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. “The Politics of Austrian Hip-Hop:  HC Strache’s Xenophobia Gets Dissed.” Colloquia Germanica. Special Issue. Writing In/About Vienna.  39.2 (2006): 209-30.

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. Accepted December 2006. Forthcoming Spring 2008.

Norman, Beret. “Ostalgie as Verfremdungseffekt in Neo Rauch’s Paintings.“ OssiWessi. Edited by Donald Backman and Aida Sakalauskaite. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press. Accepted 2006. Forthcoming 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

Rev. of Rudolf Habringer. Alles wird gut. Liebesgeschichten. [Everything Will Be Ok. Love Stories] In Modern Austrian Literature.  41.3 (2008).  Forthcoming.

Rev. of Wlademar Zacharasiewicz. The Image of Germany in American Literature. In German Studies Review.  31.2 (2008) 444-445.

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 and  Fall 2007.

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

The German-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

“Travel and Narrative Presence/Absence in Novels by Antje Rávic Strubel.” Women In German Conference.  Snowbird, UT.  Oct. 23-26, 2008.

“Ambiguous Dis/appearances:  Narrative Presence and Absence in Recent Novels by Antje Rávic Strubel.”  German  Studies Association.  St. Paul, MN.  Oct 2-5, 2008.

“Life as a Consumer Carousel in Barbara Albert’s Böse Zellen (Free Radicals).”  Cinema and Social Change in Germany and Austria. (Conference) Waterloo Centre for German Studies

University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.  May 1-3, 2008.

“Performing Consumerism in Barbara Albert’s Film Böse Zellen (Free Radicals).”  Modern Austrian Literature and Culture (MALCA) Conference.  University of Washington, Seattle.  April 24-27, 2008.

“‘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.