Modern Languages
James Martin
Assistant Professor of German
E-mail: jmartin6@washcoll.edu
Phone: (800) 422-1782, ext. 5705
Office: Goldstein 115
Education
- B.A., Rider University, 1995
- M.A., Georgetown University, 1999
- Ph.D., Georgetown University, 2004
Research Interests
- Contemporary Austrian Literature
- Colonialism in 18th & 19th Century German Literature
- Film and Visual Media
Recent Publications
- "Reading Race in Heinrich von Kleist's Die Verlobung in St. Domingo," Monatshefte für den Deutschunterricht 100 (2008): 48-66.
- "Die bezaubernde Anmut eines chemischen Prozesses—Photography in the Works of Gerhard Roth and W.G. Sebald," Modern Austrian Literature 40/4 (2008): 42-60.
- "Melancholic Wanderings: W.G. Sebald's Die Ringe des Saturn," Gegenwartsliteratur. Ein germanistisches Jahrbuch VI, 2007.
- "A World Turned Upside Down: Role Reversals in the Victim-Perpetrator Complex in Christoph Ransmayr's Morbus Kitahara" in Victims and Perpetrators 1933-45: (Re)presenting the Past in Post-unification Culture. Ed. Laurel Cohen-Pfister and Dagmar Wienroeder-Skinner. Berlin: DeGruyter, 2006.