Darcy C. Buerkle
Associate Professor
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| Office Hours: Away 2011-2012. You may contact her by email: dbuerkle@smith.edu |
Professor Buerkle’s research focuses on modern European women's 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 historiography. Her recent publications range from articles on German women and portraiture in the early twentieth century to the reconstruction of affect through Hannah Arendt, original footage of the 1961 Eichmann trial and the film, The Specialist (1999), and an essay on Norbert Elias, spectatorship and anxiety in an early Weimar film. An additional article concerns Charlotte Wolff, a Weimar-era doctor who was both part of early GLBTQ organizing and a prolific palm reader in exile.
Professor Buerkle's book, Nothing Happened: Charlotte Salomon and an Archive of Suicide is forthcoming from the University of Michigan Press. Her interest in the history of emotion, visual culture and the legacy of anti-Semitism reappears in her new book-project on the particularities of empathy as a mobilizing force in the early transnational peace movement. She continues to write essays regularly; two of these will appear in 2012. Both of these pieces concern the history of sexuality.
Her typical course offerings include two surveys in European women's and gender history (HST 252 and HST 253), in addition to a range of colloquia and seminars such as Representing the Past (HST 246), History of Psychoanalysis (HST 255). In addition to her advanced course in historiography (HST 350), Professor Buerkle also regularly teaches topical seminars for advanced students, such as: Trauma and History, Recent Debates in Gender and Sexuality and Histories of the Holocaust.
In 2011-12, Professor Buerkle holds the Walter Benjamin Chair in German Jewish History and Culture at the Humboldt University-Berlin. She returns to teaching and research at Smith in the Fall of 2012. Until then, she invites you to contact her by email: dbuerkle@smith.edu
