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GISELA BRINKER-GABLER Professor of Comparative Literature Co-Director, Doctoral Program in Philosophy, Literature and the Theory of Criticism Department of Comparative Literature Binghamton University State University of New York

News April 2019: Co-editor of 'Europe Now', On-line journal (issue April 2019) of the Center for European Studies (CES) at Columbia University, NYC. Dec 2018: Translated into German: My Book "Image in Outline" - Lou Andreas-Salomé. Bild im Umriss. Eine Lektüre. Übersetzt von Reiner Ansén. Auslieferung: 1. Dezember 2018. https://www.verlag-koenigshausen-neumann.de/product_info.php/info/p8770_Lou-Andreas-Salom----Bild-im-Umriss--Eine-Lekt--re----bersetzt-von-Reiner--Ans--n.html/XTCsid/8clpnf3jubkbg51mi000924a47 The Many Voices of Europe. Mobility and Migration in Contemporary Europe. Ed. Gisela Brinker-Gabler and Nicole Shea (in preparation) June 2018: Book Chapter:"Walter Benjamin's Translator/Critic as a Model for Transcultural Thought and Practice," in: Benjamin's Figures. Dialogues on the Vocation of the Humanities, eds. Madeleine Kasten, Rico Sneller, Gerard Visser, Nordhausen (Germany): Traugott Bautz, June 2018. May 2018: Co-Chair of the new Research Network "European Culture", Council for European Studies at Columbia University, NY https://councilforeuropeanstudies.org/membership/research/14-research/333-european-culture-research-network March 29, 2018: presentation, "Generating Translocality" at Mini-Symposium (Re)crossing Borders: Mobility and Migration in Contemporary Literature and Culture at the 25th International Conference of Europeanists: Chicago, March 28-30 https://councilforeuropeanstudies.org/conferences/upcoming-conferences/2018-ces-conference March 2018: Co-organizer with Nicole Shea of the Mini-Symposium (Re)crossing Borders: Mobility and Migration in Contemporary Literature and Culture at the 25th International Conference of Europeanists: Chicago, March 28-30 https://councilforeuropeanstudies.org/conferences/upcoming-conferences/2018-ces-conference July 2017:Co-organizer with Nicole Shea of the Symposium The Many Voices of Europe. Contemporary Literature of Migration at the 24th International Conference of Europeanists: Sustainability and Transformation, University of Glasgow, UK, July 12-14. May 2017: Invited Keynote at the Annual Conference of the Canadian Association of University Teachers of German(CAUTG),Toronto,Canada. "Generating Translocality: Mobility, Place, and Constellation. https://www.cautg.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/CAUTG_2017_Toronto_3_April_17.pdf Translated into the Croatian language: My book Image in Outline: Reading Lou Andreas-Salomé, 2016. https://www.knjizara-dominovic.hr/Artikl/OBRIS-SLIKE-citajuci-Lou-Andreas-Salome.html?q=cGdcOTQscHJcNzA5MjA%3d November 2016, Book chapter: "‘The Task of the Translator.’ Walter Benjamin’s Über-setzen in Cross-Cultural Practice,” in: Translation and Translating in German Studies. A Festschrift for Raleigh Whitinger; John L. Plews and Diana Spokiene, editors. https://www.wlupress.wlu.ca/Books/T/Translation-and-Translating-in-German-Studies July 2016: International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA), convention in Vienna, Austria, July 2016: Organizer of Three Panels # 17285 Towards a New World Literature with 15 presenters https://icla2016.univie.ac.at/group-sections/ - title of my presentation: Constellations of the Translocal: Towards a New World Literature December 2015: Three of my earlier edited books published as reprints and ebooks by Fischer Verlag, Germany : Fanny Lewald: the first new edition (abridged version of six volumes) of one of the most important German autobiographies of the 19th century by the famous Jewish-German writer Fanny Lewald. Toni Sender: The first German edition of the autobiography (published 1939 in the US) by the Jewish-German socialist Toni Sender, one of the four female "Reichstagsabgeordnete" in Weimar Germany, who later escaped the Nazis, and immigrated to the United States to become a high ranked official of the United Nations. Frauen gegen den Krieg, the first anthology documenting German women's work against the war from the end of the 19th century to 1933.http://www.fischerverlage.de/suche?text=Gisela+Brinker-Gabler Reviews of my book Image in Outline: Laura Deiulio in: German Studies Review, May 2015, 423-25 https:http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/german_studies_review/v038/38.2.deiulio.html; Muriel Cormican (University of West Georgia) in: Monatshefte, Fall 2014, 518f.; Agatha Schwartz (University of Ottawa) in: German Quarterly, Fall 2013, 493f.; R.C. Conard (University of Dayton) in: Choice, March 2013. New paperback edition of my recent book Image in Outline. Reading Lou Andreas-Salomé (9/14)http://www.amazon.com/Image-Outline-Reading-Andreas-Salomé-Directions/dp/1628920173/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1408811259&sr=8-2&keywords=gisela+brinker-gabler > News Archive

Career

I joined Binghamton University in 1989, having previously taught at the University of Cologne (Germany), University Essen (Germany), and University of Florida, Gainesville.

Research

My work has been on modern and avant-garde literature and cultural practice, modernism/modernity, women’s literature and political culture. Furthermore, I have been interested in narratives of exile and migration, the Jewish-German tradition, autobiographics, and romanticism. Currently I am working on a book on Lou Andreas-Salome’s modern thought and a book that combines memoir and political history.