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Heide Crawford
specializes in German literature from the late 18th century to the present, focusing especially on the origins of the vampire in German literature, the development of German Gothic horror literature since the 18th century and its connection with central European cultural history, trends in European and American Gothic horror literature and film, and the impact of aesthetic theory and German Idealism on German Gothic horror narrative strategy. She is especially interested in the influence of contemporary German aesthetic theory on German Gothic Horror narrative strategy as an important feature that distinguishes it from trends in British literature that had developed concurrently. In addition to her interests in German, British and American horror literature, she is also interested in the German fairy tale tradition, German and American pop culture, and environmentalism in German literature and in contemporary culture. She has published articles and book chapters on the origins of the vampire in German literature, visualization in Goethe's poem Die Metamorphose der Pflanzen, and regionalism in Ernst Moritz Arndt's fairy tales. She is the recipient of two awards for teaching excellence for undergraduate and graduate teaching from the University of Kansas.
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Recent Publications:
- Article-length essay: "Who Really Wrote the German Vampire Story 'Wake Not the Dead?'" The Journal of Popular Culture (forthcoming in 2011).
- "'[M]it Mä rchen und mit Trä umen / Erinn'rung zu mir schwebt': Regional Identity and the Concept of 'Heimat' in Ernst Moritz Arndt's Märchen." Ernst Moritz Arndt (1769-1860). Deutscher Nationalismus - Europa - Transatlantische Perspektiven. German Nationalism - European Visions - American Interpretations. Ed. Walter Erhart and Arne Koch. (Studien und Texte zur Sozialgeschichte der Literatur). Tübingen: Max Niemeyer. (2007).
- "Poetically Visualizing Urgestalten. The Union of Nature and Art in Goethe's 'The Metamorphosis of the Plants'.'" Ed. Evelyn Moore and Patricia A. Simpson. The Enlightened Eye: Goethe and Visual Culture. Amsterdam: Rodopi. (2007).
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Current Projects:
Current research includes one book-length project on the vampire in German literature, a critical edition of the first German vampire novel, an article on E.T.A. Hoffmann's horror aesthetic in his story Vampyrismus, a special issue of Colloquia Germanica on German Gothic horror literature with Dr. Linda Worley as co-editor and a special issue of Colloquia Germanica on nature, the environment and environmentalism in German literature.
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Heide Crawford
Lecturer in German
(Ph.D. Penn State)
107 Joseph E. Brown Hall
Phone: 542-2442
Email: hacraw@uga.edu |
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