Love’s Surplus: Materiality and Kinship in G.E. Lessing’s ‘Nathan Der Weise’
April 9, 2013
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
“Love’s Surplus: Materiality and Kinship in G.E. Lessing’s Nathan Der Weise“
Heidi Schlipphacke
Associate Professor, Foreign Languages & Literatures
Old Dominion University
Heidi Schlipphacke is Associate Professor and Director of German at Old Dominion University, where she has been a faculty member since 2000. She is the author of Nostalgia After Nazism: History, Home and Affect in German and Austrian Literature and Film (2010) and has published numerous essays in leading national and international journals for German Studies, Literary Studies, Film Studies, and Critical Theory (Screen, Camera Obscura, The German Quarterly, The Germanic Review, The Lessing Yearbook, Orbis Litterarum, Journal for English and German Philology, among others). Her research focuses on issues of national identity, aesthetics, and constructions of family in the European Enlightenment and in post-war Germany and Austria. Much of her work is comparative, linking the spaces of Europe and the United States. She is the recipient of research grants from the Fulbright Foundation and the German American Exchange Service (DAAD). In addition to her appointment in German Studies, she serves as affiliated faculty at Old Dominion for the Graduate Program in International Studies, Film and Video Studies, Jewish Studies, and Women’s Studies; and she is the Director of the BA in International Studies.
This event is sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and The School of Literatures, Cultural Studies and Linguistics.
Date posted
Jun 5, 2020
Date updated
Jun 5, 2020