Richard R. Ruppel
Professor of German and Comparative Literature
Chair, Department of Foreign Languages
Address:
Department of Foreign Languages
490 Collins Classroom Center
University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point
Stevens Point , WI 54481 USA
Tel. (715) 346-4410
Fax (715) 346-4215
e-mail: rruppel@uwsp.edu
Education:
Ph.D. German Literature Cornell University 1985
Major field: Nineteenth-Century German Realism
Minor field: Nineteenth-Century Russian Realism
Dissertation Advisor: Eric A. Blackall
M.A. German Literature Cornell University 1982
M.A. German Tufts University 1978
B.A. German (major) Hartwick College 1976
Russian (minor)
Employment:
2003-2006 Chair, Department of foreign Languages
1999- Professor of German and Comparative Literature
1991-1998 Tenured Associate Professor of German
1985-1991 Assistant Professor of German
1985-1994 Assistant Visiting Professor of Comparative Literature
(during the summers at Cornell)
Teaching Experience:
German 493 Senior Seminar (Goethe, Schiller, Thomas Mann)
German 370 “Angst, Affluence and Atonement in Twentieth-Century German Lit.”
“Purging the Pasts: Contemporary German Fiction”
“Restoration, Recovery and Reconciliation: in Postwar German Lit.”
“Pre-Wende to Post-Wende: German Literature in the 1980s and 1990s”
German 360 Nineteenth-Century German Literature
“Romance, Restoration and Revolution”
German 340 Introduction to German Literature
“Cyclic Traditions in German Fiction”
“Liebeskummer in der deutschen Literatur”
German 381 German Culture
"The German Heritage in Europe" focuses on the history and culture of Austria , Switzerland and contemporary issues in Germany
“The Evolution of Germany since 1871”
German 318 “Wirtschaftsdeutsch” (Business German)
German 317 “Advanced German Composition and Conversation”
German 314 “Intermediate Composition”
German 313 “Intermediate Composition”
German 212 “ Intermediate College German II
German 211 “ Intermediate College German I
German 101 and 102: Beginning German
Comparative Literature:
Honors 350 “The Quest for Identity in the Modern Age”
(Twentieth-Century European Literature)
Comp. Lit. 324 “European Literature and the Fine Arts in Munich ”
Comp. Lit 102 “Introduction to Comparative Literature (1994- )
Internationale Hessische Sommeruniversit ät (ISU) in Fulda ( Germany )
(The ISU offers seminars taught by German, British and American faculty to an international student audience within the framework of the Hessen-Wisconsin Partnership)
July, 2004 “Green German Literary Studies: Nature, Landscape and Environment in the Writings of German and American Naturalists”
August 2002 “German Literature in Translation from Postwar to Post-Wende”
Internet Link: www.study-in-hessen.de
Hessen International Summer University (ISU)
Marquardstr. 35; D – 36039 Fulda
Email: isu@fh-fulda.de
Research and Publications:
2001-2002 University Scholar Award (two such awards given campus wide annually)
1993-1994 Sabbatical Research in Germany (Gottfried Keller and Theodor Storm)
Research Interests: Nineteenth-Century German Realism (G. Keller and Th. Storm), Austrian Biedermeier (A. Stifter), contemporary Swiss Literature, particularly Swiss women writers.
Books published:
1998 Gottfried Keller and His Critics: A Case Study in Scholarly Criticism . South Carolina : Camden House, summer, 1998. 212 pp.
1998 Gottfried Keller: Romeo und Julia auf dem Dorfe. Königs Erläuterungen und Materialien . Hollfeld: C. Bange Verlag, spring 1998, 144 pp in German.
1988 Gottfried Keller: Swiss Poet, Pedagogue, and Humanist . Berne/New York: Peter Lang Verlag, 1988.
Several articles, numerous book reviews and some 50 papers, lectures, and workshops given at regional, national and international conferences on topics of literature, culture, the European Union and pedagogy.
Grants :
1990-2004 Numerous in house University Personnel Development (UPDC) Grants
1992 United States Information Agency (USIA) Grant (with M. Koepke)
1990 Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) Summer Study Stipend: Theodor Storm Archival Research in Husum, Germany
1987 Max Geilinger Foundation (Zurich, Switzerland)
(Fund publication of first monograph on Gottfried Keller)
1982-84 Fulbright Grant (Dissertation Research on Gottfried Keller in Zurich )
1978-79 Austro-American Education Commission
(Teaching Assistant for English in Vienna )
Cultural Bicycle Tours in Europe :
These cultural bicycle tours draw participants from Wisconsin and increasingly from across the United States . Bicycling is a means of exploring respective regions of Europe , but the emphasis is on the cultural experience. Each of these tours is an average of 14 to 21 days in length.
Trips I have organized and led include:
Cultural Bicycle Tour of Western Switzerland and France summer 2005
Cultural Bicycle Tour of Denmark summer, 2003
Cultural Bicycle Tour of Eastern Switzerland summer, 2001
Cultural Bicycle Tour of Central Switzerland summer, 1999
Cultural Bicycle Tour of Northern Italy and Tuscany summer, 1998
For more information please see: www.uwsp.edu/hphd/bikehike