Julie D. Prandi                                                                                                   Illinois Wesleyan University
905 N. Evans Street                                                                                          P.O. Box 2900
Bloomington, IL 61701                                                                                     Bloomington, IL 61702-2900
home: 309-828-3230                                                                                       office: 309-556-8084
 

DEGREES                                                                                                     POSITIONS

 Ph.D., 1981   German Literature, U.C. Berkeley                                               1993-       Professor of German, Illinois Wesleyan University
 M.A., 1976    German Literature, U.C. Berkeley                                               1989-93   Assoc. Prof. German, Illinois Wesleyan University
 B.A., 1974    German and Comparative Literature, U.C. Berkeley                     1984-89   Ass't Prof. German, Illinois Wesleyan University
                                                                                                                          1981-84   Ass't Prof. German, Columbia University, New York
   
 
PUBLICATIONS

Articles in Cyclopedia of Literary Places, ed. R. Baird Shuman, 3 vols. Englewood Cliffs: Salem Press, 2003. Goethe’s Faust (401-402) and Egmont (352);
      Schiller’s Wilhelm Tell (1283-84); Lessing’s Nathan the Wise (792-93), Feuchtwanger’s Power (935-36), Kleist’s Prince of Homburg (942) and Broken
      Jug (148-49), T. Mann’s Magic Mountain (686-87); Gottfried Keller’s Green Henry (477-79); Bücher’s Woyzeck (1304).

John Michael Cooper and Julie D. Prandi, eds. The Mendelssohns: Their Music in History. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2002.

“Kindred Spirits: Mendelssohn and Goethe, Die erste Walpurgisnacht.” In  The Mendelssohns: Their Music in History. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2002.

"Die Frau als Welt: Liebe ohne Gegenliebe im Buch der Lieder." In Heine gehört auch uns: Tagungsband  des Internationalen Heine-Symposiums '97 in
      Beijing. Ed Zhang Yushu. Beijing: Verlag der  Peking-Universität, 1998.
 
"Anna Louisa Karsch," in Women Writers in German Speaking Countries, Westport: Greenwood Press,  1998, 208-214.

"The Road to Wisdom in Mozart's Magic Flute," in Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 26, Johns  Hopkins University Press, 1998, 273-285.

"Egmont: Critical Evaluation" [about Goethe's drama Egmont] in Masterplots, ed. Frank N. Magill, 26  Vols., Englewood Cliffs (NJ): Salem Press, 1996.

"Elective Affinities, Bibliography" [Annotated bibliography of works interpreting Goethe's novel Die Wahlverwandtschaften in English] in Masterplots, ed. Frank
      N.Magill, Englewood Cliffs: Salem  Press, 1996.

"Dare To Be Happy!"  A Study of Goethe's Ethics.  Lantham (MD): University Press of America, 1993.

"Anna Luisa Karsch," in Bitter Healing:  Anthology of German Women Authors from Pietism to  Romanticism. Ed. by J. Blackwell and S. Zantop.  Univ. of
       Nebraska Press, 1990.  127-39.

 "Point of View and the Possibility of Empathy:  Woyzeck" in Literature/Film Quarterly, 13: 4 (1985).

"Women Warrior as Hero:  Schiller's Jungfrau von Orleans and Kleist's Penthesilea," Monatshefte (Winter  1985).

"Goethe's Iphigenie as Woman," The Germanic Review (Winter 1985).

Spirited Women Heroes:  Major Female Characters in the Dramas of Goethe, Schiller and Kleist.  New  York: Peter Lang, 1983.

Reinhard Lettau, Breakfast in Miami. Translated from the German by Julie Prandi and Reinhard Lettau.   London: Calder, 1982.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

PUBLISHED REVIEWS

Review of Schiller’s Early Dramas: A Critical History, by David Pugh, in Monatshefte 94:3 (Summer 2002), pp. 401-402.

Review of Goethe, der Pazifist. Zwischen Kriegsfurcht und Friedenshoffnung, by Wolfgang Rothe, in Monatshefte 93:2 (Summer 2001), pp. 226-227.

Review of Goethe and Schubert: the Unseen Bond, by Kennteth Whitton, in The Opera Journal 33:4 (Dec. 2000), pp. 51-54.

Review of Heinrich von Kleist: the Ambiguity of Art and the Necessity of Form, by Hilda Meldrum Brown, in JEGP (Jan. 2001), pp. 99-101.

Review of Harmonious Tensions: The Writings of Friedrich Schiller, by Steven Martinson, in Monatshefte 91/2 (Summer 1999), pp. 274-275.

Review of Frauenherrschaft im Drama des frühen 19. Jahrhunderts, by Yixu Lü, in Monatshefte 88/2 (Summer 1996), pp. 250-251.

Review of Schön wie ein Gott und männlich wie ein Held: Zur Rolle des weiblich Geschlechtscharakters für die Konstitutierung des männlichen Aufklärungshelden in den frühen Dramen Schillers, by Karen Beyer, in Colloquia Germanica 27/4 (1994): 390-392.

Review of The Challenge of Belatedness: Goethe, Kleist, Hofmannsthal, by JeanWilson, in Journal for English and German Philology 92:1 (1993).

Review of Prisons and Idylls:  Studies in Heinrich von Kleist's Fictional World, by Linda Dietrick, in Germanic Review (Columbia University, NY) 62:1 (1987): 48.

Review of Desire's Sway: The Plays and Stories of Heinrich von Kleist, by James McGlathery, in Germanic Review, 60/3 (1985): 116-117.
 
 

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (ASECS)
American Association of Teachers of German (AATG)
American Association of University Professors
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Goethe Society of North America

WORK EXPERIENCE ABROAD:

2001 One month spent in Berlin; immersion in the language  and culture, gathering new materials for  classes; and  work on a research project. (May 14 - June 14)
1998       Two weeks in Berlin using the libraries
1990       DAAD One month research grant (Frankfurt); Two weeks Berlin/Dresden; DOE Grant
1986        January Travel Course:  Germany
1984        Travel Grant from Columbia Univ. N.Y.  Spent doing research in Weimar, Germany.
1978-79   Universität Tübingen, Germany (one full year)
1971-73   Universität Göttingen, Germany (two full years)
 
 
 
 

HONORS AND GRANTS:

1998  CD Grant for course development: Giants of German Thought
1996       Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society
1997       IWU Grant to support reading a paper at the International  Heine Symposium in Beijing.
1992       IWU Grant to support reading of a paper at an AATG conference in Germany.
1992       Participation in the Business Department Grant project:  Internationalization of the Business   School Curriculum
1991       Participation in the CAPHE Grant for Foreign Languages
1990      German Aademic Exchange (DAAD) one-month grant for study  in Frankfurt, FRG.
1990      DOE grant for two week project in Berlin and the GDR.
1988      Certification as an Oral Proficiency Tester (ACTFL)
1982      Summer Travel/Study Grant from Columbia Humanities Council (Columbia University, NY)
1978-79  Fulbright Grant (Graduate Student Level)
1974 Phi Beta Kappa

 
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY:

2001  Peoria Conference on World Affairs, which I attended with a  student.

2000 Goethefest: Chapel, Feb. 23. Students performed poems and an excerpt from Goethe's Faust (in  costume, with props); Songs  with Goethe texts sung by Prof. Moham; commentary by J. Prandi   and P. Visscher.

1999      "The Self-Educated Poet's View of Natural Genius." Paper delivered at the ASECS conference,   Milwaukee, March.
1998      Attended AATG-ACTFL conference, Chicago, Novemeber.
1997      "Die Frau als Welt: Liebe ohne Gegenliebe in Heine's Buch der Lieder," Paper delivered at  International Heine Symposium,  Beijing, Sept.
1997  International Studies Forum, IWU: report on my research  concerning Mozart's Magic Flute as  Enlightenment Opera.
1997      Attended ASECS meeting, Nashville TN, April.
1996      "Kindred Spirits: Mendelssohn and Goethe: 'Die erste Walpurgisnacht,'" paper delivered at the  conference "The  Mendelssohns at the Millenium," IWU, March.
1996      Co-Coordinator of the conference "The Mendelssohns at the  Millennium, IWU, March.
1995      Co-Coordinator of the conference "History, Music, and the Arts in Germany and Austria, 1815- 1848,"  IWU, March.
1995      "'Bloss damit man sehe, spühre, schmecke, hör und fühle': Appeal to the Senses in the Poetry of
 Brockes, Kleist, and  Karsch." M/MLA, St. Louis, November.
1995      "Goethean Entsagung: Not the Great Solution It's Cracked up to Be," ASECS, Tucson, April.
1994      "The Way of Wisdom in Mozart's Magic Flute", MW/ASECS, Sept.
1994     "Cross-Gender Signals in the Poetry of Anna Louisa Karsch,"  MLA, San Diego, December.
1992      "Europeanism in Heinrich Heine and Friedrich Nietzsche,"  AATG, Baden-Baden, Germany, July.
1992      "Cultural Perspectives on the New Germany," a lecture Feb. 17 sponsored by the IWU  International Studies Round Table.
1991      Non-Organization talk: "After the Wall:  An Update on Social and Economic Problems facing  Germany," Oct. 21.198
1991      "Goethe and Spinoza: Entsagung," M/MLA Fall Conference.
1989      Organizer of section on "The Classical Goethe" at M/MLA, Nov.
1989      "Goethe and Resignation,"  AATG Fall Conference.
1988      "Strategies for Active Learning," AATG Chapter meeting, IWU.
1988       Organizer of AATG Southern Illinois Chapter Meeting, May.
1987      "Anna Luisa Karsch: A Natural Genius," read at Hofstra University Conference on 18th Century  Women and the Arts.
1984      "Goethe's Iphigenie auf Tauris: Human Being and Woman,"  Columbia Univeristy, Deutsches
 Haus public lecture series.
1983      "Methodological Considerations towards a New Image of Women in German Literature," read at   the December MLA.
1983      "Werner Herzog's Movie Woyzeck," read at the Conference for Literature and Film, Tallahassee  FL, in January.
1980      Organized "German Women Authors prior to 1800". MLA, Dec.
 

WORKSHOPS AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT (1995- )

2000  Attended Workshop on using computer software and the internet for classroom instruction and  enrichment in FL classes. March.

1996      Attended three noon workshops on Gateway courses and one workshop on using the internet to  access materials for German classes.
1996      MCLL Department Colloquium on teaching basic sequence courses.
1995      Attended Lily Conference on College Teaching, Miami U., November.
1995      Attended AATG, Southern Illinois Chapter, Hands-on Internet Workshop for German teachers, U  of I, August 1995.
1995      Panel: placement procedures for those entering college German programs (with representatives  from five other Illinois Colleges), Southern Illinois AATG, Springfield, in April.
 

COMMITTEE WORK AND OTHER SERVICE

2001-02  Bookstore Committee
2000-02  Phi Beta Kappa,  member of Committee on Members in Course
2000           Task Force, Revision of AV General Education description
1999-       First Year Advisor
1998-01      Phi Kappa Phi, Secretary
1997-01        Committee on Advising. Chair 1998-01
1996-98      Teaching and Learning Technology Roundtable
1996         The Arts Committee, Gen Ed Task Force.
1993-95      Curriculum Council
1988-        Western European Studies Committee
1991-96      Pre-Law Committee
1992-93      Academic Assessment Planning Sub-Committee
1991-93      Teacher Education Committee
1992         Japan Committee
1989-91      Nominating Committee
1990-  German Section Head
1989-90      Humanities Speakers Committee
1987-90      Graduate Fellowship Committee
1986-87      Faculty Advisory Committee
1985-87      Curriculum Council
1985-87      Pre-Medical Committee

THESIS COMMITTEES

Advisor for: Ginte Sabalyauskeite (Bus. Ad 2000),  Lynn Ellerbruch (IS, 96),  Chris Welber (IS, 95), Jennifer Cutsforth, History Honors (95), Angelica Ushatova, Comparative Literature Honors (94),
 Garret Graubins, Political Science Honors (94), Rhea Rosenlof, Business School Honors (91)
Supervised: Vicki Nastasowski (German 2001),k Amanda Weber (IS, 1995)
 

COURSES TAUGHT

Language courses: 101, 102, 201, 202 (Intermed. German); 301 (Advanced German)

Literature/Culture in German:    Ger. 416: German Cultural History  Ger. 488: 20th Century Literature
    Ger. 487: Golden Age Literature Ger. 306: Comparative Culture
       Intro to Modern German Drama  German Intellectual History
    Germany Poetry, 1770-1900 Graduate Seminar on Goethe

General Education Courses (in English)

      Literature and Culture 210: Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche and Freud
      Humanities 103: 17-18th Century
      Gateway 100: Magic Transformation
      Humanities 302: Western World, 1600 - present
      Fresh. Seminar: The Devil, the Woman, and Faust
      Engl. 277: 19th Century French, German, Russian Drama
      Engl. 277: 20th Century French, German, Russian Drama
      Engl. 277: Continental Masters of Short Fiction
 

LANGUAGES:   German (excellent skills, read, write, speak)
              French (very good reading knowledge)