Matthew Lange

Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Matthew Lange
Associate Professor

Education

2006	University of Wisconsin : Madison, WI Ph.D., German Literature
1997	University of Colorado : Boulder, CO M.A., German Studies
1994	The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina : Charleston, SC B.A., Modern Languages

Publications

Monograph

Antisemitic Elements in the Critique of Capitalism in German Culture, 1850-1933. German Life and Civilization. Vol. 46. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2007. 348pp.

Reviewed by
Ulrich Wyrwa. H-Soz-u-Kult. 22 December 2008.
Thomas Gräfe. Suite101: Das Netzwerk der Autoren. 8 March 2009.

Articles

“Börsenkrach (1873).” Handbuch des Antisemitismus. Judenfeindschaft in Geschichte und Gegenwart. Band 4. Im Auftrag von Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung der Technischen Universität Berlin. Hrsg. von Wolfgang Benz. Berlin: de Guyter, 2011. pp. 57–59.
“Bankjuden (Börsenjuden).” Handbuch des Antisemitismus. Judenfeindschaft in Geschichte und Gegenwart. Band 3. Im Auftrag von Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung der Technischen Universität Berlin. Hrsg. von Wolfgang Benz. Berlin: de Guyter, 2010. pp. 40–42.
“Die 'goldene' Internationale.” Ibid. pp. 111–113.
“Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl.” Handbuch des Antisemitismus. Judenfeindschaft in Geschichte und Gegenwart. Bd. 2.2. Im Auftrag von Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung der Technischen Universität Berlin. Hrsg. von Wolfgang Benz in Zusammenarbeit mit Werner Bergmann, Johannes Heil, Juliane Wetzel und Ulrich Wyrwa. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2009. pp. 687–88.
“Franz Schrönghamer-Heimdal.” ibid. pp. 747–48.
“Arwed Solano.” ibid. pp. 777–78.
“Adolph Wagner.” ibid. pp. 859–61.
“Berlin’s ‘Cathedrals of Commercialism’: Cultural Confrontations with the Warenhaus Phenomenon.” Topography and Literature: Berlin and Modernism. Ed. Reinhard Zachau. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht unipress, 2009. pp. 11-26.
“‘Vergiß es nie, daß die Juden uns vertrieben haben’: Did Antisemitism Migrate with Germans to the United States in the Nineteenth Century?” Yearbook for German-American Studies 42 (2007): 53–68.
“The Will to Power or Vox Populi? Hitler Biographies and the Question of Culpability,” with Eric Ehrenreich and Corina Petrescu. Unmasking Hitler: Cultural Representations of Adolf Hitler from the Weimar Republic to the Present. Eds. Jost Hermand and Klaus Berghahn. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2005. pp. 81–104.

Review

Chronik der deutschen Literatur: Daten, Texte, Kontexte. Hrsg. von Peter Stein und Hartmut Stein (Stuttgart: Kröner, 2008) in: Monatshefte für deutschsprachige Literatur und Kultur 101.4 (2009): 569–71.

Teaching Experience

University of Wisconsin–Whitewater
(2011-): Associate Professor and Director of German Program
(2006–11): Assistant Professor and Director of German Program
(2005–06): Visiting Assistant Professor

Intermediate German, Advanced German Language Study, German Conversation, Business German, German Civilization, Readings in Modern German Literature, German Phonetics, Survey of German Literature from the Beginnings to 1800, Survey of German Literature Since 1800, Foreign Film Appreciation, and Independent Studies

University of Wisconsin–Madison (F97/S98/F00/S01/F03): Teaching Assistant

University of Colorado–Boulder (F94/S95/F96/S97): Teaching Assistant

Presentations

“Wider den ‘jüdischen’ Geist. Antisemitismus und die Gestaltung einer ‘deutschen’ Wirtschaftsgesinnung” at the conference “Der Produktivitätsdiskurs und seine Ausschlüsse”, Amsterdam, October 2010
“Recording German TV for Free with the Internet: Introduction to onlinetvrecorder.com” in the session “Innovative Technology in the German Classroom” at the annual convention of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Language (ACTFL), San Diego, November 2009
“Berlin’s ‘Cathedrals of Commercialism’: Cultural Confrontations with the Department Store up to the Great War.” History Colloquium, UW–Whitewater, October 2008
“Berlin’s ‘Cathedrals of Commercialism’: Cultural Confrontation of the Warenhaus Phenomenon” at the conference “Berlin und die Moderne 1900-1945”, Sewanee, September 2008
“The Migration of Antisemitism in German-Americana at the End of the Nineteenth Century,” Faculty Seminar, UW–Whitewater, October 2007
“The Emigration of Antisemitism in German-American Literature: The Case of Waldemar Wernich’s Moderne Oekonomen: Erzählung vom Lande (1892),” German Studies Graduate Student Conference, UW– Madison, April 2004
“Antisemitic Anticapitalism in German Culture from 1850 to 1945,” Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung, Technische Universität–Berlin, June 2003
“The Will to Power or Vox Populi? Hitler Biographies and the Question of Culpability,” 35th annual Wisconsin Workshop, with Eric Ehrenreich and Corina Petrescu, UW–Madison, September 2002

Awards, Honors, and Grants

Goethe Institute stipend to attend the seminar "Kunst und Kultur in München", Munich, July 2010
Recognized as an Outstanding Teacher by the Panhellenic Council, UW–Whitewater, 2008
Honoree at Scholarship & Creative Achievement Reception, UW–Whitewater, 2008, 2009
Recipient of $1000 grant to participate in the UW–System Project “Podcasting in Language Instruction – Exploring Potential and Assessing Impact,” 2006/07
Dissertation Fellowship from the Graduate School, UW–Madison, 2003
Fulbright-Hays Full Grant to the Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung, TU–Berlin, 2002/03
George L. Mosse Graduate Exchange Fellowship to the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 2002/03 (declined)
Center for German and European Studies Travel Grant to Germany, UW–Madison, 2001
University Fellowship from the Graduate School, CU–Boulder, 1996/97
DAAD-Kontaktstipendium to the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen, Germany, 1995/96
Delta Phi Alpha (National German Honor Society, Kappa Mu chapter president) The Citadel, 1993/94

Professional and Service Activities

Member of National Selection Committee for Fulbright English Teaching Assistantships (ETA) to Germany, 2010-
Accompanied the UW-Whitewater Chamber Singers on a concert tour of Germany, May 2010
Participant in the Transatlantisches interkulturelles Nachwuchsförderungsprogramm Deutsch als Fremdsprache II (Transatlantic Intercultural Next Generation Promotion Program: German as a Second Language, TraiNDaF II) leadership program of the American Association of Teachers of German (AATG), Goethe Institut Chicago, September 2009
Member of UW–System Delegation to Hessen to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Hessen-Wisconsin Student Exchange, Germany, December 2008
Webmaster for the ACTFL Special Interest Group Small Undergraduate German Programs (SUGP-SIG), 2008-
Advisor to and founder of the Sigma Delta chapter of Delta Phi Alpha (National German Honor Society), UW–Whitewater, 2007–
Organizer of inter-departmental (German/History/PoliSci) travel study course to Berlin in spring of 2008
Participant in the Scholar/Mentor Program, UW–Whitewater, Summer 2007
Contributor in a UW–System Project “Podcasting in Language Instruction – Exploring Potential and Assessing Impact,” 2006/07
Advisor to the Hessen-Wisconsin Student Exchange, UW–Whitewater, 2006–
German Section Head and Advisor for the German Major, UW–Whitewater, 2006–
Participant in Advising Institute, UW–Whitewater, August 2006
Advisor to the German Club, UW–Whitewater, 2005–
Coordinator for German activities at annual Language Day, UW–Whitewater, 2005–
Presenter of German films at the International Film Series, UW–Whitewater, 2005–
Committee Activity in the College of Letters and Sciences, UW–Whitewater: International Education (2007–), Excellence in Teaching Award (2007)
Committee Activity in the Department of Languages and Literatures, UW–Whitewater: Review, Promotion, and Tenure (2011-), Assessment (2007–), Curriculum (2007–), Language Day (2007–), Majors and Minors (2005–), Technology (2006–07), Social (2005–07)
Moderator for German Studies Graduate Conference on “The Permanence of Change,” UW–Madison, April 2005
Advisor for the UW–Madison Writing Center’s Fulbright Draft Workshop, 2004

Study and Research Abroad

2002/03	Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung : Berlin, Germany Dissertation Research with Fulbright Fellowship
1995/96	Friedrich-Alexander Universität : Erlangen, Germany Graduate Studies with Stipend from the DAAD
July 1992	Internationaler Ferienkurs für deutsche Sprache : Salzburg, Austria Undergraduate Studies with Barnhill-Harley Scholarship

Translation Experience

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Butler University. “Grundwerte der Geistes- und Naturwissenschaften.” 2007.
Klaus L. Berghahn. “Lessing the Critic: Polemics as Enlightenment.” A Companion to the Works of Lessing. Eds. Barbara Fischer and Thomas C. Fox. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2005. pp. 67-87.
Jost Hermand. “The Jacobins of Hamburg and Altona.” Patriotism, Cosmopolitanism, and National Culture: Public Culture in Hamburg 1700–1933. Ed. Peter Uwe Hohendahl. New York: Rodopi, 2003. pp. 133–41.
———. “Kleist’s Penthesilea : Battleground for Gender-Specific Discourses.” A Companion to the Works of Heinrich von Kleist. Ed. Bernd Fischer. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2003. pp. 43–60.
———. “Criticism and Utopian Thinking: Foundations of an Ecologically-Conscious Outlook” (unpublished lecture, 2001).
———. “Andrew Wyeth’s Helga Pictures: Anatomy of a Scandal” (unpublished lecture, 1999)
Wyrwa, Ulrich. “Burschenschaften,” Encyclopedia of Antisemitism: Anti-Jewish Prejudice and Persecution. Ed. Richard S. Levy. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2005. p. 91.
———. “1848.” Ibid. pp. 197–99.
———. “Emancipation.” Ibid. pp. 201–04.

Administrative and Professional Experience

Program Assistant to the Director (Klaus Berghahn) of the DAAD Center for German and European Studies Center, UW-Madison, 2001/02
Project Assistant for Prof. Jost Hermand, Department of German, 1999-2001, 2004
Project Assistant in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Learning Support Services (Language Lab), 1998/99

Professional Organizations

American Association of Teachers of German (AATG)
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Language (ACTFL) as well as the Special Interest Group for Small German Programs (SUGP-SIG)
Fulbright Association
German Studies Association (GSA)
Society for German-American Studies (SGAS)
Wisconsin Association For Language Teachers (WAFLT)