Academic Career
Academic Appointments / akademische Laufbahn| 2004–2024 | Professor and Texas Chair of German Literature and Culture, Department of Germanic Studies, University of Texas at Austin |
| 1995–2004 | Professor of German and Film Studies, University of Pittsburgh |
| 1992–95 | Associate Professor of German, University of Pittsburgh |
| 1988–92 | Assistant Professor of German, University of Pittsburgh |
| 1986–88 | Research Fellow, History of Art, Bryn Mawr College |
| 1977-1984 | Dr Phil. and MA, German Literature and Social Sciences, University of Hanover, Germany |
| 2011–18 | Member, Summer Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization, Northwestern University (every two years) |
| 2014 | Würzburg Study Abroad Program, Resident Director |
| 2010 | Organizer (with Larson Powell), DEFA Summer Institute, UMass Amherst |
| 2008 | Europa-University Viadrina Frankfurt/Oder, Cultural Studies (summer semester) |
| 1991 | University of Augsburg, German Department (summer semester) |
| 2022 | Reinhold Schünzel Preis, Cinefest—Internationales Festival des deutschen Filmerbes, Hamburg. (Ehrenpreis für langjährige Verdienste um die Pflege, Bewahrung und Verbreitung des deutschen Film-Erbes) |
| 2019 | FRIAS Alumni Book Prize for The Proletarian Dream |
| 2018 | Modern Language Association (MLA) Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures for The Proletarian Dream |
| 1995 | Chancellor’s Distinguished Research Award, University of Pittsburgh |
| 1994 | German Studies Association/DAAD Book Prize for The Cinema’s Third Machine |
| 2020 | Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CASVA), Visiting Senior Fellowship, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC (residency delayed to 2021) |
| 2017 | FRIAS Alumni Program, Freiburg (June-July) |
| 2016 | Wolfsonian-FIU Fellowship, Wolfsonian Museum and Archive, Miami Beach |
| 2015-16 | EURIAS and Marie Curie Fellow of the European Union, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) |
| 2012 | DAAD Faculty Research Visit Award |
| 2010-11 | National Humanities Center Fellowship, Research Triangle Park, NC |
| 2010 | Rice University Humanities Research Center External Faculty Fellowship |
| 2004 | Fulbright German Studies Seminar |
| 2004 | Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio Study Center Residency |
| 2003–4 | National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship |
| 1992 | Obermann Fellowship, Center for Advanced Studies, University of Iowa |
| 1991 | National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend |
| 1987-88 | Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship |
| 1986-87 | J. Paul Getty Postdoctoral Fellowship |
| 1983 | DAAD Dissertation Research Fellowship, Los Angeles |
- Editor, German Studies Review 35.1-44.3 (2011–21)
- Executive Board Member, German Studies Association (2002–6, and 2011-21, ex officio)
- Advisory Board, Book Series “Film, Class, Society,” De Gruyter (2022-present)
- Co-Editor (with Hans-Michael Bock and Tim Bergfelder), Book Series “Germany and Film Europe,” Berghahn Books (2008–17)
- Editorial Board, Internationales Archiv für Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur (2011–2016)
- Editorial Board, Waterloo Centre of German Studies, ed. John Smith, Wilfrid Laurier Press (2011–present)
- Editorial Advisory Board, Book Series “Contemporary German Writers and Filmmakers,” ed. Frank Finlay and Julian Preece, Peter Lang (2009–present)
- Editorial Board, German Quarterly (1994–98, 2004–8)
- Session Coordinator, Twentieth Century Literature, German Studies Association (1997)
- Book Prize Committee Chair, German Studies Association (1996)
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