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JACOB-IVAN EIDT, Ph.DCurriculum Vitae 2019The University of Dallas Department of Modern Languages1845 E. Northgate DriveIrving, TX 75062-4736jieidt@udallas.eduEDUCATION2004Ph.D., Germanic Studies with a concentration in nineteenth and twentieth century literature and intellectual history, University of Texas at Austin, Dissertation: “Deus Absconditus: Gnosticism, Secularization and Philosophical Modernity in Rilke” Dissertation Directors: Professors Lars Gustafsson and Kirsten Belgum1997Magister Artium (M.A.), German Literature (eighteenth – twentieth Century), Didactics of German as a Foreign Language, and Philosophy, Die Katholische Universit?t Eichst?tt, Germany. Thesis: ?Die griechische Antike in Thomas Manns Der Tod in Venedig, oder die Relation von Logos, Mythos, Eros und Poesis.“ Thesis Director: Professor Dr. Ruprecht Wimmer1993B.A., German and a Philosophy minor from the University of Mississippi, cum laude with departmental honors1991-1992International Student Exchange Program (ISEP) year abroad in GermanyACADEMIC AND TEACHING APPOINTMENTS 2013- PresentAssociate Professor of German, University of Dallas (promotion and tenure)2007-2013Assistant Professor of German, University of Dallas2006-2007Visiting Assistant Professor of German, University of Dallas2004-2006Visiting Assistant Professor of German, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC1998-2004Graduate Instructor of German, University of Texas, Austin, TX2004Director and Academic Supervisor of the Intensive English Program between La Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua, Mexico and the University of Texas Permian Basin, Odessa, TX.2004Teaching Methodology Instructor, Korean-American Education Commission Teacher Training Program, sponsored by the Fulbright American Studies Institute, Austin, TX 2001-2004ESL Instructor (Language, Writing, Conversation, Pronunciation, Grammar, Culture), Texas Institute of English Proficiency, Austin, TX2003Instructor in Intensive English Program between La Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua, Mexico and the University of Texas Permian Basin, Odessa,TX.2002ESL Instructor for intensive summer English programs for Oita and Mishima High Schools of Japan, Austin, Texas2000German Elementary School Outreach Program, Austin Texas1998Instructor of English, Fortbildungszentrum Ingolstadt, Germany1997-1998Instructor of English and English Literature, Volkshochschule Neuburg an der Donau, Germany1994-1996Instructor of English, Euro-Spracheninstitut, Ingolstadt, Germany1993-1994Instructor of English, Ikarus-Spracheninstitut, Eichst?tt, Germany1992Teaching Assistant in German, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS CONSULTING / PROFESSIONAL INVOLVEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT2019Reviewer of Translations of Rainer Maria Rilke’s Sonnets to Orpheus by Christopher Hirschmann Brandt for Broadview Press Calgary Canada2016-2018Testing Chair of American Association of Teachers of German (North Texas Chapter)2015Completed training as a certified examiner for the Goethe Institute exams C-1 and C-2 (Gro?es deutsches Sprachdiplom)2015Vice President of the Dallas Goethe Center2015Peer-reviewer for Seminar – academic journal for German Studies2014-PresentChair of Goethe Center Education Committee/ pedagogical oversight of German languages schools 2007-2008Named Commissioner on the Advanced Placement (AP) German Language Redesign Commission 1998-2006Translator of German (freelance)2003TOIEC (Test of International English Communication) proctor and ITA Rater (International Teaching Assistant Tester) for the University of Texas at Austin2002Translator for M2 Limited (freelance)1999Paid summer internship, German Department of Labor, Munich, Germany1995-1997Interpreter / Translator for the St. Francis of Assisi Academy (a European Union backed environmental organization), Strasbourg, France / Eichst?tt, Germany1996Translator for the office of the President and Public Relations at the Katholische Universit?t Eichst?tt (freelance), Germany1995Translator for the Theology Department of the Katholische Universit?t Eichst?tt (freelance), GermanyMEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL AND CULTURAL ORGANISATIONS2016-PresentMember and Officer of AATG (American Association of Teachers of German)2011-PresentMember of Dallas Goethe Center2010-PresentMember SCMLA (South Central Modern Language Association)2004-PresentMember of the Rilke-Gesellschaft (International Rilke Society)1991-PresentMember Delta Phi Alpha German Honor SocietyHONORS RECEIVED2017Thyssen Stiftung travel grant to Germany2015King Haggerty travel award for a conference2014Awarded semester long sabbatical2012Elected to the board of trustees of the Dallas Goethe Center2007Introduction to German Studies Course recognized as among the very best in the nation, top 10 (Exemplifier of best practices) by Educational Policy Improvement Center and the College Board2007-2008All expenses paid for AP Commission Work by the College Board2002Travel and Accommodations grant for Workshop for Advanced Teaching Assistants: Introduction to German for the Professions/ Business German, Goethe-Institut, Chicago 2000European Conference Travel Grant from the Erasmus Institute, University of Notre Dame2000Recipient of the June and Helmut Rehder Graduate Scholarship2000Recipient of the Summer Fellowship in Germanic Studies at the University of Texas at AustinUNIVERSITY SERVICE2009-2018Chair, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures (3 consecutive terms)2006-PresentGerman Program Director2016-PresentLanguage Concentration Adviser2013-2017Faculty Senator (multiple terms)2009-presentCouncil of Deans and Chairs2009-presentUndergraduate Council2009-presentTeacher Education Committee2016Retention and Success Committee2014President’s fairness commission2014Presented for UD teaching assistant workshop2011-2012Editorial Board of Ramify Journal of the Braniff Graduate School of Liberal Arts published by the University of Dallas2011Represented Modern Languages in the Core-Symposium2009-PresentLiaison for Admissions Office (Special awards program, Recruiting, etc.). 2010Senate Committee to study class size2009Secretary Faculty Ad-Hoc Senate Committee on Advancement and Alumni Initiatives Professional and Public Service2016SCMLA - Chair GERMAN II panel: LITERATURE AND CULTURE BEFORE 1890: Annual Convention of the South Central Modern Language Association (SCMLA)2015Member of SCMLA Committee on Graduate Students2015Member of SCMLA Nominating Committee2014Peer Reviewer for Seminar a journal of Germanic Studies2012-2015Elected German Representative on the Executive Committee of the South Central Modern Language Association for 20132014Chair of SCMLA Prize Committee2012Elected Chair of the panel GERMAN III: LITERATURE AND CULTURE FROM 1890 TO PRESENT: Annual Convention of the South Central Modern Language Association (SCMLA)2011Elected Secretary of the panel GERMAN III: LITERATURE AND CULTURE FROM 1890 TO PRESENT: Annual Convention of the South Central Modern Language Association (SCMLA)2012Elected to the Board of Trustees of the Dallas Goethe Center 2011Presentation, Q and A, and Discussion of the film “Young Goethe in Love”, Dallas Angelika Theater December 2.2011-PresentDirector of Dallas Goethe Center German Film Series at the Dallas Museum of Art2010-PresentNamed to Programming Board of the Dallas Goethe Center2008-2009Faculty Adviser for the Rotary Scholarship2007-2008Committee on Admissions and Financial Aid2006-PresentFounder and Co-Organizer of the UD International Film Series2007-PresentGerman Bibliographer 2007Helped reformulate procedure for receiving academic credit from foreign institutions2008Organized with Student Government the Wagner Symposium2007Organized Salome symposium with members of the English and Theology Departments 2007Organized Student trip with the Dallas Opera for a performance of Salome (with over 30 participants)2006Took part in Phi Beta Kappa Symposium with presentation SCHOLARSHIP A. Publications2019Forthcoming Book Chapter: “Cave Musicam oder die Problematisierung der Musik im 19. Jahrhundert am Beispiel von Goethe, Nietzsche und Rilke.” In: Rilkes Musikalit?t, V&R unipress.2019Book Chapter: “Man m?chte sich fürchten, das Haus fiele ein”; Goethe’s Beethoven-Reception and the Elemental in Music In: Goethe’s Bildung: Dialog between Tradition and Innovation Ed. Jacob-Ivan Eidt and Christoph Daniel Weber, Peter Lang.2019Editor Goethe’s Bildung: Dialog between Tradition and Innovation, Peter Lang2015Editor ““Reading the Beat”—Musical Aesthetics and Literature". Humanities open access journal special issue ed. ISSN 2076-0787, 20152013Book Chapter: “Aesthetics, Opera, and Alterity in Herzog's Work” In: The Companion to Comparative Literature, World Literatures, and Comparative Cultural Studies, Ed. Steven T?t?sy de Zepetnek and Tutun Mukherjee, Cambridge University Press.2012 “Empathy of Sound and Sublimity of Sight: Music, Image, and the Kantian Sublime in Werner Herzog’s Lessons of Darkness”Glossen 35/20122012 Aesthetics, Opera, and Alterity in Herzog's Work." CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 14.1 (2012)2011 “Rilke contra Wagner: Rilke’s early concept of Music and the Convergence of the Arts around 1900”. Studia theodisca XVIII, 2011.2009Rilke und die Musik(er). ?berlegungen zu Rilkes Musikverst?ndnis im Kontext seiner Zeit In: Rilkes Welt: Festschrift für August Stahl pp. 127-134 Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main.2005“The Dean” (a discussion of Lars Gustafsson’s novel Dekanen as world literature and pedagogical text) in Modern Language Studies Vol. 35. number 2, pp. 92-97 2005Translations of selected poems by Peter Rühmkorf. Dimension2 7.2/3 pp. 208-13 (a bilingual literary magazine of contemporary German-Language Literature).2003Translations of selected poems by Harald Gerlach. Dimension2 6. 2/3 pp. 374-79. B. Presentations, Workshops and Conferences2019Dallas Symphony Orchestra Performance Prelude lecture series: Gustav Mahler Das Lied von der Erde January 10,11,13.2018Dallas Symphony Orchestra Performance Prelude lecture series: WAGNER Tannh?user Overture; R. STRAUSS Four Last Songs; R. STRAUSS Death and Transfiguration; WAGNER Die Meistersinger Prelude September 27-282018Dallas Symphony Orchestra Performance Prelude lecture series: LESHNOFF Violin Concerto No. 2 (World Premiere); BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 9, “Choral”) May 24-262018Dallas SOLUNA festival: Discovering Richard Wagner’s Die Walküre - hour long lecture AT&T Performing Arts Center, May 24th2018Dallas Symphony Orchestra Performance Prelude lecture series: Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 2 “The Resurrection” Feb. 23-25.2017Talk on German Immigration for Departmental Symposium – The Burden of History:German Immigration and Historical Identity2017Cave Musicam oder die Problematisierung der Musik im 19. Jahrhundert am Beispiel von Rilke, Goethe, und Nietzsche – Rilkes Musikalit?t: Tagung am Institut für Germanistik, Universit?t Regensburg 2017Dallas Symphony Orchestra Performance Prelude lecture series: Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 7 E major and Tchaikovsky Variations on a Rococo Theme February 2-3, 20172016Leverkühn’s Death in Venice: Greek Antiquity, German Romanticism, and Luchino Visconti’s film adaptation of Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice. Annual Convention of the South Central Modern Language Association November 3, 20162016Dallas Symphony Orchestra Performance Prelude lecture series: Johannes Brahms Ein deutsches Requiem and Bela Bartok piano concerto No. 3 October 6, 8, 9, 201620162016Dallas Goethe Center Symposium – panel on Philosophy and Aesthetics: “Man m?chte sich fürchten, das Haus fiele ein”: Goethe, Beethoven, and Nietzsche or the problem of music in 19th century German thought” April 22, Irving, TX2016Performance Prelude lecture series for the Dallas Symphony Orchestra: Richard Wagner’s Die Walküre April 1st, Dallas TX.2015Presented Teaching Workshop for the German Saturday School Teachers August15, Dallas, TX2015Chair SCMLA panel on Global Film I-II, Annual Convention of the South Central Modern Language Association (SCMLA) Nashville, TN November 1-4 2015“Kaspar’s Magic Flute: Soundtrack and Intertexuality in Herzog’s Enigma of Kaspar Hauser.” Annual Convention of the South Central Modern Language Association (SCMLA) Nashville, TN November 1-42015Performance Prelude lecture series for the Dallas Symphony Orchestra: Anton Bruckner’s 5th Symphony in B-flat major October 15-18th.2015Performance Prelude lecture series for the Dallas Symphony Orchestra: Mozart’s Requiem and Wolfgang Rihm Triple concerto (American premiere) April 16-182015Organized and facilitated talk at UD “Cultural and educational non-profit organizations: Leaning by doing in the field of language and culture” presented by Dallas Goethe Center for International Week at UD2015Introductory remarks on contemporary German author Michael Kleinherne’s work for Dallas Goethe Center sponsored bilingual reading – March 21st 2015Presentation in graduate course The Baroque World on Grimmelshausen’s Simplicissimus March 252015Took part in national Chairpersons conference Austin, TX February 4-6th 2014“Empathetic Landscapes: Music and the Kantian Sublime in Werner Herzog’s Lessons of Darkness” Annual Convention of the South Central Modern Language Association (SCMLA) Austin, TX October 18 – 21.2014Performance Prelude lecture series for the Dallas Symphony Orchestra chamber music series: works by Beethoven, Haydn, and Schubert – set of 3 lectures2013Chaired Workshop for Jobseekers, Preparing the Dossier: The Cover Letter and CV Annual Convention of the South Central Modern Language Association (SCMLA) New Orleans, LA October 5.2012"Re-imagining the Other in Film: Alterity and the Musical Sublime in Werner Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo." Film panel Annual Convention of the South Central Modern Language Association (SCMLA) San Antonio, TX November 8 – 10.2012Invited Lecture on Modern Languages in the core for the course “Across the Core” 2011Invited lecture sponsored by the Dallas Goethe Center “Rainer Maria Rilke’s poetry and Influence” –November 19 Dallas, TX.2011Invited lecture: UD Core Symposium: “Modern Languages and the Core Curriculum.”2010Rilke, Absolute Music, and the Convergence of the Arts in fin de siècle Europe for the panel GERMAN III: LITERATURE AND CULTURE FROM 1890 TO PRESENT : Annual Convention of the South Central Modern Language Association (SCMLA)Fort Worth, TX October 28 – 30.2009“The Habsburg Monarchy and the Development of Absolute Music”: Habsburg Symposium sponsored by the German and Spanish programs, University of Dallas, April, 1.2008AATG/ACTFL (American Association of Teachers of German/American Council of Teachers of Foreign Languages) Annual Meeting. Panelist: The Job Market in German Now, a round table discussion. Orlando, Florida, November 21-232008“The Case of Wagner and Germanic Studies or: The Work of Art Beyond Good and Evil” Wagner Symposium, University of Dallas, April 152008“Strauss’ Wagnerian Salome and Musical Modernity” Salome Symposium and Performance, University of Dallas / Dallas Opera, February 32007Invited lecture: “Teaching Literature in the Foreign Language Curriculum in the 21st Century”, University of South Carolina, Columbia, November, 162007“Time, Memory and Historical Subjectivity in Wim Wenders Himmel über Berlin” ACLA (American Comparative Literature Association), Puebla Mexico April 19-22.2006“Do Angels Dream of BMWs?” The German Angel in Word and Image – Rilke, Klee, Benjamin and Wenders” Phi Beta Kappa Symposium, University of Dallas, October 21.2006“Is Tom Cruise a Modern Fridolin? Approaches Toward Teaching Literature and Popular Culture Using Schnitzler and Kubrick” Popular Culture Association /American Culture Association, Atlanta, Georgia, April 12-15.2005Invited Lecture: “Strategies for Increasing Enrollment and Program-Building in German” Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia, November 10.2005“Rilke’s Angels and the Film Wings of Desire: Peter Handke and Wim Wenders’ Film Adaptation of a Poetic Idea.” Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho October 20-22. 2003 "Gnosticism, the Secularization Process and Notions of Modernity in Rilke", ACLA (American Comparative Literature Association) San Diego, California, April 3-62001“Poetic Spinozaism: Goethe’s Artistic Worldview”, CIC (Characters in Context) lecture series at the University of Texas, Austin, April 102000“Heidegger and Meister Eckhart – Historical Reflections on the Death of God”, International Conference on Catholic Traditions in the Humanities, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, November 10-111998“Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice and the German Intellectual at the Turn of the Century”, Germanic Studies Graduate Symposium, University of Texas, Austin, April 5 ................
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