POSITION: Professor Emerita of German
DEGREE: Ph.D., Ohio State University
RESEARCH INTERESTS: 20th and 21st Century German literature, Post-unification literature and film, Post-1945 literature, GDR writers, Language Acquisition, second year college level textbooks, Women writers and gender studies, Holocaust Literature, Use of the fantastic mode and the double (Doppelgänger)
CONTACT INFORMATION:
mabee@oakland.edu
Barbara Mabee joined Oakland University in August 1988 and retired in 2011. She has published a book on memory and historical consciousness in the poetry of Sarah Kirsch (1989), and numerous articles on twentieth and twenty-first century writers, among them Robert Musil, Christa Wolf, Sarah Kirsch, Irmtraud Morgner, Elke Erb, Helga Schubert, Kerstin Hensel, Angela Krauß, and Steffen Mensching. With Distinguished Professor Emeritus Jack Moeller from Oakland University, she co-authored the last four editions of the intermediate German college textbook Kaleidoskop. She has been on the Board of Directors of the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) as the German Language and Literature Director. This past year, she served as president of the organization and presided over their 41st annual convention at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. It was the largest convention in the history of NeMLA. She also served as interim director of The Honors College from July 2009-August 2010. From Oct. 6-9, 2010 Prof. Mabee brought the bestseller Eastern German author Susanne Schädlich to campus as part of her reading tour of her 2009 autobiography Time and Again December (Immer wieder Dezember). Since 2000, Professor Mabee has been the coordinator of the exchange program between Oakland University and the University of Oldenburg in Germany. She is also one of the associate editors of the Oakland Journal.