College of Charleston, Department of History
RICHARD BODEK
(Germany, Modern European Social and Cultural)
Professor of History, received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1990. He has taught graduate-level courses in German History, Labor History, and Historiography.
His publications include "The Not-So-Golden Twenties: Everyday Life and Communist Agitprop in Weimar-Era Berlin", Journal of Social History (1996); "Red Song: Social Democratic Music and Radicalism at the End of the Weimar Republic", Central European History (1995); and "Communist Music in the Streets: Politics and Perceptions in Berlin at the End of the Weimar Republic", in James Retallack and Larry Eugene Jones, eds., Elections, Mass Politics, and Social Change in Modern Germany: New Perspectives (Cambridge, 1992).
His first book, Proletarian Performance in Weimar Berlin: Agitprop, Chorus, and Brecht appeared in 1997.
Bodek has received grants from the Fulbright Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, Social Science Research Councils, and the German Academic Exchange Service.
His most recent article is " A Political Tevye? Yiddishkeit, Scholem Aleichem and the Novels of Stefan Heym," in Herzog, Herzog, and Lapp (eds.), Jewish Identity and Jewish Writing in Germany and Austria Today (Berghahn Books) 2008.
He and Simon Lewis have co-edited The Fruits of Exile: Central European Intellectual Immigration to America in the Age of Fascism, which is scheduled to appear with the University of South Carolina Press in January, 2010.
At present he is completing a translation of Claire Bergmann ’s 1932 German novel, Was wird aus deinen Kindern, Pitt? (What Will Become of the Children, Pitt?), which went onto the Nazi banned list and fell into obscurity.
His non-academic pursuits include cycling, banjo, and his dogs.
Selected Publications:
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Rev.2009
Contact:
Richard Bodek, Professor
Email: bodekr@cofc.edu
website
Phone: 953-8030
Office: 324 Maybank Hall
Courses:
Berlin in the Golden Twenties
345.001 - Modern
German Cultural and Intellectual History
346.001 - History of the Soviet Union
HIST 241.001 ST: Nazi Germany in History& Pop Culture
HIST 241.01 ST: European Labor and the Left
Fall 2009:
102.007, 008
350.002
ST: Hilter & Stalin
Spring 2010: TBA
