Amanda Z. Randall, PhD
Assistant Professor of German
St. Olaf College
Curriculum vitae.
Education
PhD, Germanic Studies (2015)
The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
Dissertation: “Translating the Discipline: On the Institutional Memory of German Volkskunde, 1945 to Present”
Adviser: Katherine Arens
MA, Cultural Anthropology (2007)
Rice University, Houston, TX
Adviser: James D. Faubion
Fulbright Fellowship, Cultural Anthropology (2002-2003)
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany
BA, International Studies (2002)
DePaul University, Chicago, IL
Minors in German and Spanish, semester abroad in Bonn, Germany, summa cum laude
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Experience
Academic Employment
St. Olaf College
Associate Professor of German (2020—Present)
Assistant Professor of German (2015-2020)
The University of Texas at Austin
Research Assistant for Program Assessment (2014-2015)
Editorial Assistant, German Studies Review (2012-2014)
Assistant Instructor / Teaching Assistant (2009-2015)
Rice University
Teaching Assistant (2005)
University Teaching
German Language and Literature
St. Olaf College (2015—Present)
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Intermediate German I&II
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History and Memory
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Contemporary Germany in Global Context
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Hamburg: Gateway to the World (abroad)
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German Colonialism and Decolonization
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The Author as Public Intellectual
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Die Fantasie. Inner Worlds and Other Worlds
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German War Film (English with German FLAC course)
The University of Texas at Austin (2009-2012)
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Beginning German I&II
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Beginning Accelerated German
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Intermediate Accelerated German
Cultural Studies and Anthropology
Universität Freiburg (2018, 2019)
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Diversity and Decolonization in Cross-Disciplinary Perspective
The University of Texas at Austin (2010-11, 2014-2015)
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The Movies Go to War: WWI—Desert Storm
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Introduction to European Studies
Rice University (2005)
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Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology
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Research
Publications
Journal articles
Seth Peabody and Amanda Randall, “Unpacking Heimat: An Iterative Approach to Identity and Belonging for Global German Studies,” Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German 52, no. 2 (2019), special issue edited by Nicole Coleman and Lisabeth Hock, 178-186.
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Amanda Randall, “From Multidisciplinary to Transdisciplinary: On the History of German Studies Review, 1978 to 2015,” German Studies Review 39, no. 3 (2016), 629-643.
Amanda Randall, “Austrian Trümmerfilm? What a Genre’s Absence Reveals about National Postwar Cinema and Film Studies,” German Studies Review 38, no. 3 (2015), 573-595.
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Book chapters
Amanda Randall, “Habits of Mind, Habits of Heart: Cultivating Humanity through a Decolonized German Studies Curriculum” in Diversity and Decolonization in German Studies, eds. Ervin Malakaj and Regine Criser (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), 41-62.
Invited journal article
Amanda Randall and Janet Swaffar, “The Uses of Accountability” in Student Learning Outcomes Assessment in College Foreign Language Programs, eds. John Norris, John Davis, and Yukiko Watanabe (Honolulu: Univ. of Hawaii National Foreign Language Resource Center, 2015), 71-96.
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