Scott G.Williams

 

 

Education

Ph.D., Program in Comparative Literature, University of Texas at Austin (1999)

M.A., Universität Hamburg (Greek and Roman History and Archaeology; American Lit.) (1989)

B.A., Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas (1973)

Major: History; Minors: Philosophy and Political Science

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Teaching Experience

Associate Professor of German and Director of the Language Media Center, Texas Christian University, Ft. Worth, Texas (2005- present)

Director of the Language Acquisition Center and Instructor of German, Univ. of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas (1998- 2005)

Instructor, Dept. of Modern and Classical Languages, Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas (1997-98)

Instructor, English Dept., Austin Community College, Austin, Texas (1996-97)

Visiting Adjunct Prof., Dept. of English, Huston-Tillotson College, Austin, Texas (1996)

Instructor, Foreign Languages: German Division, Austin Community College, Austin, Texas (1995-97)

Tutor, Women's Athletics, Univ. of Texas at Austin (German, English, History, Classics) (1995-97)

Assistant Instructor, Dept. of Germanic Studies, University of Texas at Austin (1990-97)

Tutor, Ancient History and Classical Archaeology, Junior Year Abroad Programs, Smith College, Cornell University and Indiana University (1985-86)

Teaching Assistant/Tutor, Seminar für Englische Sprache und Kultur, Univ. Hamburg (1981)

Instructor, English as a Foreign Language, Private Instruction and for The American- English Language School (Owner and supervisor: Wes Westbrook), Hamburg (1979-89)

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Publications

Articles

-"Rewriting Rome in post-1945 German-language Literature: Examining Image, Norm, Habitus, Tertium comparationis," ACROSS Languages and Literature (forthcoming).

-"The Deukalion and Pyrrha Myth in Paul Celan and Christoph Ransmayr," German Life and Letters 16.2 (April 2003) 142-155.

-"Inspiring Faculty to Embrace and Use Technology Creatively," Language Learning Technologies: Hardware and Software Issues on the Advent of a New Millennium. ed. Ute S. Lahaie (Kearney: Morris Publ., 1999) 112-116.

- "The Classical Tradition as Rewriting," Dimension2 3.3 (Sept. 1996): 294-301.

-"The Death of Vergil by Hermann Broch," Masterplots: Twentieth Anniversary Revised Second Edition, Pasadena: Salem Press, 1996 [critical review and bibliography]

-"Slow Homecoming (novel series and play) by Peter Handke," Masterplots: Twentieth Anniversary Revised Second Edition, Pasadena: Salem Press, 1996 [story, critical review, and bibliography]

Editor

- GUEST EDITOR for thematic issue of Dimension2 on Greek and Roman Traditions in Contemporary German-language Literature (3.3, Sept. 1996)

(cf. Review article: Bernhard Kytzler, "Schade, daß es kein Gott war," International Journal of
the Classical Tradition 5.3 (Winter 1999) 466-472.)

Reviews (solicited by publisher)

Bernd Seidensticker and Martin Vöhler, ed., Mythen in nachmythischer Zeit: Die Antike in der deutschsprachigen Literatur der Gegenwart (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2002): In German Quarterly 76.1 (forthcoming)

Jürgen Werner, Der Stückeschreiber und der Sohn der Hebamme, Brecht und das Erbe: Der Fall Sokrates (Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaft: Leipzig, 1998). In: International Journal of the Classical Tradition 8.1 (Summer 2001) 165-168.

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Literary Translations

Novella

-Friedrich Christian Delius, The Sunday I Became World Champion, (novella) in: Three Contemporary German Novellas. The German Library / N.Y.: Contiuum Publishing, Vol. 88.

Short Prose and Poetry

- Friedrich Christian Delius, "The Sunday I Became World Champion" (excerpt), Dimension 20 (1994): 98-113

- Albert Drach, "O Catilina," Dimension2 3.1 (January 1996): 126-133

- Ludwig Fels, "Bleeding Heart," Dimension2 2.3 (September 1995): 412-421

-K. O. Goetz, Selected Poems, Dimension2 : forthcoming

-Wolfgang Hegewald, "1990. German Tests, German Lessons," Dimension 20 (1994): 246-255

-Walter Höllerer, "Here Where the World Began," Dimension2 2.2 (May 1995): 152-163

-Michael Köhlmeier, "May was good to me," Dimension2 (forthcoming)

-Ulrike Längle, "The Devil is the Friend of Man," Dimension2 4.2 (May 1997): 222-227

-reprinted in:

Contemporary German Stories, The German Library / N.Y.: Contiuum Publishing, Vol. 100.

-Ernst Meister, "Tell," Dimension2 3.2 (May 1996): 214-215

-E. Y. Meyer, "Venetian interlude,"a chapter," Dimension2 (May 1998): 244-261

-Martin Mosbach, "The Story," Dimension2 4.1 (January 1997): 124-133

-Peter Rosei, "Out of the Future," Dimension2 3.1 (January 1996): 104-113

-Herbert Rosendahl, "The Fool Xaroda," Dimension 20 (1994): 462-469

-Hansjörg Schertenleib, selected poems from “November.Rust,” Dimension2 : forthcoming

-Michael Schulte, "Indianer," Dimension2 4.3 (Sept. 1997) 420-431.

-Joachim Walther and Gesine von Prittwitz, "State Security and Writers: Report on the Research Project," Dimension2 1.1 (January 1994): 7-27

-Joachim Walther, "The Last Pastoral," Dimension2 1.3 (September 1994): 542-549

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Invited Presentations

-"Rome: the Other Paradigm (The Role of Rome in Austrian National Self-definition)"; 6 Feb. 1998, University of Dallas.

-"Computer Assisted Foreign Language Instruction: What Are the Possibilities?"; 9 Feb.1998, University of Texas at Arlington.

Papers Given

- "Globalization, the Internet, and German Culture," 20th Century German Panel, MLA, Philadelphia, December 2004.

- "Theoretical Implications of the Internet and Translation," American Translation Studies Association, U Mass Amherst, March 26-28, 2004.

- "Political and Theoretical Dimensions of Cybermanifestos in German-speaking countries," German Studies Association, New Orleans, Sept. 18-21, 2003.

- "Hybridity in the Instruction of Language and Culture, " International Association of Language Learning Technology, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, June 19-21, 2003.

- "Restructuring Lower Division Language Courses," South Central Organization for Language Learning Technology, Univ. of Texas at Arlington, March 7-8.

-"The "Third Culture" and the "Fourth Estate": Cyberspace and the Politics of the German Press," German Studies Association, Washington D.C., October 2001.

-"Virtual Components in Upper Division Courses," International Association of Language Learning Technology, Annual Meeting, Rice University, Houston, Texas, May 22-26, 2001

-"Barbaric Art or Postmodern Aesthetics? Art and History in Paul Celan and Christoph Ransmayr," Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 27-29, 2000

-"Inspiring Faculty to Embrace and Use Technology Creatively," Roundtable Discussion, SOCALL '99, April 23-24, 1999, Baylor University, Waco, Texas.

-"Eating Baudelaire: Southern Fried (Faulkner's A Rose for Emily as a Rewriting of Baudelaire's The Double Room)"; ACLA American Comparative Literature Association, 26-28 March 1998 Conference, Austin, Texas.

-"Who is the Foreigner here, anyway?: The Disassociation of Classical Antiquity from Modern Italy in Goethe's Die Venetianischen Epigramme"; Annual Meeting: American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies; University of Texas at Austin, March 27-31, 1996.

-"Melding Others: Vergil, Foreign Guest Workers, and a Re-Imagined Austria in Peter Handke"; Open Borders: Comparative Literature at the University of Texas at Austin; Graduate Student Conference, 19-21 April 1995.

-"Translation Theory and Antikerezeption"; 3rd Meeting of the International Society for the Classical Tradition, Boston Univ., 8-12 March 1995.

-"Proper and Improper Use of Power in Shelley's The Cenci and Lessing's Emilia Galotti" ; American Conference on Romanticism, Pennsylvania State University, 14-16 October 1994.

Panels Organized

-"Germania in Cyberspace: The Information Age in German-speaking Countries," German Studies Association, Washington D.C., October 2001.

- "Inspiring Faculty to Embrace and Use Technology Creatively," Roundtable Discussion, SOCALL '99, April 23-24, 1999, Baylor University, Waco, Texas [with Jan Marston (SMU) and Sara Wilson (Tulane University)]

Conferences Organized and Hosted
- Annual Meeting: South Central Association of Language Learning Technologies (March 2003)

- Plan and Coordinate Graduate Student Conference, Open Borders, Program in Comparative Literature, University of Texas at Austin (1995)

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Multi-media / Internet

Graduate Course Designed

Design and teach graduate course: Technology and Language Studies Univ. of Texas at Arlington. (2000 | 2003)

Development

Supervise internet multimedia projects in French, German, Russian, and Spanish, Univ. of Texas at Arlington (1998-present)

Development of multi-media instructional material, Southwestern University (1997-98)

Internet Workshops

Given

"Introduction to the Internet", Department of Modern Languages, Univ. of Texas at Arlington (1999)

"Using a computer classroom" together with Pete Smith (Director of Distance Education), Univ. of Texas at Arlington (1999)

Offer individual tutorial on web authoring to seven individual faculty members (including current language section web-masters) (1998-present)

Host

IALL/ACTFL workshop "Integrating Internet Resources into the Language Curriculum" (2001)

Participant

Participant in Summer Workshops on Multi-media course development, Southwestern Univ. (1987)

Web Master

Departmental web master, Department of Modern Languages, Univ. of Texas at Arlington (1998-present)

German section web master, Department of Modern Languages, Univ. of Texas at Arlington (1998-present)

Web master, Forschungstauchergruppe der Universität Hamburg (1997-2002)

Committees

Chair, Language Lab Oversight Committee, University of Texas at Arlington (1998-present)

Member, Departmental Committee for Computers and Media, Dept. of Germanic Studies, University of Texas at Austin (1993-97)

Representative, Department of Germanic Studies, University Standing Committee for Liberal Arts Media Center, Univ. of Texas at Austin (while still graduate student&emdash;normally, a faculty member serves on this committee) (1992-95)

Film

Co-Organizer, German Film Series, University of Texas at Arlington (2001-present).

Organizer, German Film Series (monthly: ordering, showing, advertising) Univ. Texas at Austin (1993-95)

Video Recording and Editing, Persa (play by Plautus), Department of Classics, UT Austin (1993)

Video Recording and Editing, annual German Play, Dept. of Germanic Studies, UT Austin (1991-95)

Video Recording and Editing, University Players, Seminar für Englische Sprache und Kultur, Universität Hamburg (1985-88)

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Awards and Honors

Professional Development Award, Graduate School, University of Texas at Austin (1995)

Helmut Rehder Graduate Scholarship (outstanding graduate student: scholarship and service), Dept. of Germanic Studies, University of Texas at Austin (1994 )

Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society 1988-89 Stipend Award for Foreign Students, Universität Hamburg (1992)

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Other Professional Experience

Teacher coordination/training

Authorized Examiner for Goethe Institut exams "Zertifikat Deutsch" and "Zentrale Mittelstufenprüfung" (2004)

Business German Accreditation Workshop, 8 April, Univ. of Texas at Austin (1995)

Coordinator, Accelerated German Courses (first-year), Dept. of Germanic Studies, University of Texas at Austin (spring semester) (1994)

Research/Proofreading/Textbook generation

Test generation, dialogue writing, proofreading for Komm mit! [new high school German textbook series], Austin: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (also listed as reviewer in 2nd and 3rd level books) (1994-5)

Authored answer key to Well's Handbuch zur deutschen Grammatik (1993)

Proofreader: scientific texts (e.g., for Institut für Allgemeine Botanik, Univ. Hamburg) (1982-89)

Research Assistant, Depts. of Archaeology, Marine Biology, Geology, and Shipbuilding, Universität Hamburg *(including building and test-sailing replica of 3rd century BC Greek trading ship) (1980-88)

Translation/Interpreting

Professional Translator: Scientific/Technical, Business, Historical/Archaeological, Literary (1982-present)

Interpreter for City of Austin Sister City Koblenz Delegation and for Men's Choir (1991)

Interpreter for Mail on Sunday (London): joint Stern interview with Matthias Rust on Moscow Flight (1988)

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Service

Modern Languages

Organized concert "The Music of Kurt Weill featuring Karen Kohler" Nov. 9, 1999, University of Texas at Arlington (including extensive fund-raising both within and without the university) (1999)

Graduate Studies Committee, Department of Modern Languages, Univ. of Texas at Arlington (1999-present)

Departmental web-master, Department of Modern Languages, Univ. of Texas at Arlington (1998-present)

German section web-master, Department of Modern Languages, Univ. of Texas at Arlington (1998-present)

Chair, Language Lab Oversight Committee, University of Texas at Arlington (1998-present)

Budget and Planning Committee, University of Texas at Arlington (1998-present)

Lecture Committee, University of Texas at Arlington (1998-present)

Oversight annual departmental inventory, Department of Modern Languages, Univ. of Texas at Arlington (1998-present)

Y2K Liason for Dept. of Modern Languages, University of Texas at Arlington (1998-99)

Comparative Literature

Plan and Coordinate Graduate Student Conference, Open Borders, Program in Comparative Literature, University of Texas at Austin (1995)

Student Representative, Graduate Association of Comparative Literature Students, University of Texas at Austin (1992-96)

Ancient History

Student member, Instititutsrat, Seminar für Alte Geschichte, Universität Hamburg (1985-86)

Germanic Studies

Member, Departmental Committee for Computers and Media, Dept. of Germanic Studies, University of Texas at Austin (1993-97)

Organizer, German Film Series (monthly: ordering, showing, advertising) Univ. Texas at Austin (1993-95)

Representative, Department of Germanic Studies, University Standing Committee for Liberal Arts Media Center, Univ. of Texas at Austin (served while still graduate student--normally, a faculty member serves on this committee) (1992-95)

Other

Judge: International Week 2000 (International Student Organization, Univ. of Texas at Arlington) (2000)

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Courses Designed and Taught

Technology and Language Learning

Department of Modern Languages, University of Texas at Arlington

Graduate (for students in all language disciplines):

-Technology and Language Studies

-Technology and Language Instruction

German

Department of Modern Languages, University of Texas at Arlington

Graduate:

-Survey of German Literature (1848 - present)

-Günter Grass: Writing a Nation

-Cultural Studies: A Culture of Obedience?

-Advanced Grammar and Style

-Translation Theory and Practice

Undergraduate:

- 1st and 2nd semester using Treffpunkt Deutsch

-3rd & 4th semester German using Themen neu

-4th semester using Well's Mitlesen-Mitteilen and Handbuch zur deutschen Grammatik

-4th semester with thematic focus on the "Krimi" Whodunit? German Style

-4th year literature course: The Reception of the Classical Greek and Roman Tradition in Contemporary German-language Literature

-4th year literature survey: The German Tradition I (using on-line primary texts)

-4th year literature survey: The German Tradition II (using on-line primary texts)

-4th year literature course: Günter Grass

-4th year culture course: A Culture of Obedience? Literary and Historical Readings

-4th year translation studies course: Translation Theory and Practice

-Literature in Translation: The Greek and Roman Heritage in Post-1945 German-language Literature (cross-listed with Classics)

Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas

-2nd & 3rd semester German using Deutsch heute and Kreise (incorporating Daedalus Interchange and Internet exercises)

-4th semester German, own syllabus with a focus on the "Krimi" (incorporating Daedalus Interchange and Internet exercises as well as film)

-Conversation, own syllabus (incorporating Internet exercises)

-Practical Phonetics, own syllabus

-Upper division: "Authority and Discontent" (readings from literary and historical texts, incorporating film and interactive computer work)

Department of Germanic Studies, University of Texas at Austin

-1st, 2nd, 3rd Semester German using Deutsch Zusammen and Perspektiven (four-skills; proficiency oriented/communicative approach)

-Accelerated German (two semesters in one) (also coordinated this course)

-German for Graduate Students (reading knowledge and translation)

-4th-semester German: Issues of Authority (original design, topic driven)

-4th-semester German: literary and cultural readings, own syllabus using assigned reader

-Conversation and Composition, own syllabus

Foreign Languages: German Division, Austin Community College

-1st & 2nd semester German (proficiency oriented): own syllabus using Alles Gute!

-Conversation, own syllabus

English

Dept. of English and Foreign Languages, Huston-Tillotson College, Austin, Texas

-Survey of English Literature I; own syllabus using the Norton Anthology

English Department, Austin Community College, Austin, Texas

-Rhetoric and Composition I; standard and individual syllabus having chosen among several textbooks

-American Literature I; own syllabus having chosen among several anthologies

Private and for The American-English Language School (Hamburg, Germany)

-English as a Foreign Language: intermediate and advanced levels

Seminar für Englische Sprache und Kultur , Universität Hamburg, Germany

-Assisted in Introduction to Literary Methods, supervised three work groups

Comparative and Classics

Departments of English, Modern Languages, and Philosophy and Humanities, University of Texas at Arlington

- The Classical Greek and Roman Tradition in Contemporary Literature (cross-listed with Classics, English, and German)

Cornell et al. Junior Year Abroad Program (Seminar für Alte Geschichte, Univ. Hamburg)

-Tutor accompanying lecture on Roman Expansion seen from the Greek standpoint Smith Junior Year Abroad Program (Institut für klassische Archäologie ,Univ. Hamburg)

-Tutor accompanying seminar on Greek vase painting

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Other Activities

Panel member (Hamburg) in Worldnet Teleconference on Martin Luther King (with panels in Bonn, Cologne, Tel Aviv and The Hague) (1989)

1983-88 Training of new research divers; planning, supervision, and execution of subaquatic scientific projects for Universität Hamburg and private institutions (1983-88)

German Government Certification: Research Diver / Forschungstaucher (extensive training in Hamburg / Kiel and examination before governmental board) (1982)

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