121 Jastak-Burgess Hall
University of Delaware
and
Women’s Studies
34 West Delaware Ave
Newark, DE 19716
E-mail: mshafi@udel.edu

Current semester schedule
 

• Twentieth Century German Literature
• Contemporary German Literature
• Women's Literature
• German-Jewish Literature (Gertrud Kolmar)
• Travel Literature
• Postcolonialism

Publications:             

Books:

·         Balancing Acts: Intercultural Encounters in Contemporary German and Austrian Literature. Tübingen: Stauffenburg, 2001.

·         Gertrud Kolmar: Eine Einführung in das Werk. München: iudicium, 1995.

·         Utopische Entwürfe in der Literatur von Frauen. Bern: Peter Lang, 1989.  

·        Approaches to Teaching Grass’s The Tin Drum. Edition for the series "Approaches to Teaching World Literature." Series Editor Joseph Gibaldi. The Modern Language Association of America. New York: Modern Language Association, 2008.

Select Journal Articles and Book Chapters

·         "The Lure of the Loser: Hans Magnus Enzensberger's Schreckens Männer and Ian Buruma's Murder in Amserdam, Islam in Germany." Eds. Jeff Morrison and James Hodkinson. Rochester: Camden House, To appear.

·         "Günter Grass's apocalyptic visions." The Cambridge Companion to Günter Grass, ed. Stuart Taberner. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2009. 111-124.

·         "Urban Experience and Identity in Gertrud Kolmar's Die jüdische Mutter," Not an Essence but a Positioning: German-Jewish Women Writers (1900-1938), eds. Andrea Hammel and Godela Weiss-Sussex and Andrea Hammel. Munich: Martin Meidenbauer, 2009. 113-128.

·         "German and American Dream Houses: Buildings and Biographies in Gregor Hens's Himmelsturz and Monika Maron's Endmoränen." The German Quaterly. 79.4 (Fall 2006): 506-25.

·    "Rousseau in Berlin: Kindheit und Geschlecht in Gerlind Reinshagens Am Groβen Stern." Eine Welt aus Sprache – Zum Werk von Gerlind Reinshagen. Eine kritische Anthologie. Eds. Helga Kraft and Therese Hoernigk. Theater der Zeit, 2007, 176-185.

·     "Farbe bekennen: Zur Bedeutung von Farben in Uwe Timms Roman Rot."  "(Un-)Erfüllte Wirklichkeit": Studien zu Uwe Timms Werk. Eds. Frank Finlay und Ingo Cornils. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2006. 45-54.

·         "Talkin' 'bout my Generation: Memories of 1968 in Recent German Novels." German Life and Letters. LIX2 (2006): 201-216.

·         "'Montagdienstagmittwochdonnerstagfreitag... ': Alltag und Geschichte in Ingeborg Drewitz’ Romanprosa." "'Von der Unzerstörbarkeit des Menschen.' Ingeborg Drewitz im literarischen und politischen Feld der 50er bis 80er Jahre." Zeitschrift für Germanistik 6.  Eds. Inge Stephan and Barbara Becker-Cantarino. Bern: Lang, 2005. 297-314.

·         "Spaces of Violence: On the role of home, nature and gender in narratives by Karen Duve and Felicitas Hoppe." Violence, Culture and Identity: Essays on German and Austrian Literature. Ed. Helen Chambers. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2005. 378-88.

·         "'Enteignung' und 'Behausung': Zu Anna Mitgutschs Roman Haus der Kindheit."  Modern Austrian Literature 36.1/2 (2003): 33-51.

·         "'Unsere Heimat ist die Welt.' Heimat und Fremde im Werk Arnold Stadlers." Der 'gesamtdeutsche' Roman seit der Wiedervereinigung. Eds. Hans Jörg Knobloch and Helmut Koopmann. Tübingen: Stauffenburg, 2003. 131-143.

·         "Joint Ventures: Identity Politics and Travel in Novels by Emine Sevgi Özdamar and Zafer Şenocak.” Comparative Literature Studies 40.2 (2003): 193-214.

·         "Gertrud Kolmar." Holocaust Literature: An Encyclopedia of Writers and Their Work. Ed. Lillian Kremer. Vol. 1. New York: Routledge, 2003. 688-692.

·         "'Gezz will ich ma erzähln': Narrative and History in Günter Grass's Mein Jahrhundert." Gegenwartsliteratur: Ein germanistisches Jahrbuch. Ed. Paul Michael Lützeler. Tübingen: Stauffenburg, 2002. 39-62.

Teaching:

Topics of Graduate Courses created and/or taught

·         Criminal Pursuits: German Detective Narratives

·         Family Ties: Family, Gender and Nation 1850-1920      

·         Narratives of the Nation: 1989 to the Present

·         German-Jewish Writers

·         Bertolt Brecht

·         Annette von Droste-Hülshoff and Heinrich Heine

·         Tales of Love and Marriage: 19th Century German Literature

·         Literature and Society: The Weimar Period

·         German Women Writers

·         German Short Stories

·         Contemporary German Literature

·         From Naturalism to Expressionism

·        19th Century German Literature

·         The Age of Goethe

Topics of Undergraduate Courses created and/or taught

·         The German Fairytale

·         Modern German Drama

·         German Short Fiction

·         The German Novella

·         Civilization and Culture

·         Introduction to German Literature II 

·         Introduction to German Literature I

·         German Conversation and Composition

·         Introduction to German Drama

·         Introduction to German Short Fiction

·         German Conversation: Situations and Issues

·         German Readings and Compositions

·         Intermediate German II

·         German Women Writers (cross-listed with Women's Studies)

Topics of Freshman Honors Colloquia created and taught

·        On the Move: Travelers and Migrants in Contemporary Travel Literature

·        Encounters in Europe: Contemporary European Travel Writing