Harry L. Roddy
Associate Professor of German Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literature
Education
- B.S.E., Mechanical Engineering and German minor
Tulane University 1989
- Ph.D., Germanic Languages
The University of Texas at Austin 2004
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MFA., Poetry and Poetry Translation
Drew University 2016
Research Interests
- Masculinity and Psychoanalytic Theory
- Film Studies
- Hans Henny Jahnn, Rolf Dieter Brinkmann, and Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Translation Theory
Publications
Books
- The Perverse Utopias of Hans Henny Jahnn, Rolf Dieter Brinkmann, and Rainer Werner Fassbinder (in preparation)
Journal Articles
- 鈥淎 West German Brigata: Female Agency and Authoritarian Backlash in the Film Germany in Autumn,鈥 in preparation.
- 鈥淲riting Trauma: Psychotraumatic Dissociation in the Poetry of Rolf Dieter Brinkmann,鈥 under review, Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies.
- 鈥Hans Henny Jahnn鈥檚 New Masculine Ideal: Perrudja as Critique of Hegemonic Masculinity,鈥 Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies 55.3 (2019).
- 鈥The Yellow Flower of Norway: Trauma and Repetition in Hans Henny Jahnn鈥檚 Perrudja,鈥 The German Quarterly 88.3 (2015): 317-333.
- 鈥The 鈥楳ass Ornament鈥 at Play in Rolf Dieter Brinkmann鈥檚
翱产别谤蹿濒盲肠丑别苍产别蝉肠丑谤别颈产耻苍驳别苍,鈥 South Atlantic Review 75.1 (2010): 1-20. - 鈥Unsere Rockgruppe geht auf Tournee!: A Collaborative Writing Project for the Intermediate Level,鈥 Unterrichtspraxis 42.1 (2009): 69-74.
- 鈥A Revolutionary Critique of Individualism: Heiner M眉ller鈥檚 Mauser in Texas,鈥
- Monatshefte 92.2 (2000): 184-98."
Book Chapters
- 鈥Ecce Homo: Rainer Werner Fassbinder鈥檚 Performance of Wounded Masculinity in Deutschland im Herbst.鈥 Celebrating Janet Swaffar, A Festschrift, Katherine Arens and Hiram Maxim, eds., Agarita Press, 2023
Encyclopedia entries
- Roddy, Harry Louis, academic advisor. 鈥淗ans Henny Jahnn (1894-1959),鈥 in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, vol. 328, ed. Lawrence J. Trudeau. Gale/Cengage Learning: 2016, pp. 1-131.
Courses
- Teaches all levels of German language, literature and culture courses.