TEXAS STATE VITA. Book History Exile of German-Jewish Booksellers B.A Mainz Gutenberg University/Germany. History/Art History

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1 TEXAS STATE VITA I. ACADEMIC/PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND A. NAME: ULRICH BACH TITEL: ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR B. EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND: Degree Year University Concentration Thesis/Dissertation Ph.D UCLA German Studies Austrian Colonial Utopias M.A University of London/U.K. Book History Exile of German-Jewish Booksellers B.A Mainz Gutenberg University/Germany History/Art History N/A C. UNIVERSITY EXPERIENCE: Position University Dates Assistant/Associate Professor Texas State University 2007-present Lecturer & Mellon Post-Doc Fellow Stanford University Teaching Assistant UCLA D. RELEVANT PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Position Entity Dates Research Assistant Getty Research Center Cataloguer of Continental Books Pacific Book Auction Gallery Research Assistant Gutenberg-University of Mainz Apprenticeship Suhrkamp Publishing Company II. TEACHING B. COURSES TAUGHT At Texas State University: All levels of GERMAN LANGUAGE Stationen: German Urban Spaces (GERMAN 2320) Masterpieces of German Literature (GERMAN 4310) Political Passion in German Cinema (GERMAN 3304) Advanced Conversation: The Image of America in German Culture (GERMAN 4340) Representation of Women in German Cinema (GERMAN 3304) Love & Identity in Postwar European Films (HONOR PROGRAM 3390) German Culture and Civilization (GERMAN 3370) German Post-war Cinema in East & West (GERMAN 4340) German Advanced Grammar (GERMAN 4341)

2 At Stanford University: Zwischen Gestern und Morgen: Film als Kultur der Niederlage (GERLIT 239) Marriage, Love & Passion in 19 th & 20 th Century German Literature (GERLIT 139/339) Femmes fatales & Masochism in German Literature and Cinema (GERLIT 238) German Colonialism & Orientalism in Film and Literature (GERLIT 146/246B) German Post-War Cinema in East and West (GERLIT 133E) Between Aesthetics & Politics: Peter Weiss Modernism Contextualized (GERGEN 166) At UCLA: All levels of GERMAN LANGUAGE German Culture & Literature (GER 101) Hollywood frames Germany: Germany in American Movies (GER 224) German Fairytales (GER 286) History of Modern Thought (GE Cluster Program for Freshmen) Utopia & Modernism (GE Cluster Freshmen Seminar) C. GRADUATE THESIS/DISSERTATION OR EXIT EXAM: Eleni Montecrief (Reader Honor Thesis, Texas State University Spring 2014) Emily Rothbauer (2 nd reader Honor Thesis, Texas State University Spring 2013) Chiann Karen Tsui (Stanford German Studies M.A. Committee Spring 2007) D. COURSE PREPARED FOR CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT: At Texas State University: GERMAN 3304: Representation of Women in German Cinema GERMAN 4302: Topics in German Literature and Culture HONOR PROGRAM 3390: Investigating Love & Identity in European Film GERMAN 4340: East West German National Cinema: Advanced Conversation At Stanford University: GERLIT 239: Zwischen Gestern und Morgen: Film als Kultur der Niederlage GERLIT 139/339: Marriage, Love & Passion in 19 th & 20 th c. German Literature GERLIT 146: German Colonialism & Orientalism in Film and Literature GERLIT 238: Femmes fatales & Masochism in German Literature and Cinema At UCLA: GE CLUSTER: Utopias & Modernism 2

3 III. SCHOLARLY/CREATIVE A. WORKS IN PRINT (INCLUDING WORKS ACCEPTED, FORTHCOMING, IN PRESS) 1. Books d. Chapters in Books: Nachwort, Lazar von Hellenbach, Insel Mellonta. Lüneburg: Dieter Reeken, Non refereed. It would be delicious, to write books for a new society, but not for the newly rich : Eduard Fuchs between Elite and Mass Culture. Lynne Tatlock (ed.), Publishing Culture and the Reading Nation German Book History in the Long Nineteenth Century. Rochester: Camden House, The Woman Between: Hildegard Knef s Movies in Cold War Berlin. Philip Broadbent and Sabine Hake (eds.) Berlin: Divided City New York: Berghahn Books, Das ist doch eine glatte Quittung über die völlige Irrelevanz dieses meines Lebens und Tuns: Franz Bleis einsames Exil. Ed. John Spalek Konrad Feilchenfeldt, and Sandra H. Hawrylchak, Deutschsprachige Exilliteratur, Berlin: DeGruyter, Dagobert D. Runes: Ein streitbarer Verleger in New York. Ed. John Spalek, Konrad Feilchenfeldt and Sandra Hawrylchak Deutschsprachige Exilliteratur, Berlin: DeGruyter, Articles: a. Refereed Journal Articles: Seeking Emptiness: Theodor Hertzka s Colonial Utopia Freiland (1890) Utopian Studies 22.1 (2011): Sacher-Masoch s Utopian Peripheries. German Quarterly 80.2 (2007): b. Non-refereed Articles: Sittengeschichten der Weimarer Republik als kulturgeschichtliche Sammlung. Eduard Fuchs, Leo Schidrowitz und Magnus Hirschfeld. In Aus dem Antiquariat N.F (2014): Lang ist der Weg directed by Herbert B. Fredersdorf and Marek Goldstein, and: Morituri directed by Eugen York Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television Studies 44.1 (2014):

4 "A Foreign Affair directed by Billy Wilder, Hallo Fräulein! directed by Rudolf Jugert, The Big Lift directed by George Seaton." Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television Studies 43.1 (2013): Florian Cossen s The day I was not born (2010) Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television Studies 42.2 Fall (2012): María la desaparecida: Atisbos de una utopía El día que no nací (2010) de Florian Cossen 18th April (translated by Enrique Gonzales-Conty) Francois Truffaut s The Last Metro (1980) Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television Studies 41.1 Spring (2011): Auf den Spuren des»great acquisitor«: Das Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center in Texas. Aus dem Antiquariat NF 7.2 (2009): In collaboration with Ernst Fischer. Deutsche und österreichische Antiquare in der amerikanischen Emigration. Aus dem Antiquariat NF 6.1 (2008): 3-20 Die Rare Book School in Virginia: Weiterbildung auf hohem Niveau Aus dem Antiquariat NF 5.4 (2007): Gerhard Richter s Redemption of Terrorism as Dialectic of Ideology. New German Review 18 (2002-3): In collaboration with Björn Biester, Exil in London: Zur Emigration deutscher und österreichischer Antiquare nach Grossbritannien. Aus dem Antiquariat 5 (2002): Book Reviews: Soncino-Gesellschaft der Freunde des jüdischen Buches. Ein Beitrag zur Kulturgeschichte, eds. by Karin Bürger, Ines Sonder und Ursula Wallmeier. Aus dem Antiquariat 5 (2014): Lustvolles Verschweigen uns Enthüllen, Eine Poetik der Darstellung sexuellen Handels in der Literatur der Wiener Moderne, by André Schwarz. Journal of Austrian Studies 46.3 (Fall 2013): Dismantling the Dream Factory: Gender, German Cinema, and the Postwar Quest for a New Film Language, by Hester Baer. German Studies Review 35.1 (2012): Publishing Culture and Reading the Nation. German book history in the long 19 th century, ed. Lynne Tatlock. Aus dem Antiquariat NF 9.2 (2011):

5 Poesie des Begehrens, Textkörper und Körpertexte bei Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, by Christoph Dolgan. German Studies Review 33.2 (2010): Processes of Transposition German Literature and Film, eds. Christiane Schönfeld and Hermann Rasche. Modern Austrian Literature 43.3 (2010): Theodor Herzl: From Europe to Zion, eds. Mark H. Gelber and Vivian Liska. Modern Austrian Literature 42.2 (2009): Dietrich Icon, eds. Gerd Gmünden und Mary R. Desjardins. German Studies Review 31.3 (2008): Die verschlagene Lust. Zur ästhetischen Subversion im Masochismus, by Toben Lohmüller. Modern Austrian Literature 40.2 (2007): Book Talk: Essays on Books, Booksellers, Collecting, and Special Collections, ed. Robert H. Jackson and Carol Rothkopf. Aus dem Antiquariat NF 5.5 (2007): Ungleichzeitige/verspätete Moderne. Prosaformen in der österreichischen Literatur , by Primus-Heinz Kucher, Arbitrium: Zeitschrift für Rezensionen zur Germanistischen Literaturwissenschaft 1 (2005): Utopia: The Search for the Ideal Society in the Western World, by Roland Schaer, Gregory Claeys, and Lyman Tower Sargent. Aus dem Antiquariat 12 (2002): B. WORKS NOT IN PRINT 1. Papers Presented at professional meetings Memories of Lost Possibilities: Christoph Ransmayr s and Thomas von Steinaecker s Postmodern Colonialism Critical Time Symposium University of Nottingham/UK 2014 Nonviolence as Aporia of Utopia: Theodor Hertzka s Freiland (1890) Utopian Studies Conference Prague/Czech Republic 2014 Vienna: From an Imperial Capital to a Metropolitan Lynch Pin between East and West ACLA conference in New York, NY 2014 The Curious Alchemy of Art : On William Boyd s Vienna Austrian Studies conference in Austin, TX 2014 The Commodification of Space: Christian Petzold s Neo-Noir Jerichow (2008) Pacific MLA conference, San Diego, CA

6 William Boyd s Waiting for Sunrise & Istvan Szabo s Colonel Redl: The impact of the presence in historical fiction ACLA conference, Toronto Canada 2013 Sittengeschichte als Bildungsgeschichte: A history of morals and its limits MLA conference, Boston, MA 2013 The Bilder-Lexikon der Erotik ( ): An illustrated history of manners German Studies Conference, Milwaukee, WI Joseph Roth s higher form of truth Utopian Studies Conference Tarragona Spain 2012 Franz Blei s Erzählung eines Lebens (1930) ACLA Conference Providence, RI 2012 Never Return: The Arctic Archives of the Payer Weyprecht Expedition University Park, PA Society for Utopian Studies Die Publikationsgeschichte von Franz Bleis Lustwäldchen: Galante Gedichte aus der deutschen Barockzeit Wissenschaftliches Arbeitsgespräch an der Ludwig-Maximillians Universität Munich Joseph Roth s Lurking Leviathan ACLA Conference Vancouver, CA Der Amethyst (1906): Franz Blei s Blätter fuer seltsame Kunst und Literatur PopSex Conference, Calgary, CA The sweetness of life in an occupied country : Films representing France under the German Occupation." German Studies Conference, Oakland, CA Fraternizing Fräuleins Films." Film & History Conference, Milwaukee, WI Arctic Self-Assertions in Austrian Novels of the 1970/80s. Modern Austrian Literature Conference, Vienna, Austria Seeking Emptiness: Förster s & Hertzka Colonial Travelogues Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, KY Austrian Aesthetic Masochism: From Sacher-Masoch to Jelinek. Pacific Ancient & Modern Language Association Conference. San Francisco, CA Carol Reed s The Man Between (1953): Cinematic Loss of Cold War Berlin. German Studies Association Conference. Washington, DC, Dialectical Aesthetics in Gerhard Richter s October 18 th Pacific Ancient & Modern Language Association Conference. Claremont, CA

7 Thinking a Nation beyond Germany: Förster-Nietzsche s Nueva Germania and Theodor Hertzka s Freiland. German Studies Association Conference. St. Paul, MN Transnational Career of Hildegard Knef European Cinema & Cross Atlantic Currents. Symposium at Texas State University Eduard Fuchs: Book Collector and Social Innovator. Modern Language Association Conference. Chicago Morituri and Lang ist der Weg: Two German Rubble movies. German Studies Association Meeting. San Diego Imaginary Colonialism: Theodor Herzl s Altneuland (1902). German Colonialism Conference. San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA Levianthan s Odyssey: Joseph Roth s Utopian Heimat. German Studies Association Meeting. Pittsburgh, PA Transcending Central Europe: Robert Müller, the Poet of Transgression. Modern Austrian Literature and Culture Association Meeting. Missoula, MO The Intimate Uncanniness of Theodor Herzl s Vienna. German Studies Association Meeting. Washington, DC Stranger in his Own Land: Utopias in Sacher-Masoch s Capitulant. University of Minnesota, Department of German, Scandinavian and Dutch. Minneapolis, MN Memory at the End of Time: Dialectics of Utopia. International Society for Political Psychology. Cuvernavaca, MX Peter Weiss Hölderlin: Healing a Fractured Identity. Duke University Peter Weiss Conference. Durham, NC Invited Talks, Lectures, Presentations: Memories of Lost Possibilities: Christoph Ransmayr s and Thomas von Steinaecker s Postmodern Colonialism Invited by Prof. Dierk Goettsche for Critical Time Symposium University of Nottingham/UK Es war, als hätte jemand eine Tür geöffnet : On Sexual Politics in Joseph Roth s Prose. Stanford University. German Studies Colloquium Also presented at Modern Austrian Literature and Culture Association Conference. Calgary, Canada Workshops: 7

8 Luncheon to discuss challenges to teach texts or films in translation, Humanities Faculty Workshop taught with Mariatte Denman, Associate Director, Humanities Center for Teaching and Learning, Stanford University, Other works Not in Print: a. Works submitted or under review Ulrich Bach. Eroticism Before the Law: On Franz Blei s Journal Der Amethyst (1906) "Not Straight from Germany: Magnus Hirschfeld's Institute for Sexual Science and Modern Publics." eds. Rainer Herr, Michael Taylor and Annette Timm. Ann Arbor: Michigan University Press (under review). b. Works in progress Monograph: Tropics of Vienna: Utopias of the Habsburg Empire. (under revision by Berghahn Books, New York City). C. GRANTS AND CONTRACTS 4. Submitted, but not Funded, Internal Grants and Contracts: Research Enhancement Program (REP) 2007, 2009, 2010, 2013 D. FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, HONORS Post-doctoral Mellon Fellowship at Stanford University ( ) Dissertation Fellowship, UCLA German Department ( ) Travel Fellowships, UCLA German Department (Summer 2002) Hayman Dissertation Fellowship, UCLA Dept. of Psychiatry (2002) Research Stipend, Bibliographical Society London (1996) Research Stipend, Horst Kliemann Stiftung Frankfurt (1995) Erasmus Exchange Program, Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona/Spain (Spring 1993) IV. SERVICE A. INSTITUTIONAL 1. University: Faculty Liaison for Department of Modern Languages to Faculty Senate ( ) 8

9 Director of the Texas State University s Study Abroad Program in Vienna (July 2013) Faculty Liaison for Department of Modern Languages to Faculty Senate ( ) Director of the Texas State University s Study Abroad Program in Vienna (July 2011) 2. Department: Observation of lecturer in the German section (Ewa Siwak-Fall 2013) Organizer of Fall 2013 German Film Series Organizer of Spring 2013 German Film Series Organizer of Fall 2012 German Film Series Director of Summer Language Program to Vienna (July 2013) Director of Summer Language Program to Vienna (June 2011) Established a Summer Study Abroad Program in conjunction with Study Abroad Office, Modern Languages Department, and International Kultur Institut (IKI) in Vienna (2010) Co-organized Texas State University Tournee French Film Festival & Symposium (2009) Curriculum Development for the German Section of the Modern Languages Department (2008) Graduate Student Representative in UCLA s German Department ( ) B. PROFESSIONAL Peer reviewer for Journal of Austrian Studies. Review of an article on Sacher-Masoch and the Jewish Bildungsroman. (Spring 2014) Outside reviewer of research materials for Dr. Christine Rinne s tenure procedure at University of South Alabama (Fall 2013) Peer reviewer for CLIO. A journal of literature, history, and the philosophy of history. Review an article on Leopold von Sacher-Masoch and Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, and the Galician uprising. (Fall 2012) Co-organized with Wilfried Wilms session on Hot Affects and Cold Conduct: War and Cold War Germany in 1950s Movies at German Studies Association Conference, Washington, DC (2009) 9

10 Presided and organized panel on Solitude and the Modern Metropolis at Pacific Ancient & Modern Language Association Conference, San Francisco, CA (2009) Outside Reviewer of post-doctoral Fellowship applications for the Irish Research Council for Humanities and Social Sciences, Steering Committee Member for the planning of Humanities Center s Conference Ethnicity in the New Europe, Stanford University (2006) C. Community Visit of Tammy Linn, DMA violin school in Austin, TX. Talked with her students about the historical context of Johann Sebastian Bach s tenure in Leipzig, Fall E. SERVICE GRANTS AND CONTRACTS: 3. Funded Internal Service Grants and Contracts: Alkek Library Grant "German contemporary film books" ( ) Alkek Library Grant Films & Books of the German cinema in the 1960s ( ) Alkek Library Grant German Post-war Cinema as Culture of Defeat ( ) 10