Academic Employment:
Associate Professor of German, University of Michigan-Dearborn, Head German Section (Sept. 1995-present), Director of Women's Studies (Sept. 97-April 98)
Assistant Professor of German, University of Michigan-Dearborn (August 1992-August 1995)
Dozentin, Deutsche Sommerschule am Pazifik (June-July 1992)
Visiting Assistant Professor of German, Miami University (June 1988-June 1992 & Jan.- May 1987)
Visiting Assistant Professor of German, Hamilton College (Sept 1987-May 1988)
Guest Positions:
Gastdozentin, Universität Leipzig (April-July 1998), taught proseminar
"Autobiographische Literatur: Literarische Autobiographien in Österreichnach 1945"
Education:
1980-86 Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin (awarded May 1986)
Dissertation: "Feminism and Austrian Women Writers in
the Second Republic," Barbara Becker-Cantarino (Director)
Jan-May University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, 1980
1976-77 M.A., Department of German, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1972-76 B.A., Washington College, Chestertown, MD, magna cum
laude with
Departmental Honors in German
1974-75 University of Salzburg (independent junior year abroad)
Publications:
Book:
Against the Horizon: Feminism and Postwar Austrian Women Writers (Westport:
Greenwood Press, 1988).
Book Projects in Progress:
"Reclaiming Heimat: Memoir Literature of Jewish Austrian Exiles"
"Austria: Made in Hollywood"
Publications continued:
Textbooks:
Deutsch: Na klar!, first-year text, third edition, Robert DiDonato, Monica Clyde, and J. Vansant (New York: McGraw Hill-Random House, 1998).
Deutsch: Na klar!, first-year text, second edition, Robert DiDonato, Monica Clyde, and J. Vansant (New York: McGraw Hill-Random House, 1995).
Deutsch: Na klar!, first-year text, Robert DiDonato, Monica Clyde, and J. Vansant (New York: McGraw Hill-Random House, 1990).
Blickwechsel, second-year reader, ed. J. Vansant with Janet
K. Swaffar, Katherine Arens, Sandra D. Shattuck, and Marie-Luise Gättens
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1990).
Articles:
"Österreichbilder im amerikanischen Film nach 1945," Das ist Österreich: Innen- und Außensichten, ed. Ursula Prutsch & Manfred Lechner (Vienna: Döcker Verlag, 1997), 287-310.
"‘Warum hast du sie sonderbehandelt?’: ‘Die Zigeunerin’ in Marie-Thérèse Kerschbaumers Der weibliche Name des Widerstands," Konflikte, Skandale, Dichterfehden in der österreichischen Literatur, ed. Wendelin Schmidt-Dengler, Johann Sonnleitner, and Klaus Zeyringer (Berlin: Schmidt Verlag, 1995), 236-247.
"‘Harry Lime und Maria von Trapp treffen sich am Stammtisch’: Die Entnazifizierung Österreichs in amerikanischen Filmen," The Sound of Austria, ed. John Bunzl (Vienna: Braumüller, 1995), 169-184.
"Marie-Thérèse Kerschbaumer's Der Schwimmer. A Linguistic Novel," Modern Austrian Literature 27, No. 1 (1994): 71-88
"Challenging Austria's Victim Status: National Socialism and Austrian Personal Narratives," German Quarterly 67, No. 1 (1994): 38-57.
"Wieviel Kanon braucht der Mensch?" Die einen rein. Die anderen raus. Der österreichische Kanon, ed. Wendelin Schmidt-Dengler, Johann Sonnleitner, and Klaus Zeyringer (Berlin: Schmidt Verlag, 1994), 161-171.
"Andreas Okopenko: Naiver Realist und zorniger Moralist," Protokolle No. 1 (1993): 7- 28.
"Nationalsozialismus und Autobiographien verfolgter Frauen," Nationalsozialismus in der österreichischen Provinz (Vienna: Mitteilungen des Instituts für Wissenschaft und Kunst, 1991): 2-7.
"Ways of Remembering: Der Bockerer as Play and Film," Austrian Writers and the Anschluß (Riverside, CA: Ariadne Press, 1991), 271-285.
"Liebe und Patriarchat in der Romantik: Sophie Mereaus 'Amanda und Eduard',"Der Widerspenstigen Zähmung, ed. Sylvia Wallinger and Monika Jonas (Innsbruck: University of Innsbruck, 1986), 185-200.
Publications continued:
Articles:
Germanistik 2 (1981-82): 53-63.
Forthcoming Articles:
"'Die Bäume sollten Trauer tragen': Mapping the Past in Elisabeth
Reichart's Komm über den See," Towards the Millenium: Austrian
Novels from 1970-1995, ed. Gerald Chapple (Tübingen: Stauffenburg).
"The ‘Denazification’ of Austria in American Cinema," From World War to Waldheim: Politics and Culture in Austria and the Unitied States, ed. David Wood & Ruth Wodak (Berghahn). A radically revised version of the talk from the conference Austria: A Small Country in the Shadow of a Superpower .
Encyclopedia Entry
"Barbara Frischmuth," Women Writers in German-speaking Countries,
ed. Elke Frederiksen and Elizabeth Ametsbichel (Westport: Greenwood Press,
1998): 144-151.
Forthcoming Encyclopedia Entry
Andreas Okopenko’s Romanlexikon and Kindernazi, in: Romanlexikon (Stuttgart: Reclam).
Interviews:
"Interview mit Marie-Thérèse Kerschbaumer," Modern Austrian Literature 22, No. 1 (1989): 107-120.
"Interview mit Elfriede Jelinek," Deutsche Bücher 15, No. 1 (1985): 1-9.
Bio-Bibliography:
Major Contributor to Women Writers of Austria, Germany, and Switzerland: An Annotated Bio-bibliographical Guide , ed. Elke Frederiksen (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1989).
Translations:
Ulrike Klepalski, "Midsummer Night," Helga Schreckenberger and J. Vansant, in: Against the Grain (Riverside, CA: Ariadne Press, 1997): 127-133.
Elfriede Jelinek, President Evening Breeze, Helga Schreckenberger
and J. Vansant, in: new anthology of contemporary austrian folk plays
(Riverside, CA: Ariadne Press, 1996): 293-318.
Gerhard Roth, The Calm Ocean, Helga Schreckenberger and J.
Vansant (Riverside, CA: Ariadne Press, 1993).
Sophie Mereau "Flight to the City," with biographical introduction
in Bitter Healing: Anthology of German Women Writers from Pietism to
Romanticism, ed. Jeannine Blackwell and Susanne Zantop (Nebraska: University
of Nebraska Press, 1990), pp. 371-373 & 380-399.
Horst Jesse, "The Young Brecht and Religion," Communications
15, No. 2 (April
1986): 17-27.
Publications continued:
Forthcoming Translation:
Gerhard Roth, The Story of Darkness, Helga Schreckenberger and J. Vansant (Riverside, CA: Adriane Press, 1998).