Harry L. Roddy

Associate Professor of German

Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literature

Education

The Perverse Utopias of Hans Henny Jahnn, Rolf Dieter Brinkmann, and Rainer Werner Fassbinder (in preparation)

“A West German Brigata: Female Agency and Authoritarian Backlash in the Film Germany in Autumn,” in preparation.
“Writing Trauma: Psychotraumatic Dissociation in the Poetry of Rolf Dieter Brinkmann,” under review, Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies.
“Hans Henny Jahnn’s New Masculine Ideal: Perrudja as Critique of Hegemonic Masculinity,” Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies 55.3 (2019).
“The Yellow Flower of Norway: Trauma and Repetition in Hans Henny Jahnn’s Perrudja,” The German Quarterly 88.3 (2015): 317-333.
“The ‘Mass Ornament’ at Play in Rolf Dieter Brinkmann’s
Oberflächenbeschreibungen,” South Atlantic Review 75.1 (2010): 1-20.
“Unsere Rockgruppe geht auf Tournee!: A Collaborative Writing Project for the Intermediate Level,” Unterrichtspraxis 42.1 (2009): 69-74.
“A Revolutionary Critique of Individualism: Heiner Müller’s Mauser in Texas,”
Monatshefte 92.2 (2000): 184-98."

“Ecce Homo: Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Performance of Wounded Masculinity in Deutschland im Herbst.” Celebrating Janet Swaffar, A Festschrift, Katherine Arens and Hiram Maxim, eds., Agarita Press, 2023

Roddy, Harry Louis, academic advisor. “Hans Henny Jahnn (1894-1959),” in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, vol. 328, ed. Lawrence J. Trudeau. Gale/Cengage Learning: 2016, pp. 1-131.

Danz, Daniela, “Bee-Folk or the Good State” and “And in the Beginning There Are Pictures,” New England Review 37.3 (2016): 43-44.
Küchenmeister, Nadja, “the american light,” No Man’s Land: New German Literature in English Translation, Issue 11 (2016)
Roddy, Harry. “Seaside Village,” Subprimal Poetry Art, Issue 11 (2018):
Showghi, Farhad. “A trace of smoke,” Saranac Review, Issue 15 (2019-2020)
Showghi, Farhad. “We waited,” “The fingernail,” and “Black goats,” Sequestrum: Literature and Art (2018)
Showghi, Farhad. “If magic,” “A place of shadows, “Melting on the short grass patches,” No Man’s Land: New German Literature in English Translation, Issue 12 (2017):
Showghi, Farhad. “The way we sleep,” The Carolina Quarterly (online feature)
Showghi, Farhad. “I’m getting used to,” Subprimal Poetry Art, Issue 9 (Summer 2017)
Showghi, Farhad. “I also let something else be said to me,” “Acacia scent,” Sakura Review, Volume VIII (Spring 2017): 17-18.
Showghi, Farhad. “There is water here,” “Pomegranate tree” and “I play,” No Man’s Land: New German Literature in English Translation, Issue 11 (2016)
Showghi, Farhad. “Balconies” and “How the hands,” The Massachusetts Review 57.3 (2016): 488-89.

“Recursive Mappings and Phenomenological Instabilities in the Poems of Rosmarie Waldrop and Farhad Showghi.” German Studies Association—Atlanta, September 2024.
“A West German Brigata: Female Agency and Authoritarian Backlash in the Film Germany in Autumn.” Modern Languages Association—Philadelphia, 4 January 2024.
“Troubled Monuments: Contested Memorialization in the US and Europe.” Round Table, University of South Alabama—Mobile, 11 April 2023.
“Creating a Consciousness of Sustainability: Poetry in the Classroom.” Köln UNITE Summer School—Cologne, Germany, 19 September 2022.
“Ecce Homo: Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Portrayal of Wounded Masculinity in Deutschland im Herbst.” Association for German Studies in Great Britain and Ireland—Nottingham, UK, 5 September 2022.
“The Vanishing Ich in Rolf Dieter Brinkmann’s Westwärts Poems.” German Studies Association—Portland, OR, 4 October 2019.
“Hans Henny Jahnn’s Perrudja and the Insoluble Dilemma of His New Masculine Ideal.” German Studies Association—Atlanta, 6 October 2017.
“Du bist der Mensch: The Embodied Pacifism of Hans Henny Jahnn’s Perrudja.” Pacifist and Anti-Militarist Writing in German 1892-1928—London, 23 September 2016.