Ruediger Mueller (he/him)

Associate Dean Academic and Associate Professor

College of Arts, School of Languages and Literatures

Education

PhD, Queen’s University at Kingston
MA, McGill University
BA, University of British Columbia

Research Interests

German drama, part. of the 19th and 20th centuries
Arthur Schnitzler, Frank Wedekind, Ludwig Thoma, Ödön von Horváth, Alexander Moritz Frey
German-Jewish authors and their use of myth
Language teaching and methodology

Publications

Paola Mayer and Rüdiger Mueller. "Robinsonade Against Colonialism and National Socialism: Alexander Moritz Frey’s 'Der Mensch' (1940)." Zeitschrift für interkulturelle Germanistik 14.1 (2023): 41-56. Web.
Paola Mayer and Rüdiger Mueller. "Zur Einführung." Alexander M. Frey: Der Mensch und andere Erzählungen. Coesfeld: Elsinor Verlag, 2021. 7-26. Print.
Paola Mayer and Rüdiger Mueller, eds. Alexander M. Frey: Der Mensch und andere Erzählungen. Coesfeld: Elsinor Verlag, 2021. 320 pp. Print.
Paola Mayer and Rüdiger Mueller. "Nachwort." Alexander M. Frey. Verteufeltes Theater. Ein Faust-Roman. Coesfeld: Elsinor Verlag, 2020. 196-203. Print.
Grit Liebscher, Rüdiger Mueller, and Philip Griffiths. "Internationalisation through Telecollaboration: A German/Canadian Experience." In Hildraud Casper-Hehne and Tanja Reiffenrath, eds. Internationalisierung der Curricula an Hochschulen. Konzepte, Initiativen, Maßnahmen. Bielefeld: Bertelsmann Verlag, 2017. 132-44. Print.
Paola Mayer, Helena Tomko, and Rüdiger Mueller, eds. "Satires of Dehumanization, 1918-45." Special Themed Issue, Oxford German Studies 46.1 (2017). 120 pp. Print.
Paola Mayer and Rüdiger Mueller. "Fascism and Dehumanization: Alexander Moritz Frey`s Political Tales." Oxford German Studies 46.1 (2017): 58-74. Print.
Andrea Speltz and Rüdiger Mueller. "Arbeiten, als sei nichts geschehen: Ideologies of Work in Wolfgang Staudte's 'Die Mörder sind unter uns.'" German as a Foreign Language 3 (2013). 81-106. Web.
"Manitou's Shoe/Der Schuh des Manitu." In Langford, Michelle, ed. Directory of World Cinema: Germany, vol. II. Bristol, UK: Intellect Ltd., 2013. 117-119. Print and web.
"The Desperado Trail/ Winnetou 3." In Directory of World Cinema: Germany, vol. II. 100-102. Print and web.
"Thunder at the Border/Winnetou und sein Freund Old Firehand." In Directory of World Cinema: Germany, vol. II. 106-108. Print and web.
"Das schreckliche Mädchen/The Nasty Girl." In Langford, Michelle, ed. Directory of World Cinema: Germany. U.K.: Intellect Ltd., 2011. 135-138. Print and web.
"Jakob der Lügner/Jacob the Liar." In Directory of World Cinema: Germany. 132-133. Print and web.
“DaF-Unterricht mit über 80 Lernern. Studie und Ergebnisse, 2000-2007.“ Forum Deutsch. Forschungsforum 17.1 (2009). 9-21. Web.
“Emilia as Libertine, Reassessing G.E. Lessing’s Emilia Galotti.” Neophilologus 90.1 (2006): 77-85. Print.
Sex, Love and Prostitution in Turn-of-the-Century German-Language Drama: A. Schnitzler’s Reigen, F. Wedekind’s Die Büchse der Pandora: Eine Monstretragoedie, and L. Thoma’s Moral and Magdalena. Frankfurt/M., Berlin, etc.: Lang, 2006. 174 pp. Print.
“Gegenwärtige Vergangenheit, Blick in die Zukunft: Katja Lange-Müllers ‘Vier Miniaturen, ‘September’.” Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German 38.2 (2005): 156-162. Print.

Awards and Honours

Central Student Association (CSA) Teaching Excellence Award, 2011-2012
UGFA Teaching Award for the College of Arts, 2006-2007
College of Arts Teaching Excellence Award, 2005-2006