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Thomas C. Fox
Professor of German (Retired)
Education
- PhD, Yale University
- BA, Wesleyan University
Research Areas
- 19th and 20th century literature
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
- women writers
- East German literature
- Holocaust studies
Selected Publications
Books
- In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Jewish-Communist Writers in East Germany. Rochester and Woodbridge/Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer, 2022.
- A Companion to Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, ed., with Barbara Fischer. Rochester and Woodbridge/Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer, 2005. Paperback, 2010.
- Stated Memory: East Germany and the Holocaust. Rochester and Woodbridge/Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer, 1999.
- Border Crossings. An Introduction to East German Prose. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993.
- Entzauberung der Welt. Deutsche Literatur 1300-1500, ed., with James F. Poag. Tübingen: Francke, 1989.
- Louise von François and Die letzte Reckenburgerin. A Feminist Reading. New York University Ottendorfer Series. NY: Lang, 1988.
Articles and Book Chapters
- “Post Communist Fantasies.” Generational Shifts in Contemporary German Culture. Eds. Laurel Cohen-Pfister, and Susanne Vees-Gulani. Rochester: Camden House, 2010. 207- 224
- “Stephen Hermlin’s Negotiation of Jewish/Communist/German Identity.” Transcultural German Studies: Building Bridges, ed. Steven D. Martinson and Renate A. Schulz. Bern: Lang, 2008. 121-131.
- “Writing Dresden Across the Generations.” Victims and Perpetrators: 1933-1945. RePresenting the Past in Post-Unification Culture, ed. Lauren Cohen-Pfister and Dagmar Wienroder-Skinner. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2006. 136-153.
- “East Germany and the Bombing War.” Bombs Away! The Air War in Literature, ed. William Rasch and Wilfried Wilms. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2006. 113-130.
- “Introduction.” With Barbara Fischer. A Companion to Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, ed. Barbara Fischer and Thomas Fox. Rochester and Woodbridge/Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer, 2005. 1-9.
- “Lessing’s Life and Work.” With Barbara Fischer. A Companion to Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, ed. Barbara Fischer and Thomas Fox. Rochester and Woodbridge/Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer, 2005. 13-39.
- “Lessing on the East German Stage and Screen.” With Hans-Joachim Kertscher. A Companion to Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, ed. Barbara Fischer and Thomas Fox. Rochester: and Woodbridge/Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer, 2005. 302-325.
- “The Holocaust Under Communism.” In Historiography of the Holocaust, ed. Dan Stone. New York: Palgrave, 2004. 420-439.
- “The Representation of the USA in EFL Textbooks in the Soviet Union and Russia.” With Wolfgang Pauels. American Studies International XLII (February 2004): 92-122.
- “Stefan Heym and the Negotiation of Jewish-Communist Identity.” Stefan Heym: Socialist, Dissident, and Jew, edited by Peter Hutchinson and Reinhard Zachau. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2003. 145-160.
- “’A Woman’s Post.’ Gender and Nation in Historical Fiction by Louise von François.” A Companion to German Realism, ed. Todd Kontje. Rochester and Woodbridge/Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer, 2002. 109-131.
- “East German Holocaust Discourse: Before and After 1989.” International Society of the Study of European Ideas. 8th International Conference. Workshop 435. CD-Rom (ISSEI 2000: ISBN: 0-9544363-0-X).
- “Imagining Eastern Europe in East German Literature.” Germany and Eastern Europe: Cultural Identities and Cultural Differences, ed. Keith Bullivant, Geoffrey Giles, Walter Pape. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1999. 284-303.
- “Germanistik and GDR Studies: (Re)Reading a Literature of Censorship.” Monatshefte 85.3 (1993): 284-294.
- “Louise von François Rediscovered.” Autoren damals und heute. Literaturgeschichtliche Beispiele veränderter Wirkungshorizonte, ed. Gerhard P. Knapp. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1991. 303-319.
- “Feministische Revisionen. Christa Wolfs Störfall.” Spätmoderne und Postmoderne. Zur jüngsten deutschsprachigen Literatur, ed. Paul Michael Lützeler. Frankfurt: Fischer, 1991. 211-23.
- “Forms of Persuasion in Stephan Hermlin’s Abendlicht.” German Studies Review 12.3 (1990): 405-415.
- “A ‘Jewish Question’ in GDR Literature?” German Life and Letters 44.1 (1990): 58-70.
- “Christa Wolf’s Störfall. Feminist Revisions” The German Quarterly 63.3-4 (1990): 471- 477.
- “Sprachskepsis or Sprachkritik? Reflections on GDR Prose.” Colloquia Germanica 21.1 (1988): 2-11.
- “GDR Summer Courses for Foreign Germanists.” Die Unterrichtspraxis 21.1 (1988): 115-118.
- “The GDR since Biermann. Literary Dissent 1976-1986.” European Studies Journal 4.2 (1987): 38-59.
- “Sexist Literary History? The Case of Louise von François.” Continental, LatinAmerican, and Francophone Women Writers, ed. Ginette Adamson. Lanham: University Press of America, 1987. 129-138.
- “Louise von François. A Feminist Reintroduction.” Women in German Yearbook, ed. Marianne Burkhard and Edith Waldstein. Lanham: University Press of America, 1986. 123-138.
- “Oobliadooh or EIKENNGETTNOSETTISFEKSCHIN: Music, Language, and Opposition in GDR Literature.” Germanic Review 61.3 (1986): 109-116.