Doris Kirchner
(Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1989)

Doris Kirchner received her Ph.D. in German Literature in 1989 from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA and is currently an associate professor of German at the University of Rhode Island.  Before joining the German Program and the International Engineering Program (IEP) at the University of Rhode Island in 1993, she taught at Columbia University in New York City, the Joseph H. Lauder Institute for Management and International Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and at the Huazhong Institute for Science and Technology in Wuhan, People's Republic of China.

Dr. Kirchner teaches all levels of German language and has designed and taught many upper level German Studies courses. She is affiliated with URI's Women's Studies Program, as well as a Multicultural Fellow, and is Chair for the University of Rhode Island's Center for the Humanities. For the past five years she has also been Chair for the AATG Testing Committee in Rhode Island.

Doris Kirchner's research interests focus on the literature of "Inner Emigration, 1933-1945", Magic Realism / New Objectivity, Literary Regionalism, Women's Studies, Issues of Multiculturalism, Curricular Innovations, and Cross-cultural Studies. Her first book dealing with non-fascist literature during the Third Reich appeared in 1993. Dr. Kirchner has published articles in German Studies Review, Die Unterrichtspraxis / Teaching German, ADFL Bulletin, and Zeitschrift für sprachliche und interkulturelle Wirtschaftskommunikation.  She has also published numerous book reviews and has served as manuscript reader for Camden House and Houghton Mifflin. She is in the process of co-editing a book on Inner Emigration in German Literature.

Books

• Doppelbödige Wirklichkeit: Magischer Realismus und nicht-faschistische Literatur. Tübingen: Stauffenburg. 1993.  Reviewed in:  The German Quarterly  (Summer 1995): 348-349. The Germanic Review (1995): 134-135. Additional reviews appeared in Japan and Germany.

Journal Articles

• "German and Engineering - ein interdisziplinäres Programm an der University of Rhode Island." Wirtschaftsdeutsch International. Zeitschrift für sprachliche und interkulturelle Wirtschaftskommunikation. (with John Grandin) (January 1999):  109-119.

• "Morbid Symptoms: Reflections of Heimat in Maria Beig's Narratives." German Studies Review XXII/1 (February 1999):  87-97.

• "German Studies, Culture Studies and Institutional Structure: Possibilities and Limitations." ADFL Bulletin 30.3:  23-27.

• "A Woman in a Room Full of Monks: Women, German Studies and Engineering." Unterrichtspraxis (1998/2). 169-175.

• "Hermann Stehr." Lexikon der deutschsprachigen Literatur. Ed. Walther Killy. München: Bertelsmann. 1991. 150.

• "Uwe Timm." Lexikon der deutschsprachigen Literatur. Ed. Walther Killy. München: Bertelsmann. 1991. 374.

• "Business Language without Culture? The Solution of the Lauder Institute." Wirtschaftsdeutsch. Proceedings of the Conference of the American Association of University Supervisors and Coordinators of Foreign Language Programs. Ohio State University: Dept. of German. 1985. 56-59.

Forthcoming Books & Invited Articles

• Book: The Concept and Historical Contexts of Inner Emigration. Ed. Neil Donahue and Doris Kirchner. (in progress).

• "Disciplinary Fusions: The Linkage of Foreign Languages and Culture Studies with Engineering and Business." (Forthcoming in: Languages Across the Curriculum: Interdisciplinary Structures, Intersections of Knowledge, and Internationalized Education. Ed. Maria-Regina Kecht and Katharina von Hammerstein).

Book Reviews

• Reinhold Grimm and Jost Hermand, Ed. From the Greeks to the Greens. Images of the Simple Life. Madison: U of Wisconsin Press. 1989. In:  Germanic Review LXVII (Fall 1992): 185-187.

• Thomas Kniesche.  Die Genealogie der Post-Apokalypse. Günter Grass'  Die Rättin. Wien: Passagen Verlag. 1991. In: Germanic Review LXIX (Spring 1994): 94-95.

• Richard A. Firda. Peter Handke. New York: Twayne. 1993. In: German Studies Review XVIII,1 (February 1995): 191-192.

• Annedore Leber, ed. with Willy Brandt and Karl Dietrich Bracher. The Conscience in Revolt: Portraits of the German Resistance. Munich: Hase & Koehler, 1994. xiii + 458 pp (Re-ed. Karl Dietrich Bracher). In: The German Quarterly  69.1 (Winter 1996): 102-103.

• Günter Grass. Ästhetik des Engagements. Ed. Hans Adler and Jost Hermand.   New York: Peter Lang. 1996. 197 pp. In: The German Quarterly  70.2 (Spring 1998): 207-208.

• Peter Blickle. Maria Beig und die Kunst der scheinbaren Kunstlosigkeit.   Eggingen: Edition Isele. 1997. Forthcoming in German Studies Review.