SCHADE, Silke

Office: Buchanan Tower 210
Tel.: 604.827.5590
E-Mail: schades(at)interchange.ubc.ca

Assistant Professor of German
B.A. (Smith College 1997), M.A., Ph.D. (University of Cincinnati 2007)


Silke Schade received her education at Smith College (B.A., Gender Studies and German Studies, 1997) and the University of Cincinnati (M.A., Ph.D., German Studies, 2007). Before joining the department, she taught at Colby College, The German School at Middlebury College, and the University of Cincinnati (U.S.). Her research and teaching interests include German language and culture, 19th- through 21st-century German literature, transcultural literature and film, Gender Studies, German-Jewish Studies, European Studies, and German for professional purposes. In 2007, she completed her Ph.D. in contemporary transcultural literature with a dissertation entitled “Rewriting Home and Migration: Spatiality in the Narratives of Barbara Honigmann and Emine Sevgi Özdamar.” Dr. Schade serves as outreach coordinator for DAAD, PAD, and the Goethe Institut, and as coordinator for the department’s video and DVD collection.

Courses offered 2008-2009

• German language courses (GERM 200, 210)
• Great Works of Literature from Central, Eastern, and Northern Europe (CENS 202)
• Contemporary German Literature (GERM 302)
  
• Graduate Seminar:  Nation and Migration (GERM 532A)

Current Research Project

“Remapping Home:  Recent German Literature of Migration.” My current literary research investigates the fluidity of -- and necessary interdependence between -- concepts of home and migration. This project is an extension of my dissertation research.  It is part of the upcoming MLA conference and a forthcoming volume entitled Spatial Turns.

Publications

Edited Volumes:

• Managing Editor. Focus on German Studies: A Journal on and Beyond German-Language Literature 10 (2003). 282 pages.
• Co-editor. The Bitterwseet Land: An Anthology of Recent German-American Poetry. Number 9 (2003) in the series Max Kade Occasional Papers in German-American Studies. 18 pages.

Articles:

• "Rewriting Home and Migration:  Spatiality in the Narratives of Emine Sevgi Ozdamar." Spatial Turns:  Space, Place, and Mobility in German Literary and Visual Culture.  ABnG, forthcoming, 2008. 
• “Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s Berlin: Linking Migration and Home in Die Brücke vom Goldenen Horn.” Focus on German Studies 13 (2006): 21-33.

Interviews:

• “Berührungspunkte: Ein Gespräch mit Zafer Senocak.” Focus on German Studies 10 (2003): 261-267.
• “On the Enduring Impact of Literature: A Conversation with Azade Seyhan.” Focus on German Studies 10 (2003): 269-275.

Book Reviews:

• Wladimir Kaminer. Mein deutsches Dschungelbuch. Focus on German Studies 12 (2005): 172-174.
• Marlene Streeruwitz. Majakowskiring. Focus on German Studies 8 (2001): 194-197.
• Peter Bichsel. Cherubin Hammer und Cherubin Hammer. Focus on Literatur 7 (2000): 72-74.

Translations:

• Poems by Alfred Gong, Lisa Kahn, Gerhard Schade, and Ernst Waldinger in The Bitterwseet Land: An Anthology of Recent German-American Poetry, Number 9 (2003) in the series Max Kade Occasional Papers in German-American Studies. 18 pages.
• Poems by Lisa Kahn in her Why Write Poetry? Why in German? For Whom?, Number 5 (2001) in the series Max Kade Occasional Papers in German-American Studies. 18 pages.