Kai Diers

Visiting Assistant Professor of German

At Williams 2007 - 2008
Kai.A.Diers@williams.edu
detailed curriculum vitae

[Areas of Expertise and Interest]:

National and Cultural Identity
Realism
Naturalism
20th & 21st Century German Literature, Culture and Film

[Courses Taught]:  (GERM)

Elementary German (GERM 102S)
Intermediate German (GERM 103, 104)
Coming to Terms with Past and Present in German Film (GERM 260S)
Dealing with the Past (GERM 304F))

[Education]:

M.A., German Linguistics, Musicology, and American Studies, Potsdam University, 2000
M.A., German Studies, University of Arizona, 2002
Ph.D., Rutgers University, 2007, Cultural Memory, Identity and Representations of Flight and Expulsion

[Previous Posts]:

Lecturer, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Rutgers University, 2002 - 2007
German Instructor, Deutsches Haus, New York University, May - August 2002

[Selected Presentations and Translations]:

 "Explusions of Germans after 1945" presented at the Center for European Studies, Rutgers University, March 2007
"Danger and Form in Arno Schmidt's Leviathan and Reinhard Jirgl's Die Unvollendeten" presented at Confronting Danger conference, University of Minnesota, 2006
Pauline Paul, "I Foresaw it All: The Amazing Life and Oeuvre of Olympe de Gouges," Logos Journal of Modern Society and Culture, Spring 2006
Habermas, Jürgen, "Dual-Layered Time: Reflections on T.W. Adorno in the 1950s,"
Bronner, Stephen and Thompson, Michael J., The Logos Reader: Rational Radicalism And the Future of Politics ( Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2006)