German Language Faculty

DINAH DODDS

Department Chair, Professor of German Language and Literature

Box: 30

Phone: (503)768-7423

E-mail: dodds@lclark.edu

Dinah Dodds has been teaching at Lewis & Clark College since 1972. She received her PhD in German Literature from the University of Colorado where she wrote her dissertation on the use of myth in the poetry of Nelly Sachs (Nobel Laureate, 1966) and the music of Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg. She has taught all levels of German language and literature, as well as Inventing America. Her scholarly interests lie in 20th century German literature, music, and art, and she has published articles on poet Nelly Sachs, playwright Bertolt Brecht, and fiction writer Ingeborg Bachman. She has also published in her other field of interest, teaching methodology. Her most recent work has been a longitudinal study of East German women since the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall. Her 1994 book of interviews with eighteen of these women, The Wall in my Backyard: East German Women in Transition, and two subsequent articles, based on later interviews, show the richness and variety of life behind the Iron Curtain as well as the struggle and success of women in unified Germany.

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KATHARINA ALTPETER-JONES

Assistant Professor of German Language and Literature

Box: 30

Phone:(503)768-7430

E-mail: altpeter@lclark.edu

Katja Altpeter-Jones joined the faculty of Lewis and Clark College as Assistant Professor of German in 2003. A German native, she received her Magister in English and French literature from the Julius-Maximilians Universität Würzburg, Germany, and her Ph.D. in German Studies from Duke University in 2003, with a concentration in German literature of the Middle Ages and a certificate in Women's Studies. She currently teaches first and third year language classes, an introduction to German literature from the beginning to the Enlightenment, and a German literature in translation course that explores representations of femininity and masculinity in German literature from the 12th century to the present. She has published on the early modern figure of the She-Man and has contributed an entry on the medieval tale of Flore und Blanscheflur to the forthcoming volume Women and Gender in Medieval Europe in the Routledge Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages Series. Dr. Altpeter-Jones is currently working on an article on representations of marital violence in late medieval and early modern German text and image.

THERESE AUGST

Assistant Professor of German

E-mail: taugst@lclark.edu

Phone: (503) 768-7430

Therese Augst joins the program at Lewis & Clark after teaching in the German department at Princeton University, where she taught courses in language, literature, and culture. She has also held visiting posts at Stanford and the University of California, Santa Barbara. She received her PhD in German Studies from UCSB in 1998. Over the years she has taught courses at all levels and on a wide variety of topics, including contemporary literature and film; the theory and practice of translation; tragedy and philosophy; and representations of the link between madness and artistry. She has presented and published work on translations of Greek tragedy by the poet Friedrich Hölderlin, the secret correspondence between Hölderlin and his married lover, German-Jewish exiles in Hollywood, and dream writing at the turn of the twentieth century. Her current research is focused on representations of interiority by women writers and artists around 1900, when traditional forms in which women wrote and created art – diaries, letters, dream journals, (self-)portraits – become informed by the architecture of the modern city and the new language of psychoanalysis.

Nora Kosack

German Language Assistant

Phone: 503/768-7172

Nora is a native of Munich, Germany.