Education
B.A. Grove City College, 1987
M.A. The University of Delaware, 1991
Ph.D. The Ohio State University, 1998
Areas of special interest
Twentieth-century West German literature and film, East German
cinema, Postwar narratives of “Vergangenheitsbewältigung,” Disability
Studies
Recent and forthcoming publications
Book in progress:
Disability’s Past: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg and the Deviant
Body in German Literature
Edited book:
Worlds Apart? Disability and Foreign Language Learning. Eds. Tammy Berberi,
Elizabeth Hamilton, and Ian Sutherland. New Haven: Yale UP, 2007.
Articles:
“
Teaching German to Students Who are Blind: A Personal Essay on the Process
of Inclusion.” To appear in Worlds Apart? Disability and Foreign
Language Learning. Eds. Tammy Berberi, Elizabeth Hamilton, and Ian Sutherland. New
Haven: Yale UP, 2007. (27 ms. pp.)
“
Unsereins muß auf die Bühne: The Tin Drum and the Stage.” To
appear in Grass’s The Tin Drum. Approaches to Teaching World Literature.
Ed. Monika Shafi. New York: MLA, 2006. (20 ms. pp.)
“
The State of the Community: Foreign Language Students with Disabilities
and Language Lab Technology.” 37.2 The IALLT Journal of Language
Learning Technologies. (Fall 2005): 17-33.
“
Of Miracles and Pedestals. Helen Keller Through German Eyes.” Disability
Studies Quarterly. 26.1 (Winter 2006). <www.dsq-sds.org>“Ulrich
Plenzdorf: After Oberlin.” Willkommen und Abschied. Thirty-Five
Years of German Writers-in-Residence at Oberlin College. Eds. Dorothea Kaufmann
and Heidi Thomann Tewarson. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2005. 62-66.
“
Language Barriers and Barriers to Language: Disability in the Foreign
Language Classroom” co-authored with Tammy E. Berberi. Building
Pedagogical Curb Cuts: Incorporating Disability in the University Classroom
and Curriculum. Eds. Liat Ben-Moshe, Rebecca C. Cory, Mia Feldbaum, and Ken Sagendorf. Syracuse:
Graduate School, Syracuse U, 2005. 11-19.
Review of The Normal One: Life With a Difficult or Damaged Sibling by
Jeanne Safer (New York: Free Press-Simon and Schuster, 2002). Disability
Studies Quarterly 25.2 (Spring 2005). <www.dsq-sds.org>
“
No Longer Unreasonable: Disability in German Cinema.” Disability
Studies Quarterly 24.3 (Summer 2004). <www.dsq-sds.org>
“
Deafening Sound and Troubling Silence in Volker Schlöndorff’s
Die Blechtrommel.” Sound Matters: Essays on the Acoustics of German
Culture. Eds. Lutz Koepnick and Nora Alter. New York: Berghahn, 2004. 130-142.
“
Imaginary Bridges: Politics and Film Art in Robert Musil’s Die
Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törleß and Volker Schlöndorff’s
Der junge Törleß.” Colloquia Germanica Volume 1 (Winter
2003): 69-85.
“
Read the Book or Watch the Movie? Der Richter und sein Henker at the
Intermediate Level.” Die Unterrichtspraxis 35.2 (2002): 141-148.
“
From Social Welfare to Civil Rights: The Representation of Disability
in Twentieth-Century German Literature.” The Body and Physical
Difference: Discourses of Disability. Ed. David Mitchell and Sharon Snyder. Ann Arbor:
U of Michigan P, 1997. 223-239.
Translation of “Embarking for New Shores” by Heinz-Uwe Haus.
Rocky Mountain Review 45 (1991): 237-246.
Recent courses taught:
-The Seventies, the Germanies, the Cinema
-East German Cinema
-New German Cinema
-History of German Cinema
-The Deviant Body in German Literature and Film
-Elementary and Intermediate German Language courses
-Member of Oberlin's Interdisciplinary
Cinema Studies Committee
Contact Information
elizabeth.hamilton@oberlin.edu
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