Williams CV

Associate Professor of German

Director, Language Media Center

Department of Modern Language Studies

Texas Christian University

Box 297210

Fort Worth, Texas 76129817 257-7163

Education

  • Ph.D., Program in Comparative Literature, University of Texas at Austin (German, English, Classics) (1999)
  • M.A., Universität Hamburg (Greek and Roman History/Archaeology; American Lit.) (1989)
  • B.A. Stephen F. Austin State University (History, Philosophy, Political Science) (1977)

certifications

  • Authorized Examiner (Goethe Institut) for Goethe Inst. Language Exams (since 2004)
  • Certification for levels A1, A2,B1, B2
  • I coordinate the North Texas Goethe Exams
  • Research Diver (Forschungstaucher) German Government Certification: (extensive training in Hamburg / Kiel and examination before governmental board) (1982)

Present Rank: Associate Professor of German

Year of Appointment: 2005 as Associate Professor of German

Previous teaching

Full time

  • Director of the Language Acquisition Center, Univ. of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas (1998- 2005)

Part time

  • Instructor, Dept. of Modern and Classical Languages, Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas (1997-98)
  • Instructor, English Dept., Austin Community College, Austin, Texas (1996-97)
  • Visiting Adjunct Prof., Dept. of English, Huston-Tillotson College, Austin, Texas (1996)
  • Instructor, Foreign Languages: German Division, Austin Community College, Austin, Texas (1995-97)
  • Tutor, Women's Athletics, Univ. of Texas at Austin (German, English, History, Classics) (1995-97)
  • Assistant Instructor, Dept. of Germanic Studies, University of Texas at Austin (1990-97)
  • Tutor, Ancient History and Classical Archaeology, Junior Year Abroad Programs (Hamburg), Smith College, Mt. Holyoke College, Cornell University and Indiana University (1985-86)
  • Teaching Assistant/Tutor, Seminar fürEnglischeSprache und Kultur, Univ. Hamburg (1981)
  • Instructor, English as a Foreign Language, Private Instruction and for The American- English Language School, Hamburg (1979-89)

courses

Department of Modern Language Studies, TCU:

  • Undergraduate: 2nd and 3rd semester German, Culture through Film, Germany and the Internet, German Geography, Culture, Language, Afterlife of the Classical Greek Tradition in Literature and Culture after 1945 (Honors), Afterlife of the Classical RomanTradition in Literature and Culture after 1945 (Honors), Directed Studies:Bertolt Brecht, Modern Staging of Classical GreekTheatre, Who owns Antiquity: Politics of Museums
  • Graduate: German for Reading Knowledge

Department of Modern Languages, University of Texas at Arlington

  • Graduate: Technology and Language Studies, Translation Theory, German Literature 1848 – present, Günter Grass: Writing a Nation, A Culture of Obedience?, Grammar and Stylistics, Romanticism, Translation: Practice and Theory, German for Reading Knowledge German for Reading Knowledge
  • Undergraduate: All lower level language courses, Whodunit? German Style (focus on the "Krimi"), Conversation, Advanced Grammar, Composition, Translation, Introduction to Literature and Culture Studies, German Tradition I (Middle Ages - Romanticism), German Tradition II (Romanticism - Present), Günter Grass, A Culture of Obedience?, The Classical Greek and Roman Tradition in Contemporary Literature (cross-listed with Classics, English, and German), Enlightenment and Romanticism, Hitler: History and Image (cross-listed with History and team taught with History professor), Contemporary Literature

Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas

  • Undergraduate: 2nd & 3rd semester, "Krimi", Conversation, Practical Phonetics, Authority and Discontent
  • Department of Germanic Studies, University of Texas at Austin
  • Undergraduate: All lower level language courses, Conversation and Composition.
  • Graduate: German for Graduate Students

Foreign Languages: German Division, Austin Community College

  • Undergraduate: 1st & 2nd semester German, Conversation

English Department, Austin Community College, Austin, Texas

  • Undergraduate: Rhetoric and Composition, American Literature I

Dept. of English, Huston-Tillotson College, Austin, Texas

  • Undergraduate: Survey of English Literature I

Private Instruction and for The American-English Language School (Hamburg, Germany)

  • English as a Foreign Language: intermediate and advanced levels

Seminar fürEnglischeSprache und Kultur, Universität Hamburg, Germany

  • Assisted in Introduction to Literary Methods, supervised three work groups

Departments of English, Modern Languages, and Philosophy and Humanities, University of Texas at Arlington

  • Undergraduate: The Classical Greek and Roman Tradition in Contemporary Literature (cross-listed with Classics, English, and German)

Cornell et al. Junior Year Abroad Program (Seminar fürAlte Geschichte, Univ. Hamburg) Tutor accompanying lecture on Roman Expansion seen from the Greek standpoint

Smith Junior Year Abroad Program (InstitutfürklassischeArchäologie, Univ. Hamburg) Tutor accompanying seminar on Greek vase painting

Internal Grants

  • Language Learning Technology Speaker Series, funding by provost’s office 2007, TCU ($2,000)
  • Technology and Instructional Equipment (annual application and award annually, 1999-2005. ranging from $2,000 - $12,000) University of Texas at Arlington.
  • Special Funding of Multimedia Classroom $40,000 (2001) University of Texas at Arlington

Scholarly and Creative Activities

Publications

Articles

  • “Eating Faulkner Eating Baudelaire: Multiple Rewritings and Cultural Cannibalism,” The Faulkner Journal 25.1: 65-84.
  • Rewriting Rome in post-1945 German-language Literature: Examining Image, Norm, Habitus, Tertiumcomparationis," ACROSS Languages and Literature 6:1 (2005) 79-93.
  • "The Deukalion and Pyrrha Myth in Paul Celan and Christoph Ransmayr," German Life and Letters April 2003 (56:2) 142-155.
  • "The Classical Tradition as Rewriting," Dimension2 3.3 (Sept. 1996): 294-301.

Proceedings articles

  • "Inspiring Faculty to Embrace and Use Technology Creatively," Language Learning Technologies: Hardware and Software Issues on the Advent of a New Millennium. ed. Ute S. Lahaie (Kearney: Publ., 1999) 112-116.
  • “Restructuring Lower Division Language Courses,” ALL is WELL: New Modalities in Web-Enhancing Language Learning, ed. Ute S. Lahaie (Lincoln: iUniverse, Inc., 2003) 17-21.

Encyclopedia Entries

  • “The Death of Vergil by Hermann Broch," Masterplots: 1,801 plot stories and critical evaluations of the world’s finest literature. Twentieth Anniversary Revised Second Edition, Pasadena: Salem Press, 1996 [critical review and bibliography]
  • “Slow Homecoming (novel series and play) by Peter Handke," Masterplots: 1,801 plot stories and critical evaluations of the world’s finest literature. Twentieth Anniversary Revised Second Edition, Pasadena: Salem Press, 1996[story, critical review, and bibliography]

Solicited Book Reviews

  • Andrew Cusack and Barry Murnane. Popular Revenants: The German Gothic and Its International Reception, 1800-2000 (Rochester: Camden House, 2012), In: The Journal for the Fantastic in the Arts (forthcoming)
  • Monika Schmitz-Emans. Poetiken der Verwandlung. Studienverlag, In: Modern Austrian Literature 43.2 (2010) 107-109.
  • Mary Cosgrove, Grotesque Ambilvalence: Melacholy and Mourning in the Prose of Albert Drach. In: Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 25,1 (2006) 199-201.
  • Bernd Seidensticker and Martin Vöhler, ed. Mythen in nachmythischerZeit: Die Antike in der deuschsprichigenLiteratur der Gegenwart (Walter de Gruyter: Berlin, 2002), ), in: German Quarterly 76.1 (Winter 2003) 104-105.
  • Jürgen Werner, Der Stückeschreiber und der Sohn der Hebamme, Brecht und das Erbe: Der Fall Sokrates(SächsischeAkademie der Wissenschaft: Leipzig, 1998). in: International Journal of the Classical Tradition 8.1 (Summer 2001) 165-168.

Literary Translations

Novella

  • Friedrich Christian Delius, The Sunday I Became World Champion, in: Three Contemporary German Novellas. The German Library / N.Y.: Continuum Publishing, Vol. 88

Short Prose and Poetry

  • Thomas Meinecke, Jungfrau (novel excerpt), Dimension2 10. 2/3 (2013) 652-669.
  • DursGrünbein, “World Literature, A Panoramic Portrait” Dimension2 9.3 / 10.1(2008): 283-288.
  • BurkhardSpinnen, “Acceptance Speech: On Receiving the Literature Prize of the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation, Weimar 1999, Dimension2 7.2/3(2005): 182-189.
  • HansjörgSchertenleib, “Tatoo and other poems”, Dimension26.2/3 (2003): 222-227.
  • Michael Köhlmeier, "May was good to me," Dimension2 6.1 (1998) 112-117.
  • E. Y. Meyer, "Venetian interlude — a chapter," Dimension2 5.2 (May 1998): 244-261
  • Martin Mosbach, "The Story," Dimension2 4.1 (January 1997): 124-133
  • Ulrike Längle, "The Devil is the Friend of Man," Dimension2 4.2 (May 1997): 222-227
  • reprinted in: Contemporary German Stories, The German Library / N.Y.: Continuum Publishing, Vol. 100 (1998) 210-213.
  • Michael Schulte, "Indianer," Dimension24.3 (Sept. 1997): 420-431
  • Peter Rosei, "Out of the Future," Dimension2 3.1 (January 1996): 104-113
  • reprinted in: Contemporary Austrian Writers, The German Library / N.Y.: Continuum Publishing, Vol. 74 (2007) 151-155.
  • Ernst Meister, "Tell," Dimension2 3.2 (May 1996): 214-215
  • Albert Drach, "O Catilina," Dimension2 3.1 (January 1996): 126-133
  • Ludwig Fels, "Bleeding Heart," Dimension2 2.3 (September 1995): 412-421
  • Walter Höllerer, "Here Where the World Began," Dimension2 2.2 (May 1995): 152-163
  • K. O. Götz, “Dresden 13./14.” “Februar, 1945” and other poems, Dimension2 6.2/3: 180-187
  • Joachim Walther, "The Last Pastoral," Dimension2 1.3 (September 1994): 542-549
  • Joachim Walther and Gesine von Prittwitz, "State Security and Writers: Report on the Research Project," Dimension2 1.1 (January 1994): 7-27
  • Friedrich Christian Delius, "The Sunday I Became World Champion" (novel excerpt). Dimension 20 (1994): 98-113
  • Wolfgang Hegewald, "1990. German Tests, German Lessons," Dimension 20 (1994): 246-255

Herbert Rosendahl, "The Fool Xaroda," Dimension 20 (1994): 462-469

Editor

  • Guest Editor for thematic issue of Dimension2 on Greek and Roman Traditions in Contemporary German-language Literature (3.3, Sept. 1996) (cf. Review article: Bernhard Kytzler, "Schade, daßeskeinGott war," International Journal of the Classical Tradition 5.3 (Winter 1999) 466-472.)
  • Associate Editor, From Chalkboard to Blackboard: New Technologies for Language Teaching & Learning, ed. Ute S. Lahaie(Lincoln: iUniverse, Inc., 2004)
  • Editor, The Year of Languages: Motivating the Language Learner with Technology (Lincoln: iUniverse, Inc., 2006)
  • Editor, Teaching and Technology: All Languages, All Levels, All Institutions, (Lincoln: iUniverse, Inc., 2007)

Invited presentations

  • Extramural
  • “Homer my Homey: Transatlantic Rewritings of the Iliad and Odyssey” Guest Lecture Series. Translation Centre, Hong Kong Baptist University. 9 January 2014 (evening)
  • “Imagining an Internet Culture: The German Transition into the Digital Age”. Featured Speaker in Symposium: Doing Scholarship In/On Digital Culture. Hong Kong Baptist University. 13 January 2014.
  • “Goethe InstitutSprachprüfungen: Common European Framework of Reference for Languages,” co-presented with Dr. Cynthia Chapa, North Texas Association of Teachers of German (AATG) Meeting, Sept. 15, 2012.
  • “German Romanticism and The Sandman.” Guest Lecture, Univ. of Texas at Arlington. Dept. of Modern Languages and Literatures, Spring 2011.
  • “Using Blogs in Language Courses,” American Association of Language Learning Technology: North Texas Chapter, Sept. 19, 2009.
  • “Globalization, the Internet, and Language Learning,” HEB ISD, Fall Faculty Development (Presentation and Workshop), August 2006.
  • “Tales of the Invisible Man: Language and the United States,” 4 May 2005, University of Texas at Arlington.
  • “Rome, the Other Paradigm: The Role of Rome in Austrian National Self-definition"; 6 Feb. 1998, University of Dallas.
  • Intramural
  • Introductory Lecture on Friedrich Hölderlin: Concert: Twentieth Century Lyricism inspired by Friedrich Hölderlin featuring San-ky Kim (Tenor) and Harold Martina (Piano) 27 Oct. 2014
  • Guest Lecture: Introduction to Translation Studies. TCU Transatlantic/Transnational Reading Group. 27 Oct. 2014
  • "Homer my Homey: Introducing Translation Studies" Oct. 19, 2012. TCU Classics Faculty Luncheon Lecture.
  • “No Apologies: The Greco-Roman Heritage and ‘Old’ Europe”: TCU Honors Dinner (April 15, 2010)
  • “Feeling GILT-y? Translation Studies in a Globalized, Internationalized, and Localized World”: TCU Honors College Cornerstone Lecture (March 29, 2010)
  • “Language Studies and Technology: the Case for Hybridity,” 16 Feb. 2005, TCU. Ft. Worth, TX
  • "Computer Assisted Foreign Language Instruction: What Are the Possibilities?"; 9 Feb.1998, University of Texas at Arlington.
  • "Computer Assisted Foreign Language Instruction: What Are the Possibilities?"; 9 Feb.1998, University of Texas at Arlington.

Papers given

  • “The Performative Turn: Rebelling against the Tyranny of ‘Text’”, American Translation and Interpreting Studies Association, Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, March 31-April 3, 2016.
  • "Homer in a Digital Age: Translation as Performance", Northeastern Modern Language Association, Hartford, Connecticut March 16-20, 2016.
  • “Issues in the Performative Turn,” International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies conference on Innovation Paths in Translation and Intercultural Studies, Belo Horizonte, Brazil 7-10 July 2015.
  • “Dürrenmatt’s Dilemma: Literary Posterity or Performance,” Nida School of Translation Studies 2015 Session on Leading Edges in Translation – World Literature and Performativity. San Pellegrino University Foundation in MisanoAdriatico, Italy. May 18-29, 2015
  • “Translation as the Negotiation of Performativity” Conference: Performativity and Translation. Hong Kong Baptist University and City University of Hong Kong. 9-10 January 2014
  • “Performing Translation: Rewriting Durrenmatt’s Der Besuch der alten Dame,” Conference: Drama Translation in the Age of Globalisation: Paradoxes and Paradigms. An International Drama Translation Symposium, The University of Salford, UK. 6 March 2013
  • Theatrical Translation as Creative Process Conference, April 12-15, 2012 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University (Open Forum format with translators, playwrights, and scholars, accompanied by daily performances).
  • “The Movable Text: The Role of Performance in the Creation and Translation of Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s Romulus der Große,” (Conference) Invisible Presences: Translation, Dramaturgy and Performance, Drama and Film Centre, Queen's University Belfast, 18 - 20 April 2011.
  • “Doubting Telemachus: Generational Perceptions of the Odyssey in Germany after 1945 (or ‘What did you do in the war, Daddy?’)”, Tragedy, Cinema, and Scandal: Modern Receptions of Ancient Greek Myths., Univ. of Texas at Arlington Sept. 10, 2009.
  • "The Role of Performance in Theatre Translation" Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Snowbird, Utah, October 8 - 10, 2009.
  • “Who you calling a Goth? The New Mythology and its Doppelgänger in German Literature,” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, 16-18 April 2009.
  • “Exploring Online Teaching Tools”, presentation and workshop, joint conference of South Central Association of Language Learning Technology and the Colorado Congress of Foreign Language Teachers, Feb. 14-17, 2008.
  • “Do all roads lead to Rome?: Theatre, history, performance, and politics in translations of Dürrenmatt'sRomulus der Große,” American Translation and Interpreting Studies Association Conference, Univ. of Texas at El Paso, April 3-5, 2008.
  • “Online Teaching Tools for Language Instruction, ” presentation and workshop. Texas Foreign Language Association Fall Meeting, Houston, Texas, October 16-18, 2008.
  • “Language Lab Management” (Presentation and Workshop), International Association of Language Learning Technology, Tufts Univ., June 19-23, 2007.
  • “(click here):// The Intersection of the Internet and Literature in German(y),” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 19-21, 2007
  • “Who Needs Language Labs?: The Virtual and the Physical Lab” South Central Organization for Language Learning Technology, Plano, Texas, Feb. 24-5, 2006.
  • “GILT-y Pleasures: Globalization, Internationalization, Localization, and Translation in the Language Media Center,” FLEAT 5, i.e. Foreign Language Education and Technology Conference sponsored by the International Association For Language Learning Technology (IALLT), and the Japan Association for Language Education and Technology (LET), Provo, Utah, August 5-10, 2005.
  • "Globalization, the Internet, and German Culture," 20th Century German Panel, MLA, Philadelphia, December 2004.
  • "Theoretical Implications of the Internet and Translation," American Translation Studies Association, U Mass Amherst, March 26-28, 2004.
  • "Political and Theoretical Dimensions of Cybermanifestos in German-speaking countries," German Studies Association, New Orleans, Sept. 18-21, 2003.
  • "Hybridity in the Instruction of Language and Culture, " International Association of Language Learning Technology, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, June 19-21, 2003.
  • "Restructuring Lower Division Language Courses," South Central Organization for Language Learning Technology, Univ. of Texas at Arlington, March 7-8, 2003.
  • "The "Third Culture" and the "Fourth Estate": Cyberspace and the Politics of the German Press," German Studies Association, Washington D.C., October 2001.
  • "Virtual Components in Upper Division Courses," International Association of Language Learning Technology, Rice University, Houston, Texas, May 22-26, 2001
  • "Barbaric Art or Postmodern Aesthetics? Art and History in Paul Celan and Christoph Ransmayr," Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 27-29, 2000
  • "Inspiring Faculty to Embrace and Use Technology Creatively," South Central Organization for Language Learning Technology, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, April 23-24, 1999.
  • "Eating Baudelaire: Southern Fried, Faulkner's A Rose for Emily as a Rewriting of Baudelaire's The Double Room"; American Comparative Literature Association Conference, Austin, Texas, 26-28 March 1998
  • "Who is the Foreigner here, anyway?: The Disassociation of Classical Antiquity from Modern Italy in Goethe's Die VenetianischenEpigramme"; Annual Meeting: American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies; University of Texas at Austin, March 27-31, 1996.
  • “Melding Others: Vergil, Foreign Guest Workers, and a Re-Imagined Austria in Peter Handke"; Open Borders: Comparative Literature at the University of Texas at Austin; Graduate Student Conference, 19-21 April 1995.
  • "Translation Theory and Antikerezeption"; 3rd Meeting of the International Society for the Classical Tradition, Boston Univ., 8-12 March 1995.
  • "Proper and Improper Use of Power in Shelley's The Cenci andLessing's Emilia Galotti"; American Conference on Romanticism, Pennsylvania State University, 14-16 October 1994.

Current projects

  • Theatre Translation and Performance: Versions of Dürrenmatt’splays
  • Homer Translations and Performance
  • Performativity and Translation

Professional Activities

Jury Arlticles

  • PMLA,;Journal for the Classical Tradition; Language Learning Technology; The IALLT Journal of Language Learning Technologies

Panels organized

  • "The Legacy of the Holocaust in Europe (dealing and not dealing with the past)," University of Texas at Arlington, April 28, 2003.
  • "Germania in Cyberspace: The Information Age in German-speaking Countries," German Studies Association, Washington D.C., October 2001.
  • "Inspiring Faculty to Embrace and Use Technology Creatively," South Central Organization for Language Learning Technology, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, April 23-24, 1999.

Conferences organized and hosted

  • Assisted with hosting 2013 conference of South Central Association for Language Learning Technology at TCU.
  • Lead in organizing 2006 and 2007 conferences of South Central Association for Language Learning Technology.
  • Hosted Annual Meeting: South Central Association of Language Learning Technologies, University of Texas at Arlington (March 2003)
  • Plan and Coordinate Graduate Student Conference, Open Borders, Program in Comparative Literature, University of Texas at Austin (1995)

Certification workshops

  • Goethe Insitut Chicago Training and testing of certified examiners (levels A 1- B 1) Fall. 2013.
  • Goethe Insitut Chicago Training and testing of certified examiners (levels A 1-2, B 2, C1) Oct. 2012.
  • Goethe-Institut Montreal Training and testing of certified examiners (levels A 1-2, B 1-2) 10-12 December 2010.

Service

Director of the Language Media Center for Department of Modern Language Studies and the Spanish Department.

University service

  • New Language Management System Implementation Committee (2015-17)
  • Language Management System Selection Committee (2014-15)
  • Chair, Computer and Telecommunication Committee (2013-14)
  • Member, Computer and Telecommunication Committee (2010-14)

College service

Texas Christian University

  • AddRan College Curriculum Committee (2007-9).
  • Revamping Classical Studies Minor with colleagues in English, History, Philosophy, and Religion (Fall 2007)
  • Represented AddRan in hiring committee of Academic Technology Specialist (Fall 2006)
  • Common Readings session for incoming freshman, 2006-present.
  • AddRan Nomination Committee: Dean’s Awards for Teaching and Research/Creative Activity (2006)
  • Curriculum Committee 2007-2009.

University of Texas at Arlington

  • Committees: Y2K Committee
  • Judge: International Week 2000 (International Student Organization, Univ. of Texas at Arlington) (2000)
  • University A/V Committee (2004)

University of Texas at Austin

  • University Standing Committee for Liberal Arts Media Center

Universität Hamburg

  • Web master, Forschungstauchergruppe der Universität Hamburg (1997-2001)

Honors College, TCU

  • Honors College Advisory Board (2009-2010)
  • Honors Thesis Committee member for Emma Land, 2012-13.
  • Honors Thesis Committee member for Carolina Granthon, 2011-12.
  • Honors Thesis Chair for Jordan Taylor, 2009-10.
  • Honors Thesis Committee member for Justin Brown, 2008-09.
  • Honors Thesis Committee member for Jeremy Wyatt 2007-08.
  • 2006 and 2007 Fall Escape (dinner and discussion leader with students), 2007 Spring Escape TCU Honors Program,

Teaching Improvement