Marie-Luise Goldmann

Education

M.Phil. in German Language and Literature, New York University (2018); B.A. in Philosophy and German Literature, Humboldt-University Berlin (2015)

Research Interests

19th and 21st century literature, German Realism, theories of genre, theories of the novella, poetics of knowledge, social media and the digital age, contemporary narratives of non-communication (“ghosting”)

Academic Publications

  • “'Gebannt, gebannt!' Zur Poetik und Historiographie des Banns in Wilhelm Raabes Else von der Tanne.”
    Jahrbuch der Raabe-Gesellschaft 60.1 (2020): 159–182.
  • [Book Review] Geräusch, Gerücht, Gerede. Formen und Funktionen der Fama in Erzähltexten Theodor Storms und Arthur Schnitzlers, by Valérie Leyh. Berlin 2016.
    Schriften der Theodor Storm Gesellschaft 68 (2019): 100–102.
  • [Translation] “Psychotechnik, Berufspsychologie und das Kino. Münsterbergs psychologisches Laboratorium in Harvard (1892–1916),” by Jeremy Blatter.
    Media Studien. Film-Theorie-Ästhetik-Experiment. Ed. Rüdiger Steinmetz. 18 (2016): 147–168.

Awards

2018 Outstanding Teaching Award, NYU College of Arts & Science

Fellowships

2021 Research Fellowship at FU Berlin, Spring Semester

2020 Provost’s Global Research Initiative Berlin Fellowship, Fall 

          Semester

2019 Mainzer Summer Fellowship, NYU Graduate School of Arts & 

          Science

2019 Research and Lecture Fellowship at Ludwig-Maximilian-

          University Munich, Department of Comparative Literature, 

          Spring Semester

2018 Research and Lecture Fellowship at University Zurich, 

          Department of German, Fall Semester

2015 5-Year MacCracken Award Fellowship for Doctoral Students, 

          NYU Graduate School of Arts and Science, Department of 

          German

2014 DAAD Promos Fellowship for study abroad at NYU, 

         Department of Philosophy, Fall Semester 

Conference Organization

2020

“Trouble Every Day: The Novella and its Ordinary Terror,” Co-Organization with Anna Hordych, ACLA-Seminar, Sheraton Grand Hotel in Chicago (USA) [conference canceled due to coronavirus]

2018

“Sisterliness,” Co-Organization with Rahel von Minden and Endre M. Holéczy, Graduate Conference, New York University (USA)                                                       

2017

“Becoming Epistolary,” Co-Organization with William Cheung and Hyowon Cho, Graduate Conference, New York University (USA)

Conference Presentations (Selected)

2019

“The Novella’s Frame and Ban: Goethe’s Unterhaltungen and Gotthelf’s Die schwarze Spinne,” Realism in the Age of Goethe and Its Legacy. GSA-Panel-Series, Portland (USA).

2019

“Im Bann des Wirklichen: Flucht und Fremde in Raabes Else von der Tanne,” Asiatische Germanistentagung, Sapporo (JAP).

2019

“Novellenbann: Historiographische Dimensionen einer Gattung” Research Colloquium in the Graduate Program Language and Literature, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich (GER).

2019

“Auf Papier festgebannt [...] wie die Buchstaben eines Buches: Zur Poetik des Banns in Raabes Else von der Tanne,” German Department Graduate Colloquium, New York University (USA).

2018

“Es geht nur so die Rede: Rumors and Unreliable Report in Theodor Storm’s Der Schimmelreiter,” Sharing Subjects. Graduate Student Conference, Yale University (USA).

2018

“Missing Mothers: The Ghosts of Realism in Theodor Storm’s Ein Doppelgänger,” Realism and the Family. ACLA-Seminar, University of California Los Angeles (USA).

2016

“The Title Forbids: Tracking Hamlet’s Soliloquy in Ernst Lubitsch’s To Be or not To Be,” The End: Theories and Practices of Narrative Endings. Graduate Student Conference, Cornell University (USA).

2016

“Cold Acting and Feminine Surrender: A Gendered Reading of Denis Diderot’s Paradox of Acting,” Over the Edge: Liminal Psychic States. Interdisciplinary Workshop, New York University (USA).

 

Courses Taught

2016-2020 German Language Elementary to Intermediate Courses at 

                     New York University’s Department of German and 

                     Deutsches Haus at New York University 

2019           “Literature and Exile” at LMU Munich

2019          “Flucht und Bann: Die Novelle im 19. Jahrhundert“ at

                    LMU Munich 

2018           „Das Gerücht: Gerede und Erzählen im Realismus“ at 

                     University of Zurich 

Other Presentations (Selected)

2020

Introduction and moderation of the movie “The Edukators” for the NYU SPS Center for Applied Liberal Arts film-series “Your Voices/Your Votes: Activism around the World,” Deutsches Haus at NYU (USA). 

2017

Stage Interview with Richard David Precht about his book “Erkenne die Welt. Eine Geschichte der Philosophie,” Sommertheater Detmold (GER).

2017

Panelist at Festival Neue Literatur: “Queer as Volk,” Words with Writers, Austrian Cultural Forum New York (USA).

2012

Presentation of my visions for the future of culture in Westfalen, Visionskonferenz: Kulturagenda Westfalen, Hamm (GER).

Other Publications (Selected)