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Department Affiliations
Specialties
- Brecht
- feminism
- film and cultural history
- film studies
- German film history
- German studies
- Nazi cinema
- post-WWII German cinema: New German Cinema, GDR cinema, feminist cinema
- post-WWII West German literature and culture
- Weimar film and culture
Publications
- The Carnival of Humiliation: Sex, Spectacle, and Self-Reflexivity in EA Dupont's Variety (1925). Mc Cormick, Rick, Light Motives: German Popular Film in Perspective, 2003.
- Gender and Sexuality in Weimar Modernity: Film, Literature, and New Objectivity. Mc Cormick, Rick, New York: Palgrave, 2001.
- Rape and War, Gender and Nation, Victims and Victimizers: Helke Sander's Film BeFreir und Befreite (1992): Mc Cormick, Rick, Camera Obscura, 46 , 2001.
- German Essays on Film--German Library Volume 81. Mc Cormick, Rick, Alison Guenther-Pal, Continuum, 2004.
Research Activities
- Transnational Modernism: German & Austrian Filmmakers Between Europe and Hollywood: researching continuities and discontinuities in the European and American films of emigre directors, 2002
- German Essays on the Cinema: Volume co-edited with Alison Guenther-Pal containing historically significant essays in German on the cinema, 1999
- Rethinking Modernism: Art and Politics in Northern Europe, 1890-1950: Volume co-edited with Patrizia McBride and Monika Zagar, 2002
Professional Activities
- Member: German Studies Association
- Member: Society for Cinema Studies
- Member: Minnesota Forum on German Culture , 1992 - 2002
- Member: Modern Language Association
- Member: American Association of the Teachers of German
- Member: Center for Advanced Feminist Studies , 1988
- Member: Film Studies Committee, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota , 1989 - 2000
- Lecture: "Modernism, Weimar Cinema, and Exile: Expressionism/New Objectivity/Noir?," Sixth Biennial Minnesota Forum, University of Minnesota , April 26, 2002
- Executive Committee: Department of German, Scandinavian and Dutch, University of Minnesota , 1992 - 2001
- Director of Undergraduate Studies: German and Scandinavian , 1999 - 2000
- Director of Undergraduate Studies: Department of German, Scandanavian and Dutch, University of Minnesota , 1992 - 1999
- Director of Honors Division: College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota , 2001
- Director of Graduate Studies: Germanic Studies, University of Minnesota , 2000 - 2001
- Co-organizer: Sixth Biennial Minnesota Forum: "Northern Light/Northern Darkness? Rethinking Modernism After the Demise of the 'Master Narrative': Art and Politics in Northern Europe, 1890-1950" , April 25, 2002 - April 27, 2002
- Chair: Council on Liberal Education, University of Minnesota , 2002
- Chair: Committee on Curriculum, Instruction, and Advising, CLA Assembly, University of Minnesota , 1997 - 2001
- Member: Center for Austrian Studies Advisory Committee, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota , 1995 - 1999
- Associate Editor: SIGNS: Journal of Women in Culture and Society , 1992 - 1994
- Member: Women in German
- Member: Center for German and European Studies Executive Committee , 1999
Outreach Activities
- Panelist: "Women in Opera," Minnesota Opera, 1993
- Commentator: Jewish Film Festival, Hopkins, MN, 2001
- Secured CLA Scholarly Events Fund grant for Twin Cities International Film Festival: 1996
- Co-organizer with Al Milgrom, U Film Society, and Angela Greiner, Goethe Institute, Chicago: film series on "Germany After the Wall", 1993
- Commentator: Jewish Film Festival, St. Louis Park, MN, March 2003
Awards
- Bush Program for Excellence in Teaching, 1991 - 1992
- McKnight Summer Fellowship, 1997
- DAAD study Visit Research Grant for Faculty, 1999
- Faculty Travel Grant, European Studies Consortium, Summer 2003
- American Council of Learned Societies Research Fellowship, 1994 - 1995
Courses Taught
- Ger 3604W - Introduction to German Cinema
- Ger 5630 - Topics in German Cinema: Weimar Cinema
- Ger 4622 - German Cinema Since 1945
- Ger 1601 - Fleeing Hitler: German and Austrian Filmmakers Between Europe and Hollywood
Alternative Output Formats