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
Articles
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.
Fulbright German Studies Seminar. “Current Trends in German Contemporary Literature.”
June 8-25, 2005. Berlin, Leipzig and Hamburg, Germany.
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.
Literature and Film of the German Democratic Republic (1949-1989)
21st century Literature and Film in Re-Unified Germany
20th century German and Austrian Drama
20th century German poetry: Lasker-Schüler, Celan, Brecht
Boise State University:
German Civilization and Culture, Fall 2005
Approaches to Foreign Language Education, Fall 2005
Intermediate German I, Fall 2005
Introduction to German Literature, Spring 2005
Survey of German Literature I, Spring 2005
Special Topics: 20th Century German Drama, Spring 2005
Advanced Conversation and Composition, Fall 2004
Advanced Business German, Fall 2004
German in the Speaking-World Today, Fall 2004
Loyola College Berlin Literature Seminar. June 27-July 2, 2005. Berlin, Germany.
Alle lernen Deutsch: AATG Seminar on Diversity in the German Classroom.
July 15-18, 2004. St. Paul, MN.
“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.