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    Ruediger Mueller (he/him)

    Ruediger Mueller (he/him)

    Associate Dean Academic and Associate Professor

    College of Arts, School of Languages and Literatures

    mueller@uoguelph.ca
    (519) 824-4120, Ext. 54388
    Office:MacKinnon Building, Room 128

    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