BRIAN TUCKER

EMPLOYMENT

2010-	Associate Professor of German, Wabash College

2004-2010	Assistant Professor of German, Wabash College

EDUCATION

Ph.D., German, Princeton University, November 2004

Universität Konstanz, Fulbright Fellow in Germanistik, 2002-2003

M.A., Germanic Studies, Indiana University, 2000

Berufsakademie Mannheim, internship program, Summer 1999

A.B., summa cum laude, History and German, Wabash College, 1998

Universität Freiburg, course work in Germanistik, 1996-1997

HONORS AND FELLOWSHIPS

GLCA New Direction Grants, 2012 (immigration), 2014 (sound studies)

NEH Summer Seminar Grant: Narrative Theory, 2005

Fulbright Fellow/Germanistic Society of America Grant, 2002-2003

Council for Regional Studies Pre-Dissertation Grant, Princeton University, 2002

University Fellow, Princeton University, 2000-2004

Fee Scholarship, Indiana University, 1998-2000

Mackintosh Fellow, Wabash College, 1998

Phi Beta Kappa, Wabash College, 1998

BOOK

Reading Riddles: Rhetorics of Obscurity from Romanticism to Freud. Lewisburg, PA:

Bucknell University Press, 2010.

ARTICLES

“Rebuke: From Trope to Event in Paul Celan’s ‘Zähle die Mandeln.’” The German Quarterly 86.3 (2013): 257-274.

“The Palimpsest of Place in Judith Hermann’s Nichts als Gespenster.” Gegenwartsliteratur 11 (2012): 280-300.

“‘Die Stunde der Entscheidung’: Ordeal and Uncertainty in Kleist’s ‘Der Zweikampf.’” Monatshefte 101/4 (2009): 469-482.

“G.E. Lessing’s Laocoön and the Lessons of Comics.” Teaching the Graphic Novel. Ed. Stephen Tabachnick. Modern Languages Association, 2009. 28-35.

“Raabe, Westermann, and the International Imagination.” Wilhelm Raabe: Global Themes – International Perspectives. Ed. Dirk Göttsche and Florian Krobb. Legenda, 2009. 25-37.

“Performing Boredom in Effi Briest: On the Effects of Narrative Speed.” The German Quarterly 80.2 (2007): 185-200.

“‘In augenblicklicher Verlegenheit’: Else on the Stage.” Modern Austrian Literature 38, 1/2 (2005): 51-60.

“‘Und wer bin ich denn?’ Wordplay and Identity in Tieck’s William Lovell.” Athenäum: Jahrbuch für Romantik (2004): 151-171.

“Wilhelm Raabe’s Stopfkuchen and the Ground of Memory.” Monatshefte 95/4 (2003): 580-594.

REVIEWS AND TRANSLATIONS

Review of The Self as Muse: Narcissism and Creativity in the German Imagination, 1750-1830. Ed. Alexander Mathäs. Monatshefte 105/1 (2013): 137-39.

Review of Ausnahmezustand der Literatur. Neue Lektüren zu Heinrich von Kleist. Ed. Nicolas Pethes. Monatshefte 104/4 (2012): 659-61.

Review of Publishing Culture and the “Reading Nation”: German Book History in the Long Nineteenth Century. Ed. Lynne Tatlock. Goethe Yearbook 19 (2012): 303-304.

Review of Aesthetic Anxiety: Uncanny Symptoms in German Literature and Culture. Laurie Johnson. The German Quarterly 85.1 (2012): 219-21.

Review of Exemplarity and Mediocrity: The Art of the Average from Bourgeois Tragedy to Realism. Paul Fleming. Monatshefte 102/4 (2010): 609-11.

Review of The Geographic Imagination of Modernity. Chenxi Tang. Monatshefte 101/4 (2009): 592-94

Review of Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach. Tragödie, Erzählung, Heimatfilm. Peter Pfeiffer. The German Quarterly 82.1 (2009): 256-57.

Review of Romantic Theory: Forms of Reflexivity in the Revolutionary Era. Leon Chai. Monatshefte 100/3 (2008): 428-29.

Review of Wilhelm Hauff oder die Virtuosität der Einbildungskraft. Ed. Osterkamp et al. Monatshefte 99/2 (2007): 234-36.

Review of German Literature of the Nineteenth Century, 1832-1899. Ed. Koelb and Downing. Monatshefte 98/3 (2006): 467-68.

Review of Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory. Paul Hamilton. Athenäum: Jahrbuch für Romantik (2006). 225-28.

Review of The Seduction of the Occult and the Rise of the Fantastic Tale. Dorothea von Mücke. Athenäum: Jahrbuch für Romantik (2005). 242-46.

Trans. of Gabriele Sander, “Döblin’s Berlin: The Story of Franz Biberkopf.” In: A Companion to the Work of Alfred Döblin. Ed. Dollinger et al. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2003. 141-160.

Review of Ansätze zu einer Archäologie der Literatur. Jochen Hengst. Colloquia Germanica. Band 34/1 (2001): 87-88.

Review of Schwellen. Ed. Illner et al. Colloquia Germanica Band 33/4 (2000): 390-392.

RECENT PRESENTATIONS

“Eichendorff and the Nature of Nostalgia.” presented at: Forces of Nature: The Elements

and Aesthetic Production, Annual Conference, SCMLA, 10/20/14.

“Unpredictable Turns: Travel and Technology in the Stories of Daniel Kehlmann.”

presented at: Annual Conference, German Studies Association, 10/05/13.

“Place as Palimpsest in Judith Hermann’s ‘Die Liebe zu Ari Oskarsson.’” presented at:

Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, 04/19/12.

“Enthrallment and Epiphany: Eichendorff’s Poetics of Temporal Compression.” presented at: Annual Conference, NeMLA, 04/08/11.

“Rebuke: From Trope to Event in Paul Celan’s ‘Zähle die Mandeln.’” Invited Colloquium: Insitute for German Cultural Studies, Cornell University, 10/22/10.

“A Language of Tropes and Riddles: Hieroglyphic Poetry and Esoteric Criticism in Early German Romanticism.” presented at: Annual Conference, Modern Languages Association, 12/27/09.

“Reading Riddles: The Enigmatic Core of Psychoanalysis.” presented at: Global Languages, Local Cultures, American Comparative Literature Association, 03/28/09.

“The Joke and Its Other: Toward a Freudian Concept of Riddle.” presented at: Arrivals

and Departures, American Comparative Literature Association, 04/29/08.

“From Combat to Ordeal: Relocating Uncertainty in Kleist’s ‘Der Zweikampf.’” presented at: Annual Conference, German Studies Association, 10/5/07

“Raabe, Westermann, and the International Imagination.” presented at: Raabe

International; NUI Maynooth, Ireland, 9/7/06

“The Narrative Experience of Time in Uwe Johnson’s Anniversaries.” presented at: Narrative: An International Conference, Society for the Study of Narrative Literature, 4/7/06

“Staging Fräulein Else.” presented at: Kentucky Foreign Language Conference;

University of Kentucky, 4/23/05

“Performing Boredom in Effi Briest.” presented at: Narrative: An International Conference, Society for the Study of Narrative Literature, 4/7/05

“Theory’s Endemic Obscurity: On the Romantic Roots of a Current Debate.” presented at: Literature and Philosophy after Kant, George Mason University, 6/12/04.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Cultures and Traditions 201, 202

Freshman Seminar: Graphic Novels

German 101-102, Beginning German I and II

German 201-202, Intermediate German I and II

German 301, Conversation and Composition

German 302, Introduction to German Literature

German 303, Studies in German Literature: Family Secrets

Ger 303 / Hum 277, Close Readings in Thomas Mann

Ger 303 / Hum 277, History, Memory, and Politics in Günter Grass

German 377, Freud and the Question of Interpretation

Ger 377 / Hum 277, Immigration and Integration in Modern Germany

German 401, Sr. Seminar: Reiseliteratur und die kulturelle Funktion des Reisens

German 402, Literature and Culture from Medieval Period to Sturm und Drang

German 403, Literature and Culture from Classicism to Present

German 477, Brecht and Political Theater

Humanities 277, The City and Beyond: Urban Tales in Film (team taught)

SERVICE EXPERIENCE

Chair, Modern Languages and Literatures (2015-present)

Director, Senior Colloquium (great books discussion course; 2007-2010)

Pre-Law Committee (2009-present)

Faculty Athletic Committee (2011-2013)

Off-Campus Study Committee (2005-2009)

Academic Policy Committee (2006-2008, 2015-2016)

Curriculum Appeals Committee (2006-2007)

Secretary to the Humanities Division (2005-2007)

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