Charlotte Schallié
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Assistant Professor (German)
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After earning an M.A. in History and a Ph.D. in German at The University of British Columbia, I joined the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies at the University of Victoria in 2008.
My teaching and research interests include post-1945 German, Swiss and Austrian literature and film, diasporic, postcolonial and transcultural writing, theories of spatiality, multiculturalism and translation studies. I also teach a course on the after-images of the Holocaust in literature and film. Together with my colleague Helga Thorson, I serve as the Co-Director of the I-witness Holocaust Field School.
In my current research study, I explore how cultural identity is connected to socially constructed territorial as well as imaginative spaces in contemporary Swiss German literature and film (including works by Iraqi-Swiss filmmaker Samir, Croatian-Swiss writer Dragica Rajčić, and spoken-word performer Pedro Lenz).
As a result of a collaborative translation project with my undergraduate research assistant Christine Fritze, I have developed a strong interest in translation studies—tackling broader questions with regards to how we understand, translate and mediate culture. In our new project, Christine (now a graduate student) and I are strongly committed to translate Dragica Rajčić’s rich and polyphonous poetry while accepting the fact that we are constantly at a loss for words. Together with Margrit Zinggeler, I am also editing an anthology featuring original texts by Swiss (-based) authors of all four linguistic regions: Globale Heimat CH / Global Homeland Switzerland (to be published in spring 2012).
In my monograph, Heimdurchsuchungen: Deutschschweizer Literatur, Geschichtspolitik und Erinnerungskultur seit 1965 (Zurich: Chronos, 2008), I examine how Swiss writers and public intellectuals revisit Switzerland’s role and attitude toward the Second World War, while portraying a society in which various individuals fought any attempt to tarnish the nation’s carefully constructed image of wartime heroism.
I am also currently the editor of the Bulletin/Directory of the Canadian Association of University Teachers of German (CAUTG/APAUC).
Courses taught in 2012
| GER 352 A01 CRN 21747 | Advanced Oral German I |
| GERS 433 A01 CRN 21761 | Overcoming the Past in Film and Text |
| GMST 489 A01/ GER 591 (summer 2012) |
I-witness Holocaust Field School Project |
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Select publications
(co-editor with Margrit V. Zinggeler). Globale Heimat.ch: Grenzüberschreitende Begegnungen in der zeitgenössischen Literatur. Zurich: edition 8 (forthcoming; May 2012).
"'Beyond 'Foreign Rabble, Thugs and Thieves.' Roma and Yenish Peoples in a Swiss Culture Class." New Approaches to Teaching Modern Switzerland: From Multiculturalism to Cultural Hybridity. Eds. Karin Baumgartner, and Margrit Zinggeler. Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2010. 135-152.
“’Switzerland Has Run out of Steam on Its Way to Multiculturalism’: An Interview with Dragica Rajčić.” Women in German Yearbook 26 (2010): 146-166 (with Christine Fritze).
“’Man muss das Problem sozusagen per distance betrachten und aus der Enkelperspektive’: Thomas Hürlimanns entstellte Schweiz.” Schweiz schreiben: Zu Konstruktion und Dekonstruktion des Mythos Schweiz in der Gegenwartsliteratur. Eds. Jürgen Barkhoff and Valerie Heffernan. Tübingen: De Gruyter, 2010. 215-229.
"Die neuerlich drohende Ausbreitung des Stimmenbreis': Erinnerungsschwund im Archiv. Zu Daniel Ganzfrieds Der Absender." Sichtungen: akten-kundig? Literatur, Zeitgeschichte und Archiv. Eds. Marcel Atze, et al. Vienna: Praesens, 2009. 98-105.
Heimdurchsuchungen: Deutschschweizer Literatur, Geschichtspolitik und Erinnerungskultur seit 1965. Zurich: Chronos Verlag, 2008.
“Das Vermächtnis der Eltern: Der Absender von Daniel Ganzfried und Lektionen des Verborgenen von Helena Janeczek.” A Transatlantic Gathering: Essays in Honour of Peter Stenberg. Eds. Thomas Salumets and Marketa Goetz-Stankiewicz. Munich: Iudicium, 2007. 131-138.
“Die erfundene Erinnerung: Hitler in der Schweiz.” Imaginäre Welten im Widerstreit. Krieg und Geschichte in der deutschsprachigen Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts. Eds. Marianne Vogel and Lars Koch. Münster: Königshausen & Neumann, 2007. 271-285.
“Fashion disappears from Germany.” Trans. Steven Taubeneck. Broken Threads: The Destruction of the Jewish Fashion Industry in Germany and Austria. Ed. Roberta S. Kremer. Oxford and New York: Berg Publishing, 2006. 99-109.
Select lectures
"Counterpoint as a 'Space of Radical Openness' in the Poetry of Dragica Rajčić: A Translator’s Field Notes." Dream of the other Europe: Rethinking ‘Germanistik’ through the Balkans. Waterloo Centre for German Studies. University of Waterloo, February 2012."Globales Lernen und Multikulturalismus im DaF Unterricht." Goethe-Institut San Francisco, January 2012.
(with Helga Thorson). "Developing a New Signature Pedagogy in Foreign Language Teaching (FLT) Through Peer-Assisted Learning." Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Lecture Series. Learning and Teaching Centre. University of Victoria, December 2012.
“Methodische Zugänge zur Spracharbeit mit dem Kurzfilm: Reto Caffis Auf der Strecke." American Association of Teachers of German (AATG) Annual Meeting. Denver, Colorado, November 2011.
“Re-Orienting Discourses on ‘the Jews of the East’: Cross-Cultural Representations of Mizrahi Identity in Samir’s Forget Baghdad.” ‘East-West Encounters/German Orientalisms Symposium.’ Research Cluster on German Orientalism. University of Victoria. 8 October 2011.
"Polyphonies from Places In-Between: A Reading of Samir’s Film Essay Babylon 2." Canadian Association of University Teachers of German (CAUTG) Annual Meeting. University of New Brunswick, May 2011.
“Terminus Switzerland: Female Diaspora in Andrea Štaka’s film Das Fräulein.” Invited lecture at the Conference on “The Maturing of the Multicultural Experiment: European Challenges Coming to Canada?” European Union Centre of Excellence (EUCE) at York University. Toronto, March 2011.
“'Place Beyond Place': Transcultural Flâneurs in Perikles Monioudis’ Land and Paul Nizon’s Die Zettel des Kuriers. Journal 1990-1999." Panel on Negotiating Difference in Contemporary German-Language Literature. MLA Annual Meeting. Los Angeles, January 2011.
"Borderland Identities: Roma, Travelers, and ‘Frontaliers’ in Hansjörg Schneider’s Hunkeler macht Sachen." Panel on Swiss Literature in the 21st Century: Hybrid Identities. American Association of Teachers of German (AATG) Annual Meeting. Boston, November 2010.
“The Politics of Ecocide: Frank Schätzing’s The Swarm." Panel on Ecocriticism, American Association of Teachers of German (AATG) Annual Meeting. San Diego, November 2009.
“Von Bern nach Kigali. Lukas Bärfuss’ Hundert Tage." Canadian Association of University Teachers of German (CAUTG) Annual Meeting. Carleton University, May 2009.
“Das Sizilianische unseres Literaturbetriebs”: Bodo Kirchhoffs Schundroman und Martin Suters Lila, Lila. Canadian Association of University Teachers of German (CAUTG). University of British Columbia, May 2008.
“’Per distance und aus der Enkelperspektive’: Thomas Hürlimanns entstellte Schweiz.” Mythos Schweiz? Zur Konstruktion und Dekonstruktion des Schweizerischen in der Gegenwart. Trinity College Dublin/N.U.I Maynooth, Ireland, October 2006.
“Nothing But a Potential or Real Victim?” Jewish Responses to Germany’s Commemorative Rituals after 1989.” Canadian Historical Association (CHA). University of Western Ontario, May 2005.
Translations
"Poems by Dragica Rajčić." International Poetry Review. Special Volume on German
Poetry (with Christine Fritze) (forthcoming; spring 2012).
"Poems by Dragica Rajčić." Women in German Yearbook 26 (2010): 137-145 (with Christine Fritze).
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