Todd Herzog , PhD

Todd Herzog holds faculty appointments in the School of Communication, Film, and Media Studies and the Department of Asian, East European, and German Studies at the University of Cincinnati, where he also directs the Digital Media Collaborative and the Niehoff Center for Film & Media Studies. He is author or editor of six books and has published over three dozen articles on topics ranging from the modernist crime story to the representation of history in the films of Quentin Tarantino. He is currently working on a book project on Vienna’s Prater and the History of Amusement.

PhD: University of Chicago 2001

MA: Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD, 1994 (Germanic Languages and Literature)

BA: Amherst College Amherst, MA, 1991 (European Studies)

Todd Herzog’s teaching and research interests include crime and detective fiction, the aesthetics of surveillance, European modernism, German-Jewish culture, contemporary European cultural politics and film studies. He is author of Crime Stories: Criminalistic Fantasy and the Culture of Crisis in Weimar Germany (Berghahn Books, 2009) and co-editor (with Sander Gilman) of A New Germany in a New Europe (Routledge, 2001) and the Rebirth of a Culture: Jewish Identity and Jewish Writing in Germany and Austria Today (Berghahn Books, 2008; with Hillary Hope Herzog and Benjamin Lapp). He has written articles on the image of America in recent German-Jewish literature, theories of biological and cultural hybridity, the role of film in criminal investigation and the modernist case history.

2011 -2021 Co-Editor, Journal of Austrian Studies, The Journal of Austrian Studies (formerly: Modern Austrian Literature) is the flagship journal of the Austrian Studies Association (formerly MALCA)., Austrian Studies Association,

2008 Taft Research Center Faculty Release Fellowship

2004 UC C.P. Taft Faculty Summer Research Fellowship Level:International

2003 UC Berlin Program IGSA Individual Faculty Grant Level:International

2002 UC C.P. Taft Faculty Summer Research Fellowship

2002 German Academic Exchange Association (DAAD) Level:International

2001 UC University Research Council Faculty Research Fellowship

2001 -2008 UC C.P. Taft Conference within the Continental US Travel Grants

1997 -1998 Fulbright Scholarship Level:International

1997 -1998 Germanistic Society of America Quadrille Ball Committee Scholarship

1997 University of Chicago, Universitetet i Oslo Wiegeland Travel and Research Grant in Norwegian Studies Level:International

1994 -1999 University of Chicago Gamer Fellowship

1993 -1995 Amherst Memorial Fellowship

1993 John Woodruff Simpson Fellowship

1992 -1993 Rufus B. Kellogg Fellowship

2009 Taft Research Center International Travel Grant Completed Type:Grant

2011 -2012 Taft Research Center Taft Center Fellowship Role:Fellow Type:Fellowship

09-2011 -06-2012 Charles Phelps Taft Research Center Taft Research Center Fellowship Role:Fellow Active Type:Fellowship

Peer Reviewed Publications

"Crime Stories: Criminal, Society and the Modernist Case History." Representations (2002): 34-61.

"Hybrids and Mischlinge: Translating Anglo-American Cultural Theory into German." German Quarterly 70:1 (1997), 1-17.

“The Banality of Surveillance: Michael Haneke’s Caché and Life after the End of Privacy,” Modern Austrian Literature 43:2 (2010), 25-40.

Review

David Schmid. "Natural Born Celebrities." Internationales Archiv für Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur. (2006).

"Images of Crime. Representations of Crime and the Criminal in Science, the Arts, and the Media, Vol. 1-2." Internationales Archiv für Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur. (2005).

Shoshana Felman. "The Juridical Unconscious." German Quarterly 76.4. (2003).

Susanne Komfort-Hein / Susanne Scholz, Lustmord. Medialisierungen eines kulturellen Phantasmas um 1900. Internationales Archiv für Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur (online edition) (2009)

Book Chapter

"Policing Criminals in Weimar Germany." Police Forces: A Cultural History of an Institution. Ed. Klaus Mladek. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2007.

"Criminalistic Fantasy’ and the Culture of Crisis in Weimar Germany." Proceedings of the American Historical Association 2005 Conference. Washington, D.C.: American Historical Association and University Microfilms, 2005.

"’Wien bleibt Wien’: Austrian-Jewish Culture at Two Fins de Siècle." Literature in Vienna at the Turn of the Centuries: Continuities and Discontinuities around 1900 and 2000. Ed. Ernst Grabovski and James Hardin. Rochester and Suffolk: Camden House, 2003. 205-220.

"’New York is More Fun:’ Amerika in der zeitgenössischen deutsch-jüdischen Literatur / Die zeitgenössische detusch-jüdische Literatur in Amerika." Deutsch-jüdische Literatur der neunziger Jahre. Die Generation nach der Shoah, Beiheft zur Zeitschrift für Deutsche Philologie. Ed. Sander L. Gilman und Hartmut Steineck. Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag, 2002. 204-213.

"Germans and Jews after the Fall of the Wall: The Promises and Problems of Hybridity." German Studies in the Post-Holocaust Age. Ed. Adrian Del Caro and Janet Ward. Boulder, CO: University of Colorado Press, 2000. 93, 102.

"’Den Verbrecher erkennen.’ Zur Geschichte der Kriminalistik." Gesichter der Weimarer Republik. Eine physiognomische Kulturgeschichte. Ed. Claudia Schmölders and Sander L. Gilman. Berlin: DuMont, 2000. 51, 77.

“Rebirth of a Culture—Birth of a Book,” in Cultures Entwined: German-Jewish Relations, Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, ed. Ruth H. Sanders (Oxford, OH: Miami University, 2009), 31-42. (co-authored with Hillary Hope Herzog).

“Literary Encounters Between German-Jews and Jewish Americans in the 1990s,” in Jewish Writing and Jewish Culture in Germany and Austria Today, ed. Benjamin Lapp, Hillary Herzog and Todd Herzog (New York: Berghahn Books, 2008).

“Fritz Lang’s M (1931): An Open Case,” in The Columbia Companion to Weimar Cinema,” ed. Noah Isenberg (New York: Columbia UP, 2009), 291-309.

“A City Tracks a Murderer: Mass Murder and Mass Public in Weimar Germany,” in Police Forces: A Cultural History of an Institution, ed. Klaus Mladek (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).

“’What shall the history books read?:’ The Debate over Inglourious Basterds and the Limits of Representation.” In Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds: A Manipulation of Metacinema. Ed. Robert von Dassanowsky. New York and London: Continuum, 2012. 271-296. Print.

“Berlin – Ecke Schönhauser," World Film Locations: Berlin. Ed. Susan Ingram. London: Intellect Books, 2012. (forthcoming)

“Die drei von der Tankstelle.” World Film Locations: Berlin. Ed. Susan Ingram. London: Intellect Books, 2012. (forthcoming)

“Germania anno zero.” World Film Locations: Berlin. Ed. Susan Ingram. London: Intellect Books, 2012. (forthcoming)

“Ostkreuz.” World Film Locations: Berlin. Ed. Susan Ingram. London: Intellect Books, 2012. (forthcoming)

“The Quiller Memorandum." World Film Locations: Berlin. Ed. Susan Ingram. London: Intellect Books, 2012. (forthcoming)

“Valkyrie." World Film Locations: Berlin. Ed. Susan Ingram. London: Intellect Books, 2012. (forthcoming)

“Antales.” World Film Locations: Vienna. Ed. Robert Dassanowsky. London: Intellect Books, 2012. (forthcoming)

“Der Räuber.” World Film Locations: Vienna. Ed. Robert Dassanowsky. London: Intellect Books, 2012. (forthcoming)

“The Prater.” World Film Locations: Vienna. Ed. Robert Dassanowsky. London: Intellect Books, 2012. (forthcoming)

“Dr Mabuse, der Spieler.” The Directory of World Cinema: Berlin, ed. Michelle Langford. London: Intellect Books (forthcoming 2013)

“Die Straße.” The Directory of World Cinema: Berlin, ed. Michelle Langford. London: Intellect Books (forthcoming 2013)

“Der Räuber.” The Directory of World Cinema: Berlin, ed. Michelle Langford. London: Intellect Books (forthcoming 2013)

“German Detective Films.” The Directory of World Cinema: Berlin. Ed. Michelle Langford. London: Intellect Books (forthcoming 2013)

Encyclopedia Article

"Scapegoat." Violence in America: An Encyclopedia. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1999.

"Copycat Violence." Violence in America: An Encyclopedia. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1999.

"Violence as Spectacle." Violence in America: An Encyclopedia. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons.

Published Abstract

"’Criminalistic Fantasy’ and the Culture of Crisis in Weimar Germany." Proceedings of the American Historical Association 2005 (2005). Abstract.

Book

Rebirth of a Culture: Jewish Identity and Jewish Writing in Germany and Austria Today. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2008.

A New Germany in a New Europe. New York and London: Routledge, 2001.

Crime Stories: Criminalistic Fantasy and the Culture of Crisis in Weimar Germany (New York: Berghahn Books, 2009).

A New Germany in a New Europe, ed. Todd Herzog and Sander L. Gilman (New York and London: Routledge, 2001).

Invited Presentations

(02-28-2004. ) Aimee and Jaguar and the Holocaust Love Story. Out of the Shadows: Berlin in German Cinema After the Wall, Miami, OH.

(01-21-2004. ) Crime Stories .Department of German Studies Brown-Bag Lunch, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH.

(11-07-2003. ) Crime Stories .Department of Sociology Colloquium Series, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH.

(09-18-2003. ) Methods of Teaching European Cinema in the Foreign Language Classroom: A Workshop For High School and University Teachers .Kentucky Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages Annual Conference, Louisville, KY.

(05-12-2001. ) Crime Stories: Criminal, Society and the Modernist Case History .German Historical Institute, Washington, DC. Conference. . Level:International

(11-26-2000. ) New York is More Fun .Literarisches Colloquium, Berlin,Germany. Conference. . Level:International

(12-17-1999. ) Seeing the Criminal .Einstein Forum and the Deutsches Historisches Museum, Potsdam, Germany. Other Institution. . Level:International

(03-01-2009. ) Rebirth of a Culture - Birth of a Book" .Miami University, Oxford, OH. Other Institution. . Level:International

Todd Herzog (10-2011. ) German Noir: Deutsche Detektive und deutsche Verbrecher im englischspragigen Kriminalroman .Internatioanle Tagung: Recht und Moral, Kiel, Germany. Conference. . Level:International

Todd Herzog (10-2011. ) (In Progress. ) German Noir: Deutsche Detektive und deutsche Verbrecher im englischspragigen Kriminalroman .Internatioanle Tagung: Recht und Moral, Kiel, Germany. Conference. . Level:International

Lecture

(03-23-2006. ) Keeping Memory Alive: Commentary on New Directions in Representing the Holocaust .Bowling Green, OH.

(02-27-2004. ) Aimee and Jaguar and the Holocaust Love Story .Miami University, Oxford, OH.

Paper Presentations

(04-26-2008. ) Life Under Sueveillance: Ethics and the Media in the Films of Michael Haneke .Seattle, WA. Conference. Level:International

(09-29-2005. ) Berlin Childhoods: Film Versions of Emil und die Detektive .Milwaukee, WI.

(07-20-2005. ) A Child’s Guide to Berlin: Filming Childhood in the City from the Weimar Republic to the Berlin Republic .Cincinnati, OH.

(01-06-2005. ) Criminalistic Fantasy and the Culture of Crisis in Weimar Germany .Seattle, WA.

(04-15-2004. ) Crime, Detection, and German Modernism .Lexington, KY.

(04-24-2003. ) Crime, Childhood and the City: Film Adaptations of Emil und die Detektive from 1931-2001 .Lexington, KY.

(10-04-2002. ) Literary Encounters Between German Jews and Jewish Americans in the 1990s .San Diego, CA .

(04-18-2002. ) Is There A German Crime Fiction? .Lexington, KY.

(10-07-2001. ) Nazi Crime Fiction: The Case of the S-Bahn Murderer .Lexington, KY. Conference. Level:National

(03-09-2001. ) ’We Understand It—On a Certain Level’: Criminal, Society and The Modernist Case History .Austin, TX. Conference. Level:National

(10-07-2000. ) Judges on Trial: Ingeborg Bachmann’s ‘Ein Wildermuth’ and the Crisis of the Modern Judicial System .Emory University. Conference. Level:National

(04-29-2000. ) The Criminal as Virtual Archive: On the Re-Appearance of the Hochstapler in Weimar Germany .Lexington, KY. Conference. Level:National

(03-23-2006. ) Keeping Memory Alive .Bowling Green, OH. Professional Meeting. Level:International

(04-24-2008. ) Life Under Surveillance: Ethics and the Media in the Films of Michael Haneke .Seattle, WA. Professional Meeting. Level:International

Todd Herzog (09-2011. ) Nazi Detectives .Louisville, KY. Conference. Level:International

Todd Herzog (04-2012. ) Prater Time Machine: Ulrike Ottinger’s Cultural History of Amusement .Long Beach, CA. Conference. Level:International

Todd Herzog (05-2012. ) Surveillance Stories: Art and Life after the Death of Privacy .Cincinnati, OH. UC. Level:National

Event Organized

“Keeping Memory Alive.” Trajectories of Memory: Intergenerational Representations of the Holocaust in History and the Arts 03-23-2006 03-26-2006 Bowling Green, OH

“L'Eminence Grise: Multiple Directions Behind the Scene.” German Studies Association Annual Convention 09-29-2005 10-02-2005 Milwaukee, WI

“Film and Religion.” XXI Conference of the International Association for Media and History 07-20-2005 07-23-2005 Cincinnati, OH

“Bertolt Brecht (Special Session of the International Brecht Society).” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference 04-25-2003 04-27-2003 Lexington, KY

Holocaust Awareness Weeks. Co-sponsored events on Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the Jews, German filmmakers and the Holocaust, and cookbooks in the Terezin concentration camp in conjunction with The Center for Holocaust and Humanity Studies at Hebrew Union College 2003 2005

“Film and the Holocaust: A Panel Discussion with Anna Rosmus,” Holocaust Awareness Weeks event co-sponsored by the Center for Holocaust and Humanity Studies at Hebrew Union College and the University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 04-11-2002

"Visual Thinking" -- Look Better: The Critical Visionas Symposium Symposium 10-13-2011 10-14-2011 Cincinnati OH Level:International

“Detective Fiction in the Third Reich; the Third Reich in Detective Fiction.” German Studies Association Annual Convention Conference 09-22-2011 09-25-2011 Louisville, KY Level:International

05-2012 Fellow, Academy of Fellows for Teaching and Learning Status:Recipient Level:University Type:Recognition

Graduate Program Director Type:Departmental Service Level:Department 09-01-2009

(Taft Research Center Faculty Board ) Committee Chair Type:University/College Service 09-01-2010 -03-31-2011

(Taft Research Center Faculty Executive Board ) Committee Member Type:University/College Service 09-01-2004 -06-30-2010

(Research Officers Committee ) Committee Member Type:University/College Service 09-01-2010 -03-31-2011

(Undergraduate Research Committee ) Committee Member Type:University/College Service 09-01-2010 -03-31-2011

Acting Department Head Director of New Berlin Program Film Studies 20th- and 21st-Century Literature and Culture Surveillance Studies German-Jewish Studies Children's Literature/Film Germanic Mythology