Beret Norman

Education

Ph.D.      University of Massachusetts-Amherst                 Germanic Languages & Literatures

M.A.      University of Massachusetts-Amherst                   Germanic Languages & Literatures

B.A.       Augustana College, SD magna cum laude English Literature/German Studies

Publications

Articles

Norman, Beret.  “Social Alienation and Gendered Surveillance:  Julia Franck Observes Post-Wende Society.” German Literature in the Twenty-first Century: Trends, Traditions, Transformations, Transitions. Edited by Patricia Herminghouse & Katharina Gerstenberger.  NY: Berghahn Books. Forthcoming Spring 2008.

Norman, Beret. “Austrian Rappers Wax Political Against HC Strache’s Xenophobia.” Colloquia Germanica.  Special Issue.  Forthcoming Spring 2008.

Norman, Beret. “Ostalgie as Verfremdungseffekt in Neo Rauch’s Paintings.“ OssiWessi.  Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press. Forthcoming Spring 2008.

Norman, Beret.  “‘Avant-femme’ or Futuristic Frauen: Collaborative Art by Women in the German Democratic Republic.” AC:Collaborative.  Fall 2005. 15 November 2005.  <http://www.artcircles.org/id57.html>.

Norman, Beret.  “Test the West: East German Performance Art Takes on Western Advertising.” Christoph Lorey and John L. Plews, Eds.  Spec. issue of Journal of Popular Culture. German Matters in Popular Culture. 34.3 (2000): 255-267.

Norman, Beret.  “Performative Agency and Bridges in Else Lasker-Schüler’s Drama Die Wupper. Vagabondage:  The Poetics and Politics of Movement. Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Interdisciplinary German Studies Conference at Berkeley. Berkeley: Berkeley Academic Press, 1997. 213-221.

Reviews

Norman, Beret.  Review of Durs Grünbein.  Nach den Satiren. In Focus on German Studies. 8 (2001): 151-53.

Norman, Beret.  Review of Claudia Rosenkrantz.  Keiner verläßt den Raum.  In Focus on Literatur.  6.11 (1999): 75-75.

Grants

FRAP Grant (Faculty Research Associates Program)  2006/07.  2 Course Releases.

College of Arts and Sciences Travel Grant.  Fall 2006.

NEH Summer Institute.  “Melting Pot Vienna: Then and Now.” July 10-August 5, 2006. 

            Diplomatic Academy, Vienna, Austria.   Four week seminar.

Fulbright German Studies Seminar.  “Current Trends in German Contemporary Literature.”

June 8-25, 2005.  Berlin, Leipzig and Hamburg, Germany.  Three week seminar.

Travel Grant to attend Washington University’s Paul Celan Seminar:  “The German Novel

from Heinrich Böll to Christoph Hein.”  St. Louis.  March 25-27, 2005.

DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Dissertation Grant, 1997-98

            Friederich Schiller Universität Jena, Jena, Germany. 

            Professor Sigrid Lange, advisor.

Suhrkamp Scholarship/Center for Contemporary German Literature. 1997

Washington University, Saint Louis, MO. 

Interdisciplinary Summer Seminar in German Studies, 8 July-6 August, 1996.  

Center for German and European Studies (CGES), 

DAAD and the Department of German, University of California at Berkeley.

Major Research Fields

21^st century Literature and Film in Re-Unified Germany

Literature and Film of the German Democratic Republic (1949-1989)

20^th century German and Austrian Drama

20^th century German poetry:  Lasker-Schüler, Celan, Brecht

Courses Taught

Boise State University:

Intermediate German I and II

German Civilization and Culture

Introduction to German Literature

Survey of German Literature I and II

Advanced Conversation and Composition

Advanced Business German

German in the Speaking-World Today

Special Topics: 20^th Century German Drama

Special Topics: Marginal Voices in Contemporary German Literature

Special Topics: German Film

Approaches to Foreign Language Education

Professional Development

Loyola College Berlin Literature Seminar.  June 27-July 2, 2005.  Berlin, Germany.

Alle lernen Deutsch:  American Association of Teachers of German (AATG) Seminar on Diversity in the German Classroom.  July 15-18, 2004.  St. Paul, MN.  

Selected Recent Academic Presentations

“‘Hip Hop Gegen Rechts’: Austrian Rappers Wax Political Against HC Strache’s Xenophobia.”  Kentucky Foreign Language Conference.  University of Kentucky, Lexington.  April 19-22, 2007.

“Using HipHop Music in the High School Classroom.” Idaho Association of Teachers of Languages and Culture (IATLC) / Idaho Association of Teachers of German (IATG). Boise, ID.  Oct. 5-7, 2006.

“Ostalgie in Neo Rauch’s Paintings.”  14th Annual Interdisciplinary German Studies Conference at the University of California, Berkeley.  March 2006.

“Teaching Literature to High School Students through Scenes in Goethe’s Faust I and Silent Film.”  Presented at Idaho Association of Teachers of Language and Culture / Idaho Association of Teachers of German (IATLC/IATG), Idaho Falls, ID.  October 2004.

“Bricolage as Opposition:  Gabriele Stötzer’s Experimental Prose and Performance Art.” Presented at the 57th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky.  April 2004.