Personal

• Born January 4, 1937, Waltham MA
• graduate of Lockwood H. S., Warwick, RI
• US and Irish citizenship
• married to Felicitas Erzebet Klein, 1962
• two daughters, Deirdre (Cornell '87) and Allegra (Cornell '88),
  and one son, Alexander (Lawrence '00)
• three grandsons

Education

• Ph.D., University of Chicago, German, l973
   Dissertation: Heinrich Heine and the Tendenzdichter
• M.A., University of Chicago, German, 1964
  Thesis: Survey of Criticism of Kafka's Das Schloß
• M.A., University of Chicago, English, 1961
  Papers on W. B. Yeats, Samuel Johnson
• B.A., Brown University, Philosophy, 1958, cum laude

Courses Taught

• German language (all levels, beginning to advanced)
• German Literature from Lessing to 1990
• German history
  including courses on Bismarck, the Holocaust
• German society
  including new courses on Gründerzeit (1870-1890), Weimar (1919-1933), and
  Trümmerjahre (1945-1963)
• James Joyce
• Roman history

Awards/Honors/Professional Offices

• Four time participant in National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminars:
  Princeton 1976-- Modern Novel, Yale 1981 -- Fascism, Rochester 1989 -- W.B. Yeats,
  Cornell University 1995 -- German Film in the Third Reich
• Fulbright Fellow 1975
• DAAD Fellow, Berlin 1962-1963
• Kleines Deutsches Sprachdiplom (through the Goethe Institute), 1985
• Iowa Chapter, AATG, President 1999-2001

Employment

• 1968-present, Assistant Professor to Professor, Cornell College
  Professor since 1983, Mason Professor since 1984
• 1961-68, Instructor, German and English, Chicago City College

Reasearch Interests/Hobbies

• German history
• Business German
• German film
• European Union
  
  
• Bridge
• Gardening
• Jogging