Faculty
Belgum, Kirsten
Associate Professor
Director of the Center for European Studies
Office: EPS 3.164
Phone:512-232-6375
belgum@mail.utexas.edu
Education: Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
Research interests:
Nineteenth-century German Studies; Popular Culture, Print Culture, Nationalism, German Realism, Travel literature
Courses taught:
German literature (Enlightenment through Realism); Contemporary German Civilization; History of German Nationalisms; Travel and Literature; Popular Culture.
Recent Publications:
Popularizing the Nation: Audience, Representation, and the Production of Identity in Die Gartenlaube, 1853-1900 (Lincoln: U Nebraska P, 1998)
Interior Meaning: Design of the Bourgeois Home in the Realist Novel (New York: Peter Lang, 1991).
Recent articles include: "Reading Alexander von Humboldt: Cosmopolitan Naturalist with an American Spirit," and "E. Marlitt: Narratives of Virtuous Desire."