Department of German Studies
6084 Dartmouth Hall, Room 328
Hanover, New Hampshire 03755-3511
Telephone: (603) 646-3515
Fax: (603) 646-1474
E-mail: Veronika.Fuechtner@Dartmouth.edu
Veronika Fuechtner, Associate Professor of German, studied German literature, media, history and political science at the Philipps-University in Marburg and the Free University in Berlin. She received her M.A. from Washington University in St. Louis and her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. Before coming to Dartmouth in the fall of 2002, she taught at John Carroll University in Cleveland. Her book Berlin Psychoanalytic, about culture and psychoanalysis in Weimar Republic Germany and in exile, was published by the University of California Press in 2011. She is currently at work on another monograph about racial discourses before fascism and how they still impact ideas on race and immigration in contemporary Germany (The Racial Unconscious in 20th-Century German Culture). She is especially interested in the connections between science and culture, between modernism and contemporary culture and also between different global modernisms. Other research and teaching interests include theories of multiculturalism, gender studies, drama, and film. More recent articles include "Moses in Palästina: Heine, Freud, Zweig" (2010), "The International Project of National(ist) Film: Franz Osten in India" (2010), "From ultradoitsh to siegfriedisch: The Problem of a Multicultural Literature in Zé do Rock's Orthographies" (2008), "Erzählte Wissenschaft: Alfred Döblin und Magnus Hirschfeld" (2007) and "A City of Souls and the Soul of a City: Alfred Döblin and the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute" (2007). She has received research grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, the American Psychoanalytic Association, the Deutsche Schillergesellschaft, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Social Sciences Research Council, and she has served on the national steering committee of Women in German. She also teaches in Comparative Literature, Jewish Studies, and Women's and Gender Studies at Dartmouth.
