Christine Haase's primary research and teaching interests lie within German literature and culture from the 19th to the 21st century. She is the department's specialist for film studies, German film, and popular culture. She is also interested in post-1945 literature and culture with a focus on Holocaust studies, especially questions of cinematic representations of the Holocaust and the Third Reich. Prof. Haase has written on the Holocaust, German cinema, and concepts and functions of laughter and the funny. In 2007, she published a book on transcultural film making by German directors, When Heimat Meets Hollywood: German Filmmakers and America 1985-2005. Her current research centers on visual representations of the Holocaust and the Third Reich in the cinema as well as in the fine arts, and on the links between German Cinematic and Fine Arts Traditions in general. Prof. Haase teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in both her general and specialty areas of research, as well as language courses on all levels.
Courses:
GRMN 3300 History of German Film
GRMN 4410 Representations of the Holocaust in Film and Literature
GRMN 4510 Laughter and Resistance
GRMN 6500 20th-21st Century Texts and Contexts in German-speaking Literature
GRMN 8200 Topics in German Cinema |
Recent Publications:
"Ready For His Close-Up? On the Success and Failure of Representing Hitler in Der Untergang/Downfall (2004)" in Studies in European Cinema, 3.3 (2007), pp. 189-99.
When Heimat Meets Hollywood: German Filmmakers and America 1985-2005, Rochester/NY: Camden House, 2007. |
Current Projects:
Booklength study on visual representations of the Holocaust and the Third Reich
Study of Links between German Cinematic and Fine Arts Traditions |
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Christine Haase
Associate Professor of German
(Ph.D., University of Virginia)
Office: 110 Joseph E. Brown Hall
Phone: 542-2456
E-mail: chaase@uga.edu |
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| Photo © 2007 Peter Murray |
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