Gail Newman

Harold J. Henry Professor of German

At Williams since 1983
Gail.M.Newman@williams.edu

[Areas of Expertise and Interest]:

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

[Courses Taught]:  (GERM/COMP)

All levels of German language
Topics in German Literatures and Culture (GERM 202)
German Studies 1750 - 1820 (GERM 301)
The Nature of Narrative (COMP 111)
Literature and Psychoanalysis (COMP 340)

[Education]:

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

[Other Posts]:

Faculty coordinator for Williams Writing Programs with Theodore Roosevelt High School, Bronx, NY, 1995- 2002
Director, Multicultural Center, 2001- 2002
Director, Summer Humanities and Social Sciences Program, 2000 - present

[Selected Publications]:

“Das poetische Subjekt, der ‘intermediäre Raum’, und die Ästhetisierung der Frau.” In Novalis. Poesie und Poetik. Ed. Herbert Uerlings.(Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 2004).
Review Essay on Sophia Vietor’s Astralis von Novalis. Handschrift - Text – Werk. (Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann, 2001). In IASL Online (September 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)
"The Status of the Subject in Novalis's Heinrich von Ofterdingen and Kleist's Die Marquise von O..." (German Quarterly, 1990)
"'Du bist nicht anders als ich:' Kleist's Correspondence with Wilhelmine von Zenge" (German Life and Letters, 1989)

[Research in Progress]:

Telling Pregnancy: Pregnancy and Narrative in German Literature around 1800.