Education
- BA, Arizona State University, 1980
- MA, Arizona State University, 1982
- MA, Princeton University, 1984
- PhD, Princeton University, 1987
- Baroque
- Goethezeit
- Romanticism
- The Interrelations of Music and Literature
- Heinrich von Kleist's Poetics of Passivity. Rochester: Camden House, 2009
- “Es ist seit Rahel uns erlaubt, Gedanken zu haben.” Essays in Honor of Heidi Thomann Tewarson. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2012
- Articles on:
- Kleist
- Goethe
- The German Opera Libretto
- Baroque Drama
- Czech Resistance Literature
- Introductory and Intermediate German
- Survey of German Literature from Enlightenment to Romanticism
- The German Opera Libretto -Goethe, Mozart and Weimar Court Theater
- Schubert Lieder (with David Breitman in the Conservatory)
- Kleist
- Aspects of Drama
- Contemporary German Poetry
- Romanticism
Notes
-
Steve Huff Publishes
February 10, 2017Professor of German Steve Huff published an article titled "A Collision of Values: Text, Music, and Nascent Enlightenment in J.C. Gottsched's and J.S. Bach's Trauerode" (Lessing Yearbook XLIII 2016, 9-33). Co-authored with Dan Zager, the former Oberlin College Director of the Music Library who is now with the Eastman School of Music, the paper treats aesthetic and ideological tensions inherent in the transitional period between Baroque and Enlightenment and demonstrates how these are reflected in the Trauerode.
News
Ilana Ascher Awarded Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship in Germany
July 15, 2020
While teaching abroad, the 2019 graduate hopes to become involved in community building and environmentalism.
A Conversation with Nora Gomringer, Max Kade Writer in Residence
November 18, 2019
Oberlin’s Department of German Language and Literatures celebrates the 50th year of the Max Kade Writer in Residence program, the first of its kind in the country.