Lecture by Stacy Hartman - White Ribbons and Purifying Punishments: The Metaphoric Construction of Morality in "Das Weisse Band"
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Speakers): Stacy Hartman
STACY HARTMAN completed her undergraduate work at UC Santa Cruz, where she studied modern German literature and feminist theory. In 2005 she was the recipient of a Fulbright Teaching Assistantship and spent the 2005-2006 academic year living in in the northern German city of Lübeck, teaching in a local high school and learning to love marzipan. In 2008, she completed her M.A. in German Studies with Distinction at the University of Manchester, where she studied (among other things) Turkish-German literature and literature of dictatorship, and wrote her M.A. thesis, entitled "At a Crossroads between Paris and Moscow: Latin America, Sinn und Form, and the Socialist Republic of Letters 1949-1981."
Her current research interests include the use of cognitive science in literary study, the literature of exile and dictatorship, portrayals of gender and sexuality in literature and film, and metaphorical constructions of morality. She also has an ongoing interest in ideology and ethics in children's literature and popular culture.