Gisela Roethke
Associate Professor of German and Women's Studies 
Dickinson College
Carlisle, Pa. 17013-2896
Tel.: (717) 245 1737
e-mail: roethke@dickinson.edu
FAX: (717) 245 1456
ON SABBATICAL LEAVE 2005/06

A native of Germany, I started my studies in German and English literature at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Bonn. With a foreign student exchange scholarship I came for a junior-year-abroad to Washington State University, from where I received my B.A. and M.A. in Foreign Languages (French and German). I completed my Ph.D. in German literature from Harvard University in 1988, and I have been teaching at Dickinson College since 1985. Since 2001, I have held a joint appointment in German and Women's Studies.

My teaching interests focus on 20th century German literature, cultural history, and international feminism. My administrative experiences include chairing the German Department from 1997 to 1999 and in 2004/05, and being coordinator of the Women's Studies program in 1995/96 and from 2002 to 2004. In recent years, my research and publications have centered on modern German language authors Hermann Broch, Christa Wolf, Irmtraud Morgner, Elisabeth Langgässer, Barbara Frischmuth, and Lilian Faschinger, and on the use of ancient myths in modern literature.

Fall 2002 courses                                                                    Spring 2003 courses

German 116 "Intermediate German"                            German 232 "Introduction to German Literature"
German 221 "Conversation and Composition"           Women's Studies 200 "Introduction to Women's Studies"
Women's Studies 200 "Introduction to
Women's Studies"

Fall 2003 courses                                                                        Spring 2004 courses

German 101 "Elementary German"                                German 400 "Senior Seminar: Literature and Film on
Women's Studies 201B "On Women and War"               German Unification"       
Freshman Seminar "On German Immigration:              Women's Studies 200: "Introduction to Women's Studies"
A Community Study"
 
Fall 2004 courses                                                                    Spring 2005 courses

German 240 "Cultural History I"                                     German 101 "Elementary German"
Women's Studies 200: "Introduction to                         German 241 "Cultural History II"
Women's Studies"                                                             German 252/WOMST 201 "Women Writers: On Men, Might, and Murder"        

Recent publications
-"Non-Contemporaneity of the Contemporaneous: Broch's Novel Die Verzauberung" in Paul Michael Lützeler (ed) Hermann Broch, Visionary in Exile--The 2001 Yale Symposium. Rochester, N.Y.: Camden House, 2003, p. 147-158.
-"Archaische Utopien und Geschichte. Zu Barbara Frischmuths Arbeit am Demeter- und Persephone-Mythos" in Daniela Bartens and Ingrid Spörk (eds) Barbara Frischmuth--Fremdgänge--Ein illustrierter Streifzug durch einen literarischen Kosmos. Salzburg/Wien/Frankfurt: Residenz Verlag, 2001. pp. 83-114.
-"Zum Bild der Jugend in Lilian Faschingers Kurzgeschichten" in Script--Frau Literatur Wissenschaft, Nr. 19, Feb. 2001, 74-78.
-"Lilian Faschinger im Gespräch", Modern Austrian Literature, vol. 33, no. 1, 2000, pp. 84-103.
-"Interview with Barbara Frischmuth on the Topic 'Demeter and Persephone'" in Barbara Frischmuth in Contemporary Context, by Renate Posthofen (ed), Riverside, CA: Ariadne Press, 1999, pp. 159-170.
-"Barbara Frischmuth's Novel Einander Kind: Fifty Years after the Takeover of the Nazis in Austria", ibid., pp. 38-49.

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