Simona Moti
Visiting Assistant Professor of German

Simona Moti received her Ph.D. in 2010 from the University of California-Irvine. Her areas of specialization are German literature from the 19^th through the 21^st century, interdisciplinary modernism (literature, film, art), postcolonial and transnational approaches to German, Austrian, and Central European literature, and minority studies in relation to German-speaking countries. In addition to courses in German language and culture at all levels, she has taught courses on her main area of expertise, such as Contemporary German Speaking Cultures that focused on Germany as a multicultural society and on related popular, media, and minority discourse. Other courses have focused on German film and its role in shaping and reflecting German national identity, and on visual and literary representations of the Holocaust. Her background in applied linguistics continues to inform and enhance both her scholarly work and her teaching.

Areas of Expertise

German Literature from the 19th through the 21st centuries Interdisciplinary Modernism Postcolonial and transnational approaches to German and Austrian Literature Minority and Migration Studies with reference to German-speaking countries Second Language Acquisition

Education

M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Irvine

ABD in Applied Linguistics, Lancaster University, UK

Selected Publications

"Hugo von Hofmannsthal and the Slavic East. Transnationalism, Political Engagement, and Political Unconscious in the Novella A Tale of the Cavalry." In German Literature as World Literature, ed. Thomas Beebee. New York: Continuum Press, in preparation.

"'Do they feed you properly up here?' Towards a Gastrosophic Interpretation of Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain." In Cuisine and Symbolic Capital: Food in Film and Literature, ed. Cheleen Mahar. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010. 130-149.

"Die durch das ungenaue Sehen hervorgerufene Qual. Encountering Alterity in Robert Musil's Tonka." In ahrbuch für Internationale Germanistik.Band 100, eds. Peter Pabisch and Wolfgang Greisenegger. Berlin: Peter Lang, 2010. 219-230.

"Global Simulation at the Intersection of Theory and Practice in the Intermediate Level German Classroom." Co-authored with Glenn Levine et al. Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German 37/2 (2004), 99-116.