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Recent Senior Projects

  • Masses and Man: The Existential Crisis of Expressionism
  • Nietzsche's The Genealogy of Morals: Short and Unethical
  • Murderers among Us, German horror film and the return of the tyrant in the Weimar Republic
  • Julian Schutting: Linguistic Explorations in Love, Poetry, and Politics, collection of translations of the contemporary Austrian poet
  • Growing Up on the Border- An East German Memoir, a translation of Wenn ich kein Voeglein waer (If I Were Not a Bird)
  • Goethe's Italian Drawings, essay about Goethe's Italian journey and work as an artist
  • Smother Your Own Children, So That They Might Survive: Fighting Prejudice with Prejudice, interpretation of Emine Svgi Oezdamar's novel The Bridge of the Golden Horn
  • Oya: A Foreign Home in Turkey, by Karin Koenig, Hanna Straube, and Kamil Taylan,"translation, with an introduction, of a contemporary novel for young adults dealing with issues facing a repatriated young Turkish woman
  • The Trash Collector, a study of Kurt Schwitters's vision of the Gesamtwerk (total work of art)
  • Rereading the Holocaust, the language of silence in Sara Nomberg-Przytyk's Auschwitz: True Tales from a Grotesque Land
  • Goethe, Faust, Spinoza
  • Baron Muenchhausen and Friends, a Video Film
  • A Collection of Children's Books
  • Ideology and Children's Literature: an analysis of books written for young people inNational Socialist Germany

 

Internet Projects

 

Bilingual Theatre Productions

  • 1998 - Brecht on Trial
  • 1999 - A Dream Disturbed
  • 2000 - Wit and Resistance
  • 2001 - Songs and Satire from Theresienstadt
  • 2002 - Freedom of the Modern Ape
  • 2004– Before the Law
  • 2005 – Of Crime and Cauliflower
  • 2007- Cassandra: Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition