Nonfiction: my scholarly articles

CHAPTERS IN SCHOLARLY BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS:

“Sanskrit Drama and Fin-De-Siecle Germany Frank* Wedekind’s Sonnenspektrum and Lion Feuchtwanger’s Vasantasena” in: University of Florida Department of Classics Comparative Drama Conference Text and Presentation, edited by Karelisa Hartigan, vol. IX; (Gainesville, Florida: The University of Florida Department of Classics Comparative Drama Conference papers, 1989), pp.99-114.

“Impotenz als Impuls zur schöpferischen Tätigkeit: Georg Kaisers König Hahnrei,” in: Wegbereiter der Moderne, Sonderdruck, Festschrift für Klaus Jonas, ed. Helmut Koopmann and Clark Muenzer (Tübingen, Germany: Max Niemeyer, 1990), pp.114-123.  (English Title: “Impotence as Impulse towards Creative Activity: Georg Kaiser’s König Hahnrei”)

“The Aestheticization of Wedekind’s Natürlichkeitsbegriff in His Early Play Sonnen-spektrum”, in: Frank Wedekind Yearbook, 1991, ed. Volkmar Sander (Bern: Peter Lang, 1992), pp.71-79.

“Dom Moraes”, in: Writers of the Indian Diaspora, ed. Emmanuel S. Nelson (Westport, Connecticut; London: Greenwood Press, 1993), pp.229-235.

“Teaching Literature at the First-Year Graduate Level: The Quantum Leap from Language to Literature,” in: Challenges of Literary Texts in the Foreign Language Classroom, eds. Lothar Bredella and Werner Delanoy (Tübingen, Germany: Gunter Narr Verlag, 1996), pp.185-204.

 “Visionary or Hysteric?  Mechthild von Magdeburg and Ingeborg Bachmann” in: Medieval German Studies as a Paradigm for German Studies. Albrecht Classen, ed.  Rodopi Verlag, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2000.

“Die Desorientierung des Orientalisten im Schatten von Edward Said,“ in: Okzidentbilder: Konstruktionen und Wahrnehmungen.  Martina Winkler and Ute Dietrich, eds. Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig, Germany, 2000.

„Whose Identity? The Nonnative Teacher as Cultural Mediator in the Language Classroom,“ in: ADFL Bulletin, Vol. 34 No. 1, Fall 2002, 26-29.

„Inventing the Orient: Discursive Alliances of the Philosopher, Historian, and Fiction-writer,“ in: Imperialisms: Historical and Literary Investigations, 1500-1900. Ed. Balachandra Rajan & Elizabeth Sauer. Palgrave-Macmillan, October 2004. (DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1057/9781403980465_14)

Articles in Refereed Journals:

“Der Reinkarnationsbegriff in Hesses Glasperlenspiel” in: Indo-German Studies and German Studies in India, 8 (1977), pp.10-12.

“Eine aussichtsreiche Lehrmethode für fachspezifische Kurse am Ende des zweiten Jahres” in: Die Unterrichtspraxis, Volume 21, Number 2, Fall 1988, pp.186-190.  (English Title:  “A Promising Method for Teaching Specialized Topics Courses at the End of the Second Year”)

“Parodie und Trivialisierung als Schreibvarianten beim Leser-Autor: Versuch eines paradigmatischen Modells für die Indienrezeption bei Thomas Mann und Hermann Hesse,” in: Colloquia Germanica, Band 22, 3/4, 1989, pp.222-243.  (English Title:  “Parody and Trivialization as Modes of Writing for the Reader-Author: https://www.jstor.org/stable/i23965934 Attempt at a Paradigmatic Model for the Reception of India by Thomas Mann and Hermann Hesse”)

“Gespräche mit Minoritäten” (with Shirley Jones and Gabriela Strauch) in: Die Unterrichtspraxis, 1992, Number 2, pp.166-173.  (English Title: “Conversations with Minorities”)

“Teaching Literature at the First Year Graduate Level:  the Quantum Leap from Language to Literature and its Curricular Implications.”, in: ADFL Bulletin, Association of Departments of Foreign Languages, Fall 1993, Vol.25, No.1, 41-48. https://www.mla.org/bulletin/issue/adfl.25.1/

CrossRef DOI:10.1632/adfl.25.1.41

“Father-Daughter Relationship”; “Minority Literature”; “Die Exotin”; “Mysticism,” entries in: The Feminist Encyclopedia of German Literature (Westport, Connecticut; London: Greenwood Press, 1997)

“Was ist die Mehrzahl von Heimat?“: Nationalism, Identity, and Citizenship in Gertrud Kolmar’s Eine jüdische Mutter and Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s Das Leben ist eine Karawanserei,“ in: Der untote Gott: Religion und Ästhetik in der deutschen und österreichischen Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts, edited by Olaf Berwald and Gregor Thuswaldner. Köln/Weimar/Wien: Böhlau, 2007.

Articles

“To Veil or not to Veil? The ħijāb as a Marker of Alterity,” in: Steven D. Martinson and Renate A. Schulz, eds., Transcultural German Studies / Deutsch als Fremdsprache. Building Bridges / Brücken bauen. Peter Lang Kongreßberichte, Bd. 94. Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2008.

“Friedrich Max Müller – Vedic ‘rşi’ or untouchable mleccha … or …?” in: Jörg Esleben, Christina Kraenzle and Sukanya Kulkarni, eds., Mapping Channels between Ganges and Rhine: German-Indian Cross-Cultural Relations. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008, 51-81. https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/9781847185877

‘Deliberative Dialogue’ as a Tool for Promoting Social Justice and Transcultural Awareness in the German Language Classroom,” in: Renate A. Schulz and Erwin Tschirner, eds., Communicating across Borders: Developing Intercultural Competence in German as a Foreign Language. Munich, Germany: Iudicium Verlag, 2008.

“To Veil or not to Veil: Germany and Islam,” in: The proceedings of the Conference on Knowledge, Creativity and Transformation Of Societies, Vienna, Austria, December 6 to 9, 2007.

“Deliberative Dialogue as a Pedagogical Tool for Social Justice,” in: Social Justice Education – Inviting Faculty to Transform Their Institutions. Eds. Kathleen Skubikowski, Catharine Wright, and Roman Graf. Sterling, VA: Stylus, 2009.

„Ob die Weiber Menschen seyn?“ Hesse, Women and Homoeroticism,“ in: Ingo Cornils, ed., A Companion to the Works of Hermann Hesse, Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2009.

„Deliberative Dialogue,” in: Arne Weidemann, Jürgen Straub, Steffi Nothnagel, eds., Wie lehrt man interkulturelle Kompetenz? Theorie, Methoden und Praxis in der Hochschulausbildung. Bielefeld, Germany: transcript Verlag, 2010.

 “Germany’s India: A critical re-interrogation”, in: Imagining Germany Imagining Asia (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture), edited by Veronika Fuechtner and Mary Rhiel. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2013.

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Kamakshi Pappu Murti is a retired professor of German Studies. She has published children’s books centered on young and older teens. Murti has also published murder mysteries featuring two indomitable female sleuths, avatars of Agatha Christie’s Jane Marple: “Murders Most Matronly” and “Murders in the Ivory Tower.” Her scholarly writing addresses multi-cultural issues, and gender studies (“India: The Seductive and Seduced ‘Other’ of German Orientalism” and “To Veil or not to Veil: Europe’s Shape-shifting ‘Other’.”

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