Associate Professor
German and Comparative Literature
Office: COED 450 
Phone: 704.687.8774
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Education

• Ph.D. Comparative Literature, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1997)
• M.A. Comparative Literature, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1993)
• Georg-August Universität Göttingen, Germany (1991)
  • Majors: French and English Literature and Linguistics
  • Minors: Education and Psychology

Awards

2007 recipient of the Bonnie E. Cone Early-Career Professorship for Teaching

Specific Research Interests

• Women in literature
• Immigration
• German literature in the nineteenth century
• Realism
• Naturalism

Recent Publications

• The Dangerous Potential of Reading: Readers and the Negotiation of Power in Selected Nineteenth-Century Narratives (New York: Routledge, 2004)
• "An Austrian Princess’s Representation of Gender in Nineteenth-Century Mexico: Paula von Kollonitz’s Eine Reise nach Mexico im Jahre 1864." Secolas Annals (2003)
• "Reading as the Path to Revolt? Emile Zola’s Germinal” Postscript (2003)
• "Is Effi Briest a Naturalist Novel? Adultery and Prostitution in Theodor Fontane’s Effi Briest and Emile Zola’s Nana” SCMLR (2003)

Current Project

• “Being German in the Americas: Gender, Class, and Acculturation in Nineteenth-Century German Immigrant Literature.” Anabel Buchenau is currently conducting research for a book length study comparing the German immigration experience through the lens of fiction in the Americas.