Faculty Guide

Title

Assistant Professor of German and Director, German Language Program

German, Russian, and Asian Languages and Literature

Profile

Kathrin Seidl, Assistant Professor of German and Director of the German Language Program, received her M.A. and Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University. Professor Seidl’s primary research focuses on German exile in Latin America, particularly Colombia, and the vibrant cultural-intellectual transfer between Germany and the region during the mid-twentieth century. Her scholarship on the essayistic oeuvre of the German literary critic and cultural mediator Ernesto Volkening (Antwerp 1908 – Bogotá 1983) and the journal Eco: revista de la cultura de occidente investigates key moments of cultural transfer, transformation and translation that decisively shaped the post-WWII image of German literature and culture in the Andean country. Further research interests include online teaching of foreign languages, development of undergraduate curricula, and cross-cultural literature.

Awards and Honors

Hilde – Domin – Stipendium für lateinamerikanisch-deutsche Literaturbeziehungen, Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach (2013)

Research Grant, Center for German and European Studies, Brandeis University (2013)

Theodore and Jane Norman Award (for Faculty Scholarship in Arts & Sciences), Brandeis University (2013)

American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) / Vista Higher Learning Scholarship, Annual Convention (2012)

CGES Course Development Grant, Center for German and European Studies, Brandeis University (2012)

Courses Taught

GER	10a	Beginning German
GER	20b	Continuing German
GER	104a	Let's Talk! Shall We?
GER	105a	Writing on the Wall: Literature, the Arts, and the Fall of the Wall
GER	109b	Meisterwerke Deutscher Kurzprosa

Scholarship

Seidl, Kathrin. "Herweg, Nikola. nur ein land / mein sprachland. Heimat erschreiben bei Elisabeth Augustin, Hilde Domin und Anna Maria Jokl (Kathrin Seidl)." Rev. of nur ein land / mein sprachland. Heimat erschreiben bei Elisabeth Augustin, Hilde Domin und Anna Maria Jokl, by Nikola Herweg. Monatshefte vol. 105 / Fall 2013

Seidl-Gómez, Kathrin. "An Intangible Heimat: Ernesto Volkening’s Return to Antwerp." Intercultural Mnemo-Graphies / Interkulturelle Mnemo-Graphien / Mnemo-Grafias Interculturais. Ed. Mário Matos and Orlando Grossegesse. Famalicão (Portugal): Ed. Húmus, 2012. 171-186.

Seidl-Gómez, Kathrin. "The Creativity of Displacement: Ernesto Volkening as Essayist and Cultural Translator in Colombia, 1934-1983." Diss. Vanderbilt University, 07/21/2011.