Rick McCormick

[email protected]

612-625-0341

German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch

328E Folwell Hall

9 Pleasant St SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Collegiate Affiliation

German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch

Educational Background & Specialties

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Educational Background

Ph.D.: German, University of California, 1986 -

Specialties

Brecht
feminism
film and cultural history
film studies
German film history
German studies
Nazi cinema
post-WWII German cinema: New German Cinema, GDR cinema, feminist cinema
post-WWII West German literature and culture
Weimar film and culture
German-Jewish studies
Films by German and Austrian emigres/exiles

Publications

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Publications

The Carnival of Humiliation: Sex, Spectacle, and Self-Reflexivity in EA Dupont's Variety (1925): Light Motives: German Popular Film in Perspective, McCormick, Rick, 2003.
Gender and Sexuality in Weimar Modernity: Film, Literature, and New Objectivity. New York: Palgrave, McCormick, Rick, 2001.
Rape and War, Gender and Nation, Victims and Victimizers: Helke Sander's Film BeFreier und Befreite (1992): McCormick, Rick, Camera Obscura, 46, 2001.
German Essays on Film--German Library Volume 81. Alison Guenther-Pal, Continuum, McCormick, Rick, 2004.
“Screwball” (encyclopedia entry with a focus on Ernst Lubitsch).: Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler Verlag, McCormick, Rick, Enzyklopaedie juedischer Geschichte und Kultur (Enclyclopedia of Jewish History and Culture), Vol. 5, 402-406, 2014.
“Sex, History, and Upward Mobility: Ernst Lubitsch’s Madame Dubarry/Passion, 1919.”: McCormick, Rick, German Studies Review, 33.3, 603-17, October 2010.
Legacies of Modernism: Art and Politics in Northern Europe, 1890-1950. Co-edited with Patrizia McBride and Monika Zagar., Palgrave: Studies in European Culture, McCormick, Rick, 2007.
Gender and German Cinema: Feminist Interventions (a two-volume collection of essays on German film) . Co-edited by Sandra Frieden, Richard McCormick, Vibeke Petersen, and Melissa Vogelsang, Berg Publishers, McCormick, Rick, 1993.
Politics of the Self: Feminism and the Postmodern in West German Literature and Film.. Princeton University Press., McCormick, Rick, 1991.
Romantic Comedy and the Hitler-Stalin Pact: Billy Wilder and Ninotchka (USA 1939)" (published in Hebrew translation). : McCormick, Rick, SLIL--Online Journal for History, Film, and Television (Jerusalem), VI, 21-40, Winter 2012.
“Desire vs. Despotism: The Politics of Sumurun (1920), Ernst Lubitsch’s ‘Oriental’ Fantasy" : Camden House: Series on Screen Cultures: German Film and the Visual, McCormick, Rick, In The Many Faces of Weimar Cinema: Rediscovering Germany’s Filmic Legacy , 67-83, 2010.
“Coming Out of the Uniform: Political and Sexual Emancipation in Leontine Sagan’s Mädchen in Uniform (1931)" .: Columbia University Press, McCormick, Rick, Weimar Cinema: An Essential Guide to Classic Films of the Era, 271-89, 2009.

Activities

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Activities

Professional

Member: German Studies Association. none - none
Member: Society for Cinema Studies. none - none
Member: Modern Language Association. none - none
Member: American Association of the Teachers of German. none - none
Member: Center for Advanced Feminist Studies.
Member: Film Studies Committee, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota. 1989 - 2000
Director of Undergraduate Studies: German and Scandinavian. 1999 - 2000
Director of Undergraduate Studies: Department of German, Scandinavian & Dutch, University of Minnesota. 1992 - 1999
Director of Honors Division: College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota. 2001- - 2007
Director of Graduate Studies: Germanic Studies, University of Minnesota. 2000 - 2001
Chair: Council on Liberal Education, University of Minnesota. 2002 -2004 - none
Chair: Committee on Curriculum, Instruction, and Advising, CLA Assembly, University of Minnesota. 1997 - 2001
Member: Center for Austrian Studies Advisory Committee, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota. 1995 -
Associate Editor: SIGNS: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. 1992 - 1994
Member: Women in German. none - none
Member: Center for German and European Studies. 1999 - - none
Chair: Department of German, Scandinvian & Dutch. 2009 - 2015
Chair: Senate Committee on Educational Policy (SCEP). 2005 - 2007
Center for Jewish Studies 2009 -
Director of Graduate Studies: Germanic Studies. 2007 - 2008

Outreach

Panelist: "Women in Opera," Minnesota Opera. 1993 - none
Secured CLA Scholarly Events Fund grant for Twin Cities International Film Festival 1996 - none
Co-organizer with Al Milgrom, U Film Society, and Angela Greiner, Goethe Institute, Chicago: film series on "Germany After the Wall". 1993 - none
Commentator: Jewish Film Festival, St. Louis Park, MN. March 2001, 2003 - none
"Ernst Lubitsch's To Be or Not to Be": Guest lecture at Macalaster College. December 2012, 2015 -
"Divine Decadence: Berlin in the 1920s: Guest lecture, Germanic American Institute. April 2014 -

Research

Sex, Politics, and Transnational Jewish Comedy: The Films of Ernst Lubitsch—From Berlin to Hollywood : Book project focusing on the German and American films of Ernst Lubitsch, contextualized with regard to the politics of sexuality, gender, genre, class, nationality, ethnic identity, migration, and the transnational development of the cinema.. 2007 -

Awards

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Awards

Bush Program for Excellence in Teaching, 1991 - 1992
McKnight Summer Fellowship, 1997 - none
DAAD Study Visit Research Grant for Faculty, 1999 - none
Faculty Travel Grant, European Studies Consortium, Summer 2003 - none
American Council of Learned Societies Research Fellowship, 1994 - 1995
DAAD Study Visit Research Grant for Faculty, 2009
Imagine Fund Research Grant, 2009, -10, -11

Courses

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Courses

Ger 3604W - Introduction to German Cinema
Ger 5630 - Topics in German Cinema: Weimar Cinema
Ger 4622 - German Cinema Since 1945
Ger 1601 - Fleeing Hitler: German and Austrian Filmmakers Between Europe and Hollywood
German 5630: Sex, Politics, & Comedy: The Films of Ernst Lubitsch from Berlin to Hollywood
German 5630: Nazi Cinema