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Carol Anne T. Costabile-Heming

Title: Professor

Department: World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

College: College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae Link

Education

  • PhD, Washington University in St. Louis, 1992
    Major: Germanic Languages and Literature
    Dissertation: Dramatic Provocations: Reform as Theme in Dramatic Works
  • MA, University of Pennsylvania, 1989
    Major: Germanic Languages & Literature
  • BA, University of Pennsylvania, 1985
    Major: German

Current Scheduled Teaching

No current or future courses scheduled.

Previous Scheduled Teaching

GERM 3070.001Advanced German II (Written Communication)Spring 2024 Syllabus SPOT
GERM 3056.001German NovellaSpring 2024 Syllabus SPOT
GERM 4900.002Special ProblemsSpring 2024 Syllabus SPOT
GERM 4320.001Topics in German CinemaFall 2023 Syllabus SPOT
GERM 3044.001Contemporary GermanySpring 2023 Syllabus SPOT
GERM 4338.001German TranslationSpring 2023 Syllabus SPOT
GERM 4951.001Honors College Capstone ThesisSpring 2023 Syllabus
GERM 3060.001Advanced German I (Oral Communication)Fall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
GERM 4900.701Special ProblemsSummer 10W 2022 Syllabus
GERM 3070.001Advanced German II (Written Communication)Spring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
GERM 4920.001Cooperative Education in GermanSpring 2022 Syllabus
GERM 3996.001Honors College Mentored Research ExperienceSpring 2022 Syllabus
GERM 3040.002Topics in German CultureSpring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
GERM 3060.001Advanced German I (Oral Communication)Fall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
GERM 4920.001Cooperative Education in GermanFall 2021 Syllabus
GERM 4320.001Topics in German CinemaFall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
GERM 3044.001Contemporary GermanySpring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
GERM 4338.001German TranslationSpring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
GERM 4951.701Honors College Capstone ThesisSpring 2021 Syllabus
GERM 3060.001Advanced German I (Oral Communication)Fall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
GERM 3056.001German NovellaFall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
GERM 3996.701Honors College Mentored Research ExperienceSummer 10W 2020 Syllabus
GERM 1020.003Elementary GermanSpring 2020 Syllabus
GERM 3045.001The Berlin WallSpring 2020 Syllabus
GERM 1010.001Elementary GermanFall 2019 Syllabus SPOT
GERM 4320.001Topics in German CinemaFall 2019 Syllabus SPOT
GERM 3060.001Advanced German I (Oral Communication)Fall 2018 Syllabus SPOT
GERM 3044.001Contemporary GermanyFall 2018 Syllabus SPOT
GERM 3996.001Honors College Mentored Research ExperienceSpring 2018 Syllabus
GERM 5900.004Special ProblemsSpring 2018 SPOT
GERM 4350.001Topics in Advanced German LiteratureSpring 2018 Syllabus SPOT
GERM 3040.001Topics in German CultureSpring 2018 Syllabus SPOT
GERM 3060.001Advanced German Composition and Oral PracticeFall 2017 Syllabus SPOT
GERM 5900.002Special ProblemsFall 2017 SPOT
GERM 3050.001Topics in German LiteratureFall 2017 Syllabus SPOT
GERM 3070.001Advanced German Composition and Oral PracticeSpring 2017 Syllabus SPOT
GERM 2050.002Intermediate GermanSpring 2017 Syllabus SPOT
GERM 5900.701Special ProblemsSpring 2017
GERM 4320.001Topics in German CinemaSpring 2017 Syllabus SPOT
GERM 3060.001Advanced German Composition and Oral PracticeFall 2016 Syllabus SPOT
GERM 3040.001Topics in German CultureFall 2016 Syllabus SPOT
GERM 2050.001Intermediate GermanSpring 2016 Syllabus SPOT
GERM 2050.002Intermediate GermanSpring 2016 Syllabus SPOT
GERM 5900.002Special ProblemsSpring 2016 SPOT
GERM 5900.701Special ProblemsSpring 2016
GERM 5900.702Special ProblemsSpring 2016
GERM 3060.001Advanced German Composition and Oral PracticeFall 2015 Syllabus SPOT
FREN 5200.001Seminar in FrenchFall 2015 SPOT
SPAN 5200.001Seminar in SpanishFall 2015 SPOT
GERM 5900.701Special ProblemsFall 2015
GERM 5900.701Special ProblemsSummer 10W 2015
GERM 5900.702Special ProblemsSpring 2015
GERM 2040.001Intermediate GermanSummer 5W2 2014 Syllabus
GERM 3040.001Topics in German CultureSpring 2013 Syllabus

Published Intellectual Contributions

    Book

  • Costabile-Heming, C.T., Halverson, R.J. (2015). Taking Stock of German Studies in the United States: The New Millennium. Rochester, NY, Camden House.
  • Rachel Halverson and Kristie Foell. (2004). Berlin. The Symphony Continues: Orchestrating Architectural, Social and Artistic Change in Germany's New Capital.
  • Rachel Halverson and Kristie Foell. (2001). Textual Responses to German Unification: Processing Historical and Social Change in Literature and Film ..
  • Costabile-Heming, C.T. (1997). Intertextual Exile: Volker Braun's Dramatic Re-Vision of GDR Society.
  • Book Chapter

  • Costabile-Heming, C. (2023). History in the Mainstream: Charité. Entertaining German Culture: Contemporary Transnational Television and Film. 151-171. Berghahn Books. https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/EhrigEntertaining
  • Costabile-Heming, C. (2023). Like “A Bolt Out of the Blue”: Stories of Gender Transformation from the GDR. Routledge Companion to Gender and Science Fiction. 138-144. London, Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Companion-to-Gender-and-Science-Fiction/Fritzsche-Omry-Yaszek-Pearson/p/book/9780367537012
  • Costabile-Heming, C. (2022). Imagining German Studies for the Future. Transverse Disciplines: Working Across and Beyond Academic Disciplines. 81-106. University of Toronto Press.
  • Costabile-Heming, C.T., Lewis, A., Glajar, V. (2021). "Citizen Informants, Glitches in the System, and the Limits of Collaboration: Eastern Experiences in the Cold War Era". Histories of Surveillance from Antiquity to the Digital Era: The Eyes and Ears of Power. 146-162. Abingdon, Oxon, Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Histories-of-Surveillance-from-Antiquity-to-the-Digital-Era-The-Eyes-and/Marklund-Skouvig/p/book/9780367340698#
  • Costabile-Heming, C.T. (2019). Espionage and the Cold War in DEFA Films: Double Agents in for eyes only (1963) and Chiffriert an Chef Ausfall Nr. 5 (1979).. Cold War Spy Stories from Eastern Europe: Files, Literature, Film, and Television. 255-277. Lincoln, NE, University of Nebraska Press.
  • Costabile-Heming, C.T. (2016). “Perpetrator as Victim in Jana Döhring’s Stasiratte”. Secret Police Files from the Eastern Bloc: Between Surveillance and Life Writing.. 137-149. Rochester, NY, Camden House.
  • N/A. (2016). "Intellectuals and the Wende: Missed Opportunities and Dashed Hopes." Re-Reading East Germany: The Literature and Film of the GDR (1949-2009). Ed. Karen Leeder.. Re-Reading East Germany: The Literature and Film of the GDR (1949-2009).. 197-213. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
  • N/A. (2015). “Re-Reading Christa Wolf’s Störfall Following the Fukushima Catastrophe.”. Catastrophe and Catharsis: Narratives of Disaster and Redemption in German Culture and Beyond. 90-105. Rochester, NY, Camden House.
  • Rachel J. Halverson. (2015). “Introduction: Challenges and Opportunities for the Study of German.”. Taking Stock of German Studies in the United States: The New Millennium.. 1-14. Rochester, NY, Camden House.
  • N/A. (2014). "'Der Fall Loest': A Case Study of Crime Stories and the Public Sphere in the GDR." In: Tatort Germany: The Curious Case of German Language Crime Fiction. Ed. Lynn M. Kutch and Todd Herzog.
  • Costabile-Heming, C.T. (2011). "History in Context: The Spreebogen and Das Haus am Werderschen Markt in the Context of the Architectural Debates."in After the Berlin Wall: Germany and Beyond . Eds. Katharina Gerstenberger and Jana Braziel.
  • Costabile-Heming, C.T. (2004). "Berlin Snapshots: Images of the City in Short Fiction." In Berlin. The Symphony Continues: Orchestrating Architectural, Social and Artistic Change in Germany's New Capital . Eds. Carol Anne Costabile-Heming, Rachel J. Halverson and Kristie A. Foell..
  • Rachel J. Halverson. (2004). "Berlin's Symphony Continues: Architectural, Social and Artistic Changes." In Berlin. The Symphony Continues: Orchestrating Architectural, Social and Artistic Change in Germany's New Capital. Eds. Carol Anne Costabile-Heming, Rachel J. Halverson and Kristie A. Foell..
  • Costabile-Heming, C.T. (2003). "Jürgen Fuchs: Documenting Life, Death, and the Stasi." In East German Writers and the Politics of Culture: Dealing with the Stasi. Eds. Paul Cooke and Andrew Plowman..
  • Rachel Halverson and Kristie Foell. (2001). "'Schreiber, was siehst du?' Processing Historical and Social Change." In Textual Responses to German Unification: Processing Historical and Social Change in Literature and Film. Eds. Carol Anne Costabile-Heming, Rachel Halverson and Kristie Foell..
  • Costabile-Heming, C.T. (1997). "Censorship and Review Processes: The Case of Günter Kunert." What Remains? East German Culture and the Postwar Public. Ed. Marc Silberman..
  • Costabile-Heming, C.T. (1997). "Texts and Contexts: GDR Literature during the 1970s." Beyond 1989: Re-reading German Literature since 1945. Ed. Keith Bullivant..
  • Costabile-Heming, C.T. (1996). "Confronting the Wall: Images of the Berlin Wall in GDR Short Prose." The Berlin Wall: Representations and Perspectives. Eds. Ernst Schürer, Manfred Keune, Philip Jenkins..
  • Costabile-Heming, C.T. (1995). "Nachrichten: Electronic News Bulletins and the German Language." Virtual Connections: Online Activities and Projects for Networking Language Learners. Ed. Mark Warschauer..
  • Costabile-Heming, C.T. (1995). "Was war, was ist, was sein wird: Die Rezeption der Werke Günter Kunerts." Kunert Werkstatt. Materialien und Studien zu Günter Kunerts literarischem Werk. Eds. Manfred Keune and Manfred Durzak..
  • Book Review

  • Costabile-Heming, C. (2021). Rev. of Angermuseum Erfurt, Kai Uwe Schierz, Patrick Rössler, Miriam Krautwurst, and Elizabeth Otto, editors. 4 “Bauhausmädels” Gertrud Arndt, Marianne Brandt, Margarete Heumann, Margaretha Reichardt. Sandstein Verlag, 2019. Feminist German Studies. 113-115.
  • Costabile-Heming, C.T. (2019). Interwoven Fates: 20th Century German History and the European Refugee Crisis. The Athenaeum Review. (3) 188-190. https://athenaeumreview.org/
  • Costabile-Heming, C.T. (2017). Rev. of Sagen, was ist! Jürgen Fuchs zwischen Interpretation, Forschung und Kritik. Glossen. 43 http://blogs.dickinson.edu/glossen/glossen-43-2017-current-issue/5559-2/
  • Costabile-Heming, C.T. (2017). Rev. of Novel Perspectives on German-Language Comics Studies: History, Pedagogy, Theory.. Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German. 50 (1) 102-103.
  • Costabile-Heming, C.T. (2017). Rev. of The Autobiographical Turn in Germanophone Documentary and Experimental Film. Women in German Yearbook. 128 (Summer) 17-18. Women in German.
  • Education Kits and Manipulatives

  • Costabile-Heming, C., Schicker, J. (2022). Teaching Guide: The Architects. DEFA Film Library. https://ecommerce.umass.edu/defa/film/3598
  • Encyclopedia Article

  • Costabile-Heming, C.T. (2024). Anna Seghers. Short Story Criticism. Gale.
  • Costabile-Heming, C.T. (2005). "East Germany" Encyclopedia of Intelligence & Counterintelligence . Rodney P. Carlisle, General Editor..
  • Journal Article

  • Costabile-Heming, C.T., Halverson, R.J. (2023). Reading Literature in the Digital Age: Connecting Students to Texts Orally and Aurally. Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German. 56 (2) 24.
  • Costabile-Heming, C. (2022). The Li(v)es of Spies: Documentary Portraits of East German Unofficial Informants (IMs). Limbus: Australian Yearbook of German Literary and Cultural Studies. 21-32.
  • Costabile-Heming, C. (2021). “Das Buch als vollkommenstes aller Medien”: Judith Schalansky, Book Making, and the Art of Literature. Gegenwartsliteratur. XX 169-189.
  • Costabile-Heming, C.T. (2020). Literary Afterlives: Archives, Literature Museums, and the Visibility of Texts. Textpraxis. (2) 16. https://www.textpraxis.net/carol-anne-costabile-heming-literary-afterlives
  • Costabile-Heming, C.T. (2019). Expanding the Nation—Thoughts on Moving German Studies Forward in the 21st Century. The German Quarterly. Beyond the Nation: Pondering German Studies in the Twenty-First Century. 92 (4) 454-458.
  • Costabile-Heming, C.T. (2019). “Eine Wünschelrute auf der Suche nach den Meinigen”: The Role of the German Language in Katja Petrowskaja’s Vielleicht Esther. Germanistik in Ireland. 99-115. http://www.hartung-gorre.de/Ireland_14.htm
  • Costabile-Heming, C.T. (2019). Surveillance and the GDR’s Cultural Sphere: Franz Fühmann, the State, and the Stasi. German Life and Letters. 72 (3) 335-356.
  • Costabile-Heming, C.T. (2018). Von “Nachruf” bis “Eigentum”: Defining Origin in Volker Braun’s Post-Unification Works. Limbus: Australian Yearbook of German Literary and Cultural Studies. (11) 159-174.
  • Costabile-Heming, C.T. (2017). “The Reconstructed City Palace and Humboldt Forum in Berlin: Restoring Architectural Identity or Distorting the Memory of Historic Spaces?”. Journal of Contemporary European Studies. 25 (4) 441-454.
  • N/A. (2015). “Preserving the Self: Constructs of Memory and Biography in the Works of Jürgen Fuchs.”. Edinburgh German Yearbook. 9 163-177.
  • Christy Crutsinger, Julie Glass, and Carol Anne Costabile-Heming. (2015). Changing the culture: Mentoring faculty at the margin. The Department Chair. 25 (3) 9-10. Academic Chairperson's Conference.
  • Costabile-Heming, C.T. (2011). "Responding to the MLA Report: Re-Contextualizing German Departments for the 21st Century.". The German Quarterly.
  • Costabile-Heming, C.T. (2011). "The Stasi on Display in Berlin: The Role of the Museum in the GDR's Contested Legacy." Stasi on Display Related Links: http://blogs.dickinson.edu/glossen/archive/most-recent-issue-322011/carol-anne-constabile-heming-glossen32/.
  • Costabile-Heming, C.T. (2010). "Illness as Metaphor: Christa Wolf, the GDR and Beyond.". Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures.
  • Costabile-Heming, C.T. (2008). "Overcoming the Silence: Narrative Strategies in Günter Grass's Beim Häuten der Zwiebel.". Colloquia Germanica.
  • Costabile-Heming, C.T. (2005). "Tracing History through Berlin's Topography: Historical Memories and Post-1989 Berlin Narratives.". German Life and Letters.
  • Costabile-Heming, C.T. (2005). "Where Public and Private Intersect: The Intermingling of Spheres in Christa Wolf's Ein Tag im Jahr.". Orbis Litterarum.
  • Costabile-Heming, C.T. (2004). "'Zur Sache Deutschland': Volker Braun Takes Stock.".
  • Costabile-Heming, C.T. (2004). "The Presence and Absence of the Past: Sites of Memory/Forgetting in F. C. Delius' Die Flatterzunge.".
  • Costabile-Heming, C.T. (2002). "Offizielle und inoffizielle Zensurverfahren in der DDR: Der Fall Günter Kunert.".
  • Costabile-Heming, C.T. (2002). "Peter Schneider's Eduards Heimkehr and the Image of the 'New Berlin.'".
  • Costabile-Heming, C.T. (2001). "Das Buch stört immer noch.".
  • Costabile-Heming, C.T. (2000). REZENSUR : A Case Study of Censorship and Programmatic Reception in the GDR.".
  • Costabile-Heming, C.T. (1998). "Keeping the Public Sphere Public: Problematizing Censorship in the former German Democratic Republic for American University Students.".
  • Costabile-Heming, C.T. (1997). "Experimenting with Androgyny: Malina and Ingeborg Bachmann's Search for Utopia.".
  • Costabile-Heming, C.T. (1991). "Christa Wolf's 'Büchner Prize Acceptance Speech': An Exercise in Sprach- and Kulturkritik.".
  • Magazine/Trade Publication

  • Costabile-Heming, C.A. (2021). Scholarly Productivity and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Cultivating Community in a Remote Writing Group. Academic Impressions. https://www.academicimpressions.com/blog/scholarly-productivity-and-the-covid-19-pandemic-%E2%80%A8cultivating-community-in-a-remote-writing-group/?cache=1
  • Costabile-Heming, C.T. (1997). "The Literature of the German Democratic Republic.".
  • Scholarly Note

  • Costabile-Heming, C.T. (2019). Lessons from the Stasi Files or Why GDR Studies Still Matter. Other. https://diversityingermancurriculum.weebly.com/ddgc-blog/lessons-from-the-stasi-files-or-why-gdr-studies-still-matter
  • Written Case with Instructional Material

  • Costabile-Heming, C. (2020). Checking Reading Comprehension Remotely using Student-designed Comics. FLTMag. (July) https://fltmag.com/checking-reading-using-comics/

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

    Contract

  • Costabile-Heming, C. (Principal), "Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall," sponsored by German Embassy, Other, Funded. (2014 - 2014).
  • Fellowship

  • Costabile-Heming, C. (Principal), "Research Stays for University Academics and Scientists," sponsored by Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), International, Funded. (2021 - 2021).
  • Costabile-Heming, C., "Marbach Fellowship," sponsored by Deutsches Literaturarchiv, International, Funded. ( - 2021).
  • Costabile-Heming, C., "CERCLL Collaborators Travel Award," sponsored by University of Arizona, State, Funded. (2020 - 2020).
  • Costabile-Heming, C., "Marbach Postdoctoral Stipend," sponsored by Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach, International, Funded. (2019 - 2019).
  • Costabile-Heming, C. (Principal), "The Literature Industry in Germany," sponsored by University of Notre Dame, Private, Funded. (2017 - 2017).
  • Costabile-Heming, C. (Principal), "Marbach Fellowship," sponsored by Deutsches Literaturarchiv, International, Funded. (2016 - 2017).
  • Costabile-Heming, C. (Principal), "Research Stay for University Academics and Scientists," sponsored by DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service), International, Funded. (2016 - 2016).
  • Costabile-Heming, C. (Principal), "F.C. Delius: Witnessing German History," sponsored by Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach, Other, Funded. (2014 - 2014).
  • Grant - Service

  • Costabile-Heming, C.T. (Principal), "Campus Weeks 2021 - Time To Act," sponsored by Embassy of the Federal Rep of Germany, OG, Funded. (2021 - 2021).
  • Costabile-Heming, C.T. (Principal), "Campus Weeks 2020 - Building Tomorrow," sponsored by Embassy of the Federal Rep of Germany, OG, Funded. (2020 - 2020).
  • Costabile-Heming, C.T. (Principal), "Celebrating 30 Years of Freedom," sponsored by American Association of Teachers of, NFP, Funded. (2019 - 2019).
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