Darcy C. Buerkle

Assistant Professor

Darcy Buerkle began teaching at Smith College in Fall 2002. Her research focuses on modern European women and gender history with an emphasis on German and German Jewish women's intellectual and cultural history. She has also worked extensively on German visual culture of the early twentieth century. Related interests include the history of the social sciences, the history of psychoanalysis and contemporary debates in the philosophy of history. Her recent publications include articles on the German Jewish artist Charlotte Salomon (1917-1943), on the sex reform minded doctor-writer Charlotte Wolff (1897-1986), on women and portraiture in Weimar Berlin and a piece on women and advertising in Weimar Germany. Forthcoming articles in 2007-2008 include the reconstruction of affect through Hannah Arendt, original footage of the 1961 Eichmann trial and the film, The Specialist (1999) and an essay in which she explores spectatorship and anxiety in Weimar films about anti-semitism. Presently she is completing a book manuscript entitled, Jews, Gender and the Visual Rhetoric of Suicide in Early Twentieth Century Germany .

Professor Buerkle's course offerings include two surveys in European history, Women and Gender in Modern Europe 1789-1918 (HST 252) and Women and Gender in Contemporary Europe (HST 253). She also teaches an introductory course (HST 101) on history and memory and colloquia and seminars such as Trauma and History (HST 346), History of Psychoanalysis (HST 255), Recent Debates in Gender and Sexuality (HST 350, Spring 08) and Historiography (HST 350, Spring 09). Professor Buerkle received the Junior Faculty Teaching Award at the 2003 Rally Day Celebration.

Phone: 413-585-3724
Office: Hillyer 308
Email: dbuerkle@smith.edu
Office Hours: Thursday 4:30-6:30 p.m. and by appointment

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