Astrida Orle Tantillo
Curriculum
Vitae |
Personal:
- Rank:
Professor and Director of the School of Literatures, Cultural Studies and Linguistics
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- Address:
1731 University Hall
University of Illinois at Chicago
601 S. Morgan Street
Chicago, IL 60607
Phone:
312-413-2137
Email:
tantillo@uic.edu
- Education:
- Ph.D.
University of Chicago, Committee on Social Thought, August 1994
Dissertation
Advisor: Karl J. Weintraub - M.A.
University of Chicago, Committee on Social Thought, March 1990
- B.A.
University of Oregon Honors College, Double Major: European History and German,
June 1985. Junior Year Abroad: University of Freiburg.1986
Publications:
- Books
- Articles
- “The Catholicism of Werther.” German Quarterly 81 (2008): 408-23.
- “Werther, Frankenstein, and Girardian Mediated Desire.” Studia Neophilologica, 80 (2008): 133-43.
- "Damned to Heaven: The Tragedy of Faust Revisited." Monatshefte, 99 (2007): 454-468.
- "The Subjective Eye: Goethe's Farbenlehre and Faust " in The Enlightened Eye: Goethe and Visual Culture . Ed. Evelyn Moore and Patricia Simpson. Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi, 2007 . 265-77
- "Reforming College: What Professors Don't Tell You." 17 November 2005 Slate Magazine .
- "Goethe's 'Classical' Science," in Weimar Classicism . Ed. Simon Richter. History of German Literature Series. Rochester: Camden House, 2005. 323-45 .
- "Goethe's
Evolutionary Thinking," in Goethe, Chaos, and Complexity. Ed. Herbert
Rowland (Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi, 2002), 47-56
- "A
New Reading of Werther as Goethe's Critique of Rousseau," Orbis Litterarum56 (2001): 443-65
- "Polarity
and Productivity in Goethe's Die Wahlverwandtschaften," Seminar
36 (2000): 310-25.
- "Creating
Nature: German Science, Literature, and Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century,"
Teaching the Eighteenth Century 7 (1999): 17-29
- "Herder
and National Culture: A Case Study of Latvia" in Raison universelle et
culture nationale au siècle des Lumières (31-46). Ed. David
Bell, Stéphane Pujol, and Ludmila Pimenova (Paris: Champion, 1999)
- "Goethe's
Botany and His Philosophy of Gender," Eighteenth-Century Life 22 (May
1998): 123-38
- "Deficit
Spending and Fiscal Restraint: Balancing the Budget in Die Wahlverwandtschaften,"
Goethe Yearbook 7 (1994): 40-61
- Reviews
- Henrik Boëtius, Marie Lousie Lauridsen, and Marie Louise Lefèvre. Light, Darkness and Colours. Icarus Films: Brooklyn, NY. 2000. Goethe Yearbook, 2010
- Armstrong, John, Love, Life, Goethe: Lessons of the Imagination From the Great German Poet , Chicago Tribune, Sunday Book Review Section (5) 28 January 2007.
- Lesley Sharpe, The Cambridge Companion to Goethe , Monatshefte 96 (2004): 613-14.
- Curran, Jane V., Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship : A Reader's Commentary , Lessing Yearbook , 35 (2003): 330-31
- Review:
Jane V. Curran, Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship: A Reader's Commentary
in Lessing Yearbook (forthcoming)
- Review:
"Northern Dreams of the South: Imagining Italy in the Eighteenth Century."
Review Essay on Italian Culture in Northern Europe in the Eighteenth Century(ed. Shearer West) and Italy in the German Literary Imagination (by
Gretchen Hachmeister) in Eighteenth-Century Studies 37 (2004): 311-13
- Review:
Jutta Linder, "Falsche Tendenzen": Der Staatsdiener Goethe und der
Dichter in German Quarterly 76 (2003):120-21
- Review:
Karin Schutjer, Narrating Community after Kant: Schiller, Goethe, and Hölderlinin Monatshefte 95 (2003):335- 37
- Review:
Werner Schlick, Goethe's Die Wahlverwandtschaften: A Middle-Class Critique
of Aesthetic Aristocratism in Seminar 39 (2003):74-75
- Review:
Martha B. Helfer, ed., Rereading Romanticism in Goethe Yearbook
11 (2002):438-40
- Review:
Karl Maurer, Goethe und die romanische Welt in German Quarterly73 (2000): 314-15
- Review:
Stefan Blessin, Goethes Romane: Aufbruch in die Moderne in German Quarterly
71 (1998): 304-305
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Review: Astrid Köhler, Salonkultur im klassischen Weimar: Geselligkeit
als Lebensform und literarisches Konzept in Colloquia Germanica 3 (1997):
282-83
- Review:
Marie Mitchell Olesen Urbanski, ed., Margaret Fuller: Visionary of the New
Age in Goethe Yearbook 8 (1996): 362-64
- Review:
Peter Burgard, Idioms of Uncertainty: Goethe and the Essay in Goethe
Yearbook 7 (1994): 261-64
Invited
Talks :
- “New Trends in German Studies,” A Workshop for Advanced Graduate Teaching Assistants in German Studies in the Midwest, Chicago , January 2007. (Sponsored by the Goethe Institute and DAAD.)
- "Goethe's Faust: Damned to Heaven," UIC, Dept. of Classics and Mediterranean Studies, March 2006 .
- "Goethe's
Science and German Classicism," University of Chicago, History of the Human
Sciences Workshop, October 2003
- "Goethe in Songs," guest lecturer (class), Northwestern University, School of Music , 2003, 2004, 2005 .
- "The
Will to Create: Goethe's Theory of Evolution," Bryn Mawr College, April 2000
- "Goethe's
Evolutionary Thinking," Symposium on "Goethe, Chaos, and Complexity,"
Purdue University, April 1999
- "Goethe's
Scientific Revolution," UIC Institute for the Humanities, January 1998
- "On
Work and Play: Lessing and Schiller," Chicago Humanities Festival, November
1997
- "Goethe
and the Natural Sciences: 'Interest' in 'Nature' as a 'Way to Humanität,'"
Department of Germanic Studies, University of Chicago, November 1996
Conference
Participation:
- “Werther the Fundamentalist,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Portland, March 2008.
- Panel chair, “Terror and Human Rights: Kleist,” MLA, Chicago 2007.
- Panel moderator, “Humanistic Literacy in an Anti-Intellectual Culture,” UIUC-UIC initiative: The Humanities and the Public University, March 2007
- Roundtable participant, “Pflicht und Kür – Going Beyond Taking Graduate Courses,” Workshop for Advanced Graduate Teaching Assistants (Sponsored by DAAD and the Goethe-Institute Chicago).
- Panel Chair, “Games People Play,” MLA, Philadelphia, December 2006.
- "A 'Monstrous' Reading of Werther : Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Goethe," GSA, Pittsburgh, September 2006.
- Panel Moderator, “ Literature and the Limits of Discipline,” GSA, Pittsburgh, September 2006.
- Invited conference participant, " Liberty , Law, and Daring in the Prometheus Myth," San Diego , January 2006.
- Panel Chair, "Border Crossings in 18th and 19th-Century German Literature," MLA, Washington D.C., December 2005
- Invited conference participant, "Evolution and the Novel," Toronto , April 2005.
- Sloan-C
Invitational Workshop on Blended Learning, Chicago, April 2004
- "Lucretius
and Eighteenth-Century Evolutionary Theory," International Society for Eighteenth-Century
Studies, Los Angeles, August 2003
- Panel
Chair, "Framing Goethe's Science," International Society for Eighteenth-Century
Studies, Los Angeles, August 2003
- "Long-Range
Planning and Budgeting," CIC Academic Leadership Seminar, Purdue University,
January 2003
- "Leadership
and Human Resources," CIC Academic Leadership Seminar, Michigan State University,
November 2002
- "Protean
Nature and Goethean Philosophy," American Society for Eighteenth-Century
Study, Colorado Springs, April 2002
- "The
Subjective Eye: Polarity and Creativity in Goethe's Farbenlehre," German
Studies Association, October 2000. (Paper read in my absence)
- Invited
Conference Participant, "Goethe's Faust: Liberty and Responsibility in the
Quest for Knowledge," Colorado Springs, March 2000
- Panel
Co-Chair, "Science and Popular Culture in the Enlightenment," American
Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, March 1999
- "Teaching
Eighteenth-Century Studies: German Science, Literature, and Philosophy,"
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, April 1998
- Panel
Chair, "Goethe and the Visual Arts," American Society for Eighteenth-Century
Studies, April 1998
- Panel
Chair, "The Eighteenth-Century Scientist: From Dilettante to Professional,"
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, April 1997
- Panel
Moderator, "Trust: Barriers and Bridges," Institute for Business and
Professional Ethics, DePaul University, February 1997
- "Goethe
as Self-Parodist: Der Triumph der Empfindsamkeit," Modern Language Association,
December 1996. "Herder and German Nationalism: A Case Study of Latvia,"
East-West Seminar: "Universal Reason and National Culture During the Enlightenment,"
sponsored by the International Society for Eighteenth- Century Studies, Paris,
July 15-19, 1996
- "Goethe's
Scientific Principle of Compensation," German Studies Association, September
1995
- "Creating
Nature: Law and Landscape in Rousseau, Austen, and Goethe," American Society
for Eighteenth- Century Studies, April 1995
- "The
Reconfiguration of the Family in Die Wahlverwandtschaften," Modern Language
Association, December 1994
- "Grafting
Shoots, Asexual Reproduction, and the Androgynous Soul in Goethe's Elective Affinities,"
Midwest Modern Language Association, November 1993
- "Erotic
Longings, Creative Impulses: Art and Nature in Goethe's Elective Affinities,"
Midwestern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, October 1993
Administrative
Experience:
- Visiting Associate Dean, Literatures, Cultural Studies, and Linguistics 2009-2010.
- Associate Dean, Special Dean for General Education, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, UIC 2005-2006.
- Associate Dean, Divisional Dean of the Humanities, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, UIC, 2002-2005.
- Visiting Assistant Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, UIC, 2001-2002.
- Oversight
of the College's Programs and Curricula, 2001-
- Oversight
of Humanities Departments, 2002-
- Revision
of the University's General Education Program, 2003-
- Member,
University's Subcommittee on Course Availability, 2004-
- Member,
University's General Education Steering Committee, 2003-
- Member,
University's Steering Committee on Hybrid Courses 2004-
- Administration
of LAS 100 (Freshman Seminar), 95 sections, 2001-2003
- Oversight
of the College's Educational Policy Committee, 2001-
- Editorial
Board, LAS Alumni Magazine, 2003-
- Organizer,
Faculty Seminar, "Beyond Structure and Agency" 2003-
- Board
Member, UIC Writing Center, 2004-
- Chair,
Annual LAS Showcase Event, 2004
- Departmental
Reviews, 2001-2003
- Co-Chair,
Executive Officer Search, 2001-2002
- Oversight
of the College's Scholarship Committee, 2001-2002
- Oversight
of the College's Teaching Competition Committee, 2001-2002
- College
liaison to Newberry Library, Undergraduate Seminar, 2001-
- College's
representative for the Humanities Panel, Illinois Articulation Initiative, 2001-
University
and Departmental Service:
- Chair, Committee to Establish School of Literatures, Linguistics, and Cultures, 2008-2009
- Search Committee Chair, Polish Studies Chairs, 2009-2010
- Search Committee, Catholic Studies Chair, 2008-2010
- Honors College Council (Executive Committee) Member, 2007-2010
- Chair, Committee on Central and Eastern European Studies, 2007-2008
- Faculty Judge, Student Research Symposium, 2009
- Phi Beta Kappa Selection Committee, 2005-
- Undergraduate Committee, History Dept. 2005-
- Goodman Prize Selection Committee, History Dept. 2005-
- LAS Scholarship Committee, 2005-2006
- Search Committee, History Department 2005-2006
- Interviewer, Campus Fulbright and Gates Fellowships, 2001-2002, 2006
- Flaherty
Scholarship Committee, Spring 2001
- Interviewer,
University Scholars Competition, Spring 2001 & 2004
- Honors
College Fellow, August 2000 to present
- Honors
College Tuition Waiver Committee, Fall 2000
- Graduate
Student Advisor, German Department, August 2000 to August 2001
- German
Department Advisory Committee, August 1995 to present
- Undergraduate
and Graduate Curriculum Committees, German Department, August 1998 to August 2000
- International
Studies Committee, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, March 1998 to May 2000
- Chair,
German Awards Day, April 1999-2001
- German
Department Library Committee, January 2000 to August 2001
- German
Department Director of Undergraduate Studies, May 1996 to August 1997; June 1998
to August 1999
- Member
of twelve M.A. committees (chaired three); member of four dissertation committees
- Working
Group on LAS Cluster Courses in General Education, Summer/Autumn 1997
- LAS
Faculty Retreat on General Education, April 1997
- German
Department LAS Quorum Committee, August 1995 to August 1997
- Search
Committee Member (three junior and two senior searches)
Awards
and Fellowships:
- 2002-2003
Fellow, Committee on Institutional Cooperation Academic Leadership Program
- 2000-2001
UIC's Teaching Recognition Award
- One-month
research fellowship, Weimar Classics Foundation, Germany, Summer 1998
- 1997-98
Teaching Award, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
- UIC
Campus Research Board Award, 1998
- UIC
Grants-in-Aid (Research travel funds), 1998
- Faculty
Fellow, UIC Institute for the Humanities (one-year research fellowship), 1997-98
- Fellow,
East-West Seminar, International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Paris,
July 15-19, 1996
- Fulbright
Fellowship, German Studies Seminar, Summer 1995
- Bradley
Fellow, Bradley Foundation, 1991-93 (Saul Bellow's Research Assistant)
- Esther
Goodshaw Clark Fellowship, Committee on Social Thought, 1987-91
- Phoenix
Fellowship, Division of the Social Sciences, University of Chicago, 1987-91
- Phi
Beta Kappa
Professional
Activities:
- President, Goethe Society of North America, 2010
- Vice-president, Goethe Society of North America 2008-2009
- Editorial board, New Studies in the ‘Age of Goethe.' Bucknell University Press
- Book Series Editor, New Studies in the ‘Age of Goethe.' Bucknell University Press, 2006-2010
- Executive Committee, Division on Eighteenth- and Early-Nineteenth Century German Literature, Modern Language Association, 2005-2009.
- Executive
Secretary, Goethe Society of North America, 2005-2008
- Outside Reader for German Quarterly , Seminar , American Philosophical Society, Ashgate Press, University of Missouri Humanities Board, Rutgers University Press, European Romantic Review , Goethe Yearbook , Women in German Yearbook , Bucknell University Press
- External Review Committee, Dept. of German and Slavic Studies, Wayne State University, 2007
- WFMT
Radio Interview, "The Eternal Feminine," interview by Ann Feldman, March
14, 2001
- Honored
Scholar, Benefit for Artistic Circles/Illinois Humanities Council, August 2000
- Chair,
1998-99 Teaching Competition, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
- Nominating
Committee, Goethe Society of North America, 1997 & 2002
Department
of History