Eleanor Ter Horst
Education
- B..A. Yale University 1987
- M.A. University of Michigan 1992
- Ph.D. University of Michigan 1996
Research Interests
- Comparative Literature
- 18th- and 19th-Century French and German Literature
- Early 20th-Century French and German Literature
- Gender and Sexuality Studies
- Classical Reception
- Interdisciplinary Foreign Language Pedagogy
Publications
Book
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Studies in Honor of Robert ter Horst. Ed. Eleanor ter Horst, Edward H. Friedman and Ali Shehzad Zaidi. Fair Lawn, NJ: TSI Press, 2017
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Lessing, Goethe, Kleist, and the Transformation of Gender: From Hermaphrodite to Amazon. New York: Peter Lang, 2003
Journal Articles
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鈥淭he Conjugations of Don Juan.鈥� Studies in Honor of Robert ter Horst. Fair Lawn, NJ: TSI Press, 2017.
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鈥淥bscure Conceptions: The Origins of E. T. A. Hoffmann鈥檚 Das Gel眉bde and Kleist鈥檚 Die Marquise von O鈥� 鈥� Forthcoming in Colloquia Germanica (Winter 2017).
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鈥淭he Classical Aesthetics of Schlegel鈥檚 Lucinde.鈥� Goethe Yearbook 23 (2016).
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"The Fortuitous Arch: Reconstructing Classical and Christian Interpretations of Sexuality in Kleist's Das Erdbeben in Chili." European Romantic Review. 2014.
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"Masks and Metamorphoses: The Transformation of Classical Tradition in Goethe's R枚mische Elegien." German Quarterly 85.4 (Fall 2012).
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"The Triangulation of Desire and the Chain of Reproduction in Friedrich de la Motte Fouqu茅 and Ingeborg Bachmann." Seminar 47.3 (Summer 2011).
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"Foreign Languages and Sustainability: Addressing the Connections, Communities and Comparisons Standards in Higher Education." Co-authored with Joshua M. Pearce. Foreign Language Annals 43.3 (Fall 2010).
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"The Comedy and Tragedy of Sacrifice in Fatih Akin's Auf der anderen Seite." Rondas Literarias de Pittsburgh 2009.
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"Overcoming Language Challenges of Open Source Appropriate Technology for Sustainable Development in Africa." Co-authored with Joshua M. Pearce. Journal of Sustainable Development in Africa. 11. 3 (Winter 2009).
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"Service Learning for Sustainable Development in Foreign Languages." Co-authored with Joshua M. Pearce. Sustainability at Universities: Opportunities, Challenges and Trends 2009. Ed. Walter Leal Filho. New York: Peter Lang, 2009.
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"Foreign Languages and the Environment: A Collaborative Instructional Project." Co-authored with Joshua M. Pearce. The Language Educator (October 2008).
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"Urban Pastoral: Tradition and Innovation in Apollinaire's 'Zone' and Rilke's 'Zehnte Duineser Elegie.'" Studies in 20th and 21st Century Literature 32.1 (Winter 2008).
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"The Pendulum of Poetry: Metaphor and Mediation in Rilke's Duineser Elegien." German Quarterly 79.3 (Summer 2006).
Courses
- All levels of German and French language, literature and culture classes.