Eva-Maria Russo
Titles
Specialist, Dept. of Germanic Languages and Literatures; Comparative Literature
Eva-Maria Russo
Titles
Specialist, Dept. of Germanic Languages and Literatures; Comparative Literature Office Contact Information
Degree
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Phone
314-935-5167
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Research specialization
foreign language pedagogy and second language acquisition; 18th- through 20th-century German literature; gender studies; humor studies
Publications
Articles
Economics and Psychology: The Negation of Masculinity in Keller’s ‘Die drei gerechten Kammacher’.” Seminar 44.1.1 (2008): 37-52. Explores Keller's depiction in “Die drei gerechten Kammacher" ["The Three Righteous Combmakers"] of the 19th-century ideal of the “whole man."
"Post-War Humor in the Upper-Division German Literature Classroom." Die Unterrichtspraxis 39.1-2 (2006): 55-68. Presents within the guidelines of the National Standards several units from a course on German Humor offered at Washington University.
"More than the Consummate Libertine? Sophie von La Roche’s Seducer Figure in Geschichte des Fräuleins von Sternheim" [The History of Lady Sophia Sternheim]. Lessing Jahrbuch 34 (2002): 101-24. Investigates the amivalent would-be rapist as an intermingling of burdensome love and egotistical intrigue.
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