Mara R Wade
Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures
Comparative and World Literature
Gender and Women's Studies
Professor of LAS Global Studies
Jewish Culture and Society
Library Admin
European Union Center
Media and Cinema Studies
Contact Information:
- Address: Germanic Lang & Lit
2090 For Lang Bldg
707 S Mathews
M/C 178
Urbana, IL 61801 Office Hours: - on leave Fall 2011
- Telephone: (217) 333-9383
- Email: mwade@illinois.edu
Education
Ph.D. University of Michigan
Biography
Together with Dr. Thomas Stäcker, Deputy Director of the Herzog August Bibliothek (HAB), Wolfenbüttel, Mara R. Wade is the PI for the bilateral digital humanities project, “Emblematica On-line,” that is jointly funded by the NEH and DFG. This project is currently digitizing Renaissance emblem books from the collections of the HAB and the University of Illinois Library, creating a database for all German emblems, and establishing a portal for emblem studies. At its completion this project will have digitized approximately 750 original emblem books with a total of roughly 70,000 individual emblems. Early work on this project was funded by a TransCoop grant from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the University of Illinois Research Board. The project has also received consistent support from the Herzog August Bibliothek and the University Library.
Professor Wade’s research investigates the interstices between literature and the other arts, and she has published extensively on literature and music, theater, and the visual arts. All of her research reflects her strong orientation to gender studies. She held a named professorship at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien in Hannover, Germany, where she held the Maria Göppert Mayer Prize for women’s and gender studies (2006). The HMTM is ranked the top Musikhochschule in Germany. She has also served as a visiting professor at the University of Göttingen (1998) and has taught consortium seminars at the Newberry Library, Chicago. She is the co-director with Professor Wolfgang Behringer, Universität Saarbrücken, of the Wolfenbüttel Summer Course, “Communication and the Culture of the Body in early modern Europe,” in August 2011.
Her teaching ranges from early modern German literature and Jewish Studies to cinema and gender studies. She is strongly committed to study abroad and the teaching of German. To these ends she regularly works with international organizations and institutions as well as the Austria Illinois Exchange Program to promote academic exchange. She currently serves on board of the DAAD Alumni Association.
Professor Wade has served the discipline in a number of capacities, including leadership roles in the Modern Language Association, Society for German Renaissance and Baroque Literature, and the Renaissance Society of America. She is currently Chair of the International Society for Emblem Studies. She is on the editorial boards for the journals "Emblematica" and "Renæssance Forum" and for the monograph series "Spektrum" of the German Studies Association.
Publications
Books
- Triumphus Nuptialis Danicus: German Court Culture and Denmark. The Great Wedding of 1634. (Wolfenbütteler Arbeiten zur Barockforschung Vol. 27.). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1996.
- The German Baroque Pastoral Singspiel, Berner Beiträge zur Barockgermanistik Vol. 7. Ed. Blake L. Spahr. Bern: Lang, 1990.
Book Contributions
- "Paper Monuments and the Creation of Memory: The Personal and Dynastic Mourning of Princess Magdalena Sybille of Saxony." Enduring Loss, Studies in Central European Histories, 50. Ed. Lynne Tatlock. Leiden: Brill, 2010. 161-186.
- "Reading Rape: Gendered Discourses of Sexual Violence. Grimmelshausen and the Sack of Magdeburg." Ethik - Geschlecht - Medizin. Körpergeschichten in politischer Reflexion. Internationale Frauen- und Genderforschung in Niedersachsen. Münster: LIT Verlag, 2010. 17-39.
- "Prinzessin Magdalena Sibylle” ." Mit Fortuna Übers Meer. Sachsen und Dänemark—Ehen und Allianzen im Spiegel der Kunst (1548-1709)Exhibition Catalogue, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden. . Ed. Jutta Kappel and Claudia Brink. Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2009. 174-179.
- "Dänisch-sächsische Hoffesteder frühen Neuzeit,." Mit Fortuna Übers Meer. Sachsen und Dänemark—Ehen und Alliazen im Spiegel der Kunst (1548-1709), ed. Jutta Kappel and Claudia Brink. Exhibition Catalogue, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden. . Ed. Jutta Kappel and Claudia Brink. Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2009. 63-69.
- "“Sebald Meinhard’s Liturgical Emblems in Danzig” ." The Emblem in Scandinavia and the Baltic. Ed. Mara R. Wade and Simon McKeown. Glasgow: Glasgow Emblem Studies Vol. 11, 2007. 205-230.
Edited Books
- Emblems in the Twenty-First Century: Materials and Media. (Part II) . New York : AMS (Emblematica, Vol. 16), 2008.
- Emblems in the Twenty-First Century: Materials and Media. (Part I) . New York: AMS (Emblematica, Vol. 15) , 2007.
- McKewon, Simon, and Mara Wade. The Emblem in Scandinavia and the Baltic (=Glasgow Emblem Studies, Vol. 11). Glasgow: Glasgow Emblem Studies, 2007.
- Ober, Warren U., and Mara Wade. Russian Translations from English and German Poetry (=Germano-Slavica, Vol. 15). Waterloo, Ontario: University of Waterloo, 2005.
- Digital Collections and the Management of Knowledge: Renaissance Emblem Literature as a Case Study for the Digitization of Rare Texts and Images. Salzburg: DigiCULT, 2004.
- Strasser, Gerhard F., and Mara Wade. Die Domänen des Emblems: Außerliterarische Anwendungen der Emblematik. Wolfenbütteler Arbeiten zur Barockforschung, Vol. 39. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2004.
- Ehrstine, Glenn, and Mara Wade. Foreign Encounters in German Literature Before 1700 (=double volume, Daphnis 33). Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2004.
- Pomp. Power and Politics: Essays Commemorating the 400th Anniversary of the Coronation of King Christian IV of Denmark (1596). Amsterdam: Rodopi (=double volume, Daphnis 32), 2003.
- Neue Geistliche Schauspiele (Facsimile reprint of 1670 edition, selected and introduced by Mara R. Wade). Stuttgart: Hiersemann, 2002.
Courses Taught
- German Literature 1450-1750
- German Poetics, and Metrics
- Introduction to German Literature I
- Introduction to German Literature II
- History of German Film
- The Holocaust in Context
- Nürnberg in the 17th Century
- Introduction to Graduate Study
- Nürnberg 1450-1700
- Jüdische Authoren deutscher Literatur
- Stadt und Literatur: Nürnberg im 17. Jahrhundert
- Torheit in der Literatur der frühen Neuzeit
- Hof und Literatur im deutschen Barock
- German Literature and Gender
- Schreibende Frauen der frühen Neuzeit