Glenn Cuomo
Professor of German Language & Literature

Preferred method to be contacted:
Email:  cuomo@ncf.edu
Office Hours:
  TBA, and by appointment (487 4361 voice mail)

Home Page: http://www.ncf.edu/cuomo

* Written proposals and preliminary discussions about projects are encouraged. 
* Email is the best form of communication.

• Follow-up discussions during office hours or by appointment.
• Students are advised to contact me early about a project.

After December 1, I will be less likely to sponsor a project with somebody who has not worked with me.

Areas of interest within discipline:

• All areas of German literature and cultural history
• Successful projects have covered individual authors (e.g., Thomas Mann, Ingeborg Bachmann, Franz Kafka, Robert Musil, Heiner Müller, Christa Wolf, Rainer Maria Rilke, Hermann Hesse, Bertolt Brecht, Heinrich von Kleist, Günter Grass), genres (e.g., novel, drama, poetry, radio play), and periods/literary movements: Age of Goethe, High Middle Ages, Realism, Naturalism, Expressionism, Exile, GDR, etc.
• Topics in cultural history could include: Weimar Culture, Culture within the Third Reich, Postwar Germany, Germany and Austria at the turn of the 19^th century, the GDR, “Post-Wall” Germany and contemporary society. Such topics are often studied during a four-week visit to Germany or Austria in January or the summer.
• Film studies: Weimar Cinema, Postwar German cinema, Italian Neorealist film, world cinema, early film, and the treatment of works by a single director, such as Fritz Lang, Alfred Hitchcock, Sergei Eisenstein, G.W. Pabst, Akira Kurosawa.
• Film and literature: adaptations of literary works
• Holocaust studies: representations of the Holocaust; the "Goldhagen Debate"

Areas of interest outside of discipline:

• See above for topics outside of German film
• Open to projects that address artistic expression in totalitarian systems besides National Socialism
• Internships at the Asolo Conservatory Theater

Expectations for satisfactory completion of an ISP:

• An ISP is a four-week, full-time academic effort, which is the equivalent to a full-term undertaking.  In most cases, students will write one analytical essay or a series of essays totaling approximately 25 pages in length.  Viewing or reading journals are usually included for film or literary surveys.
• I do not think the ISP should be used to make up courses that are regularly offered, such as first-, second-, or third-term German.  Nor will I sponsor projects involving languages not taught at New College.

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