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Katherine Arens

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Katherine Arens is a professor in the department, a member of the Program in Comparative Literature and of the Center for Women's and Gender Studies, also affiliated with the Center for European Studies and the Center for Russian and Eastern European Studies.

Her major concentration is probably best described as intellectual history (Geistesgeschichte), wtih work both sides of a line separating traditional literary-historical studies (Enlightenment through Impressionism, and Austria through the twentieth century) and more theoretical and philosophical work (German Idealism, philosophy of language, literary and cultural theory, Lacanian theory and identity politics, WGS theory, and the history and theory of the humanities).

This combination of theory and cultural studies has also led her to do work on reading theory and applied linguistics, modeling how culture, identity, and the politics of cultural identity can be researched and taught. Thus she has developed many interdisciplinary courses on both the undergraduate and graduate levels, particularly those bringing literary theory and the disciplines together, on topics ranging from contemporary theory, feminism, Freud, and Lacan back to Kant and Hegel, and particularly graduate theory core courses for all three of my departments (for titles and class materials, click on the class website link above).

WORK IN PROGRESS

Arens two other mongraphs just completed. One is project on how the Austro-Hungarian and Austrian public spheres have identfied with Europe since 1760, entitled Vienna Dreaming:  Austria's Once and Future Europe, forthcoming with Continuum (March 2012).  This set of case studies provide evidence for the existence of a very different kind of public sphere in Vienna and the Empire's cities than is accommodated in the too-simple vision of Dialectic of the Enlightenment and the Frankfurt-School or systems-theory-inspired view in play in German studies.  The other centers around a wonderful bagatelle from the history of women's literature in the germanophone world, the memoir of the mother of Mary Vetsera, who died with Austro-Hungary's Crown Prince Rudolph in 1889.  Belle Necropolis:  Ghosts of Imperial Vienna talks about Habsburg nostalgia as part of an international culture industry.

With Carlos Amador, she has also just completed a book-length manuscript tentatively entitled Thereographies: The Cultural Politiics of the Theory Wars. It works out an alternate geneaology for the twentieth century "theory wars" in a genesis out of the institutional and cultural politics of the nineteenth century. It offers a new optic as to what is at stake in the current disciplinary fractures and shifts, a new archaeology of knowledge that calls into question the self-definitions of today's purportedly alterior, anti-hegemonic strategies for knowledge and community identity production.

After her 2005 book with Janet Swaffar, Remapping the Foreign Language Curriculum: A Multi-Literacies Approach (MLA, October 2005), Arens has in progress a book-length study of the relationship between theory and institutional frameworks of teaching and scholarship, this time as relevant to the graduate curriculum (and, to varying degrees, to the undergraduate major curriculum). Based around the notion of a "cognitive apprenticeship," it argues how the canon wars have led to an almost complete abandonment of the position of literary studies as systematic architectures of knowledge production and evaluation -- a tacit shift towards an almost exclusively ethically based curricular practice that priveges immmanence and voice, and hence particular interpretive communities and/or performance practices, where the older canons privileged hegemonic and often disembodied discourses. 

For details on what else she has done, including dissertations and book reviews not listed here, see the attached CV.

 

 

Interests

Austrian and Central European Intellectual, literary and cultural history since 1750

UGS 303 • Exiled To Hollywood

64900-64925 • Fall 2009
Meets TTH 930-1100 CAL 100
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This course is UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES 303 (UGS). 

THE FULL SYLLABUS IS ATTACHED AS A PDF to this description.

UGS 303:  Exiled to Hollywood: Immigrants in the Movie Machine

Hollywood’s golden age, from the 1930s through the 1960s, was due in no small part to the presence of emigrants or refugees: actors, directors, writers, studio heads, and technical production people.  That influence continues today.

This course will introduce you to some of their finest films, and to the problems faced by artists in exile then and now ,as they try to recoup careers and reputations, and deal with media, publicity, stereotyping, and  language barriers.  Case studies here will favor especially  “Austria in Hollywood.”   From Klaus Maria Brandauer through Arnold Schwarzenegger, from The Sound of Music to Sunset Boulevard, Ninotchka to Eyes Wide Shut -- these are the figures, texts, and films that create, transcend, exploit, and perpetuate international images of their homelands.  Yet within the culture industries, this exemplary immigrant community offered  an unparalleled  source of film industry talent and critical intelligence,  contributing   an urbane, witty tone to the Hollywood film, joining entertainment to sophisticated social criticism. 

These films will also be used to introduce how to “read” plays, films, and media  and think critically about their content -- especially what it means to cross cultural lines, to import and export culture across political and social boundaries.  Topics to be addressed include:adaptations (book to play to film to remakes)

  • adaptations (book to play to film to remakes)
  • conventions and  stereotyping
  • film genres
  • directors, esp. Ernst Lubitsch & Billy Wilder
  • famous faces:  how celebrity works

Readings: 

  • Neal Gabler.  An Empire of Their Own:  How the Jews Invented Hollywood.  New York:  Anchor Books, 1988.  ISBN 0-385-26557-3
  • Otto Friedrich.  City of Nets:  A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940s.  Berkeley:  U of California P, 1997 [orig. 1986]  ISBN 0-520-20949-4

Recommended:

  •  Cornelius Schnauber, Hollywood Haven: Homes and Haunts of the European Emigres and Exiles in Los Angeles.  (Trans.Barbara Zeisl Schoenberg.)  Riverside, CA:  Ariadne, 1997;  # ISBN: 1572410426
  • Joseph Straubhaar and Robert LaRose.    Media Now:  Understanding Media, Culture, and Technology.  Belmont, CA:  Thompson/Wadsworth, any recent edition

Other Readings on the Class Blackboard Site

  • *This course is designed to fulfill the 6  requirements for a signature course: <http://www.utexas.edu/ugs/sig/propose/requirements>
  • *This course uses as its Gem the Fine Arts Library's media collections and PCL's general collections; see <http://www.utexas.edu/ugs/sig/propose/requirements/gems>.
  • * This class will NOT use +/- grading.

Assignments and grading:

  • "Introduce your group " Wiki page: 5% of final grade
  • Daily Quizzes = 10 %   (2 points each:  one for taking it, one for correctness;  includesattendance at University Lecture series (2 events).
  • Film Worksheets = 2 x 10 % =   20 %
  • Group project, posted online = 20 % (any section submitted late will be a 3% deduction)
  • Midterm = 20 %Final = 25 % (15% for essay test;  10% for individual project submission)

 

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Publications

Arens, K. & Swaffar, J. (2005) Remapping the Foreign Language Curriculum: A Multi-Literacies Approach [book]. New York: Modern Language Association.

Arens, K. (2001) Empire in Decline: Fritz Mauthner's Critique of Wilhelminian Germany [book]. New York: Peter Lang.

Arens, K., Janet Swaffar. & Susan Romano. (1998) Language Learning Online: Theory and Practice in the ESL and L2 Classroom [edited book]. Austin, TX: Labyrinth Publications.

Arens, K. (1996) Austria and Other Margins: Reading Culture [book]. Columbia, SC: Camden House.

Arens, K. & Jorun B. Johns, eds. (1994) Elfriede Jelinek: Framed by Language [edited book]. Riverside: Ariadne Press.

Arens, K., Swaffar, J.K. & Byrnes, H. (1991) Reading for Meaning: An Integrated Approach to Language Learning [book]. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.

Vansant, J., Swaffar, J., Arens, K., Shattuck, S. & Gaettens, M. (1990) Blickwechsel [textbook]. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin.

Arens, K. (1989) Structures of Knowing: Psychologies of the Nineteenth Century [book]. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Vol. 113 Dordrecht: Reidel.

Arens, K. (1984) Functionalism and Fin de siécle: Fritz Mauthner's Critique of Language [book]. Bern: Peter Lang.

"Belehrende Öffentlichkeitssphäre oder didaktischer Erinnerungsraum?  Geschichtsdramen als Verwirklichung von Geschichtsvorstellung."  Hebbel Jahrbuch 65 (2010), 81-93 [article]

"Hochdruck über Österreich: Kultur und Wissenschaft."  Jahrbuch der Grillparzer-Gesellschaft (Wien:  Lehner), 3. Folge, Bd. 21 (2010) 35-46 [article].

 The Field of Culture:  The Standards as a Model for Teaching Culture.  The Modern Language Journal, 94, #2 (2010): 321-324.[article]

Erklären, Verstehen,  and Embodied Rationalities:  Scientific Praxis as Regional Ontology.  IN:  Uljana Feest, ed.  Historical Perspectives on Erklären and Verstehen.  Archimedes: New Studies in the History of Science and Technology, 21.Dordrecht:  Springer, 2010.  141-159. [chapter]

Arens, K. (2009). The Culture of 'Culture': The Paradox of Primacy in the Kulturwissenschaften.  In: The Meaning of Culture:  German Studies in the 21st Century, eds. Martin Kagel and Laura Tate Kagel.  Hannover:  Wehrhahn Verlag.  42-62 [chapter]

Arens,. K. (2009).  Teaching Culture: The  Standards as an Optic on Curriculum Development.  IN:  Virginia M. Scott, ed., Principles and Practices of the Standards in College Foreign Language Instruction.  AAUSC Issues in Language Program Directions, 2009.  Boston:  Heinle/Cenage:  160-180.[Chapter]

Arens, K. (2008) Disciplining Psychoanalysis: Freud's New Science and the Medicalization of the Subject [chapter]. In R.S. Thomas (Ed.), Madness and Crime in Modern Austria: Myth, Metaphor and Cultural Realities. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press.  29-41.

Arens, K. (2008) Genres and the Standards: Teaching the 5 C's through Texts [article]. German Quarterly, 81(1), 35-48.

Arens, K. (2008) Pyrrhus et Cinéas: Un nouvel empire de l'écriture philosophique [chapter]. In T. Stauder (Ed.), Simone de Beauvoir cent ans apres sa naissance: Contributions interdisciplinaires de cinq continents (pp.199-210). Tubingen: Gunter Narr Verlag.

Arens, K. (2007) Credibility: The Next Challenge [article]. German Quarterly, 80(4), 421-424.

Arens, K. (2007) Stadtwollen: Benjamin's Arcades Project and the Problem of Method [article]. PMLA, 122(1), 43-60.

Arens, K. (2007) Response to Forum: Is Literature Still Central to German Studies [article]. German Quarterly, 80(1). 104.

Arens, K. (2007-2008) Die Klassik als Tyrannei der Moderne: Wie Grillparzer Weimar widersteht [article]. Jahrbuch der Grillparzer-Gesellschaft, 22, 13-50.

Arens, K. (2007) The Four-Fold Way to Internationalism: Grillparzer's Non-National Historical Literacy [chapter]. In R. Whitinger & C. Ruthner (Eds.), Aneignungen, Entfremdungen: The Austrian Playwright Franz Grillparzer (pp.21-48). New York: Peter Lang.
Arens, K. (2007) Kristeva on the Encyclopedists: Linguistics, Semanalysis, and the Epistemology of Enlightenment Science [chapter]. In D.A. Kibbee (Ed.), History of Linguistics 2005: Selected Papers from the Tenth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHOLS X), 1-5 September 2005, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (pp.416-431). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.

Arens, K. (2007) Expert Personae in the Humanities: Ideologies of Academic Performance in the Knowledge Economy [article]. The International Journal of the Humanities, 5(1), 141-147.

Arens, K. (2006) Glücklich ist, wer [nicht] vergisst: From Museum Culture to Broadway-an-der-Wien [chapter]. In G. Bayer (Ed.), Mediating Germany: Popular Culture between Tradition and Innovation (pp.73-91). Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press.

Arens, K. (2006) "Das Schiff ist das Urbild einer sehr besonderen und strengen Regierungsform": Herder's Journey to Hermeneutic Conversion [article]. Herder Jahrbuch/Herder Yearbook, 8, 43-59.

Arens, K. (2005) Globalizing Information: Accountability and Disciplinarity [article]. German Quarterly, 78(3), 374-378.

Arens, K. (2005, May) When Comparative Literature Becomes Cultural Studies: Teaching Cultures through Genre [article]. Comparatist: Journal of the Southern Comparative Literature Association, 29, 123-147.
Arens, K. (2005) From Kristeva to Deleuze: The Encyclopedists and the Philosophical Imaginary [chapter]. In S.H. Daniel (Ed.), Current Continental Theory and Modern Philosophy (pp.179-196). Evanston, IL: Nortwestern UP.
Arens, K. & Markus Weidler. (2004) I and Thou [translation of section by Buber]. In R.C. Solomon (Ed.), Existentialism. Oxford: Oxford UP.

Arens, K., Fowler, N., Gilbert, L.A., Payne, S.M., Reichl, L.E. & Staiger, J. (2004, Fall) Graphic Stories: Representing the Status of Female Faculty [article]. Feminist Studies, 30(3), 689-701.

Arens, K. & Eyck, J.R. (2004, Spring) The Court of Public Opinion: Lessing, Goethe, and Werther [article]. Monatshefte, 96(1), 40-61.

Arens, K. (2004) Antäus and the Critique of Language: Fritz Mauthner's Gruppe [chapter]. In L. Bernays (Ed.), Otto Friedrich Gruppe 1804-1876: Philosoph, Dichter, Philologe (pp.73-94). Freiburg im Breisgau: Rombach Verlag.
Arens, K. (2004) Beyond Vienna 1900: Habsburg Identities in Central Europe [chapter]. In M. Cornis-Pope & J. Neubauer (Eds.), A History of the Literary Cultures of East Central Europe: Junctures and Disjunctures in the 19th and 20th Centuries, Vol. 1 (pp.216-228). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins.
Arens, K. (2004) Central Europe's Catastrophes on Film: The Case of István Szabó [chapter]. In M. Cornis-Pope & J. Neubauer (Eds.), A History of the Literary Cultures of East Central Europe: Junctures and Disjunctures in the 19th and 20th Centuries, Vol. 1 (pp.548-558). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins.

Arens, K. (2004) Said's Colonial Fantasies: How Orientalism Marginalizes Eighteenth-Century Germany [article]. Herder Jahrbuch, 7, 11-29.

Arens, K. (2004) Colonialism in Austria: Fritz Mauthner's Bohmenian Novellas [chapter]. In E. Leinfellner & J. Thunecke (Eds.), Br (pp.149-166). Wuppertal: Arco Verlag.

Arens, K. (2003) Castrati and the Masquerade of the Eighteenth Century: Farinelli and Sitwell [article]. 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era, 9, 237-268.

Arens, K. (2003, July) Geister der Zeit: The Allies' Enlightenment and German Literary History [article]. JEGP, 102(3), 336-361.

Arens, K. (2003) Why Austrian Studies Isn't German Studies: Germanophone Culture(s) -- A Once and Future Tale [article]. Modern Austrian Literature, 36, # 1/2, 53-68.

Arens, K. (2003) Arthur Schnitzler and the Discourse of Gender [chapter]. In C. Dagmar & G. Lorenz (Eds.), Companion to the Works of Arthur Schnitzler (pp.243-264). Rochester, NY: Camden House.

Arens, K. (2003) Jefferson in Paris: Imperious History, Un-Domesticated [article]. Das achtzehnte Jahrhundert, 27(1), 76-84.

Arens, K. (2003) Dreams, Visions, and Cosmology: Swedenborg and the Protestant Reformation in Science [chapter]. In B. Dieterle & M. Engel (Eds.), The Dream and the Enlightenment/Le Rêve et les Lumières (pp.135-167). Paris: Honoré Campion.

Arens, K. (2002, October) Mayerling: Women's Lives, Affairs of State. Royal Ballet, Covent Garden.

Arens, K. (2002, Fall) Canons, Generations, Bridges: Rethinking Our Gardens [article]. ADFL Bulletin, 34(1), 21-25.

Arens, K. (2002) Hanswurst redux: Staberl, Titus, and Annina [article]. Modern Austrian Literature, 35 (3-4), 1-26.

Arens, K. & Valdez, M.K. (2002, Spring) Anna Karenina: Medical Propriety as Social Practice [article]. South-Central Review, 19(1), 26-52.

Arens, K. (2002) Teaching and the MLA International Bibliography [article]. Profession, 158-163.

Arens, K. (2002) The Persistence of Kasperl in Memory: H. C. Artmann and Peter Handke [chapter]. In L. DeMeritt & M. Lamb-Faffelberger (Eds.), Postwar Austrian Theater: Text And Performance (pp.33-53). Riverside, CA: Ariadne Press.
Arens, K. (2002) The Habsburg Myth: Austria in the Writing Curriculum [article reprint], in Teaching German: Past Progress amd Future Progress. In G. Peters (Ed.), (pp.163-180). AATG.
Arens, K. (2002) Hofmannsthal's Essays: Conservation as Revolution [chapter]. In T.A. Kovach (Ed.), A Companion to the Works of Hugo von Hofmannsthal (pp.181-202). Rochester, NY: Camden House.
Arens, K. (2002) Politics, History, and Public Intellectuals in Central Europe after 1989 [chapter]. In S. Totosy de Zepetnek (Ed.), Comparative Central European Culture (pp.115-132). West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press.
Arens, K. (2002) Eclipses, Floods, and Other Biedermeier Catastrophes: The theatrum mundi of Revolution [chapter]. In R. Pichl & C.A. Bernd (Eds.), The Other Vienna: The Culture of Biedermeier Austria, (pp.173-188). Wien: Lehner.

Arens, K. (2000) Adalbert Stifter. The Encyclopedia of Literary Translation into English.  Ed. Olive Classe.  2 Vols.  London:  Fizroy Dearborn Publishers, 2000: 1336-1338

Arens, K. (2000) Heimito von Doderer. The Encyclopedia of Literary Translation into English.  Ed. Olive Classe.  2 Vols.  London:  Fizroy Dearborn Publishers, 2000:  363-365

Arens, K. (2000) Marx.  Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation.  Ed. Peter France.  Oxford:  Oxford UP, 2000:  327-329

Arens, K. (2000) Nietzsche.  Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation.  Ed. Peter France.  Oxford:  Oxford UP, 2000:  329- 330

Arens, K. (2000) Freud. Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation.  Ed. Peter France.  Oxford:  Oxford UP, 2000:  321-325

Arens, K. (2000) Kant, Hegel, and Romantic Philosophy.  Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation.  Ed. Peter France.  Oxford:  Oxford UP, 2000: 325-327

Arens, K. (2000) Karl Kraus.  The Encyclopedia of Literary Translation into English.  Ed. Olive Classe.  2 Vols.  London:  Fizroy Dearborn Publishers, 2000: 776-778

Arens, K. (2000, January) Johann Nestroy.  The Encyclopedia of Literary Translation into English.  Ed. Olive Classe.  2 Vols.  London:  Fizroy Dearborn Publishers, 2000:  997-999

Arens, K. (2000) Translators Who Are Not Traitors: Herder's and Lessing's Enlightenment [article]. Herder Jahrbuch/Herder Yearbook, 5, 91-109.

Arens, K. & Swaffar, J. (2000, January/February) Reading Goals and the Standards for Foreign Language Learning [article]. FLAnnals, 33(1), 104-122.

Arens, K. (1999, Fall) For Want of a Word: The Case for Germanophone [article]. Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 32(2), 130-142.

Arens, K. (1999) German for Reading Knowledge Tutorial [learning website]. 

Arens, K. & Rader, J. (1999) Women's Studies Reading and Resource List. The Center for Women's Studies Austin, TX: The Center for Women's Studies.

Arens, K. & Swaffar, J. (1998) Going the Distance: Reading [educational website]. 

Arens, K. (1998) From Caillois to 'The Laugh of the Medusa': Vectors of a Diagonal Science. Textual Practice, 12(2), 225-250. [article]

Arens, K. (1998) The Linguistics of French Feminism: Sémanalyse as Critical Discourse Practice [article]. Intertexts, 2(2), 171-184.

Arens, K. (1998) Discourse Analysis as Critical Historiography: A Sémanalyse of Mystic Speech [article]. Rethinking History, 2(1), 23-50.

Arens, K. & Richmond-Garza, E.M. (1997) The Canon of Theory: Report on an Institutional Case [article]. Comparative Literature Studies, 34(4), 392-413.

Arens, K. (1997) Engagement. In F. Eigler & S. Kord (Eds.), The Feminist Encyclopedia of German Lilterature (pp.111-112). Greenwood Press.
Arens, K. (1997) Phenomenology. In F. Eigler & S. Kord (Eds.), The Feminist Encyclopedia of German Lilterature (pp.395-395). Greenwood Press.
Arens, K. (1997) Existentialism. In F. Eigler & S. Kord (Eds.), The Feminist Encyclopedia of German Lilterature (pp.131-133). Greenwood Press.

Arens, K. (1996, Fall) The Habsburg Myth: Austria in the Writing Curriculum [article]. Unterrichtspraxis, 29(2), 174-187.

Arens, K. (1996, September) Wilhelm Griesinger: Psychiatry between Philosophy and Praxis [article]. Philosophy, Psychiatry & Psychology, 3(3), 147-163.
Arens, K. (1996, March) Commentary on 'Lumps and Bumps: Kantian Faculty Psychology, Phrenology, and Twentieth-Century Psychiatric Classification [article]. Philosophy, Psychiatry & Psychology, 3(1), 15-16.
Arens, K. (1996, March) Central Europe and the Nationalist Paradigm [article]. Working Papers in Austrian Studies, 96(1).

Arens, K. (1996) A Power-Base of Our Own: A New Case for the Historiography of the Language Sciences [article]. Beiträge zur Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaft, 6(1), 19-52.

Arens, K. (1996) On Rereading Paul's Prinzipien der Sprachgeschichte [chapter]. In K.R. Jankowsky (Ed.), Multiple Perspectives on the Historical Dimensions of Language (pp.105-114). M: Nodus Publications.

Arens, K. (1996) History as Knowledge: Herder, Kant, and the Human Sciences [chapter].  Johann Gottfried Herder:  Academic Disciplines and the Pursuit of Knowledge. Ed. Wulf Koepke. Camden House Columbia, SC: Camden House.106-119.

Arens, K. (1995, Fall) Between Hypatia and Beauvoir: Philosophy as Discourse [article]. Hypatia, 10(4), 46-75.

Arens, K. (1995) Characterology: Weininger and Austrian Popular Science [chapter]. In N. Harrowitz & B. Hyams (Eds.), Jews and Gender: Responses to Otto Weininger (pp.121-139). Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Arens, K. (1995, Winter) H.D.'s Post-Freudian Cultural Analysis: Nike versus Oedipus [article]. American Imago, 52(4), 359-404.

Arens, K. (1995) Mach und Mauthner: Der Fall eines Paradigmawechsels [chapter]. In E. Leinfellner & H. Schleichert (Eds.), Fritz Mauthner: Das Werk eines Kritischen Denkers (pp.95-109). Wien: Böhlau.
Arens, K. (1993) Applied Scholarship in Foreign Languages: A Program of Study in Professional Development [chapter]. In D.P. Benseler (Ed.), The Dynamics of Language Program Direction (pp.33-63). Boston: Heinle & Heinle.

Arens, K., Josef Brozek. & Vilém Kuthan. (1991) Contributions to the History of Psychology: LXXVII. Note on Issues for the Discipline [short article]. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 72, 637-638.

Arens, K., Brozek, J. & Kuthan, V. (1991) Contributions to the History of Psychology: LXXXIII. J.E. Purkinje and Mathias Klotz: Who First Described 'The Phenomenon'? [short article]. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 73, 511-514.

Arens, K. (1991, Fall) Training Graduate Students to Teach Culture: A Case Study [article]. ADFL Bulletin, 23(1), 35-41.

Arens, K. (1991, March) Robert Wilson: Is Postmodern Performance Possible? [article]. Theatre Journal, 43(1), 14-40.

Arens, K. (1990) Kant, Herder, and Psychology [chapter].  Herder Today: Contributions from the International Herder Conference 1987.  Edited by Kurt Mueller-Vollmer.    Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. 190-206.

Arens, K. (1989, September) Der Seidelstein/Seidelstein [translation]. Dimension, 17(3), 344-353.

Arens, K. (1989) Characterology: Hapsburg Empire to Third Reich [article]. Literature and Medicine, 8, 128-155.

Arens, K. & Swaffar, J. (1987) Logik und Leseproze [article]. Deutsch als Fremdsprache, 24(2), 103-109.

Arens, K. & Swaffar, J. (1987, April) Tracking Objectives:Conceptual Competencies and the Undergraduate Curriculum [article]. ADFL Bulletin, 18(3), 16-20.

Arens, K. (1986) Schnitzler and Characterology [article]. Modern Austrian Literature, 19 (3/4), 97-127.

Arens, K. (1986, Summer) Mozart: A Case Study in Logocentric Repression [article]. Comparative Literature Studies, 23(2), 141-169.

Arens, K. (1985, April) Mach's Psychology of Investigation [article]. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 21(2), 151-168.

Arens, K. (1985) Between Disciplines and Methods: A Proposal for the Curriculum [article]. Journal of General Education, 36(14), 280-292.

Arens, K. & Swaffar, J. (1985) Die Grammatik des Textes [chapter]. In M. Heid (Ed.), Literarische Texte im kommunikativen Fremdsprachenunterricht: New Yorker Werkstattgespr (pp.290-351). Munich: Goethe-Institut.

Arens, K. (1984) Humboldt and Goethe's Märchen: A Generic Interpretation [article]. German Quarterly, 57(1), 42-58.

Arens, K. (1983) Kleist's 'Bettelweib von Locarno': A Propositional Analysis [article]. Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift, 57(3), 450-468.

Arens, K. (1983) Grammatik des Kontexts: Umriss und Bedingung eines kontextbezogenen Lernprozesses [chapter]. In New Yorker Werkstattgespr (pp.34-52). M: Goethe-Institut.

Arens, K. (1982) Linguistic Skepticism: Towards a Productive Definition [article]. Monatshefte, 74(2), 145-155.

Swaffar, J., Arens, K., & Morgan, M. (1982) Teacher Classroom Practices: Redefining Method as Task Hierarchy [article]. Modern Language Journal, 66(1), 24-33.

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