2007); Susanne Rinner (2003); Joanna K. Stimmel (2003); Mark Dreisonstok (2000); Edward Reich (2000); Astrid Weigert (1999); Heidrun Franz (1999); Eva Szalay (1998). Additional Academic Experiences: National Foreign Language Research Center Summer Institute "Developing useful evaluation practices in college foreign language programs" (May 28-June 6, 2007), University of Hawai'i, Mānoa, HI. Follow-up meeting and workshop March VI. OTHER PROFESSIONAL / COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES / MEDIA APPEARANCES (SELECTED): MANUSCRIPT REVIEWS Articles: ADFL Bulletin; The German Quarterly; Literature and Medicine; PMLA; Seminar; Women in German; Focus on German Studies; Gegenwartsliteratur; Higher Education Policy; Modern Austrian Literature; German Politics and Society Books: Camden House; The Catholic University of America Press TENURE/PROMOTION REVIEWS: Bowling Green State University; University of California, Los Angeles; University of Wyoming; Duke University; University of Missouri, Columbia; University of North Carolina, Charlotte (2x); Saint Mary s University, Halifax (Canada); University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (de novo Tenure Committee, chair); University of Alberta (Canada); University of Oregon; University of Washington; Mount Holyoke (nontenure stream position review); Smith College; University of Pittsburgh DEPARTMENTAL REVIEWS: Hunter College/CUNY (2004); Elon University (2013)

18 Pfeiffer, CV 18 EDITORIAL BOARD: The German Quarterly ( ); Publications of the English Goethe Society (2009- ) EXTERNAL GRANT REVIEW: Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2005, 2013) MEDIA APPEARANCES: Interview for Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) Frontal 21, on plagiarism in US academia (May 16, 2011) Interview for Al Jazeera, English, on the 20 th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall (Nov. 8, 2009) Interview for Jiji Press (Japanese Wire Service) on the 20 th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall (Oct. 2009) Interview for n-tv (German cable news channel) on differences between American and German university systems (Feb. 2005) OTHER: Presentation on The Beloved Sisters (Die geliebten Schwestern) for Film-Neu 2014 Festival (Goethe Institute); October 16, Presentation on Oh Boy for Cinema Club, Nov Workshop on German Cinema and special session on Berlin, Ecke Schönhauser at Rehoboth Film Festival, Nov Moderator for a reading and discussion with Nobel Prize winner Herta Müller, Library of Congress, Academic advisor for research project and undergraduate research grant (Hayes Fellow) on language policy and immigrant integration in LA Unified School District and Berlin schools (Dominique Shure), Spring2006-Spring Georgetown Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (GUROP) supervisor for Kevin Boyd (Turkish immigration to Berlin and identity formation), Spring Presentation on Das Leben der Andern for Talk Cinema, Jan. 21, Participant, Mission from Below, Georgetown University, Jan. 18 and 19, Organizer, Faculty of Languages and Linguistics Graduate Research Colloquium, 2006/07; 2010/11.

19 Pfeiffer, CV 19 Organizer, German in Disciplinary Contexts -series, spring and fall Hosted ADFL/ADE Joint Seminar East (with Prof. Joseph Sitterson, Department of English), June, Introduction of Schultze Gets the Blues for Key Cinema Club, Feb. 20, Organizer, On Literature -series, 2004/05. Presentation on Grimms Hansel and Gretel at German Club Fairy Tale dinner, Georgetown University, April 1, Consultant, American Institutes for Research, on German portion of National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), July German Script Seminar, Moravian Archives, June ADFL Job Seeker Counseling, MLA Conventions Organizer, German Studies Meeting of DC Area Universities, Feb. 27, Lecture: Telling the German Story: Teaching German and the New Curriculum, Parents Weekend, Oct Participant: "Whither Georgetown...?" Faculty Seminar (including Planning Committee for the second semester) ( ). (Centered Pluralism Group) Participant: "Democracy and Trust," Faculty Seminar ( ). Panelist: "Culture and the Construction of National Identity," Parents Weekend/ Georgetown College, March Discussion leader, First Year Students' Academic Workshop (Mario Vargas Llosa), 1995; (John McGahern), 1996; (Isabel Allende), 1997; (Haruki Murakami), 2004; (Margaret Atwood), 2006; (Nuruddin Farah), 2007; (Dinaw Mengestu) Organizer (with Profs. L. García-Moreno), "Text and Nation: Debates on Cultures in Conflict," Drs. Emmeline and Arturo Quiason Lecture Series Conference, Georgetown University, April 19-21, Oral Proficiency Interview Panel, Foreign Language Department of the District of Columbia Public Schools, Oct Immersion Workshop on "Current Policy Issues in Germany: Domestic, European, Foreign Relations," National Cryptological School, Sept

20 Pfeiffer, CV 20 "Present Issues in Unified Germany: A Discussion," Global Living Center, Georgetown University, April Immersion Workshop on "Political Structures, Politics and Policies in Germany," National Cryptological School, Sept Evaluator of German Departments for National Research Council, May Organizer (with Prof. F. Eigler), "Cultural Transformations in Germany Since 1989: An International Symposium," Georgetown University, 30 April - 2 May Faculty Advisory Board; Honors Program Film Society, University of Houston, Organizer and moderator, "Reforms in East Germany: A Public Forum and Discussion," University of Houston, Nov VII. GRANTS, AWARDS: (SINCE 1991) a. internal b. external Initiative on Technology Enhanced Learning Grant ($ 6,860) (2013) Closing-the-Loop Grant ($ 8,000) (2011) University Faculty Senate Service Award (2005) FLL Summer Academic Grant (2003; rate of the award) Graduate School Summer Academic Grant (1992; rate of the award) Nominated: At-large Faculty Award for Commitment to Undergraduate Studies in the School of Foreign Service (SFS Class of 2000) Competitive Grant-in-Aid, Graduate School (1996 [with Prof. Laura García-Moreno]; 1997; 2001; 2002; 2007; 2014) Grant-in-Aid, Graduate School (1996, 2000, 2001, 2003; 2006; 2014) SLL Summer Academic Grant, SLL (1995; declined) Support grant ($ 20,000) for conference "Cultural Transformation in Germany Since 1989," Center for German and European Studies (1992) (with Prof. F. Eigler) Summer Research Stipend, Center for German and European Studies (1992) National Foreign Language Research Center Grant, Exemplary Assessment Projects; NFLRC, University of Hawai i, Manoa (2007/08). Technology Grant, FIPSE through Technology Services, Georgetown University (1999) Travel Award, Fontane Archiv, Potsdam (1998) Support grant ($ 20,000) for conference "Cultural Transformations in Germany Since 1989," Goethe Institut Washington (1992) (with Prof. F. Eigler)

21 Pfeiffer, CV 21 VIII. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS: Internationaler Verband der Germanisten (IVG) American Association of Teachers of German (AATG) Modern Language Association (MLA) German Studies Association (GSA) Modern Austrian Literature and Culture Association (MALCA) IX. ACADEMIC SERVICE: (major committees or assignments only) Department: Graduate Admissions Committee (2008 [Chair]; 2009 [Chair]) Department Chair, ( ; ; ) Director of Graduate Studies ( ; ; ) Director of Undergraduate Studies ( ; ; ) Graduate Program German Major Committee, Chair (1994) Merit Review Committee (1992 [Chair]; ; 1997 [Chair]; ; [Chair]) Library Liaison ( ; ) Lecture Committee, Chair; including organizing outside funding ( ) Undergraduate Adviser (1993-present) Search Committees (1991/92; 1992/93; 1993/94; 1997/98 [chair]; 2000/01 [2 searches; chair for one]; 2003/04; 2005/06 [chair]; 2007/08 [2 searches]; 2013/14 [chair]). Graduate Literature Program Committee, Convener ( ) numerous ad hoc committees College/Other Departments/Other Schools/Campus-Wide: NTL Task Force (Main Campus; 2013/14) Committee on Non-Tenure Stream Faculty Track (College; Chair, 2012) Working Group on Languages (2012) Review Committee on MA in Asian Studies (Graduate School; Chair; 2010/11) Interdepartmental Promotion Committee, Department of Music, Anna Celenza (2009) Task Force on Language Education in 21 st Century (College, ) Search Committee, Associate Dean for Graduate Liberal Studies Programs (School of Continuing Studies, co-chair; 2008) Appointing Deans Committee ( ) Commission on professionally oriented masters degrees (School of Continuing Studies, 2006) Review Committee on Ph.D. program in Theology (Graduate School; Chair; 2005) Standing Committee on Non-Traditional Graduate Degrees (Graduate School; Chair; ). Constitution Drafting Committee; School of Summer and Continuing Education, Chair (2004)

22 Pfeiffer, CV 22 Executive Committee, School of Summer and Continuing Education ( ) Executive Faculty Task Force on the Restructuring of the School of Summer and Continuing Education (Chair, ) Executive Committee, International Initiatives, Main Campus ( ) Convener of Faculty of Languages and Linguistics ( , ) Steering Committee of College ExCo ( ) Executive Committee, Georgetown College ( ) Transfer Student Admissions Committee (2001; 2005; 2009; 2010) Executive Committee, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences ( ; ) Review Committee on Ph.D./Doctorate in Liberal Studies, Chair (2002/03; 2003/05) Committee on SFS/MSFS Oral Proficiency Exams (Chair; 1996/97) Interdepartmental Tenure Committee Italian Department (Francesca Santovetti) Executive Committee, Center for German and European Studies (CGES), (1997-present) Department of East-Asian Languages, Search Committee (Japanese Applied Linguistics position) (1996) Executive Committee, School of Business, ( ) Committee on the Language Major; SLL (1994/95) Keynote Speaker, SLL Parents' Weekend (1992) numerous ad hoc committees University: Search Committee for Dean of School of Continuing Studies (2013/14) Working Group on Technology-Enhanced Learning (2012/13) Search Committee for Dean of School of Nursing and Health Studies (2010) Campus Plan Steering Committee ( ) Periodic Review Report (PRR) (Middle States), Steering Committee ( ) Task Force on Assessment (PRR), Chair ( ) Task Force on Facilities (PRR) ( ) Search Committee for Dean of Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (2006) Search Committee for Dean of School of Continuing Studies, Chair (2005) Capital Projects Committee ( ) University Faculty Senate Facilities Committee, Chair (2002/03; ); co-chair ( ) Middle States Accreditation Committee (Subcommittee on Student Affairs; 2001) Disciplinary Review Committee ( ) Search Committee, Vice President for Student Affairs (2000) Licensing Implementation Committee ( ) University Faculty Senate, Steering Committee ( ; ) University Faculty Senate Student Affairs Committee, Chair ( ) University Faculty Senate (1998-present) Executive Faculty for the Main Campus ( ; ) University Grievance Committee ( ) numerous ad hoc committees

23 Pfeiffer, CV 23 Profession: Chair, Search Committee for Editor of German Quarterly, AATG. (2015) Member, Modern Language Association Division of Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth- Century German Literature, Honorary Members/Honorary Fellows Committee, Chair (AATG, ) Editorial Board, Publications of the English Goethe Society, Editorial Board, The German Quarterly, President, Association of Departments of Foreign Languages (ADFL), 2003 Executive Committee, Association of Departments of Foreign Languages (ADFL); Board of Directors, American Association of Teachers of German (AATG), Maryland/DC/ Northern Virginia Chapter ( )