BERNADETTE HYNER
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF GERMAN (VANDERBILT, 2001)

Office: Thompson Hall, Room 101G
Phone: 335-6628
Email: hynerbh@wsu.edu

 

Professional Profile:

Dr. Hyner’s research interests include German travel and pedagogical literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as it intersects with Romanticism, Sensibility (Empfindsamkeit), and gender. She has published articles on the works of Sophie von La Roche, G.E. Lessing, Eleonore Thon, and Gisela von Arnim. In the recent past, Dr. Hyner expanded her interest in women’s perspectives on physical and cognitive relocation to include fairytales. She currently explores the significance of gendered socialization and education in fairytales written by Marie von Olfers, Marie Timme, and Germany's most prolific tale-spinner, Benedikte Naubert.

Publications:

“Not Another Grim(m) Tale: The Rights of Passage in Marie von Olfers’ ‘Little Princess.’” The Sophie E-Journal (October, 2006) 1-22. <http://sophie.byu.edu/sophiejournal/thesis.htm>

“‘The Nasty Little Pea:’ Gisela von Arnim’s Protofeminist Re-Vision of Hans Christian Andersen’s ‘The Ugly Duckling.’” Germanic Notes and Reviews. 37.1 (2006). 35-50.

“Geschichte des Fräuleins von Sternheim: Explorations of a Woman’s Terra Cognita” Monatshefte. 96.2 (Summer, 2004). 182-198.

“‘Ich bin für nichts gut’: Assessing the Functionality of Paradigmatic Behavior Models for Women in Emilia Galotti.” The Sophie E-Journal (April, 2004). 1-23. <http://sophie.byu.edu/sophiejournal/thesis.htm>

“Coercion and Confinement in Eleonore Thon’s ‘Adelheit von Rastenberg.’” Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature 58.2 (2004). 26-46. 

 “Wenn eine eine Reise tut. Reisende Frauen im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert” Schriften zur Hochschul-Sozialpolitik ISB. Berlin: Studentenwerk, 1999. 120-131.