Publications by WCGS Members
Publications by WCGS Members
The following is a list of some of the recent scholarly works published by members of the WCGS. Please click on the individual books to see bibliographical and purchasing information.
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Gary Bruce, The Firm: The Inside Story of the Stasi (NY: Oxford University Press, 2010)
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Harald Bauder, Immigration Dialectic: Imagining Community, Economy and Nation (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011)
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John H. Smith, Dialogues Between Faith and Reason: The Death and Return of God in Modern German Thought (NY: Cornell University Press, 2011)
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Goethe Yearbook XVIII, edited by John H. Smith and Elizabeth Millán (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2011)
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Cinema and Social Change in Germany and Austria, edited by Gabriele Mueller and James M. Skidmore (Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2011)
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David G. John. Bennewitz, Goethe, Faust. German and Intercultural Stagings (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011).
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Barbara Schmenk. Geschlechtsspezifisches Fremdsprachenlernen? Zur Konstruktiongeschlechtstypisher Lerner- und Lernbilder in der Fremdsprachenforschung. 2nd Ed. (Tübingen: Stauffenberg, 2009)
Drei Schritte vor und manchmal auch sechs zurück. Internationale Perspektiven auf Entwicklungslinien im Bereich Deutsch als Fremdsprache. Festschrift für Dietmar Rösler zum 60. Geburtstag, edited by Barbara Schmenk and Nicola Würffel (Tübingen: Narr, 2011)
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Zeitenwende: Österreichische Literatur seit dem Millenium: 2000-2010, edited by Michael Boehringer and Susanne Hochreiter (Vienna: Praesens Verlag, 2011)
Masculinities in German Literature. Special issue of Seminar, 44(1), edited by Michael Boehringer (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008)
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Susan Saunders Mavor. Westmount: The Tie That Binds the Twin Cities. An Illustrated History of Westmount's 100 Years. (2011)
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German Studies Series
Wilfrid Laurier University Press (WLUP) and the Waterloo Centre for German Studies (WCGS) are pleased to announce the inauguration of a new and improved version of their book series in German Studies. Under the auspices of WLUP, the WCGS Book Series aims to publish two volumes per year in the field of German Studies understood to include German applied linguistics, German cultural studies, history of German-speaking countries and peoples, German literature and film studies, German intellectual history, and theory. Senior editor John H. Smith and an editorial board of internationally recognized Germanists make this series a premiere publishing venue in the discipline. Book monographs and edited volumes that discuss original, scholarly research of high quality can be published in the series. The WCGS will continue to produce edited volumes of selected papers from conferences hosted by the WCGS. Unedited doctoral dissertations and conference proceedings will not be published.
One volume, Liberty is Dead: A Canadian in Germany, 1938, the autobiographical account of Franklin Wellington Wegenast’s travels through Hitler’s Reich (edited by Margaret Derry), is already in print. Another, Traditions and Traditions: Curricula for German Studies by Schmenk and Plews, is in production.
At a time when academic presses in general are experiencing sharp cutbacks and volumes focused on non-English traditions in particular often are not deemed "marketable," this book series for Canadian and international scholars in German Studies demonstrates strong commitment to the field.
Editorial Board:
John H. Smith, Diefenbaker Chair, University of Waterloo-- Senior Editor
Frank Findlay, University of Nottingham
Sabine Hake, University of Texas, Austin
Bob Moeller, University of California, Irvine
Diethelm Prowe, Carleton College
Dietmar Rösler, Universität Gießen
Joseph Salmons, University of Wisconsin, Madison
German Studies Series Publications
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German Diasporic Experiences
Identity, Migration, and Loss
Mat Schulze, James Skidmore, David G. John, Grit Liebscher, and Sebastian Siebel-Achenbach
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Liberty is Dead: A Canadian in Germany, 1938
Margaret Derry
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Das Berliner Journal (1859 - 1918)
Anne Löchte
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Traditions and Transitions: Curricula in German Studies
Barbara Schmenk and John Plews
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Traditions and Transitions
Traditions and Transitions: German Curricula
Waterloo Centre for German Studies,
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
August 26 – 28, 2010
This conference intends to bring together international scholars whose research investigates various facets of the postsecondary curriculum for teaching and learning German as a foreign and/or second language and culture.
Currently, the potential new influences on the discipline of German seem many and varied. New digital technologies, the information economy, globalization and multiculturalism, altered international spheres of influence, the changing manner of ommunication, the internationalization and corporatization of universities, the rise of cultural studies especially in the English-speaking world, second language acquisition research, and critical applied linguistics are just a few of the current external and internal influences. As a result, many traditionally widespread ideas and approaches in German postsecondary curricula have recently been challenged. The conference attempts to provide a forum for discussing the challenges of current transitions and their impact on German curricula.
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Research Groups
In 2009/2010, we have set up five research groups. The research groups should be(come) a venue where like-minded people meet, work together, discuss interesting aspects of their respective research fields.
Germany 25
This group will consider selected aspects and facets of contemporary German society and culture, Germany's recent history, and its immediate future. The group will be thinking of a medium-term project in the context of the upcoming 25th anniversary of united Germany. Possible topics are: Stasi in East Germany, literature of the Berlin Republic, modern German film, ...
Diane Bielicki (German, Brock), Gary Bruce (History, Waterloo), Iris Bruce (German, McMaster), Myriam Fleischer (PhD German, Waterloo), Tanja Scherer (PhD German, Waterloo), Sebastian Siebel-Achenbach (History, Waterloo), James Skidmore (German, Waterloo)
German-Canadian Studies This group investigates historical, cultural, and linguistic phenomena and processes in German-Canadian communities. A particular focus is given to research about the German-Canadian community in Waterloo Region and to work with relevant materials in the Porter Library's Special Collections. An indicative set of topics and foci is: English German bilingualism, German Canadiana in Ontario Bibliography, Russian Mennonites, history of the local German community.
Helena Calogeridis (Library, Waterloo), Jane Forgay (Library, Waterloo), David G. John (German, Waterloo), Grit Liebscher (German, Waterloo), Nikolai Penner (German, McMaster), Mat Schulze (German, Waterloo), Sebastian Siebel-Achenbach (History, Waterloo) Environment With the growing awareness of climate change and the leading role that Germany is taking in implementing new green technologies, the question arises as to how German Studies can contribute to current ecological debates. Topics for a working group on the environment can include but are not limited to: German writers and ecology from Goethe to the present, Romantic organicist notions of "Lebenskraft," the history and philosophy of the natural sciences and alternative medicine from 1800 to today, the history and permeations of the concept of "Umwelt," critiques of modernity, industrialization, and technology, the "Lebensreformbewegung" and "Wandervogelbewegung," the relation between nature and nation, ecofeminism, trash aesthetics, the Greens in German politics from the 1980s to today.
Karin Barton (German, Laurier) Iris Bruce (German, McMaster), Belinda Kleinhans (PhD German, Waterloo), Alice Kuzniar (German, Waterloo), Jean Wilson (McMaster)
Austrian Studies This group will conduct research on the culture, history, and civilization of Austria. A medium-term project is the organization of the annual conference of the Modern Austrian Literature and Culture Association in Waterloo in 2013.
Michael Boehringer (German, Waterloo), Belinda Kleinhans (PhD German, Waterloo), Paul Malone (German, Waterloo), Paola Mayer (German, Guelph), Jean Wilson (McMaster) Applied Linguistics This group will conduct research on language learning and teaching. It will focus on areas such as second language acquisition, language pedagogy and didactics, Deutsch als Fremdsprache. A short-term project is the organization and running of the upcoming conference 'Transitions and Traditions: German Curricula' in Waterloo in August 2010.
Allison Cattell (PhD German, Waterloo), Alicia Christie (MA German, Waterloo), Christine Kampen-Robinson (MA German, Waterloo), Grit Liebscher (German, Waterloo), Nikolai Penner (German, McMaster), Jillian Randall (MA German, Waterloo), Barbara Schmenk (German, Waterloo), Kyle Scholz (MA German, Waterloo), Mat Schulze (German, Waterloo), Alexandra Zimmermann (German, Laurier)
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