Nancy Nenno
Professor, German and Slavic Studies
Office Hours: Dr. Nenno is on sabbatical for the 2013-2014 academic year
Phone: 843.953.5464
E-mail: nennon@cofc.edu
Education
University of California, Berkeley, California
Ph.D., M.A.
Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
B.A.
Research Interests
German Cinema history, particularly the transition from silent to sound film
Representation of African Americans in interwar German literature, culture and cinema
Courses Taught
German 325: Contemporary Issues
German 390: The African Diaspora in German-speaking Europe
German 464: 20th century Literature 1900-1945
German 465: 20th century Literature 1945- Present
German 472: Classics of German Cinema
German 490: CSI Deutschland: Der Krimi
German 498 : Independent Study in German
Film in Translation: German Film 1919-1945
Film in Translation: Postwar German Cinema
Film in Translation: German Exile Cinema--film noir
Film in Translation: Recent German Cinema (1989-2009)
Publications
“Undermining Babel: Victor Trivas’s Niemandsland (1931),” The Many Faces of Weimar German Cinema, ed. Christian Rogowski (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2010):
“Projections on Blank Space: Landscape, Nationality and Identity in Thomas Mann’s Der Zauberberg.” (Revised version) Thomas Mann’s Der Zauberberg: A Casebook, ed. Hans Rudolf Vaget. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2008.
“Leni Riefenstahl.” The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History. Ed. Bonnie G. Smith. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2008.
“Did German almost become the language of the US?” The Five-Minute Linguist. Ed. E.M. Rickerson and Barry Hilton (London: Equinox Press, 2006) 170-174.
“'Postcards from the Edge': Education to Tourism in the German Mountain Film.” Light Motives: German Popular Cinema. Ed. Margaret McCarthy and Randall Halle. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2003. 61-83.
“Women, Fascism and Film,” Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions 2.2 (2001): 73-90.
“Bildung and Desire: Anna Elisabet Weirauch's Der Skorpion.” Queering the Canon: Defying Sights in German Literatures and Culture. Ed. Christopher Lorey and John Plews. Columbia, SC: Camden House,1998. 207-221.
“Primitivism, Femininity and Modern Urban Space: Josephine Baker in Berlin.” Women in the Metropolis: Gender and Modernity in Weimar Culture. Ed. Katharina von Ankum. Weimar and Now 11. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. 145-161.
Published in translation as: "Weiblichkeit-Primitivität-Metropole: Josephine Baker in Berlin.” Frauen in der Großstadt: Herausforderung der Moderne? Ed. and trans. Katharina von Ankum. Dortmund: Edition Ebersbach, 1999. 136-158.
“Between Magic and Medicine: Images of the Woman Healer in Medieval German Literature.” Climbing a Long Hill: Women Healers and Physicians. Ed. Lilian R. Furst. Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, 1997. 43-63.
“Projections on Blank Space: Landscape, Nationality and Identity in Thomas Mann's Der Zauberberg.” The German Quarterly 69.3 (Summer 1996): 305-321.
“Biographies.” “Political Chronology.” The Weimar Republic Sourcebook. Ed. Anton Kaes, Martin Jay, Edward Dimendberg. Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism 3. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. 743-63. 765-71.