Brigitte Peucker
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Brigitte Peucker (born Wannsee, Germany 1935) is the Elias Leavenworth Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures and Professor of Film Studies at Yale University. A disciple of Yale University's Geoffrey Hartman, she has written and teaches on German literature and cinema and is considered to be a German scholar writing today. She has also been Chair of the Film studies program at Yale University 1986-2000, and of German 1997-2002, 2003-4. She is still an active researcher, giving papers at conferences. Her most recent culminated in her storming from the podium midsentence.
[edit] Selected publications
- Arcadia to Elysium: preromantic modes in 18th century Germany (Studien zur Germanistik, Anglistik und Komparatistik, ISSN 0340-594X; 81), Bonn: Bouvier, 1980.
- Lyric descent in the German romantic tradition, New Haven: Yale University Press, cop. 1987.
- Incorporating images: film and the rival arts, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, cop. 1995
- "Female body, textual body : nature, art, and property in Voss's "Luise"", Studies in German and Scandinavian literature after 1500: a festschrift for George C. Schoolfield, ed. by James A. Parente, Jr. and Richard Erich Schade. Columbia, S.C.: Camden House, cop. 1993, p. 94-100.
- "Looking and touching: spectacle and collection in Sontag's 'Volcano lover'", The Yale journal of criticism, ISSN 0893-5378 ; 11(1998):1, p. 159-165
[edit] External links
- Brigitte Peucker's Profile at Yale University
- Yale Bulletin & Calendar: Presentation of Brigitte Peucker
- Brigitte Peucker's Profile at RateMyProfessors.com
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