Teaching German in Twentieth-Century America

The University of Wisconsin Press

Contents

Preface..................................................................................................................................................ixAcknowledgments..........................................................................................................................................xiPeter Uwe Hohendahl  How to Read Our Professional Past: A Modest Proposal................................................................................3Arthur Tilo Alt  The Ideology of American Germanics: An Aspect of Its History of Perennial Isolation.....................................................16Frank Trommler  Recovering the History of Germanics in the United States: An Exploration.................................................................26Theodore Ziolkowski  The Roles of History and Public Policy in Shaping Germanics.........................................................................42Clifford Albrecht Bernd  World War I as a Shaping Force in American Germanics............................................................................58Jost Hermand  Three Stages of a Precarious Relationship: German Culture and Germanics in America, 1940-1995..............................................69David Brenner and Michael Berkowitz  German History, Jewish History, German Jewish Studies: Old Wine in New Bottles?.....................................79Sara Friedrichsmeyer and Patricia Herminghouse  Toward an American Germanics? Feminism as a Force for Change.............................................89Margaretmary Daley  Feminist Professionalism: A Brief, Critical History of the Coalition of Women in German..............................................98Gisela Hoecherl-Alden  Female Immigrant Intellectuals in Germanics: From Invisibility to "Women in German"...............................................108Ellen Manning Nagy  Representations of Women in the AATG, 1850-1950......................................................................................121Susan Lee Pentlin  American Germanists and the Holocaust, 1933-1945: The Legacy..........................................................................135John A. McCarthy  "An Indigenous and Not an Exotic Plant": Toward a History of Germanics at Penn.........................................................146Helmut Ziefle  Historical Forces, German Departments, and the Curriculum in Small Liberal Arts Colleges in the Midwest...................................173Gerhard H. Weiss and Walter F.W. Lohnes  The National Defense Language Institutes: A Benchmark in the Training of Teachers of German.....................184Jeannine Blackwell  Control-Alt-Delete: Reshaping Germanics Publication in the Age of Electronic Reproduction............................................192Mark W. Rectanus  Publishing in Germanics: Dissemination, Legitimation, and Validation of Scholarly Communication........................................211Janet Swaffar  German Studies as Studies of Cultural Discourse...........................................................................................230Editors and Contributors.................................................................................................................................249Bibliography.............................................................................................................................................253Index....................................................................................................................................................280

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