Lutz Kube

EDUCATION

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, May 2000.

Ph.D. in German Literature

Dissertation: “Mark Brandenburg und Berlin im Werk von Günter de Bruyn: Eine Suche nach Heimat und Identität.” My dissertation provides a new perspective on the works of de Bruyn by focusing on how the official concept of homeland GDR (Heimat DDR) was undermined by a concept of regional identity.

Dissertation Director: Siegfried Mews.

Dissertation Committee: Clayton Koelb, Christoph Schweitzer, David Pike, Jonathan Hess.

Humboldt Universität Berlin, Germany, 1988.

M.A. in German Literature and Linguistics with Minor in Russian.

Thesis: “Stefan George in Berlin. Ein Autor schafft sich eine Öffentlichkeit.”

TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS

German Language Instruction at all Levels

German Film

Introduction to German Literature

Contemporary German Literature

GDR Literature and Culture

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Teaching Assistant Professor. August 1999 - Present. NC State University. Teaching beginning, intermediate and advanced German language classes. Taught advanced classes on German Civilization, New German Cinema, and German Poetry.

Visiting Assistant Professor. August 2001 - Present. Meredith College. Teaching beginning and intermediate German language classes.

Instructor. Spring 1998-Summer 1999. Clemson University. Taught beginning, intermediate, and advanced German language classes. Also taught advanced classes in twentieth-century German drama and German civilization.

Teaching Assistant. Fall 1992 - Fall 1997. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Taught German 1-4. Also taught a fifth semester Conversation and Composition Class. Selected reading materials which focused on contemporary cultural and political issues in Germany.

Coordinator. Fall 1995, Spring 1996. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Wrote syllabi and course materials, supervised TAs.

German Teacher. Summer 1988. Kabelwerk Oberspree, Berlin.

Taught elementary German to foreign workers from Mozambique.

PUBLICATIONS

„We Acted as Though We Were in a Movie-Memories of an East German Subculture” German Politics and Society. 26.2 (2008): 45-55.

“‘Mein Brandenburg’: Zur Konstruktion regionaler Identität in essayistischen Arbeiten Günter de Bruyns.” German Monitor 44. Günter de Bruyn in Perspective. Dennis Tate, ed. Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, 1999. 119-32.

“Intellektuelle Verantwortung und Schuld in Günter Grass’ Ein weites Feld.” Colloquia Germanica 4 (1997): 437-49.

“Heinrich Manns unveröffentlichte Tagebücher 1939-1941.” Manuscript for Berlin radio Berliner Rundfunk, Broadcast 23 March 1990.

“Stefan George und die Berliner Universität.” Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift der Humboldt-Universität. 38.6 (1989): 639-46.

BOOK REVIEWS

Review of Stefan George by Thomas Karlauf. German Quarterly. 81.3 (2008): 513-14.

Review of The Young Man, by Botho Strauß. Southern Humanities Review. 3 (1997): 293-96.

PRESENTATIONS

“Günter de Bruyn’s Role in GDR Literature.” Invited lecture at Samford University, Birmingham, AL, February 2000.

“The Fall of the Berlin Wall.” Presentation at the Exploris Center, Raleigh, NC, November, 1999.

“‘Between Conformity and Resistance: Günter de Bruyn’s Autobiography ‘40 Jahre’,” paper presented at “Ten years after” Conference, Duke University, Durham, NC, October 1999.

“‘Mein Brandenburg’: Zur Konstruktion regionaler Identität in essayistischen Arbeiten Günter de Bruyns,” paper presented at the 23rd New Hampshire Symposium, Conway, NH, July 1997.

“Günter Grass’ Portrayal of Intellectual Ethics and Responsibilities in Ein weites Feld,” paper presented at South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference, Savannah, GA, October 1996.

“Botho Strauß’ Der junge Mann as a Modern Bildungsroman,” paper presented at South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference, Baltimore, MD, October 1994.

“Das Amerikabild in DDR Comics,” paper presented at Graduate Student Colloquium, UNC Chapel Hill, February 1993.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Program Director. June 2004, 2006 through 2009. Directed the NC State University Study Abroad Program in Vienna. Taught a class on Vienna Culture at 1900.

Translator. 2001-2004. Lightpointe Communications. Did technical translations for an engineering firm.

Research Assistant and Reader. 1994-1997. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Proofread manuscripts and did library research for blind professor of Russian.

Archivist. 1988-1992. Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany.

Advised users of literary estates of about 100 writers, among them the estates of Heinrich Mann and Walter Benjamin.

ACADEMIC HONORS, GRANTS

Meredith College Travel Grant

Received partial funding for a trip to Germany to conduct interviews on German unification, and film Christmas impressions in Germany. December 2003.

Meredith Undergraduate Research Committee Grant

Funded a 3 day research trip for 5 students to the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. January 2003.

Dissertation Fellowship

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Spring 1997.

Departmental Teaching Fellowship

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1992-1997.

Travel Grant

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Fall 1996.

MEMBERSHIPS

American Association of Teachers of German

LANGUAGES

German (native)

English (fluent)

Russian, French (reading knowledge)

RESIDENCY STATUS

Permanent U.S. Resident.