Professor of German
DR. CHRISTINE ANTON, a native of Germany, is Professor of German at Berry College. She received her B.A. in English and German from the Universität Erlangen and her graduate degrees in German Languages and Literatures from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has published and presented numerous articles on 19th to 21st century German and Austrian literature, as well as on second language acquisition. In addition, Dr. Anton has published books on 19th century poetic realism, on Germany’s national discourse on the legacy of the Holocaust, and she co-authored an introductory textbook on German language and culture. Dr. Anton has received several awards for excellence in teaching and was honored by the American Association of Teachers of German with the Duden Award for her "outstanding efforts and achievement in the teaching of German." Dr. Anton previously taught at the State University of New York and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Education
- Specialist in 19th to 21st Century German literature
- A., English and German, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen, Germany
- A., Ph.D., German Literature, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (1996)
- Duden Award (2003) recipient from AATG in recognition for her outstanding efforts and achievement in the teaching of German
Selected Publications
- Anton, Christine, et al. Sag Mal. An Introduction to German Language and Culture (Textbook and Student Activities Manual). Vista Higher Learning, 2014.
- “Between Identity and Integration, Assimilation and Simulation: Home, Belonging, and Displacement in Contemporary German and Turkish-German Literature.” International Journal of Arts and Sciences, vol. 7, no. 4, 2014, pp. 553-74.
- Anton, Christine, and Frank Pilipp, editors. Beyond Political Correctness: Remapping German Sensibilities in the 21st Rodopi, 2010.
- “Historiography and Memory Politics: The Cultural-Historical Discourse in the Works of Bernhard Schlink.” Beyond Political Correctness: Remapping German Sensibilities in the 21st Century. Edited by. Christine Anton, and Frank Pilipp, Rodopi, 2010, pp. 51-82.
- “Poetologische Kunstreflexion: Adalbert Stifters Plädoyer für den Poetischen Realismus in seiner Novelle Nachkommenschaften.” Adalbert-Stifter-Jahrbuch, vol. 17, 2010, pp. 9-27.
- “The Quest for a National Identity: Images of Germany in the Works of Bernhard Schlink.” International Journal of the Humanities, vol. 5, 2007, pp. 105-17.
- “Meeting the Challenge of Diversity: Students with Learning Disabilities in the Foreign Language Classroom.” International Journal of the Humanities, vol. 2, 2004, pp. 477-84.
- “In Contempt of the Court - Friedrich Schiller’s Take on the Legal System in 18th Century Germany.” Postscript, vol. 21, 2004, pp. 14-24.
- “Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity—A Case Study of Bipolar Disorder in Schiller’s Der Verbrecher aus verlorener Ehre.” Literature and Psychoanalysis, vol. 19, 2002, pp. 117-26.
- “Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach und die Realismusdebatte: Schreiben als Auseinander-setzung mit den Kunstansichten ihrer Zeit.” Modern Austrian Literature, vol. 33, 2000, pp. 1-15.
- Anton, Christine. Selbstreflexivität der Kunsttheorie in den Künstlernovellen des Realismus, North American Studies in Nineteenth-Century German Literature. 23. Edited by Jeffrey Sammons, Lang, 1998.
- “‘Und ewig wechseln die Bilder’: Zu Eichendorffs Märchennovelle Das Marmorbild.” Postscript, vol. 13, 1996, pp. 21-31.