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Dr. Terry H. Pickett
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Terry Pickett’s first stint
abroad was as a soldier. He was stationed two years in Friedberg
in Hessen where he worked as a reporter and photographer for
various service newspapers. After finishing his undergraduate
work at the University of Georgia, he went on a DAAD-fellowship
to the University of Kiel on the Baltic. After earning his Ph.D.
at Vanderbilt University, he returned many times to Central
Europe. His first teaching experience abroad was on a Fulbright
exchange where he taught English at the Hans-Sachs-Gymnasium,
a Mathematical and Modern Language College Preparatory school
in Nuremberg. On a second Fulbright stipend he taught a year
at the University of Weingarten near Lake Constance. The year
the notorious Wall fell and the Soviet Union collapsed Pickett
was a Senior Fulbright Professor at the University of Erlangen
where he observed many of the momentous first-hand.
Pickett’s research has taken him for two extensive sojourns
to Soviet-era Cracow, Poland where he experienced the crackdown
on dissidents during the early days of the Solidarity Movement.
He has alternated his stints of detective work in some of the
major archives of Central Europe to hike and climb in the mountainous
regions of Bavaria, Tirol and Switzerland. Most recently, he
spent the fall semester 2008 at the Samford London Center teaching
The Gothic Tradition.
Dr. Pickett’s research interests are wide-ranging. An
expert on Anglo-American and German-American literary relations,
he has published more than thirty scholarly articles, including
a ground-breaking discovery of the relationship between the
German liberal journalist Ottilie Assing and Frederick Douglass,
the icon of the American Abolitionist Movement. In addition
to his essays, Dr. Pickett has published a biography of the
German diplomat and literary critic Varnhagen von Ense, has
co-edited (with Francoise de Rocher) a collection of letters
written by the American socialist Albert Brisbane in French,
and is the author of Inventing Nations: Justifications of Authority
in the Modern World (Greenwood, 1996). An avid outdoorsman,
he considers one of his major accomplishments the day he climbed
and hiked up and down two mountains in the Jungfrau-massif.
He still aspires to finish the entire high alpine trail from
Slovenia to France before age and time put a stop to such escapades. |
Director, Critical Languages Program
Professor,
German
Office: BURNS104 |
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