up-dated: 11 – 2017

 Frederick Alfred Lubich

Education: Hohenstaufen-Gymnasium, Göppingen, Germany  (Abitur 1970), University of Stuttgart, Germany (1970-72), University of Newcastle, Great Britain (1972-73), University of Heidelberg, Germany (Staatsexamen in Germanistik/Anglistik, 1977), Cornell University, United States (MA in American Studies, 1978), University of California, Santa Barbara (Ph.D. in German, 1983).

Employment (1978 – present): University of California, Santa Barbara, (1978-1982), Brown University (1983-84), University of Rhode Island (spring 1984), Columbia University (1984-1992), Haverford & Bryn Mawr Colleges (1992-93), Rutgers University (1993-97), Old Dominion University (1997 – present, Full Professor).

Authored Books (3):

Wendewelten: Paradigmenwechsel in der deutschen Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte nach 1945. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2002, 206 pp.

Max Frischs ‘Stiller‘, ‘Homo faber‘ und ‘Mein Name sei Gantenbein‘ – Modellanalysen zur deutschen Literatur. Munich:  Fink-UTB, 1990, reprints 1992, 1996, 151pp. For recent reprints, see below*

Die Dialektik von Logos und Eros im Werk von Thomas Mann. Heidelberg: Carl Winter (Reihe Siegen, 63), 1986, 331pp.

* Several passages have been reprinted in Lektürehilfe. Max Frisch. Homo Faber. Pons, GmbH, 2017 and as required reading for the annual Abitur by the Ministry of Culture of the Federal State of Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

Edited Books (4):

Transatlantische Auswanderergeschichten. Reflexionen und Reminiszenzen aus drei Generationen. Festschrift in honor of the German-Jewish-Argentinian author Robert Schopflocher Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2014, over seventy contributions, 675 pp.

Mother Tongue, Lengua Materna, Muttersprache: From National Breaks to International Bridges, (special issue of Trans-Lit2, 2011), 210 pp.

The Marketing of Eros: Performance, Sexuality and Consumer Culture. Co-edited with Peter Schulman (Essen: Die Blaue Eule, 2003), 177 pp.

Thomas Mann – Death in Venice, Tonio Kröger, and Other Writings. Preface by Harold Bloom (New York: Continuum, The German Library, vol. 63, 1999), 319 pp.

Articles in Scholarly Journals, Book Chapters, Encyclopedia Entries etc (ca. 90):

Studies of German and European literature and culture of the 19th and 20th century, including Bonaventura, Peacock, Pushkin, Flaubert, Eichendorff, Hofmannsthal, Hermann Hesse, Thomas Mann, Günter Grass, Max Frisch, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Otto F. Walter, Bernward Vesper, Elisabeth Alexander, Ingeborg Bachmann, Anja Lundholm, Rafael Seligmann, Ruth Klüger, Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Charlotte Roche, Wolf Biermann, Bob Dylan, David Bowie et al. Topics include the cultural politics of the Weimar Republic, psychology of fascism, the traumas of Holocaust survivors, German-Jewish relations after the Shoah, film, ethnic music, matriarchal mythography & (post-) modernity etc. in German Quarterly, The Germanic Review, German Studies Review, Monatshefte, Colloquia Germanica, Seminar, Comparative Literature Studies, Glossen (online), Modern Judaism, Dialectical Anthropology, Trans-Lit2, Listenmedia (online), Euphorion, Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift, Rodopi, Böschen, Kröner, Metzler, Königshausen & Neumann, Kol Katan, Fitzroy Dearborn, Camden House, Columbia University Press, Wayne State University Press, Cambridge University Press.

Book Reviews, Interviews, and Journalistic Essays (ca. 200):

Publications in scholarly journals and electronic media as well as regional, national and international newspapers incl. Virginian Pilot, Nordamerikanische Wochenpost, New Yorker Staats-Zeitung, Argentinisches Tageblatt, Neue Württembergische Zeitung, Sudetendeutsche Zeitung, Augsburger Allgemeine, Frankfurter Rundschau, and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and others.

Creative Publications (over 100):

Publications include prose, poetry, photography, visual collages etc. in literary magazines, anthologies, newspapers, LP, CD’s etc. in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, England, the United States and Argentina.

Presentations: Circa 300 presentations, including conference papers and invited lectures in over thirty countries in Europe, Northern Africa, Asia and the Americas. Venues for guest lectures range from churches, synagogues, literary cafés and museums to embassies, universities, and Goethe Institutes.

Performing Arts: Work includes language consultant for theater and film documentaries, voice-over and supporting roles as well as translation of film scripts for German-American co-productions, including Yoko Ono’s rock musical New York Opera for its premiere in Germany.

Radio and Television Appearances:  United States, Germany, Finland, Morocco and Egypt

Offices: Acting Director of the Institute for Jewish Studies and Interfaith Understanding at Old Dominion University (spring 2017), Director of the German Program at ODU (2012 – present), Chair of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at ODU (1997-2008, administrative responsibilities for ca. 50 faculty members in Arabic, Chinese, Farsi, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish), Chair of the German Department at Rutgers University (1995-97) and Graduate Director of its Doctoral Program (1994-97), and Interim Chair of the German Department at Haverford/Bryn Mawr (1992-93).

Service to the Scholarly and Literary Communities at Large: Member of the international Ovid-Prize-Jury of PEN-Center of German-Speaking Writers Abroad (2016 – present), regular contributor to PEN-Center of German Authors as well as its subdivision of “Writers in Prison” (2013- present), managing editor of the German-American online journal Glossen, German Literature and Culture After 1945 (2015 – present),  president and vice president of the Society of Contemporary American Literature in German (2007 – 2012), member of the editorial board of German Studies Review (2005 – 2012), book review editor of The Germanic Review (1989 – 96), evaluator of articles and book manuscripts for scholarly publications and external reviewer for circa twenty promotion cases.

Academic Awards and Honors: Recent awards include “Most Inspirational Faculty Award” (2014), a Festschrift (2012), the “Shining Star Award” (ODU, 2010), “The Charles O. and Elizabeth C. Burgess Faculty Research and Creativity Award”, (ODU, 2005), grants from the Tidewater Jewish Foundation (2002, 2009) and the German Academic Exchange Service (2009).

Print Media: quoted, featured or interviewed in regional, national and international newspapers, including  Southeastern Virginia Jewish News, Atlantic Times, Argentinisches Tageblatt, La Stampa, St. Galler Tagblatt, Tessiner Nachrichten, Lübecker Nachrichten, Die Rheinpfalz, Ludwigshafener Rundschau, Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung, Heidelberger Tageblatt, Neue Württembergische Zeitung, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Hamburger Abendblatt and Der Spiegel.

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