Humanities and Arts
David B. Dollenmayer
Professor
Office: Alden Memorial, 209
Phone: +1-508-831-5585
Fax: +1-508-831-5932
dbd@wpi.edu
Educational Background
- B.A., Princeton University, 1967
- Ph.D., Princeton University, 1977
Research & Teaching Interests
German language and literature; contemporary society and culture of the German-speaking countries
IQP Advising Interests
History of science and technology, especially in the German-speaking countries; technology in second-language learning
Research
Literary translation of contemporary German authors, and German literature and culture of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries are my primary areas of scholarly interest. I have published translations of works by Bertolt Brecht, Michael Kleeberg, Anna Mitgutsch, Perikles Monioudis, and Moses Rosenkranz and written critical books and articles on the writers Alfred Döblin, Christa Wolf, Ingeborg Bachmann, Joseph Roth, Kay Boyle, and Eugene Jolas.
Another area of interest is teaching German as a second language. With Professor Thomas Hansen of Wellesley College I am the author of the textbook Neue Horizonte, now in its seventh edition. With Professor Susanne Even of Indiana University I am working on a bilingual novel for university-level readers.