Prof. Dr. Manuela Achilles

Assistant Professor of German and History, Director of the UVa Center for German Studies

Department of German; and Corcoran Department of History

University of Virginia

US

22901 Charlottesville

ma6cq@virginia.edu

Forschung und Projekte

Derzeitige Position(en)

Assistant Professor of German and History, Director of the UVa Center for German Studies, Director of German Undergraduate Programs

Aktuelle(s) Projekt(e)

"Invisible Fatherland: Constitutional Patriotism and the Desire for Democracy in Weimar Germany" (book manuscript, in progress); "The Fascist Threat in Weimar Germany" (article for edited volume, in progress)

Veröffentlichungen

Monographien (und Dissertation)

"Environmental Sustainability in Transatlantic Perspective: A Multidisciplinary Approach," edited volume, with Dana Elzey, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013 (Climate and Energy series)

"Re-Forming the Reich: Symbolics of the Republican Nation in Weimar Germany" (Dissertation)

Artikel

"Anchoring the Nation in the Democratic Form: Weimar Symbolic Politics beyond the Failure Paradigm”, in: German Modernities from Wilhelm to Weimar: A Contest of Futures, ed. Geoff Eley, Jennifer Jenkins, Tracie Matysik; Bloomsbury 2016.

“Nuclear Power? No, Thank You!” Germany’s Energy Revolution Post-Fukushima,” in: Achilles and Elzey (eds.), Environmental Sustainability in Transatlantic Perspective (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), pp. 104-127.

“The Economy Under the Nazis: Keynesianism Avant La Lettre?,” 2013, Darden Business Publishing, UVA-GEM 112 (with Peter Debaere).

“With a Passion for Reason: Celebrating the Constitution in Weimar Germany,” Central European History, Volume 43, Number 4 (December 2010), pp. 666-689.

“Reforming the Reich: Democratic Symbols and Rituals in the Weimar Republic,” in Weimar Publics/Weimar Subjects: Rethinking the Political Culture of Germany in the 1920s, ed. Kathleen Canning, Kerstin Barndt, Kristin McGuire, New York: Berghahn, 2010, 175-191.

“Nationalist Violence and Republican Identity in Weimar Germany,” in German Literature, History and the Nation, ed. David Midgley, Christian Emden, Oxford: Peter Lang, 2004, 305-28.

“‘Blutdurst’ und ‘Symbolhunger’: Zur Semantik von Blut und Erde,” in Spielräume des Einzelnen: Deutsche Literatur in der Weimarer Republik und im Dritten Reich, ed. Walter Delabar, Horst Denkler, Erhard Schütz, Berlin: Weidler Buchverlag, 2000, pp. 185-315.