Sabine D. Gross  818 Van Hise, 1220 Linden Drive  University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706  Tel: (608) 262-0647, 262-2192 (dept.)  Fax: (608) 262-7949  email: sgross@wisc.edu

Courses taught at UW Madison:

Undergraduate:

• Honors Introduction to German Literature
• Composition and Conversation
• Readings in German Literature (20th century)
• Special Freshmen Course: Trends in Modern German Literature
• 20th-Century German Literature
• Introduction to German Literature (19th century)
• Introduction to German Literature and Culture
• Senior Capstone Seminars: "Aussenseiter," "Günter Grass"

• German Film
• Theory and Practice of German Drama
• "Mord und Totschlag"

• Bild und Text
• Poetiken und literarische Texte
• Prosatexte des 20. Jahrhunderts
• Einführung in die Literaturwissenschaft
• Sprache und Wahrnehmung: Gegenwartsliteratur
• Detektivliteratur und detektivisches Lesen
• Wissen, Bewusstsein, Text: Subversives Erzählen

• UW-Madison Graduate School Research Support (2009, 2006, 2005, 1997, 1996, 1994, 1993, 1992)
• Faculty Development Seminar (F 2008, S 2010, S 2011)
• Grants for 2006 International Herder Conference: International Institute, Center for German and European Studies, Center for European Studies, Office of the Dean of International Studies, Anonymous Fund, Evjue Foundation
• Thyssen Foundation, Germany, grant: "Writing (in) Images" (2005)
• Mellon Foundation / Humanities Center Grant: Metaphor - Language, Thought, Art (2002-2003)
• Teaching Academy Summer Institute Fellow (2002)
• UW-Madison Vilas Associate Research Fellowship (1999-2001)
• Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award (1999)
• Lilly Foundation Teaching Fellowship (1994-1995)
• Resident Fellow, UC-Santa Barbara Interdisciplinary Humanities Center (Winter 1990)
• Daimler-Benz Foundation Fellowship (1988-1990)
• Predoctoral Fellowship, UC-Santa Barbara Interdisciplinary Humanities Center (Spring 1989)
• UC-Santa Barbara Special Fellowship (1985-1988)
• American Council on Germany Grant (1985-1986)
• Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (Germany) Fellowship (1976-1982)
• Travel grants for international conferences and seminars

A. Book

Lese-Zeichen: Kognition, Medium und Materialität im Leseprozeß. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1994. xii + 158 pp. (Reviewed: Time's News 1995,German Quarterly 1996, Die Unterrichtspraxis 1996, G ermanistik 1996, Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 1996, Acta Germanica 1996, Poetics Today 1997, Deutsche Bücher. Forum für Literatur 1997)

B. Edited Volumes

Sabine Gross (ed.): Herausforderung Herder / Herder as Challenge. Heidelberg: Synchron, 2010. 348 pp.

Monatshefte Special Issue Writing in Images/ In Bildern schreiben  (102:3, Fall 2010), co-edited with Sabine Moedersheim.

Sabine Groß, Gerhard Sauder (eds.): Der frühe und der späte Herder: Kontinuität und/oder Korrektur / Early and Late Herder: Continuity and Correction. Heidelberg: Synchron, 2007. 495 pp.

Monatshefte 89.4 (Winter 1997) Special Issue Libuše Moníková/Herta Müller: Sprache, Ort, Heimat

C. Articles

„Johann Gottfried Herder – Anregung, Ärgernis, Provokation,” in: Sabine Gross (ed.): Herausforderung Herder / Herder as Challenge. Heidelberg: Synchron, 2010: 9-24.

„Irrwege und Entdeckungen: Detektivische Lektüre am Beispiel von Kathrin Passigs ‚Sie befinden sich hier’,“ in: Deutschunterricht, LXII: 4 (2010), special issue „Literarisches Verstehen“: 53-64.

„Writing in Images: Introduction,“ in: Monatshefte Special Issue Writing in Images/ In Bildern schreiben  (102:3, Fall 2010): 277-284.

“Surveying Narratology,” Monatshefte 100:4 (2009): 534-559.
 
“Verschlüsseln und Entdecken: Darstellen und Erzählen mit Hintergedanken,” in: Steffen Pappert, Melani Schröter,  Ulla Fix (eds.): Verschlüsseln, Verbergen, Verdecken in öffentlicher und institutioneller Kommunikation. Berlin: Erich Schmidt, 2008: 375-400 

“Reading in Style: Visual Text from a New Angle,” Poetics Today 29.3 (2008): 565-593.

“Narration in The Tin Drum: A Quirky Narrator in Search of the Truth.” In: Monika Shafi (ed.): Approaches to Teaching Günter Grass´s The Tin Drum". New York: Modern Language Association, 2008: 173-204.

“Vom ‚Körper der Seele’ zum ‚Damm der Affekte’: Herders metasprachliche Metaphorik.“ In: Der frühe und der späte Herder: Kontinuität und/oder Korrektur / Early and Late Herder: Continuity and Correction. Ed. by Sabine Groß, Gerhard Sauder. Heidelberg: Synchron, 2007: 369-383.

 “Blindness as Insight: Media, Language, and Perception. Response to Justus Fetscher.” Monatshefte 98.2 (Summer 2006): 262-267.

“Lese-Hunger.” Eva Kimminich (ed.): Gastro-Logie. Frankfurt, New York: Peter Lang, 2005: 69-107.

“Herder’s ‘Prescient’ Aisthesis. An Update on Touch and Vision.” Herder Yearbook 2004, eds. Wulf Koepke, Karl Menges. Heidelberg: Synchron, 2004: 69-87.

“Get Real: Narrative and Uncertainty in Fiction.” Michael Crawford, Paul Harris (eds.): The Study of Time 11. Leiden: Brill, 2004: 58-78.

“Lern-Erkundungen. Über Wahrnehmung, Lernsubjekte und Lernwelten.” Neue Sammlung 43, 4/2003: 487-512.

Alexander Müller, Thomas Eberle, Sabine Gross, Ingo Rentschler: „Begreifen ohne anzufassen – Eine vergessene Dimension der Bildung ?“ Ingo Rentschler, Eva Madelung, Peter Fauser (eds.): Bilder im Kopf - Texte zum imaginativen Lernen. Seelze/Velber: Kallmeyer, 2003: 218-241. [This text has simultaneously been published as an article in the journal Neue Sammlung 43, 4/2003: 513-526.]

“In Praise of Perambulation. Reflections on Perception, Embodied Subjects, and Learning Environments.” Hans Adler (ed.): Aisthesis and Aesthetics. Cambridge: Lang, 2002: 111-148.

“Literatur und Synästhesie: Überlegungen zum Verhältnis von Wahrnehmung, Sprache und Poetizität.“ Hans Adler (ed., with Ulrike Zeuch): Synästhesie. Interferenz  Transfer  Synthese der Sinne. Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann, 2002: 53-88.

 “Image and Text. Recent Research in Intermediality.“ (Review Article) Monatshefte 93:3 (Fall 2001): 355-366.

“Das Buch in der Hand. Zum situativ-affektiven Umgang mit Texten.“ Stiftung Lesen/Der Spiegel: Leseverhalten der Deutschen im neuen Jahrtausend. Spiegel Verlag, 2001: 175-197.

"Bild - Text - Zeit: Ekphrasis in Gert Hofmanns Der Blindensturz." Ulla Fix, Hans Wellmann (eds.): Bild im Text - Text und Bild. Heidelberg: Winter, 2000: 105-128.

"Herta Müller." Matthias Konzett (ed.): Encyclopedia of German Literature. Vol II. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000: 726-728.

"Publikumsbeschimpfung." Matthias Konzett (ed.): Encyclopedia of German Literature. Vol I. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000: 406-407.

"Lesen - Körper - Text." Eva Kimminich, Claudia Krülls-Hepermann (eds.): Zunge und Zeichen. (Welt - Körper - Sprache. Perspektiven kultureller Wahrnehmungs- und Darstellungsformen, I.) Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2000: 151-186.

"Vergangenheitsbewältigung the gentle way?" Jost Hermand, Marc Silberman (eds.): Contentious Memories. Looking Back at the GDR. New York, Bern: Peter Lang, 1998: 189-194.

"Sprache, Ort, Heimat." Monatshefte 89.4 (Winter 1997): 441-451.

"Cognitive Readings or the Disappearance of Literature in the Mind." Poetics Today 18.2, Summer 1997, 271-297.

"Dialectics and Reader Response: Bertolt Brecht's Prose Cycles." Siegfried Mews (ed.): A Bertolt Brecht Reference Companion. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1997, 168-194.

"The Word Turned Image: Reading Pattern Poems." Poetics Today 18.1, Spring 1997, 15- 32.

"Narrative Time and the Reader." Semiotics around the World: Synthesis in Diversity. IASS Congress Proceedings. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1997, 405-408.

"Real Time, Life Time, Media Time: The Multiple Temporality of Film." J.T. Fraser and M. Soulsby (eds.): Dimensions of Time and Life: The Study of Time VIII. Madison, CT: International Universities Press, 1996, 133-146.

" 'Soviel Wirklichkeit ermüdet.' Sprache und Stil in Günter Grass' Die Rättin." Hans Adler and Jost Hermand (eds.): Günter Grass. Ästhetik des Engagements. New York: Peter Lang, 1996, 111-146.

"Fremdheit und Verfremdung in Werner Herzogs Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle." Ulrich Struve (ed.): Der imaginierte Findling. Heidelberg: Winter, 1995, 162-181.

"Lesen - Übersetzen." U. Mahlendorf and L. Rickels (eds.): Poetry-Poetics-Translation. Festschrift für Richard Exner. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 1994, 169-179.

"Margarete Steffin's Children's Plays: Anti-Illusionism with a Difference." Marc Silberman (ed.): Brecht Yearbook 1994, 67-88.

"Diskursregelung und Weiblichkeit." G. Hoffmeister (ed.): Goethes Mignon und ihre Schwestern. New York: Peter Lang, 1993, 83-99.

"Reading the Signs of Canonicity." Semiotica 96.3-4, 1993, 363-379.

"Reading Time: Text, Image, Film." Time and Society I.2 (Special Interdisciplinary Issue), 1992, 207-222.

"In Defense of Canons." Robert Bledsoe et al. (eds.): Rethinking Germanistik: Canons and Culture, New York: Peter Lang, 1991, 104-112.

"Schrift-Bild: Die Zeit des Augen-Blicks." G. Tholen and M. Scholl (eds.): Zeit-Zeichen, Weinheim: Acta Humaniora, 1990, 231-246.

D. Selected Translations and Other Publications

Laurence Rickels: Der unbetrauerbare Tod. Vienna: Passagen, 1989. 152 pp.

"A Letter from René Gardi." African Arts 18.4 (August 1985), 68-72.

Book and theater reviews for The German Quarterly, Monatshefte, Time's News, Time and Society, Poetics Today, Communications, Hessischer Rundfunk.
 
 

Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Bremer Freiheit. Frau Geesche Gottfried (Regisseur/Director: Manfred Roth), performed May 2-4, 2011 at the Memorial Union Play Circle, Madison

Theatrical adaptation of Die Fromme Helene by Wilhelm Busch, (Regisseur/Director: Manfred Roth), performed May 4-6, 2009 at the Memorial Union Play Circle, Madison

Ödön von Horváth, Glaube – Liebe – Hoffnung (Regisseur/Director: Manfred Roth), performed May 7-9, 2007 at the Memorial Union Play Circle, Madison.

Albert Wendt: Der Vogelkopp (Regisseur/Director: Manfred Roth, Germany), performed May 2, 3, 4, 2005 at the Memorial Union Play Circle, Madison.

Soeren Voima: Das Kontingent (Regisseur/Director: Manfred Roth, Germany) performed April 28, 29, 30, 2003at the Memorial Union Play Circle, Madison.

Andreas Gryphius, Absurda comica oder Herr Peter Squenz, performed April 23-25, 2001 at the Memorial Union Play Circle, Madison and April 28, 2001 at the Weidner Center/Studio 2, Green Bay (directed with Manfred Roth).

Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Der Meteor, performed April 12-14, 1999 at the Memorial Union Play Circle, Madison, and April 17, 1999 at the Weidner Experimental Theatre, UW-Green Bay. (Directed with Angelika Czekay)

Peter Handke, Publikumsbeschimpfung, performed April 21-23, 1997 at the Memorial Union Play Circle, Madison, and May 4, 1997 at Black Box Theatre, UW-Green Bay.

Georg Büchner, Leonce und Lena, performed May 1-3, 1995 at the Memorial Union Play Circle, Madison, and May 8, 1995 at Black Box Theatre, UW-Green Bay.

Franz Xaver Kroetz, Furcht und Hoffnung der BRD, performed March 29-31, 1993 at the Memorial Union Play Circle, Madison (with Martin Kagel).

SCHOLARLY SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION

• President, International J. G. Herder Society (2005 - 2007)
• Vice President, International J. G. Herder Society (2003 - 2005)
• Book Review Editor, Monatshefte (2001 - )
• Member, Editorial Board, Kronoscope (2001 - )
• Elected Council Member, International Society for the Study of Time (1998-2004, 2007-)
• Member, International Editorial Advisory Board, Time and Society (1996 - )
• Member, Editorial Board, Monatshefte (1996 - )

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

• American Association of Teachers of German (AATG), Life member
• International Association for Philosophy and Literature (IAPL), Life member
• International Brecht Society (IBS)
• International Herder Society
• International Society for the Study of Time (ISST)
• Modern Language Association (MLA)
• Women in German (WIG)

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