Fields of Study
Post-1750 German literature and culture; museum studies, science and technology studies, German film
About Peter
McIsaac
Peter M. McIsaac's scholarship and teaching takes place at the intersections of modern German literature and culture, Museum Studies, Science and Technology, and cultural policy. Among his publications are the book Museums of the Mind: German Modernity and the Dynamics of Collecting (2007), and, as co-editor, a special issue of New German Critique on contemporary German literature (2003). His articles have appeared in The German Quarterly, Monatshefte, Literatur für Leser, German Life and Letters and The International Journal of Cultural Policy. He serves on the editorial boards of The German Quarterly and German Politics and Society.
McIsaac is currently writing a book-length manuscript on the "secret" German pre-history to Body Worlds, a contemporary exhibition of human corpses that has broken attendance records and generated controversy around the world. Part of this work has appeared in the 2007 volume Museums & Difference. Additional work in progress focuses on gender and performativity in anatomy exhibitions around 1900, the visual archive of Gottfried Benn's early poetry, and shifts in German cultural policy resulting from EU integration and globalization.
At York and Duke Universities, McIsaac has taught on a wide range of topics, including the history of the museum, science and technology in 19th- and 20th-century German literature and culture, 20th-century Berlin and Fin-de-Siècle Vienna. His innovative work with iPods and other instructional technologies was cited in Newsweek and University Business magazines in 2005. Likewise in 2005, he received the Richard K. Lublin Distinguished Teaching Award from Trinity College of Duke University.
Curriculum Vitae
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Awards
Fellow, J.H. Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke University [2007-2008]; Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professorship, Duke University [2004-05]; Richard K. Lublin Distinguished Teaching Award, Trinity College of Duke University[2005]; Randall and Barbara Smith Faculty Enrichment Award, Duke University, [2002]; Fulbright Research Fellowship, USIA, Cologne, Germany [1990-1991]
Selected Publications
- Museums of the Mind: German Modernity and the Dynamics of Collecting, University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2007. Pp. 322.
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Selected Articles:
- “Public-Private Support of the Arts and German Cultural Policy: The Case of Wilhelm Bode” International Journal of Cultural Policy 13.4 (2007): 371-391.
- “Gunther von Hagens’ Body Worlds: Exhibitionary Practice, German History, and Difference” Museums and Difference. ed. Daniel J. Sherman. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2007, pp. 155-202.
- “Rethinking Tableaux Vivants and Triviality in the Writings of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johanna Schopenhauer, and Fanny Lewald,” Monatshefte für deutschsprachige Literatur und Kultur” 99.2 (2007): 152-176.
- “The Museal Path to Bildung: Collecting, Gender and Exchange in Stifter’s Nachsommer,” German Life and Letters 57 (2004): 268-289.
- “North-South, East-West: Mapping German Identity in Cinematic and Literary Versions of Doris Dörrie’s Bin ich schön?” The German Quarterly 77.3 (2004): 339-361.
- “Exhibiting Ottilie: Collecting as a Disciplinary Regime in Goethe’s Wahlverwandtschaften,” The German Quarterly 70.4 (1997): 347-357.
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