Gabriele Wittig Davis |
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Professor of German Studies; Chair of German Studies |
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Specialization Late eighteenth- to early twentieth-century German literature and culture; nineteenth- and twentieth-century German women’s movements; German cultural and intellectual history; im/migration (African, French Huguenot, Eastern and Southern European, Turkish) in German culture, historically and contemporary; retextualizations of literature and film; German "national" cinema; Holocaust and art; creation of multimedia applications for multidisciplinary, multilingual projects, film, and text analysis; eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Anglo-German literary and cultural relations. |
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 Gabriele Wittig Davis’s interdisciplinary interests and scholarship are reflected in her coursework, such as her fall 2005 First-Year Seminar, German 100: The New Face/s of Germany: Contemporary German Society in Film and Text, and her spring 2006 German 315 course, BunTesdeutschland?: Immigration and Representations of Im/migrants in Film and Text. She is also very interested in innovative approaches to teaching and experimented, for example, with a special approach to learning via video-conferencing in spring 2005 when co-teaching the course, Haunted Utopia?: Weimar Cinema (1919-1931): From Caligari to M., with the other teacher and student members of the class located at Smith College. Other courses include Spectres, Monsters, and the Mind: The Gothic and Grotesque in Anglo-German Films and Fiction; Nostalgia and Utopia: Nineteenth Century German Culture from the French Revolution to the Revolution of 1848 (fall 2005); or “Shoot the Women First”: Re/Viewing Terrorism and Resistance through Images and Films; and From the Reign of Terror to the War on Terrorism: Geschichte/n des Terrors von 1789 bis 2003.
Davis recently developed multimedia components to her classes. She and Robert Chapin Davis were awarded support from the Checkpoint Charlie Foundation for creating the bilingual multimedia CD-ROM, (Über)Lebenskunst: Wolfgang Szepansky—Fünf Jahre im KZ Sachsenhausen / The Art of Survival: Wolfgang Szepansky—Five Years in the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp. The CD-ROM is available for use at the Sachsenhausen memorial as well as in educational institutions of the states of Berlin and Brandenburg in Germany, and, of course, in the U.S. Donations benefit a special scholarship fund for young artists dedicated to promoting humanitarianism through art, honoring the artist Wolfgang Szepansky and his lifetime of commitment to humanity. Davis also received a Mellon Web Grant to create a course Web site with a student, and she has recently developed multimedia applications entitled Geschichte/n eines Findlings: Kaspar Hauser multimedial (The Enigmatic Hi/Stories of Kaspar Hauser); The Metamorphosed Text: Film Analysis and Literary Analysis of Theodor Fontane’s Mathilde Möhring; and Vision oder Wirklichkeit?: Theodor Storms Der Schimmelreiter in Film und Literatur. Davis has published a book, Novel Associations: Theodor Fontane and George Eliot within the Context of Nineteenth-Century Realism, and articles on topics including Theodor Fontane, Theodor Storm, German film and retextualization issues as well as regularly reviewed scholarly literature for German Studies Review and Monatshefte. She has given various conference presentations both in the U.S. and abroad and has critiqued manuscripts for German Quarterly, Monatshefte, and pedagogical papers for Unterrichtspraxis. |
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Contact: Ciruti Center, Room 33 Related Links: |
Education: Stanford University, Ph.D.University of New Hampshire, M.A., B.A. Joined MHC: 1978 |
