Kevin Wolf



Bastian Heinsohn, Ph.D.

bastian.heinsohn@bucknell.edu

(570) 577-1837 (office), (530) 204-8877 (cell)

CURRENT ACADEMIC POSITION

Assistant Professor of German,

Department of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, German Studies Program,

Bucknell University, 2009-present

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Adjunct Faculty Member in Department of Humanities

Berkeley City College, Spring 2007-Summer 2009

(Courses taught: Film Art, Film History, Introduction to Film)

Ph.D. Student and Teaching Assistant in German Studies and Film Studies

University of California at Davis, Fall 2004-Spring 2009

EDUCATION

Ph.D., German Studies, University of California, Davis, September 2009

Thesis: “The Language of the Urban Street in German Culture”

Dissertation advisor: Dr. Jaimey Fisher

Major field of Study: Modern and contemporary German literature and film

Designated Emphasis in Critical Theory

M.A., American Studies, German Studies, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf,

Germany, June 2004

Thesis: “John Steinbeck and Adaptations: Translating Motifs, Style, and Content

into the Medium Film”

TEACHING AND RESEARCH AREAS

• Areas of research specialization include 20th Century Literature and Film, contemporary German Culture, film history

• Teaching interests include survey classes of German Culture, all levels of German language, 19th and 20th century German literature, Weimar Culture, postwar culture, recent German Literature, German Cinema, World Cinema, Film Theory, Film History, Film Art

COURSES TAUGHT at Bucknell University

Film/Media Studies (English Department):

• Film History I (ENGL 232, Spring 2011)

• Film Theory (ENGL 337, Fall 2013, Fall 2014)

Foundation Seminar (mandatory for first-year students with emphasis on teaching writing at university level)

• Cinema and the City (FOUN 098-54, Fall 2013)

German Studies Program:

• Elementary German (GRMN 101: Fall 2012; GRMN 102: Spring 2010, Spring 2014, Spring 2015)

• Intermediate German (GRMN 103: Fall 2010, Fall 2012, Fall 2013, Fall 2014; GRMN 104: Spring 2011, Spring 2014, Spring 2015)

• Conversation and Composition (GRMN 204: Fall 2010)

• The Culture of East Germany (GRMN 273: Spring 2010)

• Achtung Kamera: Intro to German Film Studies (GRMN 295: Fall 2009, GRMN 251: Spring 2015, taught in German)

• Berlin Republic since 1990 (GRMN 273: Spring 2013)

• Contemporary German Cinema (GRMN 318: Spring 2013, taught in English)

• German Literature from the Weimar Republic to the Present Day (GRMN 329, Fall 2010)

PUBLICATIONS

“Film as Pedagogy in Late Weimar and Early Nazi Cinema: The Role of the Street in

Mobilizing the Spectator” in Continuity and Crisis in German Cinema 1928-1936, eds.

Barbara Hales, Valerie Weinstein and Mihaela Petrescu (Rochester: Camden House,

forthcoming). 28 pages.

“Rejecting a ‘Fortress Europe’: How German-Polish Borderland Films of the Early

2000s Foreshadowed Trajectories at European Borders Today” in Studies in European Cinema (New York: Routledge, forthcoming). 22 pages. Advance online publication. DOI: 10.1080/17411548.2015.1036622.

“Carl Laemmle’s Protégés: Everyday-Life in Exile after Escaping Nazi Germany with an Affidavit from Hollywood’s Film Mogul” in: Exile and Everyday Life (Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies.) Volume 16, eds. Anthony

Grenville and Andrea Hammel (Leiden: Brill Rodopi, 2015). 85-106.

“Critical Voices from the Underground: Street Art and Urban Transformation in

Berlin” in: Envisioning Social Justice in Early Twenty-First Century German Culture,

eds. Axel Hildebrandt and Jill Twark (Rochester: Camden House, 2015). 119-141.

“21 June And 30 August 1957: Jonas and Berlin – Ecke Schönhauser Link Urban Reconstruction to National Cinema in Both West and East” in: A New History of German Cinema, eds. Michael Richardson and Jennifer Kapczynski. (Rochester: Camden House, 2012). 365-371.

“Beyond the Heimatfilm Genre: Criticizing the 1950s Urban Reconstruction in Germany in Ottomar Domnick’s Jonas (1957)” in: Cultural Perspectives on Film, Literature and Language. Selected Proceedings of the 19th Southeast Conference on Foreign Languages, Literature, and Film, ed. Will Lehman and Margit Grieb. (Boca Raton: BrownWalker Press, 2010). 145-162.

“Protesting the Globalized Metropolis: The Local as Counterspace in Recent Berlin

Literature” in: Spatial Turns: Space, Place, and Mobility in German Literary and Visual Culture, eds. Jaimey Fisher and Barbara Mennel (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2010). 189-209.

“Gerhard Klein’s Berlin – Ecke Schönhauser (1957): The Role of the Urban Setting in East Germany’s Quest for a New Identity” in: From Weimar to Christiania: German and Scandinavian Studies in Context, eds. Florence Feiereisen and Kyle Frackman (Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007). 76-88.

In preparation:

“Graffiti Texts and Cinematic Space: The Linguistic Landscape in Thomas Arslan’s

Berlin Trilogy Geschwister, Dealer and Der schöne Tag”

PRESENTATIONS

“Redefining the Discipline: German Studies and the Meaning of Graffiti Texts” (Seminar: New Directions in Pop-, Sub-, and Lowbrow Cultural Studies)

German Studies Association, Kansas City, September 18-21, 2014

“What the Study of Graffiti and Street Art Reveals about Current Issues of Migration and

Globalization in Germany – Case Study: Berlin”

The Binghamton University German Studies Colloquium, Binghamton, April 25/26, 2014

“Looming Large over the Hinterland: Images of Berlin in Cinematic Explorations of the Surrounding Countryside”

German Studies Association, Denver, October 7, 2013

“Text and Cinematic Space: The Linguistic Landscape in Thomas Arslan’s Berlin Trilogy”

Society for Film and Media Studies, Chicago, March 7, 2013

“Critical Voices from the Underground: Decoding Forms of Street in Berlin’s Linguistic

Landscape”

German Studies Association, Milwaukee, October 6, 2012

Keynote Address: “Filmmaking Outside the Box: The Silent Films of Alfred Hitchcock”,

‘Study Outside The Box’ Conference, Heinrich Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, June 29, 2012. Organizer: Anglistisches Institut.

“Critical Voices from the Underground: Street Art and Urban Transformation in Berlin”, International Humanities Conference, Universidad de Granada, Granada, June 8-10, 2011

“From Wastelands to Abstract Space: The Postwar German City in Ottomar Domnick’s Jonas (1957)”

Spaces and Flows: An International Conference on Urban and ExtraUrban Studies, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, December 4-5, 2010

“Any Literary Detectives Left? The Crime Novel Genre in Germany before and after

Handke’s Der Hausierer (1968)”

German Studies Association, Oakland, October 10, 2010

“This is not your Home: Solitude and Hotel Space in Birgit Möller’s Valerie (2006)” Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, San Francisco State University, November 7, 2009

“Retreat as Protest: Relocating Kafka’s Der Bau into the New Berlin in Norman Ohler’s Mitte”

German Studies Association, St. Paul, October 3, 2008

“Protesting against the New Berlin: The Dialectics of the Urban Street in Recent Berlin Films“

Project on European Cinemas, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, September 19, 2008

“The Local as Counterspace in Recent Berlin Literature”

Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, & Letters, Kalamazoo, Michigan, March 7, 2008

“Protesting against the New Berlin: Recent Berlin Films as Counterculture”

ACLA, Puebla, Mexico, April 22, 2007

“The Forgotten War Monument: The Slow Vanishing of the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church from the Urban Landscape of the New Berlin”

Art History Symposium, University of Arizona, Tucson, February 23, 2007

“Urban Space and the Role of the Street in Wim Wenders’ Wings of Desire”

Film Conference, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, November 3, 2006

INVITED LECTURES

“Copy & Paste: The Meaning of Graffiti and Street Art in Berlin Today”

Goethe-Institut San Francisco, June 5, 2015

“The Meaning of Graffiti in Thomas Arslan’s Berlin Trilogy” Guest of Honor at German

Studies Annual Talk, Dickinson College, February 18, 2015

“The Language of the Street: On the Use of Graffiti in Post-Unification Berlin films”

Center for the Study of Race, Gender and Ethnicity,

Bucknell University, November 21, 2013

“Framing Counterspaces: Forms and Meanings of Graffiti in Berlin's Linguistic

Landscape”

Faculty Colloquium, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, November 13, 2012

“Postwall Berlin in Run Lola Run” UC Davis Summer Abroad Program, Berlin,

July 10, 2012. Berlin Culture before and after the Wall. Instructor: Gail Finney

“The Cinema of Fritz Lang” UC Davis Summer Abroad Program, Berlin, August 3, 2010

The Roaring Twenties in Germany. Instructor: Gail Finney

“The Role of Soccer in German Culture” Religious Studies, UC Davis, May 19, 2009. The History and Culture of Soccer. Instructor: Alon Raab

“Weimar Culture and Fritz Lang’s M” UC Davis Summer Abroad Program, Berlin, August 25, 2008. Weimar Culture: Defeat, the Roaring Twenties, the Rise of Nazism. Instructor: Gail Finney

ACADEMIC SERVICE

• Faculty co-chair of faculty-student run Committee for Campus and Student Life,

2014-2015, elected committee member: 2012-2015

• German Club Advisor 2012-present

• Library and IT representative for the German Program, 2009-2011, 2012-present

• Organizer of International Film Festival including guest speaker visit by Yaron Shemer (talk on Israeli and Palestinian cinema), 2011

• Organizer of campus visit by Dr. Kyle Frackman (talk on East German cinema), 2010

FILMS

• Writer and Director: Farewell Wilshire Grand. The End of a Landmark in Downtown

Los Angeles, Documentary, 12 min., 2012

• Interviewee: Expert on the role of graffiti in Berlin for television documentary on graffiti

and street art worldwide, Television Sydney, Fall 2012

SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION

• Reviewer for journal Modern Language Studies (Northeast Modern Language Association)

• Reviewer for journal German Studies Review (GSR)

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

• Modern Language Association (MLA)

• German Studies Association (GSA)

• Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS)

GRANTS, AWARDS

• Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender Travel Grant (CSREG), Bucknell University, 2011, 2013, 2015

• College Core Curriculum Course Development Grant, Bucknell University, 2010, 2013

LANGUAGE COMPETENCE

German: native speaker

English: fluent

French: advanced level

Spanish: intermediate level

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