Muriel Cormican, Ph.D.

• “Germany’s Ghosts: Female Embodiment and Emergent Anger in Petzold’s Barbara (2011) and Phoenix (2014).” Mut zur Wut. Nasty Women and Feminist Anger in the German Speaking World. Eds. Julia K. Gruber and Regina Range. Rochester, NY: Camden House, forthcoming.
• “Waiting to be Human: The Cruel Optimism of Christian Petzold’s Transit (2018).” Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies. 59.2 (forthcoming).
• “Queer Moments and Cruel Optimism in Evelyn Schmidt’s Das Fahrrad (The Bicycle, 1982).” Feminist German Studies. 37.2 (2021): 27-52.
• “Toward a Theory of the Tender Gaze: Affect, Critical Insight, and Empathy in Contemporary German Cinema.” The Tender Gaze: Compassionate Encounters on the German Screen, Page, and Stage. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2021. 17-39.
• “Introduction.” The Tender Gaze: Compassionate Encounters on the German Screen, Page, and Stage. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2021. 1-16. (with Jennifer Marston William).
• “Embracing Disciplinary Trouble: Silos, Identity, and Shared Intellectual Endeavor.” Feminist German Studies. 36.1 (2020): 24-39. (with Robert Kilpatrick, and Betsy Dahms).

Creative Nonfiction:

 “Lossy Compression.”  Five Points 21.3 (forthcoming, 2002)

• 2022 Maligned Feelings? Negative Affect and Political Theater, Seminar. 46th German Studies Association Conference, Sept. 15-18, 2022, Houston, TX.
• “Intimate Aggression: Home and Heimat in the films of Michael Haneke.” Austrian Studies Association, April 13-15, 2022. New Orleans, LA.
• “Deservingness and Difference: The Politics of Narration in Jenny Erpenbeck’s Gehen, ging, gegangen.” South Central Modern Language Association, October 7-9, 2021. Houston, TX. (Virtual)
• “What We Are Orientated Toward”: Negotiating Normalcy in Warneke’s Leben mit Uwe.” German Studies Association Conference, September 30-October 3, 2021, Indianapolis, IN. (Virtual)
• DEFA Film Library’s Tenth Biennial Summer Film Institute: “Authority and Alterity in East German Movies: Political Experiments, Rebel Youth, and Civil Unrest.” University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, June 13-20, 2021. Presentation on Heiner Carow’s Die Verfehlung.
• “Killjoys: German Biopics About Women.” (Poster). Women in German 44rd Annual Conference, Oct. 15-18, 2020. (Virtual)
• “The Waiting is the Hardest Part: The Cruel Optimism of Transit.” German Studies Association Conference, September 29-October 4, 2020. (Virtual)
• “Building Bridges Through Team Teaching: Departmental Identity and Shared Intellectual Endeavor.” Language and the Interdisciplinary Department. Modern Language Association, Jan. 9-12, 2020. Seattle, WA.

• 2022 AddRan Distinguished Faculty Lecture
• 2017 UWG College of Arts and Humanities Outstanding Teaching Award
• 2013 USG Regents Professor Nominee, University of West Georgia
• 2007 UWG Centennial Professor of the Humanities
• 2005 American Association of Teachers of German in Georgia Professor of the Year Award