Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Faculty and Staff

• 18th Century German Literature
• Goethe
• Faust
• Technology and Science in the Humanities

Ph.D.   University of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign   1984       

M.A.     University of Cincinnati                            1979

            Universität Hamburg                                1977-78

B.A.      Calvin College                                          1976

Monograph

        Seeking Meaning for Goethe's Faust.  London/New York:  Continuum

                   Books, 2007.

Editorial Work

        Guest Editor for Bulletin of Science, Technology, and Society 30/4

                   (2010):  233-304.  Special issue on Science Fiction.

Articles in Journals and Chapters in Books
 

       "Editor's Notes:  Science, Technology, and Science Fiction."

                  Bulletin of Science, Technology, and Society 30/4 (2010): 233-239.

       "Frankenstein as Science Fiction and Fact." Bulletin of Science,

                  Technology, and Society 30/4 (2010): 298-304.

       "Lessing's 'Lost' Faust and Faustus Socinus."  Lessing Yearbook XXXVIII.

                    (2008-2009): 53-65.

       "Herder on War and Peace." Monatshefte 101 (2009):  335-346.

       "How the Internet Shapes Religious Life, or the Medium is Itself the

                    Message."  Bulletin of Science, Technology, and Society.  29/4 (2009):

                    272-277.

       "The Transcultural Textures of Faust."  In Jahrbuch für
                    internationale Germanistik.   Ed.  Steven D. Martinson and
                    Renate Schulz.  94 (2008): 165-178.
       "Is it live or is it Memorex."  Bulletin of Science, Technology, and Society.
                    27 (2007): 136-141.
       "Christoph Martin Wieland and the German Making of Greece."  In
                    Nineteenth Century Literary Criticism.  Ed. Russell Whitaker.  Vol.
                    177.  Detroit/New York/London/Munich:  Thompson/Gale.
                    2007.  316-323.  First appeared in The Germanic Review, 70/2
                    (1995):  51-56.
       "Machines and Human Beings in the Movies."  Bulletin of Science,
                    Technology, and Society.  26/1 (February 2006):  31-37.
       “Goethe, Narrative, and Science.”  Scientia Poetica.  Jahrbuch für
                    Geschichte der Literatur und der Wissenschaften / Yearbook
                    for the History of Literature, Humanities and Sciences.
                    9 (2005): 72-85.
       "The Virtual and the Real in Goethe's Faust."  Nineteenth Century

                    Literature Criticism.  Ed. Jessica Bomarito and Russel Whitaker.

                    Vol. 154.  Detroit/New York/London/Munich:  Thompson/Gale,

                    2005.  292-299.  First appeared in Acta Germanica, vol. 25,

                    (1997): 7-20

       "Kabale und Liebe Reconsidered."  A Companion to the Works of Friedrich

                   Schiller.  Ed. Steven D. Martinson.  Rochester, NY:

                   Camden-House, 2005. 115-135.

       "Über Goethe, Essays und Experimente."  Tr. Marcus Krause.  In

Literarische Experimentalkulturen im 19. Jahrhundert:  Poetologien des
Experiments im 19. Jahrhundert.  Ed. Marcus Krause and Nicolas
Pethes.  Würzburg:  Königshausen & Neumann, 2005.  243-250.
First appeared in Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift 64 (1990): 45-53.

       "Temptation and Seduction in the Technological Milieu."  Bulletin of

                    Science, Technology, and Society.  Special Issue on Jacques Ellul.

                    24/6 (December 2004): 509-517.

       "Goethe, Hesiod, and Yeats on Progress."  Neophilologus. 88 (2004):

                    405-416.

       "Neil Postman and the Critique of Technology." Bulletin of Science,

                   Technology, and Society. 24/2 (April 2004):  145-150.

       "Faust and Textual Chaos."  In Goethe, Chaos, and Complexity.  Ed.

                   Herbert Rowland.  Amsterdam:  Rodopi, 2001.  105-115.    

       "Plastic Words, Words Without Meaning."  In Bulletin of Science,

                   Technology, and Society.  21/5 (October 2001): 349-353.     .

       "Faust as Technological Mastermind."  In Bulletin of Science,

                   Technology, and Society.  21/1 (February 2001): 7-13. 

       "Essayistic Orders of Chaos."  In Disrupted Patterns:  On Chaos and

                   Order in the Enlightenment.  Ed. T. E. D. Braun and J. A.

                   McCarthy.  Amsterdam:  Rodopi, 2000.  191-202.

       "Faust's Divided Self and Moral Inertia." Monatshefte. 91/4 (1999):

                   452-463.

       "The Virtual and the Real in Goethe's Faust."  Acta Germanica. 25

                   (1998): 7-20. 

       "Heidentum."  Goethe Handbuch.  Ed. Bernd Witte, Theo Buck,

                   Hans-Dietrich Dahnke, Regine Otto, and Peter Schmidt. 

                   Stuttgart:  Metzler, 1998.  Vol. 4/1.  473-475.

       "Education, Technology, and Totalitarianism."  The Bulletin of

                   Science, Technology, & Society. 17/5 & 6 (1997): 236-248.

       "Goethe."  Encyclopedia of the Essay.  Ed. Tracy Chevalier.

London and Chicago:  Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1997. 345-347.

       "The virtual and the real in Goethe's Faust."  In Studies on Voltaire

                   and the Eighteenth Century.  Vol. 346.  Transactions of the

                   Ninth Interna­tional Congress on the Enlightenment.

                   Ed. Anthony Strugnell.  Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 1996.  I:

                   476-479.

       "Christoph Martin Wieland and the German Making of Greece."  The

                   Germanic Review.  70/2 (1995):  51-56.

       "The Shape of a Genre."  Introduction to The Eighteenth-Century Book

                   Review.  Ed. Herbert Rowland and Karl J. Fink.  Heidelberg:  Carl

                   Winter Verlag, 1995.  11-15.

       "Nicolai's Concept of the Review Journal."  In The Eighteenth-

                   Century Book Review.  1995.  95-111.

       "Die Faustfigur bei Goethe und Nietzsche im Hinblick auf die

                   Postmoderne."  Euphorion:  Zeitschrift für Literaturgeschichte

                   88/4 (1994): 458-467.

       "The Problem of Language and National Identity for Holo-

                   caust Poet, Paul Celan."  History of European Ideas 16/1-3

                   (1993): 207-212. 

       "Friedrich Nicolai and Johann Jakob Dusch:  A Study in

                   Eighteenth-Century Literary Criticism."  Seminar:  A

                   Journal of Germanic Studies  28/2 (1992):  95-109.

       "Herder's Essayistic Style."  In Johann Gottfried Herder:

                  Language, History, and the Enlightenment.  Ed. Wulf Koepke.

                  Columbia, South Carolina:  Camden House, 1990.  108-123.

                   "Forster's 'Leckereyen' and Möser's 'Harlekin:'  Medium and

                   Message of the Essay."  Lessing Yearbook XXI (1990):

                    157-169.

       "Of Goethe, Essays, and Experiments."  Deutsche Viertel-       

                   ­­­­jahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistes-

                   ­geschichte 64 (1990): 45-53.

       van der Laan, James M., trans.  "America in Contemporary German

                   Poetry:  Images of Reality."  By Ruth E. Lorbe.  In Ameri-

                   ­ka!  New Images in German Literature.  Ed. Heinz D. Oster-

                   ­le.  New York/Bern/Frankfurt am Main/Paris:  Peter Lang,

                   243-275, 1989.

       "The German Essay of the Eighteenth Century:  Mirror of its

                Age."  Lessing Yearbook XVIII (1986): 179-196.

       "Goethe's Portrait of Herder in Dichtung und Wahrheit."  

                Neophilologus 70 (1986): 555-562.

       "'Das tauffbucblin verdeudscht:' Martin Luther, Book Produc-

                   ­tion, and Bibliography."  Gutenberg-Jahrbuch 1985 (1985):

                   162-166.