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Christiane Arndt

Associate Professor

PhD

German, LLCU

Languages, Literatures and Cultures

Arts and Science

arndtc@queensu.ca

613-533-2073

Summer 2024: Mac-Corry D507

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On leave July 01, 2023 - June 30, 2024.

Research interests: 19th century literature and culture, Photography (and/in literature), Medical Humanities

Education

Ph.D. German Literature, Johns Hopkins University, 2006
Staatsexamen Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, 2000

About

Christiane Arndt’s research areas within German literature and culture are literary Realism, literature and photography, medicine and literature, and fantastic literature. Her current research project focuses on the interrelation of photography and literature with respect to the representation of diseases around the turn of the 19th century. She has been awarded two research fellowships by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2013 and 2018).

Christiane Arndt has authored a monograph „Abschied von der Wirklichkeit. Probleme bei der Darstellung von Realität im deutschsprachigen literarischen Realismus“ (Freiburg i.Br.: Rombach, 2009), co-edited the volume „Organismus und Gesellschaft. Der Körper im deutschsprachigen Realismus und Naturalismus. (Bielefeld: transcript, 2011)”. Recent articles include “Das eigene Grab sehen. Narrative Implikationen medizinischer Abbildungen in Wolfgang Herrndorfs „Arbeit und Struktur“ im Vergleich mit Thomas Manns „Der Zauberberg“. Zeitschrift Für Internationale Germanistik, 3(62/2018), 519–539; “Das Wunder als Spezialeffekt – Heinrich von Kleists Heilige Cäcile/The miracle as special effect – Heinrich von Kleist’s Heilige Cäcilie“, in: Kleist-Jahrbuch 2016; "Fantastische Bazillen. Fotografie in der Gesundheitserziehung der Familienzeitschriften des 19. Jahrhunderts/Fantastic Germs. Photography as a Medium of Public Health in 19th-Century Family Journals", in: Fotogeschichte. Beiträge zur Geschichte and Ästhetik der Fotografie. Heft 138/2015 Jg. 35, Fotografie and Medizin. Von der Glasplatte zur Simulation. Anna Lammers (ed.); “Der verfluchte Yankee! – Gabriele Reuter’s Der Amerikaner and Episode Hopkins”; in: Sophie Discovers America: German speaking Women write the New World. Rob McFarland and Michelle Stott James (ed.s). Rochester: Camden House 2014; and “Fieberkrank – Realistisches Erzählen als romantische Ansteckung bei Raabe und Storm”, in: Realismus und Romantik. Dirk Göttsche and Nicholas Saul (ed.s). Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2013.

For more further publications, academic background and public presentations, see Christiane Arndt’s Curriculum Vitae.
(updated May 2017)

Teaching

Professor Arndt teaches the following courses:

GRMN 101: Beginner’s German I
GRMN 308: Survey of German Cultural History I
GRMN 311: German Language and Culture through 18th- and 19th-Century Literature
GRMN 442/LLCU 327: Sickness and Health – Cultural Representations in Medical Discourse
GRMN 429/LLCU 329: Uncanny Encounters