Wendy Sutherland
Associate Professor of German Language & Literature
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
M.A., Middlebury College
B.A. Smith College
Courses taught in English:
Women and Seduction in 18th- and Early 19th-Century German Bourgeois Drama
Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm
Age of Goethe
Snow White in Text and Film
Courses taught in German:
Intermediate German
Advanced German: (see below)
Grimms Fairy Tales and Defa Film Adaptations
Integration, Cultural Clash, and the New Germany
Turks in Germany
Berlin History, Architecture, and Cityscape
The New Germany
Berlin and the New Germany
Tutorials:
German Conversation
Readings of Kleist and Kaminer (in German)
Advanced German Grammar and Style
Independent Study Project (January group ISP)
Berlin, City as Text: Berlin in Film
Independent Study Project (Summer 2007, 2010 group ISP)
Berlin History through Architecture (in Berlin, Germany)
Selected Publications
Sutherland, W. H. (2002). Staging blackness: Race, aesthetics and the black female in two Eighteenth Century German dramas, Ernst Lorenz Rathlef's Die Mohrinn zu Hamburg (1775) and Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Ziegler's Die Mohrinn (1801).
Research
"Schwarze, Schwarze Deutsche" In: Rassismus auf gut Deutsch: Ein kritisches Nachschlagewerk zu rassistischen Sprachhandlungen ed.Adibeli Nduka-Agwu and Antje Lann Hornscheidt. Frankfurt am Main: Brandes & Apsel, 2010. 85-90.
"Reading in the Dark? Racial Hierarchy and Miscegenation in Heinrich von Kleist's 'Die Verlobung in San Domingo' (1811)" In: Echoes of the Haitian Revolution 1804-2004 ed. Martin Munro and Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press, 2008. 86-94.
Black Skin, White Skin and the Aesthetics of the Female Body in Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Ziegler's Die Mohrinn In: Colors 1800/1900/2000: Signs of Ethnic Difference ed. Birgit Tautz Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2004. 67-82.
Staging Blackness: Race, Aesthetics, and the Black Female in Two Eighteenth-Century German Dramas: Ernst Lorenz Rathlef's Die Mohrinn zu Hamburg (1775) and Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Ziegler's Die Mohrinn (1801) 2002.
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