Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies

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Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies
263 Dauer Hall, PO Box 117430
Gainesville FL 32611-7430
Phone: (352) 392-2101
Fax: (352) 392-1067
Email: asykes@gss.ufl.edu

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Keith Bullivant
Curriculum Vitae

Keith Bullivant Ph.D. Birmingham University
kbulli@gss.ufl.edu
352-392-2101 ext. 209

Education

1968
Awarded degree of Ph.D., Birmingham University for a thesis on 'The idea of history in the work of Gerd Gaiser'
1962, 1963-64
Undergraduate and post-graduate study, University of Mainz
1960-63
Birmingham University, England. Graduation June, 1963 with First Class Special Honours in German and Distinction in Spoken German.
Subsidiary subject: Russian

Posts held

2005
Distinguished Visiting Professor Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
1994 - 2006
Co-Director, Center for Modern German Studies, University of Florida (UF)
1993 - 2004
Chair, Department of Germanic & Slavic Languages and Literatures, UF
1993
Founding Director, Deutsche Sommerschule im Südosten
1991
Gastprofessor für Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Universität Paderborn
1990-93
Graduate Coordinator for German, UF
1989-90
Distinguished Visiting Professor, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces
1989 - 2007
Professor of German, University of Florida
1982-88
Chair, Department of German Studies, University of Warwick, England
1979-88
Director of Graduate Studies
1970-89
Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader and subsequently Professor in German Studies, University of Warwick
1965-70
Lecturer in German, Birmingham University

Selected Publications

In book form

Gerd Gaiser's 'Am Pass Nascondo', London, 1968, 138pp.
Between chaos and order: the work of Gerd Gaiser, Stuttgart, 1980, 162pp.
Language Games (a translation of Dieter Forte's 'Sprachspiel') Cologne, 1982, 80pp.
Realism Today. Aspects of the contemporary West German novel, Leamington Spa & New York, 1987, 257pp.
The Future of German Literature. Oxford & Providence, 1994, vii + 206pp. (Nominated for the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures of the Modern Language Association of America).
Literature in Upheaval, Manchester, 1974, 193pp. (with R.H. Thomas).
Westdeutsche Literatur der sechziger Jahre, Cologne & Munich, 1975, 231pp. (with R.H. Thomas).
Industrie und deutsche Literatur 1830-1914, Munich, 1976, 224pp. (with H.R. Ridley)
Culture and Society in the Weimar Republic (ed.), Manchester, 1977, vii + 205pp.
Das literarische Leben in der Weimarer Republik (ed.), Königstein, 1978, 285pp.
Subjektivität - Innerlichkeit - Abkehr vom Politischen? (ed. with H.J. Althof), Bonn, 1986, 373pp.
The Modern German Novel (ed.), Leamington Spa & New York, 1987, 313pp.
After the 'Death of Literature'. West German Writing of the 1970s (ed.), Oxford & New York, 1989, 398pp.
Englische Lektionen (ed.), Munich, 1989, 268pp.
Das Werk des Schriftstellers Dieter Wellershoff (ed. with M. Durzak & H. Steinecke), Cologne, 1990, 392pp.
Dieter Wellershoff (ed. with M. Borries), Munich 1994, 80pp. (Werkheft, Goethe-Institut).
Die Archäologie der Wünsche: Studien zum Werk von Uwe Timm (ed. with M. Durzak and H. Steinecke), Cologne, 1995, 394 pp.
Dieter Wellershoff: Werke 1-3 (ed. with M. Durzak), Cologne, 1996 2,720pp.
------------------- Werke 4-6, Cologne, 1997, 2,855 pp.
Beyond 1989: Re-reading German Literature since 1945 (ed.), Providence, 1997, 210 pp.
Germany and Eastern Europe: Cultural Identities and Cultural Differences, (ed. with G. Giles & W. Pape), Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1999, 373 pp.
Literarisches Krisenbewußtsein. Ein Perzeptions- und Produktionsmuster im 20. Jahrhundert (ed.with B. Spies), Munich: Iudicium, 2001, 337 pp.

Chapters in books

"Hörspiel als Laienanalyse", R.H. Thomas (ed.), Der Schriftsteller Dieter Wellershoff, Cologne, 1975, pp. 89-114.
'Thomas Mann and Politics in the Weimar Republic', Culture and Society in the Weimar Republic (ed.cit.), pp. 24-38.
"Aufbruch der Nation: zur 'konservativen Revolution'"', Das literarische Leben in der Weimarer Republik (ed.cit.), pp. 27-49.
"Naturalistische Prosa und Lyrik", F. Trommler & H. Glaser (eds.), Deutsche Literaturgeschichte - eine Sozialgeschichte, Vol.8, Reinbek, 1982, pp. 169-87.
"The Conservative Revolution", A. Phelan (ed.), The Weimar Dilemma, Manchester, 1985, pp. 47-70.
"Möglichkeiten eines subjektiven Realismus", Subjektivität - Innerlichkeit - Abkehr vom Unpolitischen? (ed.cit.), pp. 19-34.
"Politischer Realismus heute?", A. Schöne (ed.), Kontroversen, alte und neue, Bd. X, Tübingen, 1986, pp. 178-85.
"Gewissen der Nation? Schriftsteller und Politik in der Bundesrepublik", F. van Ingen & G. Labroisse (eds.), Literaturszene Bundesrepublik - ein Blick von drauben, Amsterdam, 1988, pp. 59-78
"Literatur und Technik", E. Schütz (ed.), Literatur und Technik, Essen, 1988, pp. 11-22.
"Continuity or Change? Aspects of West German Writing after 1945", N. Hewitt (ed.), The Culture of Reconstruction, London, 1988, pp. 192-207.
"Arbeitswelt und bürgerliche Ästhetik", G. Grobklaus & E. Lämmert (eds.), Literatur in einer industriellen Kultur, Stuttgart, 1989, pp. 303-21.
"The divided city: Berlin in post-war German literature", J.J. White (ed.), Berlin - Literary Images of a City, Berlin,1989, pp. 162-77
"Political Realism in the 1970s', After the 'Death of Literature'" (ed.cit.), pp. 36-52.
"The Spectre of the Third Reich. The West German Novel of the 1970s and National Socialism", ibid., pp. 139-54.
"From the 1970s into the 1980s', ibid. pp. 381-89. 'Realismus und Dokumentarismus: zu 'Einladung an alle'"', Das Werk des Schriftstellers Dieter Wellershoff (ed.cit.) pp. 112-24.
"Gast in England. Zum Englandbild Günter Kunerts", Manfred Durzak & Hartmut Steinecke (eds.), Günter Kunert, Munich, 1992, pp. 217-34.
"Zum Realismusproblem I: Literatur und Politik", K. Briegleb & S.Weigel (eds.), Sozialgegeschichte der deutschen Literatur, Bd. XII, Munich 1992, pp. 279-301.
"Zum Realismusproblem II: Die Krise des Erzählens" (with K. Briegleb), Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur, Bd. XII, pp. 302-339.
"The End of the Dream of the 'Other Germany': The 'German Question' in West German Letters", Walter Pape (ed.), 1870/1 - 1989/90: German Unifications and the Change of Literary Discourse, Berlin & New York, 1993, pp. 302-19.
"Working Heroes in the Novels of Martin Walser", in Frank Pilipp (ed.), New Critical Perspectives on Martin Walser, Columbia S.C., 1994, pp. 16-28.
"Reconstruction and Integration: The Culture of West German Stabilization", R.A. Burns (ed.), Introduction to German Cultural Studies, Oxford, 1995, pp. 209-55.
"Uwe Timms Ästhetik des Alltags", Die Archäologie der Wünsche, ed.cit., pp. 231-44.
"Und nichts mehr da zum Beschreiben. Günter Kunert und Berlin", M. Durzak & M. Keune (eds.), Günter Kunert, Hildesheim, 1995, pp. 223-34.
"Thomas Mann and the Politics of the Weimar Republic", M. Minden (ed.), Thomas Mann, London& New York, 1995, pp. 55-69.
"1968: was danach geschah und davon geblieben ist", G. Knapp & G. Labroisse (eds.), 1945-1995: Autoren, Tendenzen, Entwicklungen, Amsterdam, 1996, pp. 339-52.
"The Americanization of German Graduate Courses", J. McCarthy & K. Schneider (eds.), Germanistik in the USA, Nashville, 1996, pp. 105-10.
"'Das könnte dein Schreiben sein"' Gespräch mit Friedrich Christian Delius", M. Durzak & H. Steinecke (eds.), F.C. Delius: Studien über sein literarisches Werk, Tübingen, 1997, pp. 225-41.
"Beyond 1989". Introduction to Beyond 1989. Re-reading German Literature since 1945, K. Bullivant (ed.), loc.cit., pp. vii-xiii.
"Nachwort", Dieter Wellershoff: Werke, Vol. 6, pp. 813-907 (with M. Durzak).
"Das Internet – eine Chance für die interkulturelle Germanistik?", N. Kuruyazici et al (eds.), Schnittpunkte der Kulturen, Stuttgart, 1998, pp. 25-30.
"The Writer as Anthropologist: The Works of Uwe Timm", D. Basker (ed.), Uwe Timm, Cardiff, 1999, pp. 38-46.
"Introduction: Germany and Eastern Europe", Germany and Eastern Europe, loc.cit., pp. 1-12.
"Hohe und niedere Literatur in Deutschland (und anderswo)", M. Durzak & B. Laudenberg (eds.), Literatur im interkulturellen Dialog, Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2000, pp. 368-80.
"High and Low Literature and the German Reading Public", The Challenge of German Culture, M. M. Butler & R. Evans (eds.), Basingstoke & New York: Palgrave, 2000, pp. 153-162.
"Vorwort", Literarisches Krisenbewußtsein, ed.cit., pp. 7-19 (with B. Spies).
'Zu Wolf Biermanns “Von mir und meiner Dicken in den Fichten”', Hiltrud Gnüg (ed.), Liebesgedichte der Gegenwart, Stuttgart. Reclam, 2003, pp. 28-33.
'Martin Walser and the Working World', F. Wefelmeyer (ed.), Seelenarbeit an Deutschland, Amsterdam: Rudopi, 2004, pp. 75-88.
'Zafer Senocak's "Atlas des tropischen Deutschland"', M. Durzak and N. Kuryazici (eds.), Die andere deutsche Literatur, Würzburg: Köningshausen and Neumann, 2004, pp. 91-96.
'Der deutsche Gesellschaftsroman des 19. Jahrhunderts', H. Koopmann & H.-J. Knobloch (eds.), Das verschlafene Jahrhundert? Zur deutschen Literatur zwischen Klassik und Moderne, Würzburg: Köningshausen and Neumann, 2005, pp. 43-52.
'Wie Szenen sprechen. Uwe Timm als Drehbuchautor', Helge Malchow (ed.), Der schöne Überfluss, Cologne: Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2005, pp. 184-96.

Articles

'Gruppe 61 nach zehn Jahren', BASIS III, Frankfurt, 1972, pp. 98-111.
'The notion of morality in Wedekind's "Frühlings Erwachen" ', New German Studies, 1973, pp. 40- 47.
'A middle-class view of German industrial expansion 1853-1900', Oxford German Studies, 7, 1973, pp. 98-108.
'Wilhelm Raabe and the European Novel', Orbis Litterarum, 1976, pp. 263-81.
'The exemplary Goethe', Publications of the English Goethe Society, 1980, pp. 1-28.
'The uses of Goethe', German Life & Letters, 1982-83, pp. 148-55.
'Realismus und Romanästhetik. Überlegungen zu einem problematischen Aspekt der deutschen Literatur', Orbis Litterarum, 1984, pp. 1-13.
'Change and continuity in West German prose-writing of the 1940s and 1950s', Contemporary German Studies, 1985, pp. 39-50.
'Arno Schmidt: The German Context', Review of Contemporary Fiction, 1988, pp. 86-92.
'Alfred Anderschs "Deutsche Literatur in der Entscheidung"', Literatur für Leser, 3, 1994, pp. 99- 107.
‘"Erstaunlich, was Sie alles schon damals...", Gespräch zwischen Keith Bullivant und Friedrich Christian Delius’, Literatur für Leser, 1/1995, pp. 1-10.
'Reisen, Entdeckungen, Utopien: zum Werk Uwe Timms’, Deutsche Bücher, 4, 1995, pp. 255-62.
‘Erzählen als die Arbeit des Lebens: Zur Prosa Dieter Wellershoffs’, Literatur für Leser, 21, Heft 4,1998, pp. 323-333.
"Endzeitszenarien: Die nukleare Apokalypse und die deutsche Literatur der 80er Jahre", Literatur für Leser, 25, Nr. 2, 2002, pp. 101-112.
'Germans as Victims? Günter Grass’ “Crabwise”' (Im Krebsgang), South Atlantic Review, 68, Nr. 2, 2003, pp. 91-96.

Other

'Literatur und Subkultur', Südwestfunk, Mainz, 1972.
'German Literature since 1945', Sussex Tapes, Brighton (U.K.), 1973 (with R. H. Thomas).
'VII. Weltkongress der Germanisten', Kulturchronik, December 1985, pp. 44-46.
'Alma mater britannica', Kursbuch, Heft 97, 1989, pp. 184-94.
'Jurek Beckers Auseinandersetzung mit der DDR - Zu dem Roman "Schlaflose Tage" ', Karin Graf & Ulrich Konietzny (eds.) Jurek Becker (Werkheft, Goethe-Institut), Munich, 1991, pp. 49-51.
'Wilhelm Christian Weitling', Nineteenth-Century German Writers 1841-1900 (Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 129), Detroit & London, 1993, pp. 423-25.
'Ernst Adolf Willkomm', Nineteenth-Century German Writers to 1840 (Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 133), Detroit & London, 1993, pp. 308-11.
In addition to the publications listed, I have also written a number of other contributions to German and English journals and have written numerous reviews since the 1960s for 'German Life & Letters', 'The Modern Language Review', the 'Journal of European Studies', 'The Germanic Review', 'The German Quarterly', the 'South Atlantic Review', 'Die Unterrichtspraxis', ‘Monatshefte’, and 'Deutsche Bücher'. I am Co-Editor of 'Literatur für Leser', which publishes four numbers per year, a former member of the Editorial Boards of the 'South Atlantic Review' and now of de Gruyter's 'European Cultures' series, I am a member of the International Editorial Board of ‘Debatte’, and am a manuscript reader for 'The German Quarterly', ‘German Studies Review’, and the ‘Women in German Studies Yearbook’. I have also made several radio and TV broadcasts in England, West Germany and the United States.

Papers, speeches at international conferences, symposia etc.

'The search for synthesis: Thomas Mann and the Conservative Revolution', Goethe Institute symposium 'Culture and Society in the Weimar Republic', London, 1978.
'The uses of Goethe', English Goethe Society, London, 1979.
'Timm contra Drews: Möglichkeiten eines subjektiven Realismus', Britisch-Deutsches Germanistentreffen des DAAD, Berlin, 1982.
'Politischer Realismus heute?', VII. IVG-Conference, Göttingen, 1985.
'Heinrich Böll - a tribute', Germanic Institute, London, 1985.
'Böll's "Fürsorgliche Belagerung" and "Die Neue Unübersichtlichkeit" ', SAMLA annual conference, Atlanta, 1986.
'The Spectre of the Third Reich: The German Novel of the Seventies and National Socialism', Center for West European Studies, University of Pittsburgh, 1986.
'The divided city: Berlin in post-war German literature', Goethe Institute/DAAD symposium 'Berlin - Literary Images of a City', London, 1987.
'Arbeitswelt und bürgerliche Ästhetik', Deutsche Schillergesellschaft symposium 'Literatur in einer industriellen Kultur', Marbach, 1987.
'Gewissen der Nation? Schriftsteller und Politik in der Bundesrepublik', Free University of Amsterdam symposium 'Literaturszene Bundesrepublik - ein Blick von draußen', Amsterdam, 1987.
'Literatur und Technik', keynote lecture for the symposium 'Literatur und Technik', Essen, 1987.
'Schriftsteller und Politik in der Bundesrepublik - ein Blick von draußen', opening address of the Hochschultage, Kiel, 1988.
'Die Mythologisierung des Dichters bei Peter Handke: zu "Phantasien der Wiederholung", "Nachmittag eines Schriftstellers" and "Die Wiederholung" ', III. Internationales Germanistentreffen des DAAD, Berlin, 1989.
' "Das Ende der Fiktionen" - ein Motiv der bundesdeutschen Literatur der achtziger Jahre', Rostock, 1990.
'Jurek Beckers "Schlaflose Tage" ', Literarisches Colloquium, Berlin, 1990.
'Gast aus Deutschland: das Englandbild Günter Kunerts', international conference of the AATG, Baden-Baden, 1992.
'Alfred Anderschs "Deutsche Literatur in der Entscheidung" ', 1st International Andersch Congress, Werner-Reimers-Stiftung, Bad Homburg, February 1994.
'Günter Kunert und Berlin', International Kunert Symposium, Pennsylvania State University, April 1994.
'Reisen, Entdeckungen, Utopien: zum Werk von Uwe Timm', Quinquennial conference of the International Association of Germanists, Vancouver, August 1995.
'Der Schriftsteller als Ethnologe: zum Werk Uwe Timms', University of Sheffield, May 1996.
'Botho Strauß's "Anschwellender Bocksgesang"', Institute for German Studies, University of Birmingham, May 1996.
'Das Internet: eine Chance für die interkulturelle Germanistik?', international conference, 'Schnittpunkte der Kulturen', of the Gesellschaft für interkulturelle Germanistik, Istanbul, September 1996.
‘Erzählen als die Arbeit des Lebens: Zur Prosa Dieter Wellershoffs’, University of Halle-Wittenberg, May 1998.
'Anthropologische Ansätze im Schreiben Uwe Timms', University of Mainz, January 2002.
'Endzeitszenarien: Der nukleare Holocaust und die deutsche Literatur der 80er Jahre', public lecture, University of Mainz, January 2002.
'Zafer Senocaks ‘Atlas des tropischen Deutschland: Damals und heute’, University of Istanbul, March 2003.
'Friedrich Delius’ “Germany in Autumn” Trilogy', Lincoln College, Oxford, April 2003.
'Der deutsche Gesellschaftsroman des 19. Jahrhunderts', Rand Afrikaans University, Johannesburg, March 2004.
'Use Timm als Drehbuchautor', University of Leeds, September 2004.

Lectures in the U.S.A. at national professional conferences etc.

'Anglo-German Literary Relations in the 1980s: New Tensions and Perspectives', GSA annual conference, Milwaukee, 1989.
'Die "deutsche Frage" im literarischen Leben der Bundesrepublik', MLA annual conference, Washington, 1989.
'The West German "Lied" since 1964', MLA, 1989.
'The future of German literature: Some thoughts on Günter Grass's notion of the "Kulturnation" ', GSA annual conference, Buffalo, 1990.
'The treatment of "recent German events" by West German "Liedermacher" ', AATG annual conference, Nashville, 1990.
'The Berlin Wall, the Question of German Unification and the Future of German Studies', SAMLA annual conference, Tampa, 1990.
'Die literarische Intelligenz und die deutsche Frage', German House, New York University, New York, 1991.
'New approaches to canonical novelists: the case of Heinrich Böll', GSA annual conference, Los Angeles, 1991.
'Georg Heym's Berlin poetry', GSA annual conference, Minneapolis, 1992.
'Uwe Timm und die Ästhetik des Alltags', GSA annual conference, Washington D.C., 1993.
' "Die zweite Heimat": Heimat?', AATG annual conference, Atlanta, 1994
'The Americanization of German Graduate Studies', DAAD conference on 'Germanistik in the USA: Prospects for Change - Changing our Prospects', Vanderbilt University, Nashville, October, 1994.
'Literature between "high" and "low" culture', conference 'Literature at its own Funeral?', Emory University, March 1995.
'Beyond 1989: Re-reading German Literature since 1945', GSA annual conference, Chicago, October 1995.
'The Author as Autobiographer: Dieter Wellershoff', annual conference of the AATG, Anaheim, November 1995.
'Dietrich Schwanitz' "Der Campus": At last a German Campus Novel?', annual conference of the GSA, Seattle, October 1996.
‘The Writer as Anthropologist: the Work of Uwe Timm’, annual conference of the GSA, Washington D.C., October 1997.
'Berlin in the Movies', annual conference of the GSA, Atlanta, October 1999.
'Literarisches Krisenbewußtsein: Der Fall Dieter Wellershoff', annual conference of the GSA, Arlington, October 2001.
'F.C. Delius’ “Deutschland im Herbst”-Trilogy, annual conference of the GSA, New Orleans, September 2003.
I have been chair or commentator of a number of German sections at the annual MLA, GSA, AATG, and SAMLA conferences and was co-ordinator for 20th Century German Literature on the Program Committee of the 1992 GSA Conference. I was Program Director for the GSA annual conference in 2000, October 2000.

Major Grants:

2000
Grant of $118,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities for summer school in Berlin, Humboldt University, June-July 2000 (co-investigator with S. Mews).
2000
Grant of $50,000 from the Transcoop Program of the Humboldt Foundation
2000
Grants of $14,000 from the Max Kade Foundation and the Humboldt Foundation for conference, Literarisches Krisenbewußtsein.
1998-2005
Grants of $10,000 p.a. from the Max Kade Foundation for the Writer in Residence Visiting German Professor Program.
1996
Grant of $10,271 from the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst for conference, Germany and Eastern Europe.
1998, 1996, 1994, 1992
Grants of $6,000 from the Deutscher Literaturfonds, Darmstadt for my Writer in Residence Program.
1983-88
Annual grants of $5,500 from the DAAD for my Writer in Residence Program.
1981
Grant of £10,000 from the British Academy.
1972-1988
Numerous grants for research in Germany from the DAAD, including one for six months and another for three.
I was nominated by German colleagues for a Forschungspreis of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for 1998.