Williamson, Jason

Biographical Text

My ongoing research explores the legacy of 1977’s violent “German Autumn”—the pinnacle of leftist terrorism in West Germany. At the moment, I am focusing on discursive practices in memoirs written by former terrorists and by family members of their victims, respectively.

Education

• PhD, Germanic Studies, University of Texas at Austin
• MA, German, University of Oklahoma
• BBA, Management, University of Oklahoma

Selected Publications

• Co-author (with Susanne Sutton). “MINT-spezifische Textsortenkompetenz: Ein Plädoyer und Unterrichtsmodul für Protokoll als Textsorte im fachsensiblen DaF-Unterricht.” Deutsch als zweite Bildungssprache in MINT-Fächern. Eds. Keith Cothrun, Jupp Möhring and Erwin Tschirner. Tübingen: Stauffenburg, 2017. 75-102.
• “A Survivor’s Perspective on Memory and Memorial Culture: Recollections on the Twentieth Anniversary of the Oklahoma City Bombing.” Social Science Quarterly 1 (2016): 101-104.

Research Interests

• 20th and 21st-century German literature, history, and culture
• Cultural responses to terrorism
• Life writing
• Content-based instruction

Teaching Interests

• German language instruction across all levels
• German for specific purposes (business, STEM)
• Postwar literature and culture

Selection of Courses Taught

• German 204: German in Your Field and Beyond
• German 331: Intermediate German Grammar and Usage
• German 332: Intermediate Conversation and Composition