Grants, Fellowships, Awards
Postdoctoral
Resident, Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio Study Center, April-May
2005 Gerda Henkel Stiftung Fellowship, Fall 2005 NEH Fellowship for University Teachers, 2004-5 Alisa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellowship, Center for
Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art,
Washington, D.C. 2002-3 DAAD Study Visit Fellowship, Deutsches Historisches Museum,
Berlin, January, 2003 Wolfsonian Fellowship, The Wolfsonian-Florida International
University, November-December, 2002 Gilder Lehrman Fellowship at the New York Public Library,
February-May, 2003 Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, January-August,
2001 DAAD Study Visit Fellowship, Oberfinanzdirektion, Munich,
1998 Peterson Fellowship, American Antiquarian Society, 1997 John D. and Rose Jackson Fellowship, Beinecke Library, Yale
University, 1996 Teacher of the Year Award, English Department, St. John's
University, 1995 ACLS International Travel Grant, 1995 NEMLA Summer Fellowship, Houghton Library, Harvard University,
1993 Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, Washington University,
1988-90 Internal Grants and Honors
St. John's University Research Leave, September 2004-January
2006 St. John's University Professional Leave, September 2002-January
2003 St. John's University Research Leave, January-August 2001 St. John's University Research Leave, 1996-1997 Teacher of the Year Award, English Dept., 1995 St. John's University Faculty Recognition Award, 2005, 2004 St. John's University Merit Award, 2003, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995,
1994, 1992 St. John's University Seed Grant Fund, January-May 2005,
June-November 2004 St. John's University Summer Research Grant, 2003, 2001, 1998,
1997, 1995, 1994, 1993, 1991 Predoctoral
Fulbright Commission Graduate Research Fellowship,
Universitaet-Heidelberg, 1986-88 Sinclair Kennedy Travelling Fellowship, Harvard University,
1986-87 Harvard University Teaching Fellowship, 1983-86 I. A. Levin Fellowship in Comparative Literature, 1982-84 Harvard University Graduate Fellowship, 1981-82 Departmental Honors and Phi Beta Kappa, Northwestern University,
1981
Books
Art History
The Invisible Museum: The Secret Postwar History of Nazi
Art (Yale UP, forthcoming). The Last Taboo: The Rehabilitation of Nazi Artists in
Postwar Germany (under contract, Yale UP). Gregory Maertz, Hitler’s List: The Führer’s Art Purchases at
the Haus der Deutschen Kunst, 1937-44 (under contract, Yale
UP). Translation
Gregory Maertz, trans. and ed. Friedrich Nietzsche’s On the
Genealogy of Morals (forthcoming, Broadview Press). Literary History
Cultural Interactions in the Romantic Age: Critical
Essays in Comparative Literature, ed. Gregory Maertz (Albany:
SUNY Press, 1998). George Eliot, Middlemarch, ed. Gregory Maertz
(Broadview Editions, 2004). The Romantic Legacy:Goethe and the Origins of
Authoritarians Culture (SUNY Press, under contract). Exhibitions
Curated with Hans-Jorg Czech and Nikola Doll, "Kunst und
Propaganda," Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin.
(Opening January 2007). Curated with Aaron Betsky, "Speer's Germania," Netherlands
Architecture Institute, Rotterdam (opening 2005) Curated with Nancy Yeide and Konstantin Akinsha, "1939," The
Princeton Art Museum (work in progress)
Selected Articles in Books
“Die Sammlung deutscher Kriegskunst der US-Armee: Kunst im NS-Staat
und Nachkriegspolitik,” Kunst und Propaganda in der Wehrmacht:
Gemälde und Grafiken aus dem Russlandkkrieg, ed. Veit Vetlzke
(Kerber Verlag, 2005), pp. 10-16. "The German War Art Collection," Kunst and Propaganda
[exhibition catalogue] ed. Hans-Jorg Czech and Nikola
Doll (forthcoming, Deutsches Historisches Museum) "The Romantic Idealization of the Artist from Goethe to Thomas
Mann," Romantic Fictional Prose, ed. Gerald Gillespie with
Manfred Engel and Bernhard Dieterle (forthcoming, ICLA Comparative
Literary History Series). "Exhibiting Nazi Artifacts and Challenging Traditional Museum
Culture: A Conversation with Mitchell Wolfson, Jr.," Acts of
Possession:Collecting in America, ed. Leah Dilworth (New
Brunswick: Rutgers UP),pp. 267-285. "Reviewing Kant's Early Reception in Britain: The Leading Role
of Henry Crabb Robinson," Cultural Interactions in the Romantic
Age: Critical Essays in Comparative Literature, ed. Gregory
Maertz (Albany: SUNY Press, 1998), pp. 209-226. "Generic Diversity and the Romantic Travel Novel: Godwin's St.
Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century," Narrative Ironies,
ed. Raymond A. Prier and Gerald Gillespie (Amsterdam and Atlanta,
GA: Rodopi, 1997), pp. 267-282.
Selected Articles in Journals
“When Art is Not Art: The Afterlife of Nazi Art,” Crossings: A
Counter-Disciplinary Journal (forthcoming).
"The Invisible Museum: The Secret Postwar History of Nazi Art,"
Center #23 (Nationali Gallery of Art, Center for Advanced
Study in the Visual Arts, Washington, DC, 2003): 96-100. "The Art of the Past and the Poetry of the Present: Walter Pater
and the Post-WW I Revival of German Culture," The Pater
Newsletter 41 (Fall 2000): 9-14. "Carlyle's Mediation of Goethe in its European Context,"
Scottish Literary Journal 24: 2 (1997): 59-78. "The Importation of German and Dissenting Voices in British
Culture: Thomas Holcroft and the Godwin Circle," 1650-1850:
Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era, Vol.
III (1997): 271-300. "German Paradigms and American Cultural Institutions: The
Mediation of German Literature in New England," The European
Legacy vol 1.3 (1996): 1064-1070. "Carlyle's Critique of Goethe: Literature and the Cult of
Personality," Studies in Scottish Literature, Vol. XXIX
(1996): 205-226. "Family Resemblances: Intertextual Dialogue between Father and
Daughter Novelists in Godwin's St. Leon and Shelley's
Frankenstein," University of Mississippi Studies in
English, New Series, Volumes XI-XII (1993-95): 303-320. "The Eclipse of the Text in Carlyle's Critical Discourse,"
The Victorian Newsletter, Vol. 87 (Spring 1995):
14-20. "Generic Fusion and Appropriation in Godwin's St. Leon,"
European Romantic Review, Vol. 5, No. 1 (Winter 1995):
214-229. "Elective Affinities: Tolstoy and Schopenhauer," Wiener
Slawistisches Jahrbuch, Vol. 40 (1994): 53-62. "To Criticize the Critic: George Saintsbury on Goethe,"
Papers on Language and Literature, Vol. 30, No. 2 (Spring
1994): 115-131. "Henry Crabb Robinson's 1802-03 Translations of Goethe's Lyric
Poems and Epigrams," Michigan Germanic Studies, Vol. XIX,
No. 1 (Spring 1993): 19-45.
Contributions to Reference Works
Article on Gustave Masson, The New Dictionary of National
Biography, ed. Brian Harrison (Oxford University Press, in
press). Articles on Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, German Romance,
Wotton Reinfred, Novalis, Fichte, Richter, Eckermann, Heyne, Werner
and others, The Carlyle Encyclopedia, ed. Mark Cumming
(Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, in press). Character entries on William Godwin's novels St. Leon,
Fleetwood, Mandeville, Deloraine, and Cloudesley, The
Dictionary of British Literary Characters: Eighteenth- and
Nineteenth-Century Novels (Facts On File, Inc., 1993). Monograph article on William Godwin, The Concise Dictionary
of Literary Biography: English Romantic Prose Writers,
1789-1832 (Detroit and London: Gale Research Inc., 1992), pp.
228-245.
Selected Reviews
Review article, Hanns Christian Löhr, Das Braune Haus
der Kunst: Hitler und der Sonderauftraf Linz (Akademie Verlag,
2005), Keith Holz, Modern German Art for Thirties Paris,
Prague, and London (University of Michigan Press, 2004),
Gloria Sultano and Patrick Werkner, Oskar Kokoschka: Kunst und
Politik 1937-1950 (Böhlau Verlag, 2003), and Joan L.
Clinefelter, Artists for the Reich: Culture and Race from
Weimar to Nazi Germany (Berg, 2005), German Studies
Review (forthcoming). Martha Woodmansee, The Author, Art, and the Market:
Rereading the History of Aesthetics (Columbia UP, 1994), The
Wordsworth Circle, Vol. XXVI, No. 4 (Winter 1996): 245-247. Patrick Boyle, Goethe: The Poet and the Age, Vol. I
(Oxford UP, 1991) and Deirdre Vincent, Werther's Goethe and the
Game of Literary Creativity (Toronto UP, 1992),
Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 28, No. 3 (Spring 1995):
355-357. Julian Young, Nietzsche's Philosophy of Art (Cambridge
UP, 1992), German Studies Review, Vol. XVIII, No. 1
(February 1995): 154-155. Ruth Newton and Naomi Lebowitz, The Impossible Romance:
Dickens, Manzoni, Zola, and James (University of Missouri
Press, 1990), Comparative Literature Studies, Vol. 31, No.
3 (1994): 296-299. Anne K. Mellor, Romanticism and Gender (Routledge,
1993), Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol. 7, No. 1 (Fall
1994): 106-107. Maudemarie Clark, Nietzsche on Truth and Philosophy
(Cambridge UP, 1990), German Studies Review, Vol. XVII,
No. 2 (May 1994): 396-397. Henry Staten, Nietzsche's Voice (Cornell UP, 1990),
German Studies Review, Vol. XV, No. 3 (October 1992):
607-609. R|diger Safranski, Schopenhauer und die wilden Jahre der
Philosophie (Carl Hanser Verlag, 1987), Thought: A Review
of Culture and Idea (June 1990): 215-217. Kenneth D. Weisinger, The Classical Facade: A Nonclassical
Reading of Goethe's Classicism (Penn State UP, 1988),
Eighteenth-Century Studies (Fall 1989): 73-76. Selected Guest Lectures
"Gordon W. Gilkey, the U.S. Army's Art Detective," Portland Art
Museum, March 6, 2003. "Nazi Art: The Secret Post-War History," Kubal Memorial Spring
Lecture, California State University at Los Angeles, April 10,
2001. "Nazi Art: The Secret Post-War History," California State
University at Long Beach, April 4, 2001. "The U.S. Army's German War Art Collection," Art History Group,
Institute for Advanced Study, January 24, 2001. "Nazi Art: The Secret Post-War History," Institute for Advanced
Study, School of Historical Studies Colloquium, January 22,
2001. "Art of the Third Reich," Villanova University, March 20,
2000. "Disenchanting the Monster? Restoring Nazi Art to Cultural
Circulation," National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, England, October
15, 1999. "Goethe's Translators, Critics, and Readers in New England,"
American Antiquarian Society, January 15, 1997. "Intertextuality, Dialogue, and Education in Godwin's St.
Leon and Shelley's Frankenstein," Columbia University
Faculty Seminar in Eighteenth-Century European Civilization, April
8, 1993. Selected Conference
Participation
Paper, "Architecture as Political Ideology in Albert Speer's Reich
Chancellery: Presentation Drawings and Furniture from the Mitchell
Wolfson Jr. Private Collection," Society of Architectural
Historians, 57th Annual Meeting, April 16, 2004, Providence, Rhode
Island "Cultural Appropriation and Its Discontents: Goethe and the
Invention of American Higher Education," MLA, Washington, D.C.,
December 30, 2000. "The Goethe Controversy at Harvard: Comparative Literature,
Higher Education, and the Cult of Personality," MLA, Washington,
D.C., December 28, 2000. Chair, "'Things'--Objects, Commodities and Fetishes,"
"Conversions of Faiths, Identities, Things & Spaces Along the
Lines of Contact," Princeton University, October 7, 2000. Chair, "Reassessing a Cultural Icon: Goethe at 250,"
International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ISECS),
Dublin, Ireland, July 30, 1999. "Transgressive Culture: Goethe and Literary Politics,"
International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ISECS),
Dublin, Ireland, July 30, 1999. Chair, "Texts, Images, and Ideologies: Romantic Culture and the
Legacy of the Eighteenth Century," Northeast American Society for
Eighteenth- Century Studies, Ottawa, Canada, September 8, 1995. "Radical Politics, Dissenting Religion, and the Mediation of
German Culture," International Society for Eighteenth-Century
Studies (ISECS), Muenster, Germany, July 27, 1995. Chair, "Romanticism and Comedy," MLA, San Diego, December 29,
1994. Chair, "Romanticism and the Transfiguration of the Familiar and
the Foreign," Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century
Studies, Fordham University at Lincoln Center, New York, October 8,
1994. "German Paradigms and American Cultural Institutions: The
Mediation of German Literature in New England," International
Society for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI),
Karl-Franzens-Universitdt, Graz, Austria, August 25, 1994. "From the Margins to the Center: Wollstonecraft, Austin, and
George Eliot," Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, University
of Oklahoma, October 10, 1993.
"Reading Romantic Culture: Stael, Carlyle, Heine, and the Critique
of German Literature," MLA, San Francisco, December 27, 1991. Chair, "Cultural Interaction in the Romantic Age," MLA, San
Francisco, December 27, 1991. |