Harry L. Roddy
Education
- B.S.E., Mechanical Engineering
Tulane University 1989
- M.A., Germanic Languages
The University of Texas at Austin 1993
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Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin 2004
Research Interests
- Masculinity and Psychoanalytic Theory
- Film Studies
- Hans Henny Jahnn, Rolf Dieter Brinkmann, and Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Translation Theory
Publications
Books
- The Perverse Utopias of Hans Henny Jahnn, Rolf Dieter Brinkmann, and Rainer Werner Fassbinder (in preparation)
Journal Articles
- “A West German Brigata: Female Agency and Authoritarian Backlash in the Film Germany in Autumn,” in preparation.
- “Writing Trauma: Psychotraumatic Dissociation in the Poetry of Rolf Dieter Brinkmann,” under review, Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies.
- “Hans Henny Jahnn’s New Masculine Ideal: Perrudja as Critique of Hegemonic Masculinity,” Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies 55.3 (2019).
- “The Yellow Flower of Norway: Trauma and Repetition in Hans Henny Jahnn’s Perrudja,” The German Quarterly 88.3 (2015): 317-333.
- “The ‘Mass Ornament’ at Play in Rolf Dieter Brinkmann’s
Oberflächenbeschreibungen,” South Atlantic Review 75.1 (2010): 1-20. - “Unsere Rockgruppe geht auf Tournee!: A Collaborative Writing Project for the Intermediate Level,” Unterrichtspraxis 42.1 (2009): 69-74.
- “A Revolutionary Critique of Individualism: Heiner Müller’s Mauser in Texas,” Monatshefte 92.2 (2000): 184-98."
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Reinventing the Vaterland: The Poetry of Nadja Küchenmeister, Daniela Danz and Farhad Showghi" (in preparation)
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"The Yellow Flower of Norway: Trauma and Repetition in Hans Henny Jahnn's Perrudja." The German Quarterly 88.3 (2015): 317-333.
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"The 'Mass Ornament' at Play in Rolf Dieter Brinkmann's Oberflächenbeschreibungen." South Atlantic Review 75.1 (2010): 1-20.
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"Unsere Rockgruppe geht auf Tournee!: Introducing Longer Narrative Writing to Second-Year Students." Unterrichtspraxis 42.1 (2009): 69-74.
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"A Revolutionary Critique of Individualism: Heiner Müller's Mauser in Texas, "Monatshefte, 92, No. 2 (Summer 2000): 184-98
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"The Metastructural Significance of Those Center Stripes: or, What's Really Going on in David Lynch's Lost Highway?" The Image of the Road: Selected
Papers, 2005 Conference (Pueblo, CO: Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery, 2005): 22-6.
Book Reviews
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Krasnodebski, Zdzislaw, Stefan Garsztecki and Rüdiger Ritter, Eds., Last der Geschichte? Kollektive Identität und Geschichte in Ostmitteleuropa (Hamburg: Dr. Kovac, 2008) Sarmatian Review (in preparation)
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Krasnodebski, Zdzislaw & Stefan Garsztecki, Eds., Sendung und Dichtung: Adam Mickiewicz in Europa (Hamburg: Krämer, 2002) Sarmatian Review, XXV, no. 2 (April 2005): 1127-28.
Courses
- Teaches all levels of German language, literature and culture courses.