Harold J. Henry Professor of German

• German Romanticism
• Psychoanalytic Theory
• Turn-of-the Century and Twentieth-Century Austria
  

• All levels of German language
• Vienna 1900-2010 (GERM 202)
• German Studies 1770 - 1840: Enlightenment and its Discontents (GERM 301)
• The Nature of Narrative (COMP 111)
• Literature and Psychoanalysis (COMP 340)
  

• B.A. Northwestern University, 1976
• Ph.D. University of Minnesota, 1984
  
  

• Director, Urban Scholars program, 1996-present
• Director, Multicultural Center, 2001- 2002
• Director, Summer Humanities and Social Sciences Program, 2000 - 2007
  

• "Using the Object in the Classroom," Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society (Fall 2008)
• "Communicating and Not Communicating the `Eternal Feminine' in Goethe's Faust II and Mahler's Eighth Symphony." Creativity Seminar of the Erikson Institute, Austen Riggs Center, Stockbridge, Massachusetts (Summer 2005)
• “Das poetische Subjekt, der ‘intermediäre Raum’, und die Ästhetisierung der Frau.” In Novalis. Poesie und Poetik. Ed. Herbert Uerlings.(Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 2004).
• "Secrets and Substitutions: The Dialectic of Enlightenment Adoption in Lessing's Nathan der Weise and Kleist's "Der Findling." Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT (Fall 2004)
• "Telling Conditions: Pregnancy and Narrative in Heinrich von Kleist's `Marquise of O...'." Friday Night Lecture Series of the Erikson Institute for Education and Research of the Austen Riggs Center, February 2003
  
• "Narrating the Asymbolic Subject in Hoffman's Der Sandmann" (Seminar, 1997)
• Locating the Romantic Subject: Novalis with Winnicott (Wayne State University Press, 1997)
• "Family Violence in Kleist's Der Findling" (Colloquia Germanica, 1996)

• "Pregnancy and the Aesthetics of Catastrophe"
• "Rendering Psychotic Speech"