Dr. Helga G. Braunbeck, NC State University

Dr. Helga G. Braunbeck

German Section Coordinator
in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures,
and Director of International Studies
for the College of Humanities and Social Sciences
at North Carolina State University

Office: 301 Withers Hall

Campus Box 8106 * Raleigh, NC 27695-8106
Phone: 919-515-9320 (email is preferred and often reaches me faster)
Fax: 919-515-6981

The best way to contact me is by email:

Helga_Braunbeck@ncsu.edu

(and please allow a few days for a response during busy times!)

Fall 2008

Tue 1-3
Th 12-1

and by appointment, please email me at

helga_braunbeck@ncsu.edu

Courses

Fall 2008

FLG 401, German for Graduate Students, TH 10:15 - 11:30, Withers 135
Liason for FLG 390, German Studies Topics: Literature and Film, TH 3 - 4:15, Winston 132

Syllabi from previous semesters

Browse them to get an idea about a certain course I have taught in the past.

Since receiving my Ph.D. in German Literature from the University of California, Santa Barbara, I have been doing research on Contemporary German Literature and teaching German language, literature and culture and courses in World Literature in Translation at NC State University.

Among the courses I especially enjoy creating and teaching are first and second year German language courses, Twentieth Century German Literature, German Culture and Civilization, New German Cinema, Business German, and World Literature in Translation Courses on Masterpieces of the Western World II, and on Kafka.

My publications have been in contemporary German literature, especially on Christa Wolf (Autorschaft und Subjektgenese: Christa Wolfs Kein Ort. Nirgends. Vienna: Passagen, 1992) and the works of German writer/Czech national Libuše Moníková (1945-1998), with articles on historiographic metafiction, filmic writing, and intermediality. My current research project is on intermediality in the works of Libuše Moníková.

Recent Articles and Book Chapters

“’Der Roman muß sich die Bilder holen’: Film Discourse in the Texts of Libuše Moníková,” Libuše Moníková: In memoriam. Ed. Brigid Haines and Lyn Marven. Amsterdam: Rodopi (German Monitor 62), 2005, 245-279.

“Die Wege zu den Bildern, zu den Tönen, durch die Texte: Intermedialität im Werk Libuše Moníkovás.” Libuše Moníková: Beiträge der internationalen germanistischen Tagung Ceské Budejovice-Budweis 2003. Ed. Patricia Broser and Dana Pfeiferová. Vienna: Edition Praesens, 2005, 148-170.

“Cesty k obrazum a k tónum: prostrednictví textu Libuše Moníkové.” Literární Noviny, Rocník XIV, 1. Prosince 2003, 1, 11. (Slightly abbreviated version of keynote presented in Ceske Budejovice-Budweis, Czech Republic, November 2003 and translated into Czech by Magdalena Hennerová).

Last updated 28 August 2008