CURRICULUM VITAE
PAUL F. DVORAK
EDUCATION:
Ph.D.,
University of Maryland, German, 1970-73.
Comprehensive Exams passed with honors.
Dissertation:
Personal
Failure and Desire for Change in the Works of Wolfgang
Koeppen
M.A., University
of Maryland, German, 1968-70, with honors.
B.A.,
La Salle College, Major: German, 1964-68, cum
laude.
University
of Vienna with the Institute of European Studies,
1966-67.
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS AND OTHER
SIGNIFICANT WORK EXPERIENCE:
2002- Chair, Department
of Foreign Languages, Virginia Commonwealth University
1999-
Professor of German, Virginia Commonwealth
University
1983- Associate
Professor of German, Virginia Commonwealth University
1985-92 Chair,
Department of Foreign Languages, Virginia Commonwealth
University
1974-83 Assistant
Professor of German, Virginia Commonwealth University
(Tenured
1980)
1970-74 Instructor
of German, University of Maryland
MEMBERSHIPS:
American
Association of Teachers of German (AATG)
Modern
Austrian Literature and Culture Association (MACLA)
American
Council for the Study of Austrian Literature (ACSAL)
American
Council of the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)
(former)
American
Literary Translators Association (ALTA) (former)
Virginia Chapter of AATG (President, 1980-82;
Vice-President, 1978-80)
Foreign
Language Association of Virginia (FLAVA) (Executive
Council Member, 1980-82)
AWARDS, GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND OTHER
HONORS:
NEH Summer Institute (“The People of Vienna from
1848-1955”), Vienna, June-July 2001)
Austrian
Ministry of Education Literature Seminar, Vienna/Graz,
July 2000
Austrian Ministry of Education Cultural Seminar,
Vienna/Graz, July 1999
Faculty
Development Grant, College of H&S, VCU, 1995
Faculty
Research Grant, Virginia Commonwealth University,
1993-94
Franz Kafka. Ein Schriftstellerleben
Seminar
Grant, "Gesellschaft und Literatur der beiden
deutschen Staaten," Berlin, July 1990
Fulbright-Hayes Grant, Federal Republic of
Germany (Bonn, Berlin), Summer 1981
Seminar
on "Deutsche Landeskunde"
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Recent Articles:
“Peter Henisch’s Schwarzer
Peter: The Ongoing Search for Austrian and
Self-Identity” (submitted)
“Austria
and Europe, Europe in Austria: Multiculturalism and
Literature at the Turn-of-the-Centuries
1900 and 2000,” (submitted)
“The Elusive Kafka as a Man of His Times: Reflections on
Recent Research.” MIFLC
Review, 1997-98,
vol.7: 81-89.
“Individualism and Indoctrination in Alfred
Kolleritsch’s Allemann,”
in Modern Austrian Literature:
Interpretations and Insights, ed. Paul F. Dvorak. Riverside:
Ariadne Press, 2001, 287-299.
"Vienna and Prague: Affinities and Aversions,"
in Geschichte der
österreichischen Literatur I, ed.
Donald G. Daviau and Herbert Arlt. St. Ingbert: Röhrig
Universitätsverlag, 1996, 269-284.
Books:
Modern Austrian Prose: Interpretations and
Insights. Edited and Introduced by Paul
F. Dvorak.
Riverside:
Ariadne Press, 2001
Alfred Kolleritsch, Allemann.
(Translation from the German and Afterword)
Riverside:
Ariadne Press, 1999.
Robert Schneider, Dirt.
(Translation from the German of Dreck
and Afterword)
Riverside:
Ariadne Press, 1996.
Joachim
Unseld, Franz Kafka. A Writer's Life. (Translation from the German of Franz
Kafka.
Ein
Schrifstellerleben)
Riverside:
Ariadne Press, 1994
Illusion and Reality:
Plays and Stories of Arthur Schnitzler.
Translated
and introduced by Paul F. Dvorak
New York: Peter
Lang, 1986.
Stephan Hermlin, Evening
Light. (Translation from the German and Afterword)
San
Francisco: Fjord
Press, 1983.
Recent Papers Presented:
“Peter
Henisch’s Schwarzer Peter: The Ongoing Search for Austrian and
Self-Identity,” Symposium
on Austrian Literature and Culture, Lafayette College,
October 2001
“Austria
and Europe, Europe in Austria: Multiculturalism and
Literature at the Turn-of-the-Centuries 1900 and
2000,” American Association of Teachers of German,
Boston, November 2000.
“Framing History: Recurring Images of
Life under National Socialism in Alfred Kolleritsch’s Allemann,”
Symposium
on Austrian Literature and Culture, Riverside, April
1998
"Schilling, D-Mark, or EuroDollar: The European
Currency of Robert Schneider's Dreck and
Schlafes
Bruder,"
Symposium on Austrian Literature and Culture, Riverside,
April 1997.
"The Elusive Kafka as a Man of His Times,"
MIFLC, UNC Wilmington, October 1997.
"The Enunciation of Culture: Prague's German Writers
within the Context of Austrian, German,
and Jewish Culture," Symposium on Austrian
Literature and Culture, Riverside, April 1996.
"German
and Czech Writers from Prague within the Concext of
Austrian, German, and World
Literature, Southern Comparative Literature
Association, VCU, October 1995.
"Writers from Vienna and Prague: Affinities and
Aversions," Symposium on Austrian Literature
and Culture, Riverside, April 1995
Work in Progress:
Translations of works by Austrian authors
|
Edited
work of interpretations of modern Austrian literature
(volume 2)
Research
on Franz Kafka, Czech-Austrian literature
July 2002
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