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Andrew J. Mills, Ph.D.

University of Michigan Germanic Languages and Literatures

3122 MLB, 812 E. Washington Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Email: [email protected]

EMPLOYMENT

2018-present Lecturer II of German (full time). Department of Germanic Languages

and Literatures, University of Michigan.

2009-2018 Lecturer IV of German (full time). Department of Germanic Languages

and Literatures, University of Michigan.

2008-2009 Adjunct Instructor of German (part-time while dissertating). Department of

Modern Languages and Literatures. Adjunct Instructor (part time while

dissertating). Religion and Philosophy Dept., Southwestern University, TX.

2001-2008 Associate Instructor of German. Department of Germanic Studies, Indiana

University, Bloomington, IN. Instructor, Indiana University Summer Foreign

Language Program in Graz, Austria. Student Director and Instructor,

Krefelder Sommerakademie, Indiana University Honors Program in Foreign

Languages, Germany.

EDUCATION

2009 Ph.D., Modern German Literature and Culture. Department of Germanic

Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

Thesis: “Escaping Satisfaktion: Dueling Violence and the German Literary

Canon of the Long 19th Century”

2003 M.A., German Literature and Culture. Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

1998 B.A., German. Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Purdue

University, West Lafayette, IN. Study Abroad: Universität Hamburg, Purdue

University Academic Year Abroad, 1996-1997.

1991-1992 Gymnasium Schloß Plön, Germany.

FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND AWARDS

2015 CRLT Lecturers’ Professional Development Fund ($2,000). Center for Research

on Learning and Teaching, University of Michigan.

2015 LEO Lecturers Professional Development Fund ($900). Lecturers’ Employee

Organization, University of Michigan.

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FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND AWARDS (CONTINUED)

2013 Excellence in Concentration Advising Award ($500), Student Academic

Affairs / LSA Executive Committee, University of Michigan.

2012 Faculty Grant ($1,000) from the Center for Research on Learning and

Teaching, “Critical Issues in the Translation Classroom,” Univ. of Michigan.

2007-2008 Oscar Seidlin Dissertation Fellowship, Germanic Studies, Indiana University.

2005-2006 Indiana University Overseas Exchange Fellowship to Freie Universität Berlin.

2006 Fulbright Teaching Assistantship to Germany, (declined).

2005 The Elmer O. Wooley Award ($1,000), Germanic Studies, Indiana University.

2002-2003 Max Kade Fellowship, Germanic Studies, Indiana University.

2002 Walter Salz Family Award for the Thesis: “Fight Clubs: Jewish Students,

German University Dueling Fraternities, and the Mensur,” ($500), Indiana

University

PUBLICATIONS

Journal Articles (* = peer-reviewed)

* “Satisfaktion in 19th-Century German Dueling Violence and Its Relevance for Literary

Analysis.” The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory. Vol. 86, No. 2 (April-June

2011), 134-152.

* “Ernst Jünger and Ishiwara Kanji: A Comparative Examination of the Concept of Total

Mobilization for Germany and Japan.” New German Review. Volume 23 (2008): 47-63.

* “When Opportunism Knocks: Evaluating the Career of Popular Entertainment Musician Peter

Kreuder in the Third Reich.” Music Research Forum. Volume 23 (2008): 1-25.

Translations

Soltek, Stefan and Martina Weiß. “A Train Station for Billy—The Children’s- Book Manuscript

by Kate T. Steinitz.” Journal of Artist’s Books. Volume 23 (2008): 4-15.

Reference Book

Die Besten Praktika in den USA. Bonn: TIA Verlag, 1999. 425 pp. (Presented at the 1999 Frankfurt

and Leipzig book fairs)

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CONFERENCE ACTIVITY AND LECTURES

Invited Lectures

4. “Abandoning Satisfaction: German Jews and the Dueling Compulsion in Theodor

Fontane’s L’Adultera (1880),” German Studies Colloquium, U. of Michigan, April 2011

3. “German-University ‘Fighting Fraternities’: Their History, Controversial Motivations for

‘Dueling,’ and Prospects for the Future,” Guest Lecture, Rhodes College, TN, March 2010

2. “Peter Wicke and the Overproduction of Nonsense in the Third Reich,” Department of

Germanic Studies Colloquium, Indiana University, October 2006.

1. “Die Kontroverse um den Schlagerkomponisten Peter Kreuder im Dritten Reich,”

Max Kade House, Internationales Studienzentrum Berlin (ISB), Germany, March 2006.

Conference Papers

9. “’Ein kristallklares Gewissen’: Contemporary Landserhefte in the Age of an All-Volunteer

Bundeswehr,” GSA Annual Conference, 2011.

8. “Problematizing the Ideological Divide in the Contemporary Reception of First World

War Narratives by Erich Maria Remarque and Ernst Jünger,” GSA Annual Conference,

2008.

7. “Critical Depictions of Dueling in 19th-Century German-Language Literature,” GSA

Annual Conference, 2007.

6. “Facial Scarring and the Modern Student Rapier Duel in Germany,” Society for the

Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery (SISSI) Conference on “The Image of Violence

in Literature, Media and Society,” 2007.

5. “No Duel, No Peace! German-Jewish University Students and the Establishment of a

Separate Violence in Wilhelmine Germany,” Indiana University Dept. of Germanic

Studies Graduate Student Conference, 2007.

4. “Peter Wicke’s ‘Schlager Illusions’—Revisiting the Overproduction of Nonsense in the

Third Reich,” Midwest Popular Culture Association Annual Conference, Indianapolis,

2006.

3. “The National Socialist Application of Christian Salvation Ideals in the film Hitlerjunge

Quex,“ Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, 2004.

2. “Similarities between Erich Maria Remarque’s Im Westen nichts Neues and Ernst Jünger’s

Early Post World War I Writings—A Dangerous Encounter?,” The West Virginia

University Colloquium on Literature and Film, 2003.

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Conference Papers (CONTINUED)

1. “Der peripatetische Müßiggang als popmoderner Writerly Text: Christian Krachts

Faserland,” Indiana University Department of Germanic Studies Graduate Student

Conference, 2003.

Panels Organized

“Interdisciplinary Approaches to the German Duel: Locations of Support and

Resistance,” German Studies Association (GSA) Annual Conference, 2007.

TEACHING

University of Michigan, Fall 2009-present

Language, Literature, Culture, and Pedagogy Courses Taught (* = in German)

German 470 (“Seminar in German Studies: Workshop in Translation”)

* German 425/426 (“Deutsch für Fortgeschrittene”)

* German 388/389 (“Antisemitism in German Literature”)

(“German Literature from Naturalism to the Present”)

(“Five Poems, Three Stories, and One Novel”)

* German 380 (“The Image of the Jew in the German Literary Imagination”)

German 386 (“Grimms’ Fairy Tales”)

* German 325/326 (“An Intimate Look at Warfare in the German Experience”)

(“The Hidden Life of German Bees”)

(“Religion in German Culture”)

(“Honor and Death in German Literature of the 19th Century”)

(“Sweet Ostalgie: Remembering the GDR”)

* German 315 (“Introduction to German Literature”)

* German 357 (“Tutoring High-School and Middle-School German Students”)

* German 329 (“German Teaching Assistance at the Ann Arbor Deutsche Schule”)

(“Honor and Death in German Literature”)

(“Erich Maria Remarque’s Im Westen nichts Neues”)

Southwestern University, Fall 2008- Spring 2009 [Part-time teaching while dissertating]

Language and Culture Courses (* = in German)

* German I (1st semester)

“The Jews and Germany” (Religion and Philosophy, cross-listed with German/History)

Indiana University, 2001-2008

Language Courses (* = in German)

* German I-VI (Taught Elementary, Intermediate, and Advanced German throughout)

* German II (Course Chair, 2004 and 2006)

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Literature, Culture, and Translation Courses (* = in German)

“German for Reading Knowledge II” (Graduate, Summer 2008)

“Honor and Violence in Austro-German Culture of the Long 19th Century” (Spring 2007)

* “European Issues in a Foreign Language” (West European Studies, Spring 2007)

“A Trip Through 1929 Germany: Culture in the Weimar Republic” (Fall 2004)

Overseas Teaching (* = in German)

* “Kultur und Deutschland: Eine Einführung,” Krefelder Sommerakademie, Germany

(7-week high-school honors program, Summers 2002, 2003, and 2004)

* German III and IV, Graz, Austria

(8-week Undergraduate Summer Foreign Language Program)

THESIS ADVISING

Winter 2020 Bailey Compton Master’s Thesis Project for Transcultural Studies (Prof.

Reginald Jackson). Title: “Obviating Oedipus: A Study of Caretaking in

Disney’s Maleficent”

Winter 2012 Cole Miller Senior Honors Thesis Project (Prof. Kerstin Barndt), German

Honors Proseminar. Title: “Ecocriticism in GDR Literature: A Case Study

of Christa Wolf’s Störfall”

SERVICE

University of Michigan, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures

2009-2018 Member, Departmental Curriculum Committee

2010-2012, Member, Departmental Executive Committee

2013-2016

2010-2016 Faculty Advisor, University of Michigan German Club

2017 Lecturer Review Evaluation Committee (1 Lecturer of German)

2015 Major Review Evaluation Committee (1 Lecturer of Dutch)

2014 Lecturer Review Evaluation Committee (1 Lecturer of German)

2013 Major Review Evaluation Committee (1 Lecturer of German)

2012 Continuing Review Evaluation Committee (1 Lecturer of German)

2010, 2011 Designed and Hosted the Graduate Workshop: “Approaching the Academic

Job Market: From Professionalization to the On-Campus Interview”

2010 Interim Evaluation Committee (1 Lecturer of German)

2009 Interim Evaluation Committee (1 Lecturer of German)

University of Michigan

2015-present Faculty Advisor, The Beekeepers Association of the University of Michigan

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Southwestern University, Modern Languages Department

2008-2009 Faculty Advisor, Southwestern University German Club

Indiana University, Department of Germanic Studies

2007-08; 04-05 Faculty Meeting Observer for Graduate Steering Committee

2006 Graduate Student Representative, Departmental Website Redesign Task Force

2004-05; 02-03 Member, Graduate Student Biennial Conference Planning Committee

2004 Graduate Assistant, Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition

Conference (GASLA-7)

2003-2004 Co-President, Graduate Steering Committee

2002 Co-Organizer, Hedwig Leser Lecture

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS

Honeybee and Beekeeping Studies

Translation Studies

19th- and 20th-century depictions of violence in German literature

19th-century German and Jewish-German university life

First World War narratives

German-Jewish relations in literature, music, and film

19th-century Jewish Satisfaktionsfähigkeit in Austrian and German society

LANGUAGES

English (native speaker)

German (near-native fluency)

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

2000 Arbeitszeugnisse for TIA Services (e.K.) and for TIA Verlag, Bonn, Germany;

Certificate of Accreditation (German to English), American Translators Assoc.

1998 Certificate Wirtschaftsdeutsch International, Goethe Institute and German

American Chamber of Commerce

1997 Zertifikat Deutsch für den Beruf, Goethe Institute and Deutscher

Volkshochschulverband