Associate Professor of German
Director of Graduate Studies
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3132 MLB
hours: Mo 10-11am and by appointment
Education/Degree:
Ph.D., Germanic Languages and Literatures, HarvardHighlighted Work and Publications
Public-Private Support of the Arts and German Cultural Policy: The Case of Wilhelm Bode
Peter McIsaac
Name of Periodical: International Journal of Cultural Policy
Volume Number: 13
Issue Number: 4
Year of Publication: 2007
Page Numbers: 371-391
Rethinking Tableaux Vivants and Triviality in the Writings of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johanna Schopenhauer, and Fanny Lewald
Peter McIsaac
Name of Periodical: Monatshefte für deutschsprachige Literatur und Kultur
Volume Number: 99
Issue Number: 2
Year of Publication: 2007
Page Numbers: 152-176
The Museal Path to Bildung: Collecting, Gender and Exchange in Stifter's Nachsommer
Peter McIsaac
Name of Periodical: German Life and Letters
Volume Number: 57
Year of Publication: 2004
Page Numbers: 268-289
North-South, East-West: Mapping German Identity in Cinematic and Literary Versions of Doris Dörrie's Bin ich schön?
Peter McIsaac
Name of Periodical: The German Quarterly
Volume Number: 77
Issue Number: 3
Year of Publication: 2004
Page Numbers: 339-61
Exhibiting Ottilie: Collecting as a Disciplinary Regime in Goethe’s Wahlverwandtschaften
Peter McIsaac
Name of Periodical: The German Quarterly
Volume Number: 70
Issue Number: 4
Year of Publication: 1997
Page Numbers: 347-57
Exhibiting The German Past: Museums, Film, and Musealization
Peter McIsaac, Gabriele Mueller
While scholars recognize both museums and films as sites where historical knowledge and cultural memory are created, the convergence between their methods of constructing the past has only recently been acknowledged. The essays in Exhibiting the German Past examine a range of films, museums, and experiences which blend the two, considering how authentic objects and cinematic techniques are increasingly used in similar ways by both visual media and museums.
This is the first collection to focus on the museum–film connection in German-language culture and the first to approach ...
See MoreMuseums of the Mind: German Modernity and the Dynamics of Collecting
Peter McIsaac
Publisher: Penn State Press
Month of Publication: January
Year of Publication: 2007
# of Pages: 322
ISBN: 978-0271058702