Albert Earle Gurganus Professor of German and Head Department of Modern Languages The Citadel



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Albert Earle Gurganus

Professor of German and Head

Department of Modern Languages

The Citadel

Charleston SC 29409-6430

Tel 843.953.5253

Fax 843.953.7257

DEGREES
1980/84 MA, PhD in Germanic languages and literatures, University of North Carolina
1977 AM in modern European history, University of Chicago
1975 BA in German and history, cum laude, Wake Forest College
SPECIAL COURSEWORK, INTERNSHIPS, FIELDWORK
Summer 2005 Göksu Archaeological Project (site-survey and fieldwork) in south-central Turkey
Spring 1989 Internship at the North Carolina Archives cataloging the papers of J F Mitchell, Populist politician
Summer 1987 AATG DDR-Landeskundeseminar at Martin-Luther-Universität (Halle GDR)
Summer 1973 Mittelstufe I, Goethe Institut (Iserlohn FRG)
TEACHING, ADMINISTRATION
currently Professor of German and Head of Modern Languages, The Citadel (appointed assistant Aug 1989; tenured, promoted to associate May 1993; promoted to professor May 2000, commenced five-year term as head 1 Jul 2001)
1983-89 German and English teacher, Needham Broughton High School (Raleigh NC)
1986-87 Visiting Assistant Professor of German, Campbell University
1984-85 Instructor in German, North Carolina State University
1983-84 Instructor in German, Atlantic Christian College
1977-83 Teaching assistant, UNC Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
1975-76 German and history teacher, Hale Episcopal School (Raleigh NC)
EDITING
1999 Guest editor, South Carolina Historical Magazine: Germans in Charleston 100.1 (Jan 1999)
1994-98 Foreign-language editor, Postscript: Publication of the Philological Association of

the Carolinas
1992 Reader, St James Press (London) Guide to German Literature
Summer 1980 Copy editor, UNC Studies in the Germanic Languages and Literatures
GRANTS, SCHOLARSHIPS
Summer 2003 Citadel Foundation grant for archival research at the Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis (Amsterdam)
Summer 2000 Dean's discretionary grant for research at the Bundesarchiv-Koblenz and the Nürnberg

Stadtbibliothek


Summer 1996 DAAD Study Visit Research Grant for Faculty for work at the Stiftung Archiv der Parteien und Massenorganisationen der DDR im Bundesarchiv (Berlin-Lichterfelde)
1995-96 Sabbatical research leave
Summer 1991 Citadel Development Foundation grant for archival research at the Institut für Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung (Berlin)
Summer 1990 Citadel Development Foundation grant for research at the Library of Congress
1981-82 DAAD Sonderstipendium for dissertation research at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (Munich)
1973-74 Wake Forest University's Direktaustausch-Stipendium to the Freie Universität (Berlin)
AWARDS
May 2003 Election to Citadel chapter of Phi Kappa Phi
Dec 1994 Citadel Faculty Achievement Award "for significant achievement in teaching"
Mar 1994 Founders' Prize in Foreign Literatures and Languages, Philological Association of the

Carolinas


May 1993 Citadel Faculty Achievement Award "for teaching, scholarship, and service"
1989 Certificate of Excellence in Teaching from the White House Commission on Presidential Scholars (presented in Washington on 19 Jun 1989)
1987 Richard M Jewell Award for superior teaching at Needham Broughton High School
ORGANIZATIONS, PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Currently German Studies Association, South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Philological Association of the Carolinas
Jul 2001 Founder, The Citadel German Studies Summer Stipend, an annual award to assist an undergraduate German major with a proposed summer-study project in Europe
1999 Nominee evaluator, John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation Award
1996-98 Member-at-large, executive committee of the Philological Association of the Carolinas
1995 Delegate from The Citadel to the German Initiative Committee of the SC Commission on Higher Education, charged by Governor Beasley with establishing sister-state exchange of students and faculty with Brandenburg FRG
1991-95 Organizer and director, The Citadel Summer Study in Germany/Austria
1988-89 Coorganizer, Innsbruck Bundesrealgymnasium-Raleigh Broughton Exchange
1986-87 Vice President of the NC AATG
1984/87 State selection committee, Congress-Bundestag Exchange Scholarship
1984-1997 Board chair, Philip Watts Foundation, a memorial trust awarding scholarships to students of German in the Wake County (NC) Public Schools
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS, INVITED LECTURES
"The Schiller-Centennial: Poet of Freedom or Poet Laureate?" Paper read at the SAMLA convention in Atlanta GA on 5 Nov 2005.
"Down and Dirty: The Göksu Archaeological Project 2005." Lecture held for the Citadel chapter of Phi Kappa Phi on 26 Oct 2005.
"The Novella of Goethe's Wahlverwandtschaften: An Interpretation of Function." Paper read at the Philological Association of the Carolinas convention at Myrtle Beach SC on 11 Mar 2005.
"Groping One's Way into Post-Modernity through Durrell's Dark Labyrinth." Paper read at the Philological Association of the Carolinas convention in Charlotte NC on 20 Mar 2004.
"The In-House Practicum: Schooling Your Best Majors for the Classroom." Paper read at the Philological Association of the Carolinas convention at Myrtle Beach SC on 29 Mar 2003.
"The Purpose of Prologue in Brecht's Kaukasischer Kreidekreis." Paper read at the Philological Association of the Carolinas convention at UNC-Asheville on 22 Mar 2002.
"DEFA: The People's Cinema." Guest lecture held for Professor N P Nenno's LTGR 370: Postwar German Cinema at the College of Charleston on 14 Mar 2002.
"Sarah Sonja Lerch, née Rabinowitz: The Sonja Irene L of Toller's Masse-Mensch. Paper read at the SAMLA convention in Atlanta GA on 9 Nov 2001.
"Dirty Secrets after Naturalism: The Krupp Affair and the Avant-Garde Press." Paper read at the Philological Associaion of the Carolinas convention at the College of Charleston on 3 Mar 2001.
"Building Socialism? The Life and Legacy of DEFA." Lecture held for the College of Charleston's Office of Continuing Education on 3 Oct 2000.
"Coming to Grips with the Past through Literature." Citadel Senior Scholars Lecture held in Charleston on 23 Feb 2000.
"Psychopath or Misunderstood Hero? The Case of Ulfo in J E Schlegel's Canut. Paper read at the SAMLA convention in Atlanta GA on 5 Nov 1999.
"Berlin-Babelsberg: Heimat der Ufa, 1917-1933." Workshop presented for AP teachers participating in the total-immersion seminar Berlin - gestern und heute, sponsored by the Consortium for German in the Southeast, at the University of the South on 2 Jul 1999.
"Doomed Schemes Born of Flawed Visions: Ulrich von Hutten and Martin Luther as Reactionary Utopians." Paper read at the SAMLA convention in Atlanta GA on 5 Nov 1998.
"Psychopathia spiritualis: Kurt Eisner's 1891 Critique of Friedrich Nietzsche." Paper read at the Philological Association of the Carolinas convention at Winthrop University on 16 Mar 1996.
"Kurt Eisner and the Scholarly Oxen: A Lesson in Reception or Why Getting It Right Matters." Lecture to history graduate students and faculty at Wake Forest University on 2 Nov 1995.
"Weimar Politics and Culture: Case Study of a Seminar." Workshop presented at the National Collegiate Honors Council conference in San Antonio TX on 28 Oct 1994.
"The Delicate Balance in Hanns Cibulka's Wegscheide." Paper read at the Philological Association of the Carolinas convention at Elon College on 26 Mar 1993.
"'Once Upon a Time There Was a Wicked Monocapitalist...': Kurt Eisner's Sozialmärchen." Paper read at the College Language Association convention in Columbia SC on 18 Apr 1991.
"Siegfried Lenz's Deutschstunde: An Anti-Heimatroman." Paper read at the SAMLA convention in Tampa FL on 17 Nov 1990.
"East German Society and Culture." Workshop for 10 hours' renewal credit presented for Wake County teachers of German in Raleigh NC on 4, 11, and 18 Nov 1987.
"Zur Feier 750 Jahre Berlins: Ein Studentenjahr an der Freien Universitaet, 1973-74." Paper read at the NC AATG convention in Charlotte NC on 24 Oct 1987.
PUBLICATIONS
Book in progress: "Kurt Eisner: A Modern Life," a biography of the German-Jewish intellectual who led the Bavarian Revolution of 1918.
"Sarah Sonja Lerch, née Rabinowitz: The Sonja Irene L of Toller's Masse-Mensch," German Studies Review 28.3 (Oct 2005): 607-620.
"Kurt Eisner and the Scholarly Oxen: A Lesson in Reception or Why Getting Right Matters." Germanic Notes and Reviews 27 (1996): 23-33.
"Bertolt Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle." Reference Guide to World Literature. Ed. Lesley Henderson. 2nd ed. London: St James, 1996. 173-74.
"Siegfried Lenz's The German Lesson." Reference Guide to World Literature. Ed. Lesley Henderson. 2nd ed. London: St James, 1996. 706-707.
"The Delicate Balance in Hanns Cibulka's Wegscheide."Founders' Prize Essay in Foreign Literatures and Language. Postscript: Publication of the Philological Association of the Carolinas 10 (1994): 11-20.
"Wolfgang Borchert." Dictionary of Literary Biography 124: Twentieth-Century German Dramatists, 1919-1992. Ed. Wolfgang Elfe and James Hardin. Detroit: Gale, 1992. 43-49.
"A German Socialist's African Märchen: Kurt Eisner as Aufklärer."Journal of Black Studies: The Image of Africa in German Society 23 (1992): 210-18.
"Siegfried Lenz's Deutschstunde: An Anti-Heimatroman." Germanic Notes and Reviews 23 (1992): 63-66.
"Kurt Eisner." Dictionary of Literary Biography 66: German Fiction Writers, 1885-1913. Ed. James Hardin. Detroit: Gale, 1987. 100-105.
The Art of Revolution: Kurt Eisner's Agitprop. Columbia: Camden House, 1986.
Best, Otto F. "On the Art of Garnishing a Flounder with 'Chestnuts' and Serving It up as Myth." Trans. Albert E Gurganus. The Fisherman and His Wife. Günter Grass's The Flounder in Critical Perspective. Ed. Siegfried Mews. New York: AMS Press, 1983. 135-49.





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