Nina Berman  Courses Spring 2008 Comparative Studies 373: Problems in Literary and Cultural Translation German 292: German Culture in A Global Context Curriculum vitae

Nina Berman, PhD (University of California at Berkeley, 1994). Associate Professor. Joint appointment in Department of Comparative Studies and Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures. Previous teaching appointment: University of Texas at Austin, 1994-2001.

Major Awards: Mershon Center, 2003 and 2004; President’s Associates Teaching Award, UT Austin, 1999; Dean’s Fellow, UT Austin, 1997: German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Summer Research Grant, 1996.

Specializations: Comparative Cultural Studies; Germany's relationship to the Middle East, Middle Ages to present; 19th and 20th century Germany and Africa; comparative literature (postcolonial novel); translation studies; travel in the Islamic world

Publications: Books: Impossible Missions? German Economic, Military, and Humanitarian Efforts in Africa ( Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2004);  Orientalismus, Kolonialismus und Moderne: Zum Bild des Orients in der deutschsprachigen Kultur um 1900 ( Stuttgart: Metzler, 1997). Articles on: orientalism; colonialism; minority literature; modernization; multiculturalism; tourism; Karl May; Hugo von Hofmannsthal; Ernst Udet; Albert Schweitzer; Bodo Kirchhoff; Salim Alafenisch.

Teaching: Comparative Cultural Studies; Cultural Studies Theory; Comparative Literature; Postcolonial Novel; Translations Studies; Arabic Travel Literature; Germany and the Middle East, Germany and Africa; Minority Literature

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