German Literature and Intellectual History from the 18th through the 21st centuries
Literature and the Visual Arts
Memory Discourses & Poetics of Memory
German Idealism, Romanticism and Realism
Contemporary German Culture and Popular Debate
German Language Pedagogy and Second Language Acquisition
Overview of Professional Experience
Assistant Professor (Limited Term), Department of German, Dalhousie University, 2006—2009
Teaching Fellow/Head Teaching Fellow, Harvard University, 9/1999—6/2005
Instructor of Language and Literature, Goethe-Institut Boston, 5/1998—12/1999
German Instructor, The Boston Language Institute, 1/1998—8/1999
Instructor, Heidelberger Paedagogikum & Inlingua Language Institute, 10/1996—10/1998
Tutor/Marker, Institut für Deutsch als Fremdsprachenphilologie, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität, Heidelberg, 4/1993—7/1995
Teaching Assistant, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada, 9/1991-6/1992
Other Academic Positions
Non-Resident Tutor in German, Pforzheimer House, Harvard University, 2004/5
Curatorial Assistant for Harvard University's Busch-Reisinger Museum Exhibition, "as though my body were nought but ciphers”: Crises of Representation in Fin-de-siècle Vienna, Cambridge (Mass.), 2-6/2005
Editorial Assistant, The Medieval Academy of America, 3/1998-9/1999
Research Assistant, Frühneuhochdeutsches Wörterbuch, a project of the ‘Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft', Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, 8/1990-12/1997
"azurblau, karminrot und giftig grün” – The Toxic and the Sublime in W. G. Sebald's Nach der Natur (submitted)
Review of The Undiscover'd Country. W. G. Sebald and the Poetics of Travel, ed. Markus Zisselsberger (Camden House 2010), in: German Studies Review (forthcoming)
"Keinem bleibt seine Gestalt”: Identität und Alterität in Christoph Ransmayrs Roman Die letzte Welt, in: MALCA – Electronic Conference Journal (forthcoming)
"Über die allmähliche Verfertigung visueller Erkenntnisse beim Zeichnen. Gerhard Richters graphisches Werk”, in: Triëdere: Periodikum für Theorie und Kunst (March 2011)
"Die Farbe Blau im lyrischen Werk Else Lasker-Schülers", in: TRANS. Internet-Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaft (vol. 17, http://www.inst.at/trans/17Nr/2-11/2-11_mcgonagill17.htm, February 2010)
"A New Science of Beauty: Jacopo de Barbari introduces Albrecht Dürer to a method of drawing the human figure according to a canon of proportion”, in: A New History of German Literature, ed. David E. Wellbery et al. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004): 209-214.
Translation of Volker Mertens' review of James A. Rushing's Images of Adventure: Ywain in the Visual Arts, in: Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies, April (2001): 513-517.
Travel/Research Grant, Max Kade Center for Contemporary German Literature at Washington University in St. Louis, 3/2011
Travel Grant, Center for Women and Gender, Utah State University, 3/11
Faculty Travel and Research Grant, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Utah State University, 10/2010
Faculty Travel and Research Grant, Humanities, College of Arts and Social Sciences, Utah State University, 2/2010
Travel Grant for Female Faculty, Women and Gender Research Institute, Utah State University, 12/2009
RDF Faculty Travel Grant for International Conferences, Dalhousie University, 2007
Whiting Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Harvard University, 2005
Term Time Award for Dissertation Research and Merit Fellowship, Harvard University, 2002
Derek Bok Award for Distinction in Teaching, Harvard University, 1999, 2000, 2001, and 2003
Ph.D. General Examination passed with Distinction, German Department, Harvard University, 11/2001
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Summer Fellowship, Harvard University, 2001
Jack M. Stein Teaching Fellow Prize, German Department, Harvard University, 2000
William Guild Howard Scholarship for European Students, Harvard University, 1999 and 2000
Harvard University Graduate Fellowship, 1999-2003
Dalhousie University Graduate Fellowship, 1991-1992
DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Student Travel Grant, 1991
