Todd R Herzog
Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies, Director of European Studies
733 Old Chemistry Building
513-556-2972
todd.herzog@uc.edu
Professional Summary
Todd Herzog's research and teaching focus on 20th- and 21st-centuryGerman and Austrian literature, film, and culture. He is author of Crime Stories: Criminalistic Fantasy and the Culture of Crisis in Weimar Germany (Berghahn, 2009) and co-editor of A New Germany in a New Europe (Routledge, 2001) and Rebirth of a Culture: Jewish Identity and Jewish Writing in Germany and Austria Today(Berghahn, 2008). He is currently editing A Critical Filmography ofGerman Cinema to 1945 for Caboose Books and working on a monograph onsurveillance and cinema. He regularly teaches courses on Germanicmythology, European cinema, film studies methodology and history,German cultural history, and children's literature. He is Director of Graduate Studies in the German Studies Department, is Director of European Studies, and also regularly directs the annualstudy tour to Berlin.
Education
PhD, University of Chicago,
2001.
MA, Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore, MD, 1994 (Germanic Languages and Literature).
BA, Amherst College,
Amherst, MA, 1991 (European Studies).
Research Interests
Todd Herzog’s teaching and research interests include crime and detective fiction, European modernism, German-Jewish culture, contemporary European cultural politics and film studies. He is author of Crime Stories: Criminalistic Fantasy and the Culture of Crisis in Weimar Germany (Berghahn Books, 2009) and co-editor (with Sander Gilman) of A New Germany in a New Europe (Routledge, 2001) and the Rebirth of a Culture: Jewish Identity and Jewish Writing in Germany and Austria Today (Berghahn Books, 2008; with Hillary Hope Herzog and Benjamin Lapp). He has written articles on the image of America in recent German-Jewish literature, theories of biological and cultural hybridity, the role of film in criminal investigation and the modernist case history.
Research Support
Taft Research Center Faculty Release Fellowship, Funded 2008
C.P. Taft Faculty Summer Research Fellowship, UC. Funded 2004
IGSA Individual Faculty Grant, UC Berlin Program. Funded 2003
C.P. Taft Faculty Summer Research Fellowship, UC. Funded 2002
German Academic Exchange Association (DAAD). Funded 2002
University Research Council Faculty Research Fellowship, UC. Funded 2001
C.P. Taft Conference within the Continental US Travel Grants, UC. Funded 2001 to 2008.
Fulbright Scholarship, Funded 1997 to 1998.
Quadrille Ball Committee Scholarship, Germanistic Society of America. Funded 1997 to 1998.
Wiegeland Travel and Research Grant in Norwegian Studies, University of Chicago, Universitetet i Oslo. Funded 1997
Gamer Fellowship, University of Chicago. Funded 1994 to 1999.
Amherst Memorial Fellowship, Funded 1993 to 1995.
John Woodruff Simpson Fellowship, Funded 1993
Rufus B. Kellogg Fellowship, Funded 1992 to 1993.
Published Abstracts
"’Criminalistic Fantasy’ and the Culture of Crisis in Weimar Germany." Proceedings of the American Historical Association 2005 (2005). Abstract.
Peer Reviewed Publications
"Crime Stories: Criminal, Society and the Modernist Case History." Representations (2002): 34-61.
"Hybrids and Mischlinge: Translating Anglo-American Cultural Theory into German." German Quarterly 70: 1, 17.
Books
Rebirth of a Culture: Jewish Identity and Jewish Writing in Germany and Austria Today. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2008.
A New Germany in a New Europe. New York and London: Routledge, 2001.
Book Chapters
"Policing Criminals in Weimar Germany." Police Forces: A Cultural History of an Institution. Ed. Klaus Mladek. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2007.
"Criminalistic Fantasy’ and the Culture of Crisis in Weimar Germany." Proceedings of the American Historical Association 2005 Conference. Washington, D.C.: American Historical Association and University Microfilms, 2005.
"’Wien bleibt Wien’: Austrian-Jewish Culture at Two Fins de Siècle." Literature in Vienna at the Turn of the Centuries: Continuities and Discontinuities around 1900 and 2000. Ed. Ernst Grabovski and James Hardin. Rochester and Suffolk: Camden House, 2003. 205-220.
"’New York is More Fun:’ Amerika in der zeitgen—ssischen deutsch-jüdischen Literatur / Die zeitgen—ssische detusch-jüdische Literatur in Amerika." Deutsch-jüdische Literatur der neunziger Jahre. Die Generation nach der Shoah, Beiheft zur Zeitschrift für Deutsche Philologie. Ed. Sander L. Gilman und Hartmut Steineck. Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag, 2002. 204-213.
"Germans and Jews after the Fall of the Wall: The Promises and Problems of Hybridity." German Studies in the Post-Holocaust Age. Ed. Adrian Del Caro and Janet Ward. Boulder, CO: University of Colorado Press, 2000. 93, 102.
"’Den Verbrecher erkennen.’ Zur Geschichte der Kriminalistik." Gesichter der Weimarer Republik. Eine physiognomische Kulturgeschichte. Ed. Claudia Schm—lders and Sander L. Gilman. Berlin: DuMont, 2000. 51, 77.
Encyclopedia Articles
"Scapegoat." Violence in America: An Encyclopedia. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1999.
"Copycat Violence." Violence in America: An Encyclopedia. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1999.
"Violence as Spectacle." Violence in America: An Encyclopedia. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons.
Reviews
David Schmid. "Natural Born Celebrities." Internationales Archiv für Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur. (2006).
"Images of Crime. Representations of Crime and the Criminal in Science, the Arts, and the Media, Vol. 1-2." Internationales Archiv für Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur. (2005).
Shoshana Felman. "The Juridical Unconscious." German Quarterly 76.4. (2003).
Invited Presentations
(02/28/2004). Aimee and Jaguar and the Holocaust Love Story.. Out of the Shadows: Berlin in German Cinema After the Wall, Miami, OH.
(01/21/2004). Crime Stories. Department of German Studies Brown-Bag Lunch, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH.
(11/07/2003). Crime Stories. Department of Sociology Colloquium Series, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH.
(09/18/2003). Methods of Teaching European Cinema in the Foreign Language Classroom: A Workshop For High School and University Teachers. Kentucky Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages Annual Conference, Louisville, KY.
(05/12/2001). Crime Stories: Criminal, Society and the Modernist Case History. German Historical Institute, Washington, DC.
(11/26/2000). New York is More Fun. Literarisches Colloquium, Berlin,Germany.
(12/17/1999). Seeing the Criminal. Einstein Forum and the Deutsches Historisches Museum, Potsdam, Germany.
Lectures
(03/23/2006). Keeping Memory Alive: Commentary on New Directions in Representing the Holocaust. Trajectories of Memory: Intergenerational Representations of the Holocaust in History and the Arts, Bowling Green, OH.
(02/27/2004). Aimee and Jaguar and the Holocaust Love Story. Out of the Shadows: Berlin in German Cinema After the Wall, Miami University, Oxford, OH.
Paper Presentations
Life Under Sueveillance: Ethics and the Media in the Films of Michael Haneke. Modern Austrian Literature and Culture Association, Seattle, WA. 04/26/2008.
Berlin Childhoods: Film Versions of Emil und die Detektive. German Studies Association Annual Convention, Milwaukee, WI. 09/29/2005.
A Child’s Guide to Berlin: Filming Childhood in the City from the Weimar Republic to the Berlin Republic. XXI Conference of the International Association for Media and History, Cincinnati, OH. 07/20/2005.
Criminalistic Fantasy and the Culture of Crisis in Weimar Germany. American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA. 01/06/2005.
Crime, Detection, and German Modernism. Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, KY. 04/15/2004.
Crime, Childhood and the City: Film Adaptations of Emil und die Detektive from 1931-2001. Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, KY. 04/24/2003.
Literary Encounters Between German Jews and Jewish Americans in the 1990s. German Studies Association Annual Convention, San Diego, CA . 10/04/2002.
Is There A German Crime Fiction?. Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, KY. 04/18/2002.
Nazi Crime Fiction: The Case of the S-Bahn Murderer. Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, KY. 10/07/2001.
’We Understand It—On a Certain Level’: Criminal, Society and The Modernist Case History. Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities, Austin, TX. 03/09/2001.
Judges on Trial: Ingeborg Bachmann’s ‘Ein Wildermuth’ and the Crisis of the Modern Judicial System. Literature on Trial, Emory University. 10/07/2000.
The Criminal as Virtual Archive: On the Re-Appearance of the Hochstapler in Weimar Germany. Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, KY. 04/29/2000.
Events Organized
“Keeping Memory Alive.” Trajectories of Memory: Intergenerational Representations of the Holocaust in History and the Arts (03/23/2006 to 03/26/2006),
Bowling Green, OH.
“L'Eminence Grise: Multiple Directions Behind the Scene.” German Studies Association Annual Convention (09/29/2005 to 10/02/2005),
Milwaukee, WI.
“Film and Religion.” XXI Conference of the International Association for Media and History (07/20/2005 to 07/23/2005),
Cincinnati, OH.
“Bertolt Brecht (Special Session of the International Brecht Society).” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference (04/25/2003 to 04/27/2003),
Lexington, KY.
Holocaust Awareness Weeks. Co-sponsored events on Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the Jews, German filmmakers and the Holocaust, and cookbooks in the Terezin concentration camp in conjunction with The Center for Holocaust and Humanity Studies at Hebrew Union College (2003 to 2005),
.
“Film and the Holocaust: A Panel Discussion with Anna Rosmus,” Holocaust Awareness Weeks event co-sponsored by the Center for Holocaust and Humanity Studies at Hebrew Union College and the University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH (04/11/2002),
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