Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Department of German
6135 UNIVERSITY AVE. HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA | CANADA B3H 4R2 | +1 (902) 494-2161

Jane V. Curran

Alexander McLeod Chair in Modern Languages; Graduate Coordinator

BA (Hons), MA (Dal), PhD (Newcastle upon Tyne)

Tel: (902) 494-1091
Office: Rm. 3044, Marion McCain Arts & Social Sciences Bldg.
Email: jcurran@dal.ca

Research interests: 18th Century; Translation Theory; Bildungsroman; History of Reading

Publications:

Books: Single Author

  • Horace's Epistles, Wieland and the Reader: A Three-Way Conversation.
    Bithell Series of Dissertations, W.S. Maney & Son, Institute of Germanic Studies, University of London, 1995, 172 pp.
  • Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship: A Reader's Commentary. Columbia, SC: Camden House, 2002, 328 pp.

Edited Volumes:

  •  Denken und Geschichte. Festschrift für Friedrich Gaede. Hans-Günther Schwarz and Jane V. Curran, eds. München: iudicium 2002. 299 pp.
  • Schiller's "On Grace and Dignity" in Its Cultural Context. Essays and a New Translation.Jane V. Curran and Christophe Fricker, eds. Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer 2005. 231 pp.
  • Colloquia Germanica, vol. 38/1. 2005.Steve Dowden and Jane V. Curran, eds. Special issue: Hans-Ulrich Treichel. 92 pp.
  • Lumen XXVII Selected Proceedings from the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (2009). Edited by Driss Aissaoui and Jane V. Curran. 155 pp.
Articles and Chapters:
  • "The Rhetorical Technique of Plato's Phaedrus". Philosophy and Rhetoric, vol. 19, no. 1, 1986, pp. 67-72.
  • "Wieland's Revival of Horace".  International Journal of the Classical Tradition, vol. 3.2, 1996, pp. 171-184.
  • "Ut pictura poesis" in pyramid poems. Simpliciana, vol. 19, 1997, pp. 167-179.
  • "Goethe's Helen: A Play within a Play".  International Journal of the Classical Tradition, vol. 7.2, 2000, pp. 165-176.
  • "Goethe and Schubert: Songs and Settings". Germanic Notes and Reviews, Vol. 32, No. 2, Fall 2001, pp. 159-163.
  • "Faust, the Divine Tragedy". Denken und Geschichte. Festschrift für Friedrich Gaede. Hans-Günther Schwarz and Jane V. Curran, eds. München; iudicum 2002. pp. 108-120.
  • "Bodily Grace and Consciousness: from the Enlightenment to Romanticism".  Body Dialectics in the Age of Goethe. Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik 55. Holger Pausch and Marianne Henn eds. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2003. pp. 409-420. 
  • "Zum Leben erweckte Statuen". Castrum Peregrini vol. 53/261-262. Amsterdam: 2004. pp. 64-69.
  • "Gegensatz und Ganzes: Zum Gedicht 'Hälfte des Lebens'". Castrum Peregrini 266-267. Amsterdam: 2005, pp. 57-67.
  • "Schiller's Essay 'Über Anmut und Würde' as Rhetorical Philosophy". Schiller's "On Grace and Dignity" in Its Cultural Context. Essays and a New Translation. Jane V. Curran and Christophe Fricker eds. Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer 2005, pp. 21-36.
  • "Oral Reading, Print Culture, and the German Enlightenment". The Modern Language Review vol. 100, no.3. 2005, pp. 695-708.
  • "'Ostwestfalen ist überall'. Gespräch mit Hans-Ulrich Treichel". Colloquia Germanica vol. 37, 2004, 3/4, pp. 307-331.
  • "Past and Present in Treichel's Prose". Colloquia Germanica vol. 38/1, 2005, pp.35-45.
  • "Reform and Revolution: biting the apple again". Reform and Renewal in Contemporary Christianity. Charlottetown, PEI. St. Peter Publications, 2007, pp. 17-22.
  • Forum: "Is Literature still central to German Studies?" The German Quarterly 80.2 (Spring 2007) 139.
  • “The Conflicting Claims of Fiction and History in The Tin Drum: Humor, Fairy Tale, and Myth”. Approaches to Teaching Grass’s The Tin Drum. Edited by Monika Shafi. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 2008. 125-137
  • Forum: “The Role of translation in German Studies” German Quarterly 81.3 (2008)
  • “Die schöne Seele: Wieland, Schiller, Goethe“ Lumen XXVII , Selected Proceedings from the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (2008). 75-84.
  • "Hanswurst, Kasperle, Pickelhäring and Faust". International Faust Studies: Adaptation, Reception, Translation. Edited by Lorna Fitzsimmons. London: Continuum, 2008. 36-51.
  • “Hans-Ulrich Treichel” (with Stephen D. Dowden). The Literary Encyclopedia. 12 September, 2008.
  • “Optimism and Theodicy in the German Enlightenment”. Christian Psychology - The Formation of the Soul. Edited by Susan Harris & Daniel Wilband. Charlottetown, PEI: St. Peter Publications, 2009. 151-158.
  • "Reading Aloud in Goethe's World".Leisure and the Making of Knowledge in the 18th Century. Edited by Anja Hill-Zenk and Felix Sprang. Leiden: Brill (in press).
  • “’Des Lebens Woge ...’: Das Wellenmotiv bei Friedrich Hölderlin“.  Die Welle. Das Symposium. Edited by Hans-Günther Schwarz and Geraldine Gutiérrez de Wienken. München: iudicium, 2010. 52-63.