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Kyle Frackman

Lecturer and Language Program Coordinator
Affiliated Faculty, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Contact Information

Location: Herter Hall 519
Phone: (413) 545-6670 or 545-2350
Email: frackman[at]german.umass.edu
http://www.kylefrackman.com

Teaching and Research Interests

18th- to 20th-century German and Austrian literature and culture; film; queer theory; feminist theory; gender studies; Scandinavian/Nordic studies; Swedish; Finnish

Relevant Links

Women in German
German Studies Association
American Association of Teachers of German
Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study

Education

Ph.D. 2009, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Cert. in Advanced Feminist Studies 2007, Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst
M.A. 2004, University of Massachusetts Amherst
B.A. 2001, Hamline University

Current and Recent Courses

German 110, 120, 230, 240: Elementary to Intermediate German
German 126H: Intensive Elementary German (Honors)
German 349: Witches: Myth & Reality (Amherst College)
German 372: Vienna 1880-1914
German 391G: German & Scandinavian Studies Junior Seminar
German 425: Mysteries and Crime Stories
German 620: Graduate Stylistics
German 697E: Enlightenment 2.0
German 697N: Debating Contemporary Germany
German 698: Teaching Practicum
German 791B: Germanness in 18th- and 19th-Century Literature & Culture
Swedish 110, 120, 230: Elementary to Intermediate Swedish
Swedish 397A: Advanced Swedish I: Dreams, Fantasies, and Nightmares
Swedish 397B: Advanced Swedish II: Young Voices

Selected Publications

• "Something Old, Something New: Integrating Canonical Works in a German Studies Curriculum." Die Unterrichtspraxis / Teaching German 44.2 (2011): 124-32.
• Entries on "Swedish-Speakers in Finland," "Einojuhani Rautavaara," "Nobel Peace Prize," and "Folk High Schools" in Encyclopedia of Contemporary Scandinavian Culture. Eds. Helen Forsås-Scott, Mary Hilson, and Titus Hjelm. London: Hurst & Co., 2012. (forthcoming)
• Entries on "Lola und Bilidikid" and "Zurück auf los" in The Directory of World Cinema: Germany. Ed. Michelle Langford. Bristol: Intellect Books, 2011. (forthcoming)
• “Finland, Civil War, and Revolution, 1914-1918.” International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest: 1500 to the Present. Ed. Immanuel Ness. NY: Blackwell, 2009.
  
• “Out of Time: ‘Allotemporality’ in Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss’s Zurück auf los.” queere (t)ex(t)perimente. Ed. Franziska Bergmann, Jennifer Moos, and Claudia Münzing. Freiburg: fwpf-Verlag, 2008.
  
• Entries on “German Literature,” “Magnus Hirschfeld,” and “Richard von Krafft-Ebing” in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Love, Courtship, and Sexuality through History: The Nineteenth Century. Vol. 5. Ed. Susan Mumm. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2008.
• From Weimar to Christiania: German and Scandinavian Studies in Context. Co-Ed. with Florence Feiereisen. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007.

Selected Invited Talks, Delivered Papers, and Presentations

• "Coming Out of the Iron Closet: Melancholy, Suppression, and East Germany." 20 April 2010. Invited to Department of German Studies, Bucknell University.
• "Old Faces, New Places: Canon Rejuvenation in German Studies." Panel: German Masters Reloaded. NEMLA 2010. 7-11 April 2010. Montreal, Quebec.
• “The Curious Case of the Turkish Drag Queen: Queer Film and Feminist Pedagogy in an Advanced German Stylistics Course.” Panel (Praxis and Pedagogy): Queering the Gaze: Film and Feminism in the Classroom. Women in German Conference. 22-25 Oct. 2009. Augusta, Michigan.
• “Perverse Symbiosis: Home, Respectability, and Corporeal Subjectivity in Frank Wedekind’s Frühlings Erwachen.” Panel: Pedagogical Narratives: The Body and Education around 1900. GSA 2009. 8-11 Oct. 2009. Washington, DC.
• “Wende-Flicks im Unterricht.” Workshop co-facilitated with Victoria Lenshyn. Virginia AATG Immersion Weekend for German Teachers. Sweet Briar College. 18-20 Sep. 2009.
• “A Time and Place for Sexuality: Uncanny Queerness and Contemporary Germany.” 19 April 2009. Department of German, Williams College. Invited talk, included as part of Queer Pride Days.
• “Podcasting Culture: Technology as a Means of Cultural Integration in an Intensive Elementary German Course.” Co-presented with Victoria Lenshyn. Second Symposium on Contemporary German Culture: Teaching Culture(s). 10-11 April 2009. Middlebury College.
• “The Temporality of Sexuality and Disease in Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss’s Zurück auf los.” Panel: German-German Problems (I). NEMLA 2008. 10-13 April 2008. Buffalo, New York.
• “There’s No Place Like Home…? The Queerly Diasporic in Lola + Bilidikid.” Panel: Down and Out in the New Germany. NEMLA 2007. 1-4 Mar. 2007. Baltimore, Maryland.
• “Dissolving the Fourth Wall: Theatricality and Masculine Space in German and Nordic Painting.” Poster session. Women in German Conference. 19-22 Oct. 2006. Snowbird, Utah.
• “Boy Interrupted: Male Homosociality and Anxieties of Intrusion in Nordic Visual Art.” Panel: Men in/and Art. Conference: Nordic Conference on Men and Masculinities: Experiences of Men—Masculinities and Bodies. 5-7 May 2006. Åbo Akademi University, Turku/Åbo, Finland.
• “Bedding with Honor: Gender Dynamics in fin-de-siècle German and Austrian Educational Culture.” Poster session. Women in German Conference. 20-23 Oct. 2005. Carrollton, Kentucky.
• “There is a Time and a Place for Everything: Logics of Textual Time-Space.” Panel: Language, Ideology, and Education. Conference: Eurovisions: Crossing Disciplines, Crossing Boundaries. Department of Anthropology. University of Massachusetts Amherst. 13-14 May 2005.
• “‘Die lähmende Gewalt der Enge’: Discipline, Sexual Complicity, and Queer Space in Robert Musil’s Törleß.” Poster session. Women in German Conference. 21-24 Oct. 2004. Carrollton, Kentucky.
• “Queerly Everyday: Discursive Mobility and (Hetero)Normative Discipline in Der bewegte Mann.” With Rachael A. Salyer. Panel: (Re)Negotiations of History, Gender, and Subjectivity: East, West, and Post-Wende German Film. Conference: (Re)Visions: New Ideas in German and European Studies. University of Massachusetts Amherst. 26 Mar. 2004.