Associate Professor, German
yanaceha@jmu.edu
Contact Info
Website: https://www.hollyyanacek.com/
Office
Keezell 422
Spring 2023 Office Hours:
M 11-12 via Zoom, Tu/Th 12:30-2:00pm in Keezell, or by appointment
Education
Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh (German Studies; PhD Certificate in Cultural Studies)
M.A. University of Pittsburgh (German Studies)
B.A. Heidelberg University (German)
Courses
GER 307: History of German Culture and Society
GER 341: Translation Competencies
GER 375: Business and Society in Germany
GER 386: German Short Stories
GER 415: German Romanticism and Realism
GER 421: German Drama Workshop
GER 425: Modern German Literature
GER 446: Special Topics in German Literature
GER 461: Contemporary German Literature
GER 490: Special Studies in German
HUM 200: Great Works of Literature (Humans, Animals, Machines)
Research and Teaching Interests
19th—21st-Century Germanophone Literature and Culture, History of Emotions, Narrative Theory, Animal Studies, Posthumanism, Artificial Intelligence in Fiction, Gender Studies, Drama Pedagogy, Cultural Studies, Historical Semantics.
Publications
Books (Co-Editor)
Animals, Machines, and AI: On Human and Non-Human Emotions in Modern German Cultural History. Eds. Erika Quinn and Holly Yanacek. Berlin: DeGruyter, November 2021. (forthcoming). https://www.degruyter.com/serial/IGCS-B/html
Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary. The Keywords Project. Ed. Colin MacCabe and Holly Yanacek. Oxford University Press, October 2018.
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/keywords-for-today-9780190636579?cc=us&lang=en&
Peer-Reviewed Scholarly Articles
Yanacek, Holly. “Benevolent Bots: Human-Robot Friendship and Empathy in German Children's Literature.” In Animals, Machines, and AI: On Human and Non-Human Emotions in Modern German Cultural History. Eds. Erika Quinn and Holly Yanacek. Berlin: DeGruyter, November 2021. (forthcoming).
Quinn, Erika, and Holly Yanacek. “Introduction: Feeling beyond the Human.” In Animals, Machines, and AI: On Human and Non-Human Emotions in Modern German Cultural History. Eds. Erika Quinn and Holly Yanacek. Berlin: DeGruyter, November 2021. (forthcoming).
Arac, Jonathan, and Holly Yanacek. “Keywords, Structures of Feeling, and the Novel.” Forthcoming in “Virtual Archives” feature in NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction 54.1 (Spring 2021).
Yanacek, Holly A. “Mobilising Disgust and Compassion: Elpis Melena's Gemma; oder, Tugend und Laster (1877) and the Anti-Vivisection Movement.” German Life and Letters 73.4 (October 2020): 564-580. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/glal.12282
Yanacek, Holly A. “Fighting Fascism through Theater: Defining a Socialist Humanist Aesthetic in Willi Bredel’s Die Enkel (1953).” Monatshefte 112.1 (Spring 2020): 20-37. http://mon.uwpress.org/content/112/1/20.short
Yanacek, Holly A. “Nasty Women: Female Anger as Moral Judgment in Fontane’s Grete Minde and Effi Briest.” In Fontane in the Twenty-First Century. Eds. John B. Lyon and Brian Tucker. 31-47. Camden House, April 2019. https://boydellandbrewer.com/fontane-in-the-twenty-first-century.html
Yanacek, Holly A. “Investigating the Unexplained: Paranormal Belief and Perception in Kleist’s ‘Die heilige Cäcilie’ and ‘Das Bettelweib von Locarno.’” Colloquia Germanica 45.2 (2012): 163-178. Published in August 2015.
Translation
“The Symbol.” English translation of Friedrich Theodor Vischer’s philosophical treatise “Das Symbol”(1887). Art in Translation 7.4 (February 2016): 417-448. Published by Routledge/Taylor & Francis Online. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17561310.2015.1107314
Manuscripts in Progress
Yanacek, Holly A. "Rethinking Feeling: Nietzsche, Emotion, and fin-de-siècle German Literature" (book project)
Yanacek, Holly A. “Care, Emotion, and the Novel in the Age of Artificial Intelligence” (book project)
