Sabine von Mering

Professor of German and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Departments/Programs

Environmental Studies
German, Russian, and Asian Languages and Literature

Degrees

University of California, Davis, Ph.D.
University of Göttingen, M.A.

Expertise

German as a Foreign Language; Climate Activism, Climate Change and the Humanities; Fairy Tales; Jewish-German Dialogue; Antisemitism on Social Media, German Women Writers, German Cinema, Age of Goethe, German Drama.

Profile

Sabine von Mering teaches German Language and Culture. She is also a member of the core faculty in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and a member of the affiliated faculty in the Environmental Studies Program and in the Creative Arts for Social Transformation minor. She studies Germany's response to climate change. As a climate activist with 350 Mass she combines her teaching and research with active community engagement. Her most recent scholarly work focused on right-wing extremism in Europe and the United States. As Director of the Center for German and European Studies she organizes lectures, conferences, and cultural events in the interest of promoting transatlantic dialogue. Webpage

Courses Taught

GECS	130b	The Princess and the Golem: Fairy Tales
GECS	188b	Human/Nature: European Perspectives on Climate Change
GER	30a	Intermediate German
GER	102b	Küche, Kochen, Kuchen: Advanced German Grammar, Pronunciation, and Baking
GER	103a	German Culture Through Film
GER	106b	Migration, Kultur, Synergie
GER	109b	Meisterwerke Deutscher Kurzprosa
GER	110a	Goethe und seine Zeit

Awards and Honors

Theodor and Jane Norman Fund for Faculty Research (2018 - 2020)

Provost's Research Grant (2017 - 2018)

Theodore and Jane Norman Fund for Faculty Research and Creative Projects (2017 - 2019)

Theodore and Jane Norman Fund for Faculty Research and Creative Projects (2014 - 2015)

Theodore and Jane Norman Fund for Faculty Research and Creative Projects (2012 - 2013)

Theodore and Jane Norman Fund for Faculty Research and Creative Projects 2006 (2006 - 2007)

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)

Scholarship

von Mering, Sabine. "Feminist Scholarship and Feminist Climate Activism." Digital Feminist Collective (2021): <https://digitalfeministcollective.net/index.php/2020/05/30/feminist-scholarship-and-feminist-climate-activism/>.

von Mering, Sabine. "Book Review." Rev. of Taking on Technocracy. Nuclear Power in Germany, 1945 to the Present, by Dolores L.Augustine. German Politics & Society vol. Summer 2019 2019: 116-119.

von Mering, Sabine. "Book Review." Rev. of Energy Democracy. Germany's Energiewende to Renewables, by Arne Jungjohann and Craig Morris. German Politics & Society vol. 36 of 3 2018: 122-125.

von Mering, Sabine. "Nature, Power, and Literature: Rereading Christa Wolf's "Stoerfall. Nachrichten eines Tages" as 'Ecological Force' in Times of Climate Crisis." Christa Wolf. A Companion. vol. 8 Ed. Sonja E.Klocke and Jennifer R.Hosek. Berlin, Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2018

von Mering, Sabine. "Book Review." Rev. of Protest Cultures. A Companion, by Kathrin Fahlenbrach Martin Klimke, and Joachim Scharloth (eds.). German Politics and Society vol. (Fall 2017), Vol 35 of No.3 2017: p.96-98.

von Mering, Sabine. "Book Review." Rev. of Greening in the Red Zone. Disaster, Resilience and Community Greening, by by Keith G.Tidball and Marianne E.Krasny, eds.. Journal of Education for Sustainable Development vol. 8 of 2 Spring 2014: 177-179.

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

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 Walther Rathenau. Weimar’s Fallen Statesman, by Shulamit Volkov. German Politics and Society vol. 31 of 3 Autumn 2013: 113-116.

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.