Friederike Emonds
Friederike Emonds, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of German
Office: Field House 2400E (MS 127)
Phone: 419-530-7903
E-mail: friederike.emonds@utoledo.edu
Biography
Friederike Emonds is Associate Professor of German in the Department of World Languages & Cultures where she teaches advanced undergraduate and graduate-level courses of German literature, film, and cultural studies. Her research focuses on memory studies, war literature, historiography, Holocaust studies, film, and gender studies. Recently, she published on women and war, wartime theater and Holocaust films in journals and anthologies in English and German and presented her work at international and national conferences in the US and in Europe. Currently, she is working on constructions of cultural memories of World War I in German literature in the late 1920s. She has been awarded the prestigious Student Impact Award as well as 兔子先生传媒文化作品鈥檚 Shining Star Award.
Dr. Emonds is currently serving on the University of Toledo Faculty Senate, the Faculty Senate Executive Committee, and on the College of Arts & Letters Council.
Research interests:
20th- and 21st Century German Literature and Film, Memories Studies, Holocaust Studies, War and Peace Studies, Historiography, Cultural Studies, Women- and Gender studies
Teaching interests:
German 18th-21st Century German Literature, Film and Film Theory, Contemporary German Culture (food, soccer, identity politics, social changes, migration, environment, urbanity), Migrant Literature, Stylistics.
Selected Publications:
Friederike B. Emonds, 鈥淚nszenierung weiblicher Erinnerung im Weimarer Nachkriegsdiskurs: Ilse Langners Theaterst眉ck Frau Emma k盲mpft im Hinterland.鈥� Der Erste Weltkrieg in der Dramatik鈥攄eutsche und australische Perspektiven. Forthcoming. Stuttgart: Metzler 2018.
Friederike B. Emonds, 鈥�)鈥� in Colloquia Germanica 2013.
Friederike B. Emonds, 鈥淏lick auf Benno Ohnesorg: Uwe Timms Der Freund und der Fremde (2005)鈥� in Jahrbuch f眉r internationale Germanistik, Peter-Lang-Verlag 2011.
Friederike B. Emonds, 鈥�.鈥� Elsa Porges-Bernstein alias Ernst Rosmer : Woman, Writer, Holocaust Survivor: a Critical Anthology. Eds. Helga W. Kraft, Dagmar C.G. Lorenz. New York: P. Lang, January 2007.
Selected Scholarly Papers & Presentations:
鈥淭he Politics of Memory: Representations of World War I in Gina Kaus鈥� Novel Die Front des Lebens (1928)鈥� to be presented at the annual international conference of the Austrian Studies Association, Bowling Green, April 11-14, 2019.
鈥淚nszenierung weiblicher Erinnerung im Weimarer Nachkriegsdiskurs: Ilse Langners Theaterst眉ck Frau Emma k盲mpft im Hinterland鈥� presented at the international symposium 鈥淒er Erste Weltkrieg in der Dramatik 鈥� deutsche und australische Perspektiven鈥� in Wuppertal, Germany, November 30th to December 2nd, 2017.
鈥淐ontaminated Gravespace, Haunting Memories: Berlin鈥檚 Invalidenfriedhof Revisited鈥� presented at the German Studies Association鈥檚 41st Annual Conference in Atlanta, Georgia, October 5th-8th, 2017.
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Grants and Awards:
- Kohler International Travel Award, 兔子先生传媒文化作品
- Office of Research, Small Research Grant, 兔子先生传媒文化作品
- Humanities Institute Faculty Fellow 2016-2017, 兔子先生传媒文化作品
- LLSS College Award, 兔子先生传媒文化作品
- Shining Star Award, 兔子先生传媒文化作品
- Student Impact Award, 兔子先生传媒文化作品