Prof. Dr. William Collins Donahue
The Rev. John J. Cavanaugh, C.S.C., Professor of the Humanities, University of Notre Dame
Fellow in the British and Anglophone Literature and Culture section (5/2024-7/2024)
Functions
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Gastwissenschaftler/in, Germanistik
Current lectures
No current lectures.
Past lectures (max. 10)
- Contemporary European Studies (migration, refugees, European Union, populism)
- German literature and film
- Holocaust Studies
- German Jewish Studies
- Art as a form of protest, social engagement, and community building
- Bystander, Pundit, Critic, Activist: Erich Kästner as Political Thinker. On Erich Kästner. Resignation ist kein Gesichtspunkt. Politische Reden und Feuilletons, ed. with an afterword by Sven Hanuschek. Review Essay. Arbitrium (Heft 42/1); spring 2024.
- ‘Now Comes the Reckoning’ | Commonweal Magazine October 31, 2023.
- Donahue WC. "Wie wir es heute mit der Religion halten. Liebe und Liebesgeschichten als Antwort auf die Gretchenfrage – eine Untersuchung zu Goethe und Honigmann." Psychiatrische Praxis. 2023 Jul; 50 (S 01): S49-S54. German. doi: 10.1055/a-2055-8875. Epub 2023 Jul 10. PMID: 37429283.
- “Pictures that Hold Us Captive: A Rumour of Transcendence in Barbara Honigmann’s Bilder von A.,” in: Robert Gillett and Godela Weiss-Sussex, eds., Barbara Honigmann. (Bern: Peter Lang, 2023): 149-76.
- "'There is such a thing as good realism': The Not-So-Secret Afterlife of Modernism in Baßler's Popular Realism." Review of Moritz Baßler, Populärer Realismus. Vom International Style gegenwärtigen Erzählens. Arbitrium, vol. 41, no. 2, 2023, pp. 237-43. https://doi.org/10.1515/arb-2023-0029
For a full list of publications, please check Prof. Donahue's website