CURRICULUM VITAE
Gabriele Maria Ancilla Wickert
Professor of German and International Studies
2900 Purchase Street
Purchase, NY 10577
(914) 694-3925
PhD 1980, U. Massachusetts/Amherst (German Literature)
MA 1972, SUNY at Albany (German Literature)
BA 1968, University of Rochester (English Literature)
Assistant, Associate and Full Professor of German, Manhattanville College, 1976-1995/2005-present
-- Chair of German Department, 1976-present.
Associate and Full Professor of International Studies, Manhattanville College, 1984-1995/2005-present
-- Chair of International Studies, 1988-91, 1993-95, 2005-present.
Instructor of German, Monroe Community College, 1975-76.
All levels of German language
Introduction to German Literature and Culture
Romanticism in German Literature and Music
German Expressionism
Hero and Heroine in German Drama
Comparative Literature and Culture
The Revolt of Modern Theater
Literature and Society of the GDR
Literature and Revolution
East European Literature
The Writer in Exile
German Cinema since 1945
IREX grant to Prague, Czech Republic: Spring, 1993
Manhattanville faculty research award: Spring 1988
Fulbright grant to West Berlin: Fall, 1987
IREX grant to East Berlin/GDR: Spring, 1984
NEH Summer Seminar grants: 1980, 1983, 1987, 1990, 1994
Georgetown University summer program for teachers of German: Dillingen, Germany, 2003
WCIS-sponsored faculty seminar on “Comparative Gender Issues in World Literature”: Fall, 1992
WCIS-sponsored faculty seminar on “Gender Issues in Japanese Literature”: Spring, 1992
Berlin Seminar on “Politics & Education in the FRG/GDR”: Summer, 1982
Rassias teaching training workshop: January, 1982
GDR summer seminars for foreign Germanists: 1981 (Karl-Marx-Stadt) and 1982 (Weimar)
Goethe-Institute summer seminar for German teachers: Göttingen, Germany, 1981
Book
Held und Volk in Heinrich von Kleists Dramen. Peter Lang, 1983.
“GDR Writers and the Revolution”, in East Central Europe, 18/1 1991.
“The End of Exile: A Retrospective of GDR Writers who left for the FRG”, in GDR Monitor, May 1991.
‘The USA in GDR Adventure Novels”, in East European Quarterly, Fall 1887.
“Aristocratic Courtesan and Bourgeois Innocent in German Melodrama”, in Monatshefte, Spring, 1984.
Book Chapters
“Postcommunist Antifeminism”, in Reading a Woman’s Perspective. Marymount
College, 1994
“Freud’s Heritage: Fathers and Daughters in German Literature, 1750-1850”, in In the Shadow of the Past: Psychology Portrays the Sexes. Columbia Univ. Press, 1985.
Russische Avantgarde. Eine Ohrfeige dem Öffentlichen Geschmack. Catalog to accompany 2006 exhibit at the SNZ Galleries, Wiesbaden.
Acting Provost and Dean of Faculty, Manhattanville College, July 2004-2005.
Dean of Studies, Manhattanville College, 1995--2003.
Director, Westchester Consortium for International Studies, 1991-93.
Director, Study Abroad, Manhattanville College, 1984-87, 1993-95.
Director, Language Laboratory, Manhattanville College, 1980-84.
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