Includes bibliographical references (p. 499-540) and index.
Contents:
Teacher development at the beginning of the twentieth century / Renate A. Schulz. Constituencies of academics and the priorities of Germanists / Jeffrey L. Sammons -- How split were our values? The well-lived life of the German professor in American academe, 1938-99 / Lynne Tatlock -- Changing employment patterns in German studies / Gerhard Weiss -- Undergraduate program / Russell A. Berman -- Finding students : toward a history of Germanics in the United States / David Benseler -- Teacher development at the beginning of the twentieth century / Renate A. Schulz. Oppositional criticism : Marxism and feminism, 1970-80 / Sara Lennox. American graduate studies in German / Simon Richter -- German literary history and the canon in the United States / Jeannine Blackwell -- Practicing disciplinarity and interdisciplinarity in German studies : how much and what kind? / Wolfgang Natter -- Pedagogical issues in German-language teaching : a retrospective / Renate A. Schulz -- From philology to the New Criticism, 1880-1970 / Peter Uwe Hohendahl -- Oppositional criticism : Marxism and feminism, 1970-80 / Sara Lennox. Study of GDR literature and culture, 1970-90 / David Bathrick. Development of research from 1880 to the present / Jost Hermand -- Medieval German literary research from the late nineteenth century to the present / Francis G. Gentry -- Linguistics / Orrin W. Robinson -- American Germanists and research on folklore and fairy tales from 1970 to the present / Donald Haase -- Developments in German Jewish studies from 1980 to the present / Noah Isenberg -- Study of GDR literature and culture, 1970-90 / David Bathrick. Reorganization of the profession after 1970 / Sara Friedrichsmeyer. History of the AATG / Patricia Herminghouse -- Role of societies and conferences / Sara Friedrichsmeyer -- Emergence and function of professional journals / John A. McCarthy -- Monatshefte / Cora Lee Kluge -- Journals of the AATG : the German Quarterly, die unterrichtspraxis / Patricia Herminghouse -- Germanic Review / Carl Niekerk -- New German Critique / Carl Niekerk -- Reorganization of the profession after 1970 / Sara Friedrichsmeyer. Relations with foreign organizations / Manfred Stassen. Germanistik in the shadow of the Holocaust : the development of the professoriat, 1942-70 / Meike G. Werner -- Democratization of the profession : women and minorities in German, 1971-2000 / Arlene A. Teraoka -- Opportunities forgone : sociopolitical dimensions of German studies in the United States / Brent O. Peterson -- Culturla exchange : the historical context of German Kulturpolitik and German studies in the United States / Hinrich C. Seeba -- Relations with foreign organizations / Manfred Stassen. Reflections on writing a history of German studies in the United States / Frank Trommler.
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