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General Interests
"I am interested in the intersections of modernity, story-telling, media and realism. My dissertation focuses on film adaptations from Weimar Germany (1919-1933), paying particular attention to the manner in which these narratives draw attention to the act of story-telling as much as they communicate the story itself. My sources often creatively pass between categories of fiction and documentary as well as mix media and genres.
I am also interested in Austrian culture, especially Vienna around 1900, and film studies. As such, the courses I teach are often media rich, bringing a variety of sources to students to spark their interest."
Years at Knox: 2009 to present
Education
Ph.D., German Studies, 2010, University of Cincinnati.
M.A., Germanic Studies, 2004, University of Chicago.
B.A., German Literature, cum laude, 2002, University of Cincinnati.
German Literature, Guest Student, 2001-2002, Paris-Lodron Universität Salzburg/Bowling Green State University.
Teaching Interests
Late 19th and 20th century German literature and culture, film and visual culture, narratology and media.
Honors/Grants
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Faculty Career Enhancement Grant, Summer 2011.
German-American Fulbright Commission Grant, 2011.
Charles Phelps Taft Graduate Enrichment Award, Summer 2009.
Modern Language Association Graduate Student Travel Grant, 2008.
Charles Phelps Taft Dissertation Fellowship, University of Cincinnati, 2008-2009.
Charles Phelps Taft Graduate Enhancement Fellowship, 2007-2008.
U.S. English Language Teaching Assistantship, Fulbright Commission/Austrian-American Educational Commission, 2006-2007.
University Graduate Stipend, University of Cincinnati, 2004-2009.
University Fellowship, University of Chicago, 2002-2003.
Publications
Ed. with Todd Herzog, German Cinema: A Critical Filmography to 1945. Caboose: Montreal. (In preparation.)
"Erzähler and Information: Alfred Döblin's Epic Realism." Topography and Literature. Berlin and Modernism. Edited by Reinhard Zachau. Göttingen: V&R unipress 141-51.
"Image and Text, Fact and Fiction: Narrating W.G. Sebald's The Emigrants in the First Person." Image[&]narrative [e-journal] 22 (2008): n.p.
Edited volume, Focus on German Studies 15 (2008).
Interview, Birgit Dahlke. Focus on German Studies 15 (2008): 210-217.
Interview, Gerhild Scholz Williams. Focus on German Studies 15 (2008): 218-221.
Rev. of Freud's Italian Journey by Laurence Simmons. Focus on German Studies 14 (2007): 192-195.
Rev. of Erzähltext und Spielfilm. Zur Ästhetik und Analyse der Filmadaption by Ulrike Schwab. Focus on German Studies 13 (2006): 179-182.
Presentations
Commentator for Panel, "Questioning German Film" German Studies Association, Louiseville, Kentucky, September 22-25, 2011.
"Too Good to be True? Kracauer and Balazs on Film and Reality" German Studies Association, Louiseville, Kentucky, September 22-25, 2011.
"Brecht, Pabst and Media" German Studies Association, Oakland, California, October 7-10, 2010.
"In and Out of Reality: Fritz Lang's Films." Midwest Modern Language Association, St. Louis, Missouri, November 12-15, 2009.
"Spiegelman's Maus: A Foundation for Teaching Holocaust Representation." Midwest Modern Language Association, St. Louis, Missouri, November 12-15, 2009.
"Can the Führer Be Funny?" Midwest Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, Detroit, Michigan, October 30-November 1, 2009.
"Modernity in Word and Image: Narrative Literature and Film in Weimar Germany." Taft Research Symposium, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, May 5-8, 2009.
"Alfred Döblin and Photography." German Studies Association, St. Paul, Minnesota, October 3-5, 2008.
"Berlin Alexanderplatz at the Nexus of Reality and Fiction." Berlin and Modernism 1900-1945, University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee, September 26-28, 2008.
"The Sounds of the Alexanderplatz: Listening to Berlin in Two Media." Northeast Modern Language Association, Buffalo, New York, April 10-13, 2008.
"Images of Culture, A Culture of Images. German Visual Culture in Literature, Film, Art and Beyond." Twelfth Annual Focus on German Studies Graduate Student Conference, University of Cincinnati, October 26-27, 2007.
"Re-Thinking Fassbinder: The BRD Trilogy and the Screen," European Cinema: Revisiting Histories and Identities, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, May 2005.
Campus & Community Involvement
Faculty Advisor, Sigma Phi Chapter of Delta Phi Alpha, the National German Honors Society.
Peer-Reviewer, EDGE: A Journal of German and Scandinavian Studies.
Member, American Association of Teachers of German.
Member, German Studies Association.
Member, Midwest Modern Language Association.
Member, Modern Language Association.
What Students Say
"Todd is the type of person who, when you rush into his office panicking about a phone interview that you have to do in German for study abroad, will sit and practice with you for an hour. He's the type of person who can be the interim chair for a department and still find time to come to 8 a.m. meetings and talk about getting into graduate school. He's the type of person who can convince you to major or minor in German with just one class. Todd is engaged, enthusiastic, and excited about German studies, and that excitement rubs off on the increasing number of students involved in the German program at Knox."
-Anna Meier, International Relations and Modern Languages Double Major
