CV: SUSAN COCALIS
INVITED LECTURES, CONFERENCE PAPERS, CONFERENCE PANELS
Conferences/ Invited Lectures/ Panel Discussions:
Papers Delivered:
“Does Liberal Rhetoric + Legal Reality = Kinder, Küche, Kirche? An Appraisal of the Ideological Function of Women in the Novels of the Late 18th Century,” AATG: Washington, DC 1975.
Hier oder nirgend ist Amerika! Utopian Literature and the Early German Bildungsroman,” MLA: San Francisco 1975.
“Prophete rechts, Prophete links, Ästhetik in der Mitte: Der Roman der deutschen Klassik und Romantik in seinem Verhältnis zur amerikanischen und zur französischen Revolution,” Amherst Colloquium 1976.
“Feminist Utopias in the 18th-Century Novel,” Mass. AATG: Boston, Oct. 1976.
“Fielding's 'Comic Epic in Prose' and its Tragic German Cousins,” NEMLA: Pittsburgh 1977.
“Weib ist Weib: mimetische Darstellung contra emanzipatorische Tendenz in den Dramen Marieluise Fleißers,” Amherst Colloquium 1977.
“Goethedämmerung: Wilhelm Meister zwischen Quietismus und Sozialismus,” MLA: Chicago 1977.
“Mitleid und Engagement: Zur Problematik des zeitgenössischen Volksstücks,” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference 1979.
“Ledig, verheiratet, verwitwet, geschieden: Ansätze zu alternativen Lebensmöglichkeiten im Frauenroman des 18. Jahrhunderts,” Frauen in der Literaturwissenschaft: Hamburg, FRG 1983. English version delivered on a lecture tour sponsored by the Fulbright Commission to the United Kingdom in May, 1983:
University of Lancaster
University of Southampton
Queen's University of Belfast
New University of Ulster (Coleraine)
“Translating Between the Lines: German Women Poets,” Translation Symposium: Williams College, Oct. 1987.
“Pina Bausch and Avantgarde Performance by Women,” SUNY-Binghamton, April 1990.
“Acts of Omission: German Women Dramatists and Classical Weimar,” The Other Side of Classicism: German Literature Outside the Weimar Circle: UCal-Davis, Oct. 1990.
“Until Death Do Us Part: Staging the Battle of the Sexes in Expressionist Vienna,” Taft Lecture: University of Cincinnati, Dept. of Germanic Languages, May 1992. (revised version): Feminist Theory and Music Conference, Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY, June 1993; Center for Literary and Cultural Studies, Harvard University, October 1994
“Breeches of Promise: Cross-dressing, the ‘High’ Nobility, and Mal(e)aise in the Fin-de-siècle Viennese Operetta,” Unnatural Acts: Theorizing the Performative , University of California, Riverside, Feb. 1993.
“Whose Threepenney Opera Is It, Anyway?” Goethe Institute Boston, June 1995.
“Social History of the Viennese Waltz,” Christopher Longest Lecture in the Humanities, University of Mississippi, Nov. 5, 1996.
“Spheres of Influence: Defining Women’s Right to Privacy in 18th-Century Germany,” GSA Conference, Chicago, 1996.
“Bringing the Profession into the 21st Century,” panel sponsored by the AATG at the annual MLA Conference, Chicago, 1996.
“‘3/4 Time Conquers the World!’ The Viennese Waltz and 19th-Century National Identity,” University of Cincinnati, November 1997.
“Modern Witches v. The Craft,” Pizza & Prof Night, March 5, 1998 (Honors Program)
“The Good—the Bat—and the Ugly: Designer Cabaret Fledermaus in Turn-of-the-century Vienna,” 20th Amherst Colloquium, AApril 23, 1999.
“Li(e)ves Interrupted? German Women Writers and the Limits of Biographical Interpretation,” plenary address for Biography: A Conference on Biographical Approaches to German Literature, Ohio State University (Feb. 24-26, 2000).
“A Social History of the Viennese Waltz,” Randolph Macon College (March 13, 2000).
“Chicago. Chicago. Breaking Wind. Mills. In the Second City,” keynote presentation/performance for conference: Streeruwitz does America (University of Illinois, Chicago/Newberry Library, Nov. 30, 2000.
“A History of the Women in German Cabaret,” Annual WIG Conference, Tempe Arizona, Oct. 2000).
(with Albey Reiner) “Promoting Civility in Large Classes: Responding to Troublesome Behaviors,” CFT (March, 2001).
(with Chyng Feng Sun) “Holding onto Innocent Pleasure: How College Students Resist Criticism of Disney,” conference sponsored by Department of Communications, UMass: Borderlands: Cultural Practice and Representation (March 30, 2001).
“Luise Amalie Walpurgis Magdelena Waldemine (gen. Waldi) Gump de la Riche von Tittenberg [pseudo: Pfannkuchen, Crepe, Kreopola]: Actress, Apprentice, Amazon, Author Extraordinaire.” Keynote lecture/performance for Women Who Dared: German Women Writers of the 18th & 19th Centuries. Mount Holyoke College (June 15, 2001).
Workshop: “Genres & Othering in the Name of Entertainment: DEFA Märchenfilme,” East German Film Institute, Smith College (June 2001).
“Barbie and the Fairy Tale Ending,” Pizza & Prof Night, March 23, 2004 (Commonwealth College)
“From the Grimms to Disney,” Lycoming Scholars Seminar, Lycoming College (January 18, 2005)
“Harry Potter & the Goblins of Ire: HP and the Christian Right,” Pizza & Prof Night, October 31, 2005 (Commonwealth College)
“That Spurious, Curious, Furious Transvestite: The Performance Art of Claude Import (1945-1995).” Conference sponsored by the Center for German & European Studies (Brandeis University): Better to Write of Laughter than of Tears: A Colloquium on German Humor (November 12, 2005).
Discussant:
“German and English Contributions to the Emancipation of Women: T.G. Hippel and Mary Wollstonecraft,” Women in German: Oxford, Ohio 1976.
“Madame de Staël's Counterparts: Literary Salons in Berlin around 1800,” Women in German: Oxford, Ohio 1977.
“The Image of Goethe in Our Time,” Division for 18th and Early 19th Century German Literature, MLA: New York 1981.
“Song of Absence in the Fall of the Ashen Reign,” Double Edge Theatre's (Alston) tour sponsored by the Massachusetts Foundation for Humanities and Public Policy: discussion leader after performances in Framingham State Prison for Women, Springfield halfway houses, Northampton People's Institute (Fall 1989).
“European Women Writers of the 18th Century – German Women Writers in the Age of Goethe,” Dartmouth, February 1987.
“Post-War German Women Poets,” Dartmouth Retreat, Oct. 1987.
“Feminist esthetics” and the work of Rosmarie Trockel, panel sponsored by Goethe-Institut Boston at Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston, April 1991.
(German) Women & Modern Dance, “Crossing Borders: Contemporary Women Artists in Germany,” Madison Workshop: U Wisconsin-Masdison, Oct. 1992.
“Race & Ethnicity in Contemporary German-Language Theater,” GSA (Atlanta, 1999). [discussant & moderator]
Keynote Address for Language Day, UMass (April 3, 2000).
Chair/ co-chair of Conference Panels:
“Brecht and Women,” co-chair, special session, MLA: New York 1976.
“Women and Literary Salons in the 19th Century,” co-chair, special session, MLA: Chicago 1977.
“Feminist Approaches to German Literature of the 19th Century,” Division for 19th and Early 20th Century German Literature, MLA: New York 1978.
“New Ways of Reading 18th-Century Literature,” Women in German: Racine, WI 1981.
“Sprache, Gefühl und Feminismus,” co-chair,Women in German: Racine, WI 1981.
“Female Utopias in the 18th Century,” ASECS: Williamsburg, VA 1986.
“Weiblichkeit und Avantgarde,” special session, MLA: San Francisco 1987.
“The Dark Side of the Enlightenment III,” Division for 18th and Early-19th Century German Literature, MLA: San Francisco 1991.
“Women Writers and German Drama: A Contradiction in Terms?” co-chair/respondent, special session, MLA: New York 1992.
“Problems of Literary Periodization and Canonization: 1770-1830,” Division for 18th and Early-19th Century German Literature, MLA: Toronto 1993.
“Body, Language, and Gender in German Dance Theater,” Women in German Session, MLA: Toronto 1993.
Videotaped/ Radio Interviews:
Building Community: Creating Campus Change, AIMS & CFT (March 23, 2000)
“Witches” for UMass Campus TV (Fall 1999)
“Witches” for UMass Staff Radio Programming (October 2003)
Videotaped teaching the German 363 Witches Class for CFT use in teaching large lectures
Interview and consultation on Mickey Mouse Monopoly, Chyng Feng Sun for The Media Foundation (2002)