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Paul F. Dvorak, PhD
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
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Edited work of interpretations of modern Austrian literature (volume 2)
Research on Franz Kafka, Czech-Austrian literature
July 2002
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