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Dr. Terry H. Pickett

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
Phone: 205-726-4208
E-mail: thpicket@samford.edu

 

 

 

 

 

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