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Christoph D. Weber

Title: Chair

Department: World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

College: College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae Link

Education

  • PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2009
    Major: German
    Specialization: Modern German Literature
    Dissertation: From Divine Punishment to Accidents of Nature: Natural Disasters in the 18th Century
  • MA, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1998
    Major: German
    Specialization: Modern German Literature
  • BA, St. Mary's College of Maryland, 1995
    Major: German and Fine Arts

Current Scheduled Teaching

GERM 4900.001Special ProblemsSpring 2025
GERM 3042.001German Cultural History (1900 2020)Fall 2024 Syllabus
GERM 4354.001German Disaster NarrativesFall 2024 Syllabus
GERM 4900.001Special ProblemsFall 2024 Syllabus

Previous Scheduled Teaching

GERM 4900.001Special ProblemsSpring 2024 Syllabus
GERM 4312.001The Weimar RepublicSpring 2024 Syllabus SPOT
GERM 3052.001German Literary Survey 1750 1918Fall 2023 Syllabus SPOT
GERM 3070.001Advanced German II (Written Communication)Spring 2023 Syllabus SPOT
GERM 4920.701Cooperative Education in GermanSpring 2023 Syllabus
GERM 2050.001Intermediate GermanSpring 2023 Syllabus SPOT
WLLC 3410.001German Popular CultureFall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
GERM 4900.701Special ProblemsFall 2022 Syllabus
GERM 4314.001The Third ReichFall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
GERM 4352.001German Travel LiteratureSpring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
GERM 4900.701Special ProblemsSpring 2022 Syllabus
GERM 5900.001Special ProblemsSpring 2022 Syllabus
GERM 3040.001Topics in German CultureSpring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
GERM 3052.001German Literary Survey 1750 1918Fall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
GERM 2050.001Intermediate GermanFall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
GERM 4900.701Special ProblemsFall 2021 Syllabus
GERM 3070.001Advanced German II (Written Communication)Spring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
GERM 2050.002Intermediate GermanSpring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
GERM 2050.001Intermediate GermanFall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
GERM 4310.001Topics in Advanced German CultureFall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
GERM 3070.001Advanced German II (Written Communication)Spring 2020 Syllabus
GERM 4900.701Special ProblemsSpring 2020 Syllabus
GERM 4350.001Topics in Advanced German LiteratureSpring 2020 Syllabus
GERM 3060.001Advanced German I (Oral Communication)Fall 2019 Syllabus SPOT
GERM 5900.701Special ProblemsFall 2019
GERM 3050.001Topics in German LiteratureFall 2019 Syllabus SPOT
GERM 3070.001Advanced German II (Written Communication)Spring 2019 Syllabus SPOT
GERM 2050.001Intermediate GermanSpring 2019 Syllabus SPOT
GERM 2040.003Intermediate GermanFall 2018 Syllabus SPOT
GERM 5900.002Special ProblemsFall 2018 SPOT
GERM 4310.001Topics in Advanced German CultureFall 2018 Syllabus SPOT
GERM 3070.001Advanced German Composition and Oral PracticeSpring 2018 Syllabus SPOT
GERM 1020.004Elementary GermanSpring 2018 Syllabus SPOT
GERM 4900.701Special ProblemsSpring 2018 Syllabus
GERM 5900.003Special ProblemsSpring 2018 SPOT
GERM 1010.007Elementary GermanFall 2017 Syllabus SPOT
GERM 5900.005Special ProblemsFall 2017 SPOT
GERM 4310.001Topics in Advanced German CultureFall 2017 Syllabus SPOT
GERM 3070.001Advanced German Composition and Oral PracticeSpring 2016 Syllabus SPOT
GERM 4900.701Special ProblemsSpring 2016 Syllabus
GERM 5900.003Special ProblemsSpring 2016 SPOT
GERM 4350.001Topics in Advanced German LiteratureSpring 2016 Syllabus SPOT
GERM 4900.702Special ProblemsFall 2015
GERM 5900.702Special ProblemsFall 2015
GERM 4310.001Topics in Advanced German CultureFall 2015 Syllabus SPOT
GERM 3050.001Topics in German LiteratureFall 2015 Syllabus SPOT
GERM 3070.001Advanced German Composition and Oral PracticeSpring 2015 Syllabus
GERM 4900.702Special ProblemsSpring 2015
GERM 5900.701Special ProblemsSpring 2015
GERM 4350.001Topics in Advanced German LiteratureSpring 2015 Syllabus
GERM 4951.701Honors College Capstone ThesisFall 2014
GERM 5900.701Special ProblemsFall 2014
LANG 5900.705Special ProblemsFall 2014
GERM 4310.001Topics in Advanced German CultureFall 2014 Syllabus
GERM 3050.001Topics in German LiteratureFall 2014 Syllabus
GERM 3070.001Advanced German Composition and Oral PracticeSpring 2014 Syllabus
LANG 5900.004Special ProblemsSpring 2014
GERM 4350.001Topics in Advanced German LiteratureSpring 2014 Syllabus
GERM 3060.001Advanced German Composition and Oral PracticeFall 2013 Syllabus
LANG 5900.701Special ProblemsFall 2013
GERM 4310.001Topics in Advanced German CultureFall 2013 Syllabus
GERM 3050.001Topics in German LiteratureFall 2013 Syllabus
GERM 3070.001Advanced German Composition and Oral PracticeSpring 2013 Syllabus
GERM 2050.001Intermediate GermanSpring 2013 Syllabus
GERM 4900.705Special ProblemsSpring 2013
GERM 4310.001Topics in Advanced German CultureFall 2012 Syllabus
GERM 3050.001Topics in German LiteratureFall 2012 Syllabus
GERM 3070.001Advanced German Composition and Oral PracticeSpring 2012 Syllabus
GERM 4951.001Honors College Capstone ThesisSpring 2012
GERM 4900.705Special ProblemsSpring 2012
GERM 4350.001Topics in Advanced German LiteratureSpring 2012 Syllabus
GERM 4900.705Special ProblemsFall 2011
GERM 4310.001Topics in Advanced German CultureFall 2011 Syllabus
GERM 3050.001Topics in German LiteratureFall 2011 Syllabus
GERM 3070.001Advanced German Composition and Oral PracticeSpring 2011 Syllabus
GERM 2050.001Intermediate GermanSpring 2011 Syllabus
GERM 4900.705Special ProblemsSpring 2011
GERM 4310.001Topics in Advanced German CultureSpring 2011 Syllabus
GERM 4350.001Topics in Advanced German LiteratureFall 2010 Syllabus
GERM 3050.001Topics in German LiteratureFall 2010 Syllabus
GERM 2050.001Intermediate GermanSpring 2010 Syllabus
GERM 4310.001Topics in Advanced German CultureSpring 2010 Syllabus
GERM 3040.001Topics in German CultureSpring 2010 Syllabus
GERM 2040.002Intermediate GermanFall 2009
GERM 4350.001Topics in Advanced German LiteratureFall 2009

Published Intellectual Contributions

    Abstracts and Proceedings

  • Weber, C.D. (2018). Wenn das Unvorstellbare zurückschlägt – die Fortdauer frühneuzeitlicher Katastrophenmotive in Franz Hohlers Roman Der neue Berg. Akten des XIII. Internationalen Germanistenkongresses Shanghai 2015 - Germanistik zwischen Tradition und Innovation. 10 251-255. Frankfurt am Main, Peter Lang.
  • Christoph Weber. (2011). Naturkatastrophen als Faszinosum und moralische Herausforderung: Reaktionen deutschsprachiger Reisenden auf das Erdbeben in Sizilien und Kalabrien von 1783. Akten des XII. Internationalen Germanistenkongresses Warschau 2010. 14 323-328. Frankfurt am Main, Peter Lang.
  • Book

  • Weber, C.D., Eidt, J. (2019). Goethe’s "Bildung": Dialog Between Tradition and Innovation. 178. New York, NY, Peter Lang. https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/68038
  • Christoph Weber. (2015). Vom Gottesgericht zur verhängnisvollen Natur: Darstellung und Bewältigung von Naturkatastrophen im 18. Jahrhundert. 36 414. Hamburg, Felix Meiner Verlag. https://meiner.de/catalog/product/view/id/5303/s/vom-gottesgericht-zur-verhaengnisvollen-natur/category/1183/
  • Book Chapter

  • Weber, C.D., Jenkins, J.L. (2020). Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, The Natural History of Switzerland (1716)-Excerpts. Mountains and the German Mind: Translations from Gessner to Messner, 1541-2009. 49-75. Rochester, NY, Camden House. https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781640140479/mountains-and-the-german-mind/
  • Weber, C.D. (2019). The Allure of Danger: The Depiction of Nature’s Destructive Forces in Goethe’s Oeuvre. Goethe’s «Bildung»: Dialog Between Tradition and Innovation. 11-22. New York, Peter Lang. https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/68038
  • Weber, C.D. (2017). Sturm: Barthold Heinrich Brockes’ Gedicht: ‘Die auf ein starckes Ungewitter erfolgte Stille. Phänomene der Atmosphäre. Ein Kompendium literarischer Meteorolgie. 395-407. Stuttgart, Metzler Verlag. http://www.springer.com/de/book/9783476044914
  • Christoph Weber. (2017). When Nature Strikes Back: The Inconvenient Apocalypse in Franz Hohler's Der neue Berg. German Ecocriticism in the Anthropocene. Ed. by Caroline Schaumann and Heather Sullivan. 185-204. New York, Palgrave Macmillan. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/978-1-137-54222-9_11
  • Weber, C.D. (2015). Tableaux of Terror: The Staging of the Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 as Cathartic Spectacle. Catastrophe and Catharsis: Narratives of Disaster and Redemption in German Culture and Beyond. 17-34. Rochester, NY, Camden House. https://boydellandbrewer.com/catastrophe-and-catharsis-hb.html
  • Christoph Weber. (2008). "Glück im Unglück: Reaktionen deutschsprachiger Autoren auf das Erdbeben von Lissabon am 1. November 1755." Das Erdbeben von Lissabon und der Katastrophendiskurs im 18. Jahrhundert. Hrsg. v. G. Lauer und Th. Unger.. Das Erdbeben von Lissabon und der Katastrophendiskurs im 18. Jahrhundert. Göttingen, Wallstein.
  • Christoph Weber. (2007). "God's Wrath or Accidents of Nature? Conflicting Perspectives in the Representation of Natural Disasters in 18th Century Germany." Representing the Unimaginable: Narratives of Disaster. Eds. Angela Stock and Cornelia Stott.. Representing the Unimaginable: Narratives of Disaster. 43-53. Frankfurt am Main, Peter Lang.
  • Christoph Weber. (2002). "Free Nature Today: On the Preservation of Nature in the Field of Aesthetics." Aesthetics and Aisthesis. Ed. Hans Adler.. Aesthetics”. Aesthetics and Aisthesis. New Perspectives and (Re)Discoveries. 59-70. Frankfurt am Main, Peter Lang.
  • Book Review

  • Weber, C.D. (2021). Views of Violence: Representing the Second World War in German and European Museums and Memorials ed. by Jörg Echternkamp and Stephan Jaeger. Other. 113 (4) 724-727. Madison, WI, University of Wisconsin Press. http://mon.uwpress.org/content/113/4/724.full.pdf+html
  • Weber, C.D. (2019). Bodies and Ruins: Imagining the Bombing of Germany 1945 to the Present, by David F. Crew. (Ann Arbor 2017). 111 (1) 160-163. Madison, WI, University of Wisconsin Press.
  • Christoph Weber. (2015). Heights of Reflection. Mountains in the German Imagination from the Middle Ages to the Twenty-First Century edited by Sean Ireton and Caroline Schaumann (Rochester, 2012). 107 (4) 669-671. University of Wisconsin Press.
  • Christoph Weber. (2014). Kultivierung der Katastrophe. Literarische Untergangsszenarien aus der Schweiz, Peter Utz. 106 (1) 126-129.
  • Christoph Weber. (2013). Erhabenheit. Über ein großes Gefühl und seine Opfer (The Sublime. On a Grand Feeling and its Victims) written by Stefanie Voigt (Würzburg, 2011). 105 (1) 133-135.
  • Christoph Weber. (2009). Representing the Unimaginable: Narratives of Disaster, eds. Angela Stock and Cornelia Stott.. 101 (3) 403-405.
  • Christoph Weber. (2008). The Lisbon Earthquake of 1755: Representations and Reactions, eds. Theodore Braun and John B. Radner.. 100 (1) 139-141.
  • Christoph Weber. (2006). The Aesthetics of Natural Environments, eds. Allen Carlson and Arnold Berleant.. 98 (2) 284-286.
  • Journal Article

  • Weber, C.D. (2024). „Es geht schon los mit den Flüchtlingen. Wie fünfundvierzig.“ Der Fallout der nationalsozialistischen Vergangenheit in Gudrun Pausewangs Atomkatastrophenbuch Die Wolke (1987). Colloquia Germanica. Vol. 57 (1) 3–28. Tübingen, Narr/Francke/Attempto-Verlag. https://mcl.as.uky.edu/colloquia-germanica
  • Weber, C.D. (2019). A Woman’s Petrified Gaze at the Dead — Uncovering the Troubled Ethics Behind an Iconic Image of Bombing War Against Nazi Germany. South Central Review. 36 (3) 10-29. Johns Hopkins University Press. https://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/south_central_review/
  • Weber, C.D. (2019). Luftkrieg und Legende: Hans Erich Nossacks literarische Sinnbewältigung der Bombardierung Hamburgs im Sommer 1943. Colloquia Germanica. 50 (2) 157-183. Lexington, KY, University of Kentucky / Francke Publishers.
  • Weber, C.D. (2019). ’A Blemish on the History of the Twentieth Century’? Legends and Fabrications Surrounding the Mass Cremations in the Wake of the Dresden Air Raids, February 1945. Oxford German Studies. 47 (04) 486-504. London, Maney Publishing for the Modern Humanities Research Association.
  • Christoph Weber. (2016). Deichbau und Selbstopfer: Der Katastrophendiskurs in Theodor Storms Der Schimmelreiter. Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte. 90 (1) 109-133. Stuttgart, Metzler Verlag. http://www.uni-konstanz.de/dvjs/editorial.htm
  • Christoph Weber. (2013). „Gottes lebendige Predigt": Katastrophendarstellung und -deutung in Jeremias Gotthelfs Die Wassernot im Emmental. Euphorion. 106 (4) 415-437.
  • Christoph Weber. (2011). Die Katastrophe als ästhetisches Faszinosum: Das Erdbeben in Sizilien und Kalabrien von 1783 im Spiegel deutschsprachiger Reiseberichte. Das achtzehnte Jahrhundert. 36 (1) 56-70.
  • Christoph Weber. (2010). Santiagos Untergang - Lissabons Schrecken: Heinrich von Kleists Erdbeben in Chili im Kontext des Katastrophendiskurses im 18. Jahrhundert.. 104 (3) 317-336.

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

    Fellowship

  • Weber, C.D., "Suhrkamp Fellowship," sponsored by Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach, International, $2400 Funded. (2017 - 2017).
  • Weber, C.D., "Suhrkamp Fellowship," sponsored by Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach, International, Funded. (2017 - 2017).
  • Grant - Research

  • Weber, C.D., "Small Grant from the College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences," University of North Texas, $350 Funded. ( - 2019).
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    This rating combines student responses to several SPOT items relating to how academically challenging students found the course to be and how engaged they were. Challenge and Engagement Index items include the following (response options include a Likert scale ranging from 7 = Much higher, 4 = Average, and 1 = Much lower):
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    • The intellectual challenge presented was
    • The amount of effort you put into this course was
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