The Arizona Chapter

of the Fulbright Association

Mini-bio for David Chisholm  

David Chisholm has taught at the University of Hamburg, Indiana University, the University of Cincinnati, the University of Illinois, the University of Arizona and the German Summer School of the University of New Mexico. His teaching and research interests include German literary-political cabaret, interrelationships between music and German literature, German lyric poetry and linguistic approaches to literature; he has given lectures on these topics at various universities in the United States and Europe, most recently at the University of Leipzig. A former recipient of both Fulbright and Alexander von Humboldt fellowships for research in Germany, he currently serves on the board of directors of the Arizona chapter of the Fulbright Association and the national board of directors of the Alexander von Humboldt Association of America. Among his publications are books on Goethe's Knittelvers, verse concordances to the poetry of Conrad Ferdinand Meyer and to Goethe's Faust, and articles on German literary-political cabaret, music and German literature, and phonological and prosodic aspects of German and English poetry and prose. He has translated German poetry, prose and radio plays into English, and is a contributor to the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics and the Columbia Dictionary of Modern European Literature.

chisholm@u.arizona.edu

For more information visit:
http://www.u.arizona.edu/~chisholm/