Manuela Achilles

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Lecturer

Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
PO Box 400125
Department of German
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4125

Phone:434-924-3530
Fax:434-924-6700

Education and Experiences:
(MA) Freie Universitat Berlin
(MA) University of Michigan System : Ann Arbor
(PhD) University of Michigan System : Ann Arbor

Interests:
  • German History
  • Literature and Film
  • Cultural Studies
  • Critical Theory
  • Literary Theory
  • Intellectual History
  • National Identity and the Politics of Culture
  • Literature and the Nation
  • German Orientalism


    • Selected Publications:

    "Reforming the Reich: Democratic Symbols and Rituals in the Weimar Republic," in Kathleen Canning, Kerstin Barndt and Kristin McGuire (eds), Weimar Publics/Weimar Subjects, Berghahn 2006 (forthcoming).

    Pamela E. Swett, Neighbors and Enemies: The Culture of Radicalism in Berlin, 1929-1933 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004). Book review for Social History, November 2006 (forthcoming).

    "On Healing and Hailing: Laurence A. Rickel's Nazi Psychoanalysis." Book review for H-German@h-net.msu.edu (April 2004).

    "Nationalist Violence and Republican Identity in Weimar Germany," in David Midgley and Christian Emden (eds), German Literature, History and the Nation. Papers from the Conference: "The Fragile Tradition" (Cambridge 2002), Oxford: Peter Lang, 2004, pp. 305-328.

    "'Blutdurst' und 'Symbolhunger': Zur Semantik von Blut und Erde", in Walter Delabar, Horst Denkler, Erhard Schatz (eds), Spielraume des Einzelnen: Deutsche Literatur in der Weimarer Republik und im Dritten Reich, Berlin: Weidler Buchverlag, 2000, pp. 185-315.

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