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  • Ricarda Huch
  • 20th-century German Cultural History
  • Weimar Republic Culture
  • Canadian-German Literary and Cultural Relations
  • German Film
  • Curriculum Development and Information Literacy
     
  ricarda huch Selected Publications
   
  • The Trauma of Defeat. Ricarda Huch's Historiography during the Weimar Republic. Canadian Studies in German Language and Literature. Bern: Peter Lang, 2005.
  • " 'Nestorin der deutschen Literatur' or 'Parasit Hitlers'? The Early East German Debate about Ricarda Huch." Germanic Review 76 (2001): 3-14.
  • “Responding to the Crisis in Leadership. Ricarda Huch’s Der wiederkehrende Christus.” Themes and Structures. Studies in German Literature from Goethe to the Present. Ed. Alexander Stephan. Columbia: Camden House, 1997. 208-221.
  • “Ricarda Huch und die Geschichtsschreibung während der Weimarer Republik.” Übersetzung von H.-W. Peter. Ricarda-Huch-Studien 5 (1994): 40-60.
       
  culture & film  Selected Publications
   
  • “Berlin, the Unchanging Symphony of the Big City. Determining Story in Der Himmel über Berlin and Lola rennt.” GFL: German as a Foreign Language <http://www.gfl-journal.de/1-2003/skidmore.html>. 19 May 2003.
  • “Intellectualism and Emotionalism in Margarethe von Trotta’s Die bleierne Zeit.” German Studies Review XXV (2002): 551-567.
  • “Memorial to a Haunting Past.” Queen’s Quarterly 108 (2001): 511-519.
  • “Victor Klemperer’s Dresden Diaries and the Language of the Third Reich.” Literary Review of Canada 7:5 (March 1999): 8-10.
   

 

  
  canada / germany Selected Publications
   
  • “Cultural Reductionism and the Reception of Canadian Literature in Germany.” Refractions of Canada in European Literature and Culture. Ed. Heinz Antor et al. Berlin: De Gruyter. 211-25.
  • “The Role of Art in Two Recent Novels about Captain Sir John Franklin.” Cultural Link: Kanada-Deutschland. Festschrift zum dreißigjährigen Bestehen eines akademischen Austauschs. Eds. Beate Henn-Memmesheimer and David G. John. Mannheimer Studien zur Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft 31. St. Ingbert: Röhrig, 2003. 253-66.
  • "Urquhart’s Fairy Tale: The German Cultural Imaginary in The Stone Carvers.” Refractions of Germany in Canadian Literature and Culture. Ed. Heinz Antor et al. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2003. 319-30.
  • “The Discovery of Franklin. A Comparative Literary Exploration.” Ahornblätter 14 (2001): 29-43.
       
  curriculum Selected Publications  
   
  • “Getting Out of the Numbers Game: Setting an Agenda for Curricular Reform in Canadian Language Programs.” Setting the Agenda for Languages in Higher Education. Eds. David Head, Elspeth Jones, Michael Kelly, and Teresa Tinsley. London: CiLT, The National Centre for Languages, 2003. 60-72.
     
  learning study Check out this interesting study of transferable skills.