Curriculum Vitae / Lebenslauf
Dr. Julian Nelson
Head of German Department
Director of German Studies in Berlin Program
Clark College
jnelson@clark.edu
EDUCATION
Ph.D.,
Comparative Literature with emphasis in Theory, German, British,
and French Literatures, University
of California, Davis (1999)
Dissertation:
"Transcendence and the Modern Novel: Technology, Circulation,
and Restoration in Mann's Der
Zauberberg,
Proust's A la recherche
du temps perdu,
and Joyce's Ulysses" (1999)
Université
Lumière, Lyon, France (1994-1995)
MA,
Comparative Literature with an emphasis in Theory, Classics,
German, French, and British Literatures, San Francisco State
University (1991)
BA,
German and Comparative Literature, San Francisco State
University (1989)
Ruprecht-Karls Universität, Heidelberg, Germany (1987-1989)
STUDY TOUR DIRECTOR
German Studies in Berlin Program (yearly study/tour program)
CLARK COLLEGE COMMITTEES
International Studies Committee, Clark College, 2007-2008
ASCC
Finance Committee. Clark College, Fall 2006-Spring 2007
AWARDS
Clark County Teacher
of the Year Award 2007
Clark College ASCC Funding Grant for Berlin, Summer 2007
Clark College ASCC Funding Grant for Berlin, Summer 2006
CUA Faculty Research
Grant-in-Aid, Berlin, Germany 2004.
Alpha Delta Gamma Outstanding
Instructor Award, CUA, 2003.
CUA Faculty Research
Grant-in-Aid, Berlin, Germany 2002.
Alpha Delta Gamma Outstanding
Instructor Award, CUA, 2002.
Outstanding Graduate Student
Teaching Award for Excellence in Teaching German, University of
California, Davis, 1998.
Professors for the Future Fellow,
University of California, Davis, 1998-1999.
Humanities Institute Award and
Grant for Research Abroad in France and Germany, University of
California, Davis, 1996.
Humanities Graduate
Student Award for Distinguished Achievements in the Humanities,
San Francisco State University, 1991.
German Worker's Union Scholarship for Distinguished Achievement
in German Studies, San Francisco State University, 1990.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Tenured Professor of German, Clark College, Fall
2005-Present.
Assistant Professor of German, The Catholic University of America,
Fall 2000-2005.
Lecturer, German Department, University of California, Davis,
1999-2000.
Instructor, Woodland Community College, Summer 1999.
Teaching Assistant, German and Comparative Literature,
University of California, Davis, 1992-1998.
CONFERENCE DIRECTOR
“Signposts: Discourse on Travel,” The Catholic University of
America, Washington, D.C., April 15, 2003.
“Altered States,” The Catholic University of America,
Washington, D.C., April 15, 2001.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
German Studies
Modernist Aesthetics
Critical Theory
Nineteenth and Twentieth Century European Literature
SELECTED ARTICLES
“Embodying Weimar: Otto Dix’s
Krüppelbilder.”
Forthcoming.
“Modernism and the Fragmented Insight.” In Modernisms, edited
by Vivian Liska.
The International Comparative Literature
Association. June 2007.
“Culturing Leftovers: Fragments and the Technologies of
Insight.”
Présence et representation/Presence
and Representation: Colloque du
Centre de Recherches sur les Conflits d’Interpretation,
edited by Salah Moncef, 275-285.
Berne: Peter Lang Verlag, 2004.
“Memorabilia of Grief: Postwar Germany and Otto Dix’s
Paintings of Cripples.” Proceedings from Hawaii
International Conference on Arts and Humanities, 2004,
4154-4163.
“Technologies of Death in Thomas Mann's
The Magic Mountain,” Focus on German
Studies, Spring 1998.
CURRENT PROJECT
Book-Length Monograph
The
Second Front: Culture and Politics in Weimar Germany
1919-1932.
PRESENTATIONS
“Focus on Berlin: Interdisciplinary Courses and Study Trips to
Berlin,” The 2007 AATG (American Association for the Teachers of
German) Annual Meeting in San Antonio, Texas, November 16-18,
2007.
“Berlin: History, Topography, Traces,” Berlin Honors Program,
European Seminars, Berlin, Germany, February 28-March 5, 2005.
“Embodying Weimar,” German Languages and Literatures Section of
the Annual Meeting of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and
Letters, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan, March
4-5, 2005.
“Consuming Narratives: In Pursuit of the
flâneur,”
Paris Honors Program, European Seminars, Paris, France, February
28-March 5, 2004.
“Memorabilia of Grief: Postwar Germany and Otto Dix’s
Paintings of Cripples,” Hawaii International
Conference on Arts and Humanities, Honolulu, Hawaii, January
8-11, 2004.
“Amputated Nation: Theorizing the Prosthetic in Weimar Germany,”
The Fifth Annual Meeting of The Work of Art in the Space Between
(1914-1945), Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, May 29-31,
2003.
“Toward an Introduction of the Sacred,” International Conference
on the Sacred, The Catholic
University of America, April 19-20, 2003.
“From Rags to Riches: The Fashion of Culture,” Paris Honors
Program, European Seminars, Paris, France, February 28-March 5,
2003.
“Theorizing the Prosthetic: Kirchner’s
Selbstporträt als
Soldat,” the Annual Convention
of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA),
Bellingham, WA, November 7, 2002.
“Mann in the New Millennium,” Annual Convention of the Modern
Language Association (MLA), New Orleans, Louisiana, December
2001.
“Culturing Leftovers: Fragments and the Technologies of
Insight,” International Conference “Présence
et
Représentation,” the University of Nantes, Nantes,
France, December 2001.
“Thomas Mann and the Weimar Republic: Modern Contradictions,”
The Mid-West Modern Language Association (MMLA), Cleveland,
Ohio, November 2001.
“Disease and the Media of Death in Thomas Mann’s The Magic
Mountain,” Fordham University, NY, New York, April 14-16,
2000.
“The
Task of the Scribe: Translation Studies and the University,” the
Center for Modern and Contemporary Studies at UCLA, Los Angeles,
CA, February 6, 1999.
“Culturing Technology,” Interdisciplinary Graduate Symposium, UC
Davis, Davis, CA, April 1998.
“The
Technologies of Death in Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain,” the
Annual Convention of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language
Association (PAMLA), San Jose, CA, November 6-8, 1997.
“An
Archeology of Names: A Reading of Captain
Dikstein,” Interdisciplinary
Graduate Symposium, UC Davis, Davis, CA, April 1997.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA)
American Association of Teachers of German (AATG)
German Studies Association (GSA)
LANGUAGES
Native or near-fluency (reading, writing,
speaking) in English, German, and French.
Reading ability in Spanish.
