Faculty Guide

Title

Associate Professor of German and Women's and Gender Studies, and Director, Center for German and European Studies

German, Russian, and Asian Languages and Literature
Women's and Gender Studies

Expertise

German as a Foreign Language; Jewish-German Dialogue; German Women Writers, German Cinema, Age of Goethe, Climate Change and the Humanities

Profile

Sabine von Mering teaches German Language, Literature, and Film. She is also a member of the core faculty in Women's and Gender Studies. Her most recent scholarly work focused on right-wing extremism. She is currently working on the role of climate change as a challenge for the humanities. As Director of the Center for German and European Studies she organizes lectures, conferences, and cultural events in the interest of promoting transatlantic dialogue.

Awards and Honors

Theodore and Jane Norman Fund for Faculty Research and Creative Projects (2012)

Theodore and Jane Norman Fund for Faculty Research and Creative Projects 2006 (2006)

Mazer Award, Brandeis University (2000 - 2001)

Humanities Research Award (1997)

Kaplan Award for Excellence in Student Teamwork (1997)

Teaching Award for Outstanding Graduate Students (1997)

Pro Femina Research Award (1996)

Quadrille Ball Scholarship, Institute of International Education (1996 - 1997)

Courses Taught

GATE	1a	Gateway: Integrated Skills 1
GATE	2a	Integrated Skills: Critical Reading
GECS	130b	The Princess and the Golem: Fairy Tales
GECS	150a	From Rapunzel to Riefenstahl: Real and Imaginary Women in German Culture
GECS	167a	German Cinema: Vamps and Angels
GECS	188b	Human/Nature: European Perspectives on Climate Change
GER	10a	Beginning German
GER	20b	Continuing German
GER	30a	Intermediate German
GER	110a	Goethe
USEM	87b	Seeking Justice: Jews and Germans
WMGS	5a	Women and Gender in Culture and Society

Scholarship

von Mering, Sabine, Timothy Wyman McCarty. Right-Wing Radicalism Today: Perspectives from Europe and the US. London: Routledge, 2013. (forthcoming)

von Mering, Sabine. "Book Review." Rev. of Cinema and Social Change in Germany and Austria., by Gabriele Mueller, James M. Skidmore, eds. German Politics and Society vol. 30 of 103: 4 Winter 2012: 108-111.

von Mering, Sabine. "Book Review." Rev. of Postcolonial Green. Environmental Politics and World Narratives, by Bonnie Roos & Alex Hunt. Ecozon@ vol. 3 of 1 2012: 156-159.

von Mering, Sabine. "Book Review." Rev. of Memory Matters: generational responses to Germany’s Nazi past in recent women’s literature, by Caroline Schaumann. Journal of Modern Jewish Studies vol. 1472-5894, Volume 9, Issue 2 July 2010: 284 – 286.

von Mering, Sabine. "Book Review." Rev. of Nazi Cinema’s New Women, by Jana F. Bruns. German Studies Review vol. 34,1 February 2011: 231.

von Mering, Sabine. "Book Review." Rev. of The Many Faces of Weimar Cinema: Rediscovering Germany’s Filmic Legacy, by Rogowski, Christian. Women in German Newsletter vol. Spring 117 2011: 10-12.

von Mering, Sabine. "Grenzgang als zögernde Wieder-Annäherung: Die Deutsche Staatsbürgerschaft und der Jüdisch-Deutsche Dialog." Eurostudia 7. No. 1-2 (2011): 47-57.

von Mering, Sabine. "Book Review." Rev. of Contemporary Germany and the Nazi Legacy. Remembrance, Politics, and the Dialectic of Normality, by Caroline Pearce. German Studies Review vol. 33 of 1 February 2010: 191-192.

von Mering, Sabine. "Rev. of Alison Rose: "Jewish Women in Fin de Siecle Vienna"." German Studies Review vol. 33 of 1 February 2010: 171-172.

von Mering, Sabine. "Searching for Justice: Jews, Germans, and the Nazi Past in Recent German Cinema." Beyond Political Correctness: Remapping German Sensibilities in the 21st Century.. German Monitor ed. vol. 72 Ed. Anton, Christine and Pilipp, Frank. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2010. 159-183.

von Mering, Sabine. "Book Review." Rev. of Germans, Jews, and Antisemites. Trials in Emancipation, by Shulamit Volkov. German Studies Review vol. 32 of 1 2009: 117-118.

von Mering,Sabine. "'No Servitude is As Miserable As That of Women. Elsa Bernstein's Neoclassical Tragedies.." From Fin-de-Siècle to Theresienstadt. The Works and Life of the Writer Elsa Bernstein-Porges. first ed. vol. 38 Ed. Helga W. Kraft and Dagmar C.G. Lorenz. New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien: Peter Lang Publishers, 2007. 115-132.

von Mering, Sabine with Olaf Gloeckner and Evgenija Garbolevsky, ed. Russian-Jewish Emigration after the Cold War: Perspectives from Germany, Israel, Canada, and the United States. Waltham: Brandeis University, 2006.

von Mering,Sabine, Gudrun Loster Schneider/Gaby Pailer. "Encyclopedia entries for Franul von Weissenthurn, Johanna: "Hermann" (1813) and "Das Manuskript" (1826), Friederike Lohmann "Der blinde Harfner (1791) and Sophie Marianne von Reitzenstein: "Die seltene Beständigkeit.(1791)." Werklexikon deutschsprachiger Prosaautorinnen und Dramatikerinnen 1730-1900. 2006.

von Mering, Sabine. "Encyclopedia entries for Lydia Anna Maria Baer, Robert M. Browning, and Edith Amelie." Internationales Germanisten-Lexikon 1800-1950. 2003.

von Mering, Sabine with Sarah Halpern-Meekin, ed. International Green Politics. Waltham: Brandeis University, 2002.

von Mering, Sabine. "Marriage--A Tragedy? German Women and the Politics of Genre." Seminar 38. 4 (2002): 330-343.

von Mering, Sabine. "Jewish German Women Writers and their Sense of European Identity." Conference Proceedings for the International Symposium for the Study of European Ideas [ISSEI] CD ROM Section 4. Workshop 414 (2000)

von Mering, Sabine. "Aesthetically correct? Canon Politics or: Who is afraid of Eighteenth Century German Women Dramatists." Critical Sense 5. 2 Fall (1997): 8-17.