Helga Druxes

Professor of German and Comparative Literature

At Williams since 1987
Helga.Druxes@williams.edu
38 Weston, x3316

[Areas of Expertise and Interest]:

19th century novel
Post 1945 German literature
Feminist theory (French, German)
Immigration and nationalisms (German, French)
Colonialist fiction (British, French)
Teaching with multimedia (in language and culture courses)

[Courses Taught]:  (GERM/COMP)

Elementary German (GERM 201-202)
Advanced German (GERM 107)
Berlin--The Metropolitan Village Between East and West (GERM 109)
Berlin (GERM 303)
Telling Lives/Inventing Selves: Biography and Autobiography in the Two Germanies and Austria, 1915-Today (GERM 311)
Intro to Cultural Studies: Traveling Fictions (LIT 111)
Everyday Life in Literature and Film (COMP 402)
All levels of German language

[Education]:

M.A. Brown University, 1985
PhD. Brown University, 1987
Staatsexamen, Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet Muenster, Germany, 1982

[Recent Publications]:

Book review of: Jonsson, Stefan. Robert Musil and the History of Modern Identity. Modern Fiction Studies, 2002.
Resisting Bodies: The Negotiation of Female Agency in Twentieth-Century Women's Fiction (Wayne State Unviersity Press, 1996)
"Remembering as Revision: Fictionalizing Nazism in Postwar Germany," MLN 1994
The Feminization of Dr. Faustus: Female Identity Quests from Stendhal to Morgner (PennState University Press, 1993)
Queerbeet: An Intermediate German Reader (Peter Lang, 1988)