JEFFREY T. ADAMS
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JEFFREY T. ADAMS
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1975-80 |
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL Ph.d.: German. |
1977-78 |
Universität Stuttgart, Federal Republic of Germany (Doctoral studies) |
1973-75 |
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ M.A.: German |
1971 |
Universität Göttingen, Federal Republic of Germany |
1970-71 |
Pädagogische Hochschule Niedersachsen, Göttingen (exchange) |
1968-72 |
Lycoming College, Williamsport, PA B.A.: German |
2003- |
Joint appointment with Broadcasting and Cinema, UNCG |
1991- |
University of North Carolina, Greensboro, Associate Professor |
1986-91 |
University of North Carolina, Greensboro, Assistant Professor |
1985-86 |
University of North Carolina, Greensboro, Lecturer |
1981-85 |
Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa, Assistant Professor |
1980-81 |
DePaul University, Chicago, IL, Lecturer |
1975-80 |
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, Graduate TA |
German: |
Age of Goethe; Kafka; Nietzsche; Freud; literary history 18th-20th century; lyric poetry; theory of literature (esp. psychoanalysis); German film history and criticism. |
Interdisciplinary: |
Film Studies (film noir); Psychology of literature and art; Visual arts and literature; Philosophy and literature; German and European literature in translation; theory of literature. |
Special Teaching Assignments: |
Residential College; World Literature Program; Honors Program; Writing Across the Curriculum Group. |
1995 |
Mimetic Desire: Essays on Narcissism in German Literature from Romanticism to Post Modernism (Co-editor with Eric Williams). Camden House Publishers. Univ. of South Carolina Series in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. |
1990 |
Mörike's Muses: Critical Essays on Eduard Mörike (ed.) Camden House. |
1984 |
Eduard Mörike's "Orplid": Myth and the Poetic Mind. Georg Olms. |
2000 |
"Narcissism and Creativity in the Postmodern Era: The Case of Patrick Süskind's Das Parfum." The Germanic Review 75.4, 259-279. |
2000 |
"Patrick Süskind." Encyclopedia of German Literature, ed. M. Konzett [Yale] Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 924-925. |
2000 |
"Eduard Mörike." Encyclopedia of German Literature, ed. M. Konzett, Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 717-719. |
1995 |
"Narcissism and Object Relations in Goethe's Creative Imagination," in Mimetic Desire, cited above, pp. 65-84. |
1994 |
"The Undoing of Angst in Die Angst des Tormanns: Handke's Creative Response to Kafka," Carleton Germanic Papers 22, pp. 1-14. |
1993 |
"Eduard Mörike." Dictionary of Literary Biography, eds. J. Hardin and S. Mews. Bruccoli, Clark, Layman, pp. 188-203. |
1990 |
"Affiliation, Denial, and Reconciliation: Mörike's Creative Life Cycle in Relation to Goethe." Mörike's Muses, cited above, pp. 60-87. |
1988 |
"The Scene of Instruction: Mörike's Reception of Goethe in `Besuch in Urach.'" Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift, Fall issue, pp. 476-513. |
1988 |
"Holzweg und Kohlengarten: The Failed Projects of Naturalist Poetry and Stefan George's Myth of Symbolism." Selected Proceedings of the Pennsylvania Foreign Language Conference, Duquesne University, pp. 7-17. |
1988 |
"Literaturpsychologie Today." The German Quarterly, Fall issue, pp. 540-53. |
1982 |
"Eduard Mörikes 'Orplid' und Stefan Georges 'Algabal': Zur Problematik der absoluten Poesie in Deutschland." Neue Beiträge zur George-Forschung, 7, 54-58. |
more |
Book reviews for The German Quarterly (Goethe, Mörike, others). Quarterly reviews of contemporary German-language poetry and prose fiction for World Literature Today (contributions on Siegfried Lenz, Stefan Heym, Peter Härtling, Jürgen Becker, Bodo Kirchoff, and others). |
2001 |
Faculty Development Grant: e-learning, UNC-Greensboro |
1999 |
Dean's Merit Award for Teaching, UNC-Greensboro |
1999 |
Internal Research Assignment, UNC-Greensboro |
1998 |
Faculty Development Grant: Dartmouth Film Institute, Dartmouth College |
1996 |
Faculty Travel Grant, UNC-Greensboro (lecture at Univ. of Freiburg) |
1993 |
Faculty Development Grant, UNC-Greensboro: NEH Seminar, Yale University |
1991 |
Summer Excellence Award for Research, UNCG |
1990 |
NEH Humanities Workshop: Freshman Seminar, UNC-Greensboro |
1990 |
Summer Excellence Award for Research, UNC-Greensboro |
1989 |
NEH Summer Stipend: Goethe's Daemonic and Harold Bloom. |
1989 |
Internal Research Assignment, UNC-Greensboro |
1988 |
UNCG Research Council Grant |
1987 |
Summer Excellence Award, UNC-Greensboro |
1984 |
NEH Summer Seminar: Literature and Visual Arts, University of Pennsylvania |
1984 |
Summer Research Grant, Grinnell College (Literary Archive, Marbach) |
1983 |
Mellon Computer Workshop, Grinnell College |
1983 |
Faculty Writing Seminar, Grinnell College (Freshman Seminars) |
1983 |
Mid-West Faculty Seminar: Pluralism in the Humanities, Univ. of Chicago |
1977 |
DAAD Stipend (German Academic Exchange Service): Dissertation research, Stuttgart and Marbach |
1996 |
"Narcissism and Postmodern Creativity in Patrick Süskind's Das Parfum." Guest Lecture at Univ. of Freiburg, Federal Republic of Germany. |
1995 |
"Narcissism and Postmodern Creativity in Patrick Süskind's Das Parfum.'' Twelfth International Conference in Literature and Psychoanalysis, Freiburg, Federal Republic of Germany. |
1994 |
"Correspondence as Therapy: The Schiller-Goethe Briefwechsel as Model for a Transference of Creativity." Presented to American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Charleston, SC |
1994 |
"Goethe's Narcissism.'' Philological Association of the Carolinas, Charleston, SC (also session organizer). |
1991 |
Session Organizer and Presider, "Theories of Narcissism and German Literature.'' National Convention of the Modern Language Association, San Francisco. |
1989 |
Presider and Respondant, "Romantic Explorations.'' German Studies Association, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. |
1985 |
Session Organizer and Presider, "New Critical Contexts for Eduard Mörike's Poetry.'' National Convention of the Modern Language Association, Chicago. |
1985 |
"The Presence (and absence) of Goethe in Mörike's Lyric Poetry.'' Kentucky FL Conference, Univ. of Kentucky. |
2001- |
College of Arts and Sciences Budget and Planning Committee |
1992-1998 |
Faculty Senator |
1987-1992 |
Chair of Student Awards Committee |
1992-1994 |
Chair (1994) and Member of Literature Curriculum Committee (1992-) |
1999- |
Organizer for Interdepartmental Film Studies Initative |
1987-1992 |
Campus Fulbright Advisor |
1987-1988 |
Dean's Council for College of Arts and Sciences |
