Shookman, Ellis 1957-

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SHOOKMAN, Ellis 1957-

PERSONAL: Born December 21, 1957, in Fort Wayne, IN. Education: Yale University, B.A., 1980, Ph.D., 1987; attended Free University of Berlin, 1980-81.


ADDRESSES: Offıce—Department of German Studies, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755.


CAREER: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, began as assistant professor, became associate professor of German, 1987—.

MEMBER: Modern Language Association of America, American Association of Teachers of German.


AWARDS, HONORS: Fulbright fellow, 1980-81; Whiting fellow, 1986-87.


WRITINGS:

(Editor and translator) Eighteenth-Century GermanProse, Continuum (New York, NY), 1992.

(Editor) The Faces of Physiognomy: InterdisciplinaryApproaches to Johann Caspar Lavater, Camden House (Columbia, SC), 1993.

Noble Lies, Slant Truths, Necessary Angels: Aspects ofFictionality in the Novels of Christoph Martin Wieland, University of North Carolina Press (Chapel Hill, NC), 1997.

Thomas Mann's "Death in Venice": A Novella and ItsCritics, Camden House (Rochester, NY), 2003.


Contributor to books. Contributor to academic journals.


WORK IN PROGRESS: Thomas Mann's "Death in Venice": A Reference Guide, for Greenwood Press (Westport, CT).


BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

German Quarterly, spring, 2002, Marjorie Gelus, review of Noble Lies, Slant Truths, Necessary Angels: Aspects of Fictionality in the Novels of Christoph Martin Wieland, p. 211.

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