Jennifer L. Good
Associate Professor of German
Division Director of German & Russian
Co-editor of the Journal of Christianity and World Language (JCWL)
Research/Teaching Interests
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20th- and 21st-century German and Austrian history, literature, and culture
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German film from East and West Germany
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Gender and representation during and after the Cold War
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Second language pedagogy
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Short- and long-term study abroad and language learning
Education
Ph.D., Germanistic Studies, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
M.A., German Language, Literature & Pedagogy, University of Iowa
B.A., German, and Honors Interdisciplinary Humanities B.A. (concentrations in Humanities, Political Science, and Russian), University of Missouri
Courses Taught at Baylor
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Elementary German I & II (GER 1301 & 1302)
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Accelerated Elementary German (GER 1412)
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Intermediate German (GER 2310)
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Accelerated Intermediate German (GER 2412)
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German for Modern Life (GER 2320)
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German Conversation & Composition (GER 3301)
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German Reading Development (GER 3302)
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Baylor in Germany: The Dresden Experience (GER 3343)
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Introduction to German Film: German Culture from Berlin to Hollywood (GER 3345)
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Kontext Deutschland (GER 3356)
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Special Topics in German (GER 4320)
Selected Publications
Article
Book Chapters
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“Consent of the governed in Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem.” In Totalitarianism and Liberty. Hannah Arendt in the 21st Century. Gerhard Besier, Katarzyna Stokłosa, and Andrew Wisely, eds. (Kraków, Poland: Księgarnia Akademicka, 2008): 317-338.
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“Utopie im Werk von Christa Wolf: Ein erweiterter Dialog zwischen Leser und Schriftsteller über die Mehrschichtigkeit von Realität und Sprache in Störfall: Nachrichten eines Tages.” In Totalitarismus und Literatur. Deutsche Literatur im 20. Jahrhundert—Literarische Öffentlichkeit im Spannungsfeld totalitärer Meinungsbildung. Hans Jörg Schmidt and Petra Tallafuss, eds. (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2007): 189-199.
Book Reviews
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Megan Brandow-Faller. The Female Secession: Art and the Decorative at the Viennese Women’s Academy. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State UP, 2020. Journal of Austrian Studies 54.3 (2021): 119-121.
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Manfred Engel and Ritchie Robertson, eds. Kafka und die Religion in der Moderne / Kafka: Religion and Modernity. Würzburg : Königshausen & Neumann, 2014. Journal of Christianity and World Languages 17 (2016).
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Gabriele Mueller and James M. Skidmore, eds. Cinema and Social Change in Germany and Austria. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2012. Journal of Austrian Studies 47.2 (2014): 131-134.
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Stuart Parkes. Writers and Politics in Germany (1945-2008). Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2009. The German Quarterly 83.2 (2010): 265-266.
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