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Jonathan Wipplinger

  • Associate Professor, German
  • Associate Professor, Scandinavian Studies

Education

  • PhD, University of Michigan
  • BA, History and German Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Teaching Schedule

Course Num Title Meets
GERMAN 102-204 Second-Semester German No Meeting Pattern
GERMAN 415-001 Topics in German Studies: Hip Hop in Germany TR 1pm-2:15pm

Courses Taught

  • GERMAN 360 - German for the Global World
  • GERMAN 415 - Topics in German Civilization: 20th Century Themes
  • GERMAN 647 - Seminar on Themes and Motifs in German Literature

Teaching Interests

  • 19th, 20th, and 21st Century German literature and culture
  • Media
  • Popular culture
  • Business German
  • German film
  • Expressionism

Research Interests

  • Modernism; the Weimar Republic
  • Jazz in Germany
  • Images of America and African Americans
  • The African Diaspora in Germany
  • Music
  • Media and Intermediality
  • Sound Studies
  • Translation

Related Activities

  • German Program Coordinator

Selected Publications

Wipplinger, J. O.(2017) The Jazz Republic: Music, Race, and American Culture in Weimar Germany.324.
Wipplinger, J. O.(2013) Eccentric Modernism: Or, George Grosz’s Gramophone Goes Meschugge,”.Colloquium Germanica, 46(4), 366-388.
Wipplinger, J. O.(2013) Germany, 1923: Alain Locke, Claude McKay and the New Negro in Germany.Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora in Arts and Letters, 36(1), 106-124.
Wipplinger, J. O.(2012) Bridging the Great Divides: Cultural Difference and Transnationalism at Frankfurt’s Jazzklasse.Diedrich, M. I., & Heinrichs, J. (Eds). Berlin: From Black to Schwarz: Cultural Crossovers between African America and Germany.
Wipplinger, J. O.(2012) Performing Race in Ernst Krenek’s Jonny spielt auf.André, N. , Bryan, K. , & Saylor, E. (Eds). Blackness in Opera, 236-259. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press.
Wipplinger, J. O.(2012) “Ich schnitt in seine Rinde so manches liebe Wort." Liebe zum Grammophon und grammophonische Liebe bei Thomas Mann.Thomas Mann. Neue kulturwissenschaftliche Lektüren, 139-148. Munich: Fink Verlag.
Wipplinger, J. O.(2011) The Racial Ruse: On Blackness and Blackface Comedy in fin-de-siècle Germany.The German Quarterly, 84(4), 457-476.
Wipplinger, J. O.(2007) The Aural Shock of Modernity: Weimar's Experience of Jazz.The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory, 82(4), 299-320.
Theodor, A. , & Wipplinger, J. O.(2005) Four Hands, Once Again.1-4. Cultural Critique.