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CURRICULUM VITAE

for

JUTTA ITTNER

January 2014

PRESENT POSITION

• Associate Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Case Western Reserve University.

EDUCATION

• Dr. Phil. in Germanics, Universität Hamburg, 1994. Dissertation: “Augenzeuge im Dienst der Wahrheit: Leben und literarisches Werk Martin Gumperts” (“Eyewitness in the Name of Truth: The Life and Writing of Martin Gumpert, 1897-1955”). Prof. Dr. Jörg Schönert and Prof. Dr. Hans-Harald Müller.

• Staatsexamen II (State Teachers' Examination), Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Unterricht und Kultus, Munich, 1971.

• Staatsexamen I (State Examination in Classical German Literature, Modern German Literature, and English Literature), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, 1969.

• MA in Classical German Literature, Modern German Literature, and English Literature, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, 1969.

• Philosophicum (BA Equivalent), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, 1967.

• Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English, Munich, 1964.

• Abitur (AA Equivalent), Sophie-Scholl-Gymnasium, Munich, 1963.

PUBLICATIONS

Books:

• Brigitte Kronauer. Women And Clothes. Stories (2008), 180 pp. Trans. and ed. by Jutta Ittner. Host Publications, 2011.

• Constructs of Desire: Selections From Brigitte Kronauer. Edited and Translated by Jutta Ittner. Critical essays, translations, and an interview with the author. (370 pp.) Bucknell UP, 2009.

• Augenzeuge im Dienst der Wahrheit: Leben und literarisches Werk Martin Gumperts. Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 1998.

Reviews:

Helmut Pfanner (Vanderbilt University). German Quarterly 72.4 (1999): 399-401.

Irmela von der Lühe (Universität Göttingen). Germanistik 39/2 (1998): 528.

Anne Kuhlmann. Zeitschrift für Germanistik Neue Folge 2 (1999): 456-7.

Peter K. Tyson. Germanic Notes and Reviews 33/1 (Spring 2002): 67-8.

Articles:

• “Part Spaniel, Part Canine Puzzle: Anthropomorphism in Woolf’s Flush and Auster’s Timbuktu.” Mosaic. A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature. Special Issue, The Animal. 39:4 (2006): 181-96.

• “Particularly Cats: Feline Encounters in Brigitte Kronauer's Narratives.” Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies 42:1 (2006): 58-77.

• “Epiphanies at the Supermarket: An Interview with Brigitte Kronauer by Jutta Ittner”. STLC (Studies in Twentieth Century Literature). 27/1 (2003): 103-21.

• “Becoming Animal? Zoo Encounters in Rilke, Kronauer, and Lispector.” KulturPoetik. 3/1 (2003): 24-41.

• “Der nachdrückliche Blick. Jutta Ittner im Gespräch mit der Autorin.” ndl [neue deutsche literatur]. 1/01 (2001): 44-57.

Interview reviewed in: Wirtz, Thomas. Die Beweglichkeit des Pfannkuchens. Schriftsteller im Selbstgespräch. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. 45 (02/22, 2001): 58.

Joachim Kaiser. Zeitschriftenschau. ARD/BR (03/27, 2001)

• “'Merkwürdig unjüdisch?' Identität und Antisemitismus in Martin Gumperts Autobiographien.” Exil: Forschung, Erkenntnisse, Ergebnisse. XIX.1 (1999):

5-22.

• “Jigsaw Puzzles: Female Perception in Brigitte Kronauer's Die gemusterte Nacht.” Women in German Yearbook 13 (1998): 171-87.

• “Leben in der Übersetzung. Die soziolinguistische Dimension des amerikanischen Exils 1933-50.” Exil: Forschung, Erkenntnisse, Ergebnisse. XVI.1 (1996): 5-20.

Chapters in Books:

• “Seeing Through the Mirror: Constructions of the Animal Other in the Fiction of Clarice Lispector and Brigitte Kronauer.” Figuring Animals: Essays on Animals in Art, Literature, Philosophy, and Popular Culture, ed. Catherine Rainwater, Mary Pollock, New York: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2005: 99-118.

• “Diagnose: Kulturschock? Die Erfahrung des amerikanischen Exils im Spiegel des Kulturschock-Konzepts.” Akten des X. Internationalen Germanistenkongresses Wien 2000 “Zeitenwende – Die Germanistik auf dem Weg vom 20. ins 21. Jahrhundert.” Vol. 7/Jahrbuch für internationale Germanistik ed. Peter Wiesinger. Series A, vol. 59. Bern, 2002: 343-349.

• “Martin Gumpert (1897-1955): Einzelporträt.” Deutschsprachige Exilliteratur seit 1933. Band 3 USA, Teil 1: New York A-G. Ed. John M. Spalek, Joseph Strelka, & Sandra Hawrylchak. Bern, Munich: Saur, 2000: 163-89.

• “Brigitte Kronauer.” Encyclopedia of Contemporary German Culture. Ed. John Sandford. London, New York: Routledge, 1999: 338.

• “My Self, My Body, My World: Home-Making in the Fiction of Brigitte Kronauer”. Home-Making: Women Writers and the Politics and Poetics of Home. Ed. Catherine Wiley & Fiona Barnes. New York: Garland, 1996: 53-69.

• “Martin Gumpert (1897-1955). Zusammengestellt von Jutta Ittner.” Deutschsprachige Exilliteratur seit 1933. Band 4: Bibliographien. Schriftsteller, Publizisten und Literaturwissenschaftler in den USA. Ed. John M. Spalek, Konrad Feilchenfeldt & Sandra Hawrylchak. Bern, Munich: Saur, 1994: I, 640-44.

Solicited Book Reviews:

• Eidukeviciene, Ruta. Jenseits des Geschlechterkampfs. Traditionelle Aspekte

des Frauenbildes in der Prosa von Marie Luise Kaschnitz, Gabriele Wohmann

und Brigitte Kronauer. St. Ingbert: Röhrig Universitätsverlag, 2003. For Gegenwartsliteratur, Michael Luetzeler and Stephan Schindler, ed. Forthcoming (2005).

• Geiger, Karin. Der diagnostische Blick - Martin Gumpert als Arzt, Medizinhistoriker und Ärztlicher Schriftsteller. Studien zur Geschichte der Medizingeschichte und Medizingeschichtsschreibung, Thomas Rütten, ed. Vol 2. Remscheid: gardez! Verlag, 2004. For sehepunkte: Rezensionsjournal für die Geschichtswissenschaften. 15 March, 2005. (ISSN 1618-6168; http://www.sehepunkte.historicum.net/2005/03/7054.html).

Solicited Article Evaluations:

• “Ungeliebte Gäste: Exilerfahrungen in den Werken von Erich Fried, Veza Canetti und Jakov Lind,” for Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies, April 2004.

• “‘Immortal Austria’: Eva Priester as a propagandist for Austria in British exile,” for Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies, November 2004.

TRANSLATIONS

Translations into English:

• Brigitte Kronauer, "The Polka-Dot Dress." Story. Trans. Jutta Ittner. DG [The Dirty Goat: Contemporary European Experience]. 23 (2010): 37-42.

• Brigitte Kronauer, “Destruction.” Trans. Jutta Ittner. Litrix.de (German Literature Online. Federal Cultural Foundation, Germany, in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut and the Frankfurt Book Fair). April 2010. 25 pp.

• Litrix Newsletter. "Two Black Hunters." Trans. Jutta Ittner. Litrix.de (German Literature Online. Federal Cultural Foundation, Germany, in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut and the Frankfurt Book Fair). 2 pp. March 2010.

• Kristine Maidt-Zinke, "Two Black Hunters." Trans. Jutta Ittner. Litrix.de (German Literature Online. Federal Cultural Foundation, Germany, in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut and the Frankfurt Book Fair). 5 pp. March 2010.

• Brigitte Kronauer, “Blushing Murderers.” Trans. Jutta Ittner. Litrix.de (German Literature Online. Federal Cultural Foundation, Germany, in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut and the Frankfurt Book Fair). 11 pp. March 2008.

• Brigitte Kronauer, "Two-Faced Poet" and "A Story?" Essays on Narrative and Narration. Trans. Jutta Ittner. DG [The Dirty Goat: Contemporary European Experience]. 16 (2006): 36-39.

• Neuwirth, Olga, Lost Highway. Opera Libretto and Stage Directions by Elfriede Jelinek and Olga Neuwirth. Solicited for U.S. premiere at Columbia University, New York, Feb. 2007. Trans. Jutta Ittner, August 2006 (31 pp.).

• Harald Friedl. Out of Time. Documentary Film. English Subtitles Jutta Ittner. Digi Beta, 80 min. Austria 2006.

• Christiane Zentgraf, “Diary of a Discourse.” Trans. Jutta Ittner. Quite Normal Luxury (MAK Applied Arts/Contemporary Art Vienna), ed. Peter Noever. Vienna: Schleebrügge, 2004. 42-53.

• Brigitte Kronauer, “Endings Odd and Even. Short Story.” Trans. Jutta Ittner. Dimension2. Vol. 5/ 3 (Sept. 1998): 366 -87. Came out in February 2002.

• Barbara Neuwirth, “Your True Companion´s Name. Short Story.” Trans. Jutta Ittner. Escaping Expectations: Stories by AustrianWomen Writers (Studies in Austrian Literature, Culture, and Thought. Translation Series). Riverside: Ariadne Press, 2001. 107–127.

• Ludwig Tieck, Die schöne Magellone. Trans. Jutta Ittner. Cleveland Institute of Music, 1997.

• Gabrielle Alioth, “The Women’s Ark.” Selections from the novels Die Arche der Frauen and Der Narr. Trans. Jutta Ittner. DMLL, CWRU [and 4 other institutions], October 1995.

• Barbara Neuwirth, “Nocturnal Gardens.” “Die weiße Katze,” short story, and selections from In den Gärten der Nacht and Die Schneekönigin. Trans. Jutta Ittner. DMLL, CWRU

[and 2 other institutions], April 1996.

Translations into German:

• Hunter Beaumont, “Identität, Kontakt und Middle-Mode.” Gestalttherapie 5.2 (1991): 16-27.

• Hunter Beaumont, “Ein Beitrag zur Gestalttherapie und zur Behandlung schizoider Prozesse.” Gestalttherapie 2.2 (1988): 16-26.

• Hunter Beaumont, “Neurose oder Charakterstörung: Fehldiagnosen in der Gestalttherapie.” Gestalttherapie und Gestaltpädagogik zwischen Anpassung und Auflehnung: Dokumentation der Münchner Gestalttage 1987. Ed. N. Latka, R. Merten & A. Trischkat. München: Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Humanisierung des Erziehungswesens, 1988.

• Hunter Beaumont, “Prozesse des Selbst in der Paartherapie. Betrachtungen zu einer Gestalttherapie für Paare mit fragilen Selbstprozessen.” Gestalttherapie 1.1 (1987): 38-51.

Book projects completed:

• Irina Liebmann. Berlin Apartments. Novel. Translated and Edited by Jutta Ittner. Manuscript completed. (200 pp.) Circulating.

RESEARCH IN PROGRESS

Book projects in progress:

• Brigitte Kronauer, new translation project from German into English, Zwei schwarze Jäger, 2010 (Two Black Hunters, novel).

• Facing the Unknowable: Visual Encounters with Animals. A Study of contemporary literary constructs of the animal gaze. Ongoing research and draft.

Essay projects:

• Representing Animals? An Analysis of Human-Animal Relationships in the documentary films Grizzly Man and The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill.

• Becoming Animal--The Making of the Documentary Films March of the Penguins and Winged Migration.

• “Taming Tigers: Animal/Human Relationships in Yann Martel’s The Life of Pi, R. K. Narayan’s A Tiger for Malgudi, and R. Kipling’s The Jungle Book.”

PRESENTATIONS

• Seminar "The Politics of Religion in Renaissance and Baroque Germany." Four sessions. Invited by Dept. of Historical Performance, Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Oberlin.

• “The Mind behind the Panther’s Gaze: Constructs of Animal Consciousness in R.M. Rilke, Clarice Lispector, and Brigitte Kronauer.” Ne/MLA, Boston, Feb/March 2009.

• “The Zebu And The Big, Bad Wolf: An Exploration of Brigitte Kronauer’s Literary Anthropomorphism in Teufelsbrück and Die Frau in den Kissen.” M/MLA Annual Convention, Cleveland, November 2007. Invited.

• Thinking Animals: Animal Cognition and Consciousness. Colloquium and discussion. Dept. of Cognitive Science. March 2007.

• " Particularly Cats: Feline Encounters in Brigitte Kronauer’s Narratives." German Studies Conference 2006, Pittsburgh, Oct. 2006. Invited.

• Participation. German Studies Conference 2005, Milwaukee, Oct. 2005.

• “Paper Tigers? Constructs of the Animal Other in Yann Martel’s Life of Pi, R.K.Narayan‘s A Tiger for Malgudi, and R. Kipling’s The Jungle Book. Representations of Animals. Brock University, St. Catherine’s, Canada. Nov. 03.

• “In Love With the Animal Other: Human-Animal Relationships in Three Recent Novels by Anne Haverty, Peter Høeg, and Brigitte Kronauer.” The Emotions in Literature and Film. 26th Annual Conference on Literature and Film, Florida State University, Tallahassee. February 2001.

• “Who's Looking? Humans and the Animal Other in Twentieth Century Literature.” Work-in-Progress Colloquium Series, Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities, CWRU. Nov. 2000.

• “Seeing Eye To Eye: Women Encountering Animals in Twentieth Century Literature.” The Female Gaze in Literature and Film. Twenty-Fifth Colloquium on Literature and Film, West Virginia University. Oct. 2000.

• “Diagnose: Kulturschock? Die Erfahrung des amerikanischen Exils im Spiegel des Kulturschock-Konzepts.” 10. Internationaler Kongress der Germanisten [International Assoc. of Germanists, 10. World Congress]. Vienna, Sept. 2000.

• “Female Perception and Self in Brigitte Kronauer's Fiction.” Women Writing As Women. Women's Conference 2000, Kent/Salem, April 2000.

• Official Discussant, Panel “Modern Animals.” Moderator. The Representation of Animals at the End of the Century. Center for Twentieth Century Studies, U of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, April 2000.

• “Faraway, So Close: Women and Animals in Brigitte Kronauer's Woman In The Pillows.” Colloquium On Human-Animal Relationships. Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, UC Santa Barbara, March 2000.

• “The Peculiar Persistence of the 'Wall in the Head'“. Symposium “Germany Ten Years After the Wall.” Max Kade Center for German Studies at CWRU, Nov. 99.

• “German-Jewish Identity and the Perception of Anti-Semitism in Martin Gumpert's Autobiographies.” German Studies Association, 23rd Annual Conference, Atlanta, Oct. 99.

• “Family Ties: Homely, Unhomely, Uncanny.” (Contemporary

Austrian Literature.) German Studies Association, 23rd Annual Conference, Atlanta, Oct. 99. Moderator.

• “Strangers in Paradise? The Poetry of Alien Workers in Germany.” American Association of Teachers of German Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, November 1996.

• “Lessons in Seeing: Reader and Narrator in Brigitte Kronauer's Fiction.” German Studies Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, October 1996.

• “Exiled Voices: The Socio-Linguistic Experience of German Exile Writers in America, 1933-45.” German-American Studies Association Annual Meeting, University of Wisconsin, April 1996.

• “Our True Selves: Sexual Identity and Aging in the Fiction of Brigitte Kronauer.” Symposium on Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire, Kent State University, April 1996.

• “Translating the Self: Language and German Exile Writers in America, 1933-45.” Exile Symposium “Strangers in Paradise: Voices in Exile,” University of California, San Bernadino, March 1996.

• “My Self, My Body, My Home: Home-Making in the Fiction of Brigitte Kronauer.” Oberlin College, March 1995.

• “'Poet Unknown:' Heinrich Heine, a German Love-Hate Story.” Music Department, CWRU, February 1995.

• “Lost in Translation: German Exile Writers in New York, 1933-50.” American Association of Teachers of German Annual Meeting, Ohio Chapter, Columbus, November 1994.

• “Ambivalent Reality: The World of Brigitte Kronauer.” Ohio Foreign Language Association Annual Meeting, Dayton, OH, March 1994.

• “The Transition from Language to Literature in Intermediate German Courses.” Goethe Institute Teachers' Workshop, Baldwin Wallace College, Berea, OH, February 1994.

• “The Nightmare of the Stasi.” American Association of Teachers of German, Ohio Chapter, Columbus, November 1993.

HONORS AND GRANTS

• Nomination, Book of the Year. Brigitte Kronauer Women and Clothes.

Foreword.

• Recipient, support for The 2011 Munich Experience (16,000).

• Recipient, support for The 2011 Munich Experience ($8000). Travel Funds (Ilse Jahn Bolster).

• Recipient, funding for The 2009 Max Kade Workshop at CWRU (Roland Posner)

The Max Kade Foundation, $ 7,000.

• Recipient, funding for the 2009 Munich Experience (16,000).

• Recipient, annual gift to Max Kade Center, $6000 (The Max Kade Foundation). Ongoing.

• Recipient, annual gift to German Studies, $5000 for Ilse Jahn Bolster Student

Travel Funds (Ilse Jahn Bolster). Ongoing.

• Recipient, funding for the 2007 Munich Experience. $1000 travel support for each student (up to 15,000).

• Recipient, funding for the Renovation and Restructuring of the Max Kade Center (Clark 112-113) The Max Kade Foundation, $ 100,000. 2008.

• Recipient, funding for The 2007 Max Kade Workshop at CWRU (Gila Lustiger).

The Max Kade Foundation, $ 6,000.

• Recipient, funding for The 2005/06 Max Kade Workshop at CWRU (Ellen Best). The Max Kade Foundation, $ 6,000.

• Recipient, funding for The 2004 Max Kade Workshop at CWRU (Andrea Esser). The Max Kade Foundation, $ 6,000.

• Recipient, support for The 2003 Max Kade Workshop at CWRU (Harald Friedl). The Max Kade Foundation, $ 5,000.

• Recipient, 2003 Baker Nord Instructional Enhancement Grant, for The 2003 Max Kade Workshop. CWRU, $ 1,000.

• Recipient, support for The 2002 Max Kade Workshop at CWRU (Gabrielle Alioth). The Max Kade Foundation, $ 5,000.