The German Faculty at Clemson University

Lee Ferrell
BMW Senior Lecturer of German
B.A. in Economics and Finance, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
M.A. University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
Lee Ferrell, BMW Lecturer of German, is a native of Ohio with a life-long interest in German and other foreign languages. He received his B.S. in Economics from the University of South Carolina in 1986. He worked in sales until he returned to the university to pursue his MA in German. He also completed a graduate certificate in Teaching English as a Foreign Language in 1999. Since 1995, he has taught English as a foreign language in both Germany and Japan and taught German to Americans at both the high school and college level. He teaches introductory and business German classes, and advisor to the German Club. In addition, he is currently active in the South Carolina chapter of the American Association of Teachers of German (AATG).

Office: 316 Daniel Hall
Phone: (864) 656-1348
E-mail: ferrell(at)clemson.edu


Samuel Frederick
Assistant Professor of German. He was granted a B.A. in English and in German and Continental European Literatures from Boston University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in German Studies from Cornell University.

Dr. Frederick’s research and teaching interests include 19th and 20th century German literature; modernism and the avant-garde; film (German and international); lyric poetry (Baroque to contemporary); performance poetry (Dada to Jandl to Hip Hop); narratology and the history of the novel; James Joyce; Austrian and Swiss literature; and “nothing.” He would particularly like to teach a course on nothing. Dr. Frederick is currently working on a book manuscript tentatively titled Storyless Stories: Modes of Negative Narration in Swiss and Austrian Literature, which explores the narrativity of digression, in particular, in Robert Walser, Adalbert Stifter, Thomas Bernhard, and Gerhard Meier.

Selected Publications:
“Stealing the Story: Robert Walser’s Robber-Novel.” Digression in European Literature from Cervantes to Sebald. Eds. Alexis Grohmann and Caragh Wells. London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2009. (in preparation)
“Re-Reading Digression: Towards a Theory of Plotless Narrativity.” Textual Wanderings: The Theory and Practise of Digression in Literature. Ed. Rhian Atkin. London: Legenda, 2009. (under review)
“The Last Poets.” The Encyclopedia of Hip Hop Literature. Ed. Tarshia L. Stanely. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2008.
“Dividing Zero : Beholding Nothing.” [on Wallace Stevens, Johannes Kepler, Italo Calvino, Rilke, Robert Walser and Oswald Egger.] In SubStance #110, Vol. 35, no. 2, 2006.

Office: 525 Strode Tower
Phone: (864) 656-3541
E-mail: sfreder(at)clemson.edu

Jeff Love
Associate Professor of Russian and German
B.A. University of Toronto; Ph.D. Yale University

Teaching: Russian and German Literature and Language; Modern European Literature

Research Interests: 19th and 20th-century Russian prose; German Idealism and modernist prose; literary theory

Publications: Annotated translation (with Johannes Schmidt) of F. W. J. Schelling's Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom (Albany: SUNY Press, 2006) <Link>; The Overcoming of History in War and Peace (New York-Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2004); and articles on Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Pushkin and Sade.
Forthcoming: Tolstoy: A Guide for the Perplexed; an article on Badiou and Rancière (with Todd May)

Curriculum vitae

Office: 515 Strode Tower
Office Phone: 656-3411
E-mail: gjlove(at)clemson.edu


Johannes Schmidt
Associate Professor of German
Native of Hamburg, Germany; B.A. in Germanistics, Linguistics, and Economics (Universität Konstanz); M.A. in Germanic Languages and Literatures (University of Massachusetts/Amherst); Ph.D. in German Literature (Universität Hamburg).

Dr. Schmidt's research interests range from 18th and 19th century German literature to German drama and music. He has presented papers at a number of regional, national, and international conferences. He is currently working on Schelling's "Use" of Herder.

"Herr" Schmidt has taught a variety of different courses including German drama, 18th and 19th centruy German literature, the culture and literature of exile, a WWII and Shoah humanities seminar, as well as German language and culture courses at all levels.

In the classroom, Herr Schmidt uses art, music and technology in support content focused instruction, and is currently engaging in a podcasting/ videocasting project for Clemson University and the German program.

In September 2006, Johannes Schmidt was eleceted treasurer-secretary (North America) of the International Herder Society. He servered as the president of the South Carolina Chapter of the AATG from 2003 to 2005, and again in 2006. During this time, he helped to organize four Upstate meetings and two state-wide immersion weekends for German K-12 and college teachers.

Selected Publications:
Jeff Love and Johannes Schmidt (annotated translation): F. W. J. Schelling’s Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006) <Link>
Johannes Schmidt: "Die klare, helle Wahrheit." Johann Gottfried Herders Christliche Schriften als Auseinandersetzung mit Gotthold Ephraim Lessings religionsphilosophischen Spätschriften (Hamburg 2000)

Recent course offerings include "European Enlightenment: Art, Music, Literature and Philosophy," "Forbidden Knowledge–Remnants of Auschwitz," "200 Years of German Drama," and "Secret Societies"

Office: 706 Strode Tower
Office Phone: (864) 656-4299
E-mail: schmidj(at)clemson.edu
Web Page: http://people.clemson.edu/~schmidj/

Mailing Addresses:
Department of Languages
Clemson University
P.O. Box 340535
Clemson, SC 29634-0535
U.S.A.

Fax: (864) 656-0258