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Daniel Reynolds

Photographer: 
Jenny Anger
reynolds@grinnell.edu
Campus Phone: 
(641) 269-3097
Fax: 
(641) 269-4985
Associate Professor of German, Chair of German Department
On-Campus Address: 
ARH 231 B
Office Hours: 
Mondays and Tuesdays 9-11, and by appointment.
Department Chair?: 
Yes
Education / Degrees: 
Ph.D., Harvard University 1996
B.S., Georgetown University 1986
Eberhard-Karls Universität Tübingen, 1983-1985
Publications: 
TitleURLSynopsis
"Tourism, The Holocaust, and the Humanities."http://thehumanities.com/journal/International Journal of the Humanities 9.3 (2011) 157-165.
"The Documentary Critique in Recent German Postcolonial Literature."German Studies Review 31.2 (May 2008) 241-260.
“Blinded by the Enlightenment. Günter Grass in Calcutta.”German Life and Letters 56.3 (July 2003) 244-260.
“A Portrait of Misreading. Bernhard Schlink’s Der Vorleser.”Seminar 39.3 (September 2003) 238-257.
"Bernhard Blume."An entry prepared for the Internationales Germanistenlexikon published by the Deutsche Literaturarchive in Marbach, Germany. 2002.
"'Es handelt sich um Werdende.' The Fiction of the Artist in Rilke's Worpswede."Seminar 35:1 (1999): 55-68.
Getting over the WallEdited and with an introduction by William Donahue, Rachel Freudenburg, and Daniel Reynolds. Special issue of German Politics and Society 27 (Cambridge: Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, 1992), 156 pp.
Sorotchintzy FairNikolai Gogol. Adapted into German by Countess Sybil Schönfeldt. Trans. Daniel Reynolds (Boston: David R. Godine, 1991), 22 pp.
Primary Academic Interest: 
19th-Century, 20th-Century, and Contemporary Literature
Other Academic Interests: 
Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Intersections of History and Fiction
Modernist and Postmodernist Literature and Culture
German Colonialism
German Cinema

• BOOK PROJECT:

  • Holocaust Tourism. Moving Through Memory. 

  • SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:

  • "Holocaust Tourism in Berlin." Presented at the RMMLA in Scottsdale, October 6, 2011.
  • "Seeing Auschwitz: The Tourist as Witness." Presented at the 9th Annual Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, Granada, Spain, June 2011.
  • "Visualizing the Holocaust: Tourism to Auschwitz."Presented at the RMMLA in Reno, October 2008.
  • "Germany's Colonial Past in Recent Fiction." Presented at the RMMLA in Tucson, October 2006.
  • "The Author Strikes Back. Bodo Kirchhof's Schundroman and Martin Walser's Tod eines Kritikers." Presented at the RMMLA in Missoula, October 2003.
  • "Dislocated Text: Günter Grass's Encounter with German Literature in India." Presented at German Studies Association Convention in Washington, D.C., October 2001.
  • "Sleeping with the Enemy." Presented at the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Convention in Vancouver, October 2001.
  • "The Literary Wall." Presented at the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Convention in Boise, October 2000.
  • "Having it Both Ways? The Essay as Metafiction in Post-Reunification German." Presented at the International Association of Philosophy and Literature Convention in Stony Brook, May 2000.
  • "German Nationhood and the Literary Wall." Presented at the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Convention in Santa Fe, October 1999.

  • BOOK REVIEWS:

  • Albrecht, Terence. Rezeption und Zeitlichkeit des Werkes Christoph Heins. Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang, 2000. German Studies Review. May 2001.
  • Neaman, Elliot Y. A Dubious Past. Ernst Jnger and the Politics of Literature after Nazism. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. The Rocky Mountain Review. Spring 2001.
  • Neuhaus, Volker. Schreiben gegen die verstreichende Zeit. Zu Leben und Werk von Günter Grass. München: Deutsche Taschenbuch Verlag, 1997. German Studies Review 23:1 (2000) 198-199.