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Bill Martin

Visiting Instructor in German
German , 116A Lawrence Hall
p 315 2287298

Degree

 BA University of Iowa; MA University of Texas, Austin; PhD Candidate University of Chicago

Teaching Experience

University of Chicago: Germanic Studies; Common Core; MA Program in the Humanities. Bard College: Language and Thinking; Clemente Course in the Humanities.

Dissertation

 "The Better, More Cheerful Life": Film Comedy and Its Publics in East Germany, Poland, and Czechoslovakia, 1955–1981

Interests

 Late-18th/early19th century German literature, postwar and contemporary German literature and film; postwar Polish and Central European literature and film; queer studies; minority studies; translation studies.

Publications

"Slatan Dudow's Christine (1963/1974) and the Social Comedy of Character," East European Politics and Society 25.4 (forthcoming 2011).

Lovetown, by Michał Witkowski (London: Portobello Books, 2010), as translator from Polish.

Emil and the Detectives, by Erich Kästner (New York: Overlook Press, 2007), as translator from German.

Farewells to Plasma, by Natasza Goerke (Prague: Twisted Spoon Press, 2002), as translator from Polish.

"New Writing in German," Chicago Review 48.2-3 (2002), as co-editor.

"New Polish Writing," Chicago Review 46.3-4 (2000), as guest editor.

Distinctions

 Fulbright-Hayes Scholarship to Germany (1993–1994), DAAD Fellowship (2002–2003), National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship (2008)