Gregor Thuswaldner

Gregor Thuswaldner is Associate Professor of German and Linguistics and serves as Chair of the Department of Languages and Linguistics. He is also a Fellow in Gordon’s Center for Christian Studies. With C. Thomas Brooks, chair of Gordon's Department of Music, he co-directs the Salzburg Institute of Gordon College. A native of Salzburg, Austria, he studied German and English at the University of Salzburg, Bowling Green State University, the University of Vienna (Mag. phil.) and received his Ph.D. in Germanic Languages from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

For six summers he (co)organized and co-directed the "German Summer in Sewanee" language immersion seminar at the University of the South, Sewanee, TN. In 2005 he was a visiting scholar for the "Rutgers University in Berlin" summer program and in the summers of 2008 and 2010 he was a visiting professor at Salzburg College in Salzburg, Austria. At Gordon College, he heads the German program and co-directs the new Linguistics major and minor program. In 2006, Dr. Thuswaldner received Gordon's Distinguished Junior Faculty Award.

Dr. Thuswaldner has presented numerous papers at national and international conferences in the US and in Europe and has published articles on Christoph Martin Wieland, Thomas Bernhard, Michael Haneke, Michael Scharang, Stanley Hauerwas, literary theory, linguistics, German and Austrian literature, culture, politics, and religion. His articles and book reviews have also appeared in German and Austrian newspapers, such as Salzburger Nachrichten, Die Furche, and Die Zeit. In 2006 he co-organized an international cultural studies conference at Gordon College partially funded by the Lily Endowment Inc. featuring Dr. Cornel West (Princeton University) as keynote speaker. Dr. Thuswaldner received grants from Gordon College, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Washington University in St. Louis, the University of Salzburg, the Modern Language Association, and the American Academy of Religion.

He is the co-editor of the essay collection, Der untote Gott: Religion und Ästhetik in deutscher und österreichischer Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts (The Undead God: Aesthetics and Religion in Twentieth-Century German and Austrian Culture) (Cologne: Böhlau, 2007). In 2008 he published the essay collection Derrida und danach? Literaturtheoretische Diskurse der Gegenwart (Derrida and Thereafter? Essays on Contemporary Literary Theory) (Wiesbaden: Deutscher Universitätsverlag/VS Research, 2008). Dr. Thuswaldner's latest book, a monograph entitled "Morbus Austriacus" - Thomas Bernhards Österreichkritik ("Morbus Austriacus:" Thomas Bernhard's Critique of Austria) (Vienna: Braumüller, 2011), focuses on Thomas Bernhard, one of the most important European writers of the 20th century.

He is an active member of several European and American academic organizations (including the Modern Language Association, German Studies Association, Linguistic Society of America, Modern Austrian Literature and Culture Association, American Association of Teachers of German, Society of Germanic Linguistics). In addition, Dr. Thuswaldner heads the Boston branch of the Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache (GfdS).

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