Dr. A. Dana Weber is an Associate Professor of German. She also serves as the Director of the German Basic Language program, the German program’s study-abroad adviser, and is a DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Research Ambassador at FSU. Dr. Weber was recognized with an FSU Developing Scholar Award (2023) and is one of the editors of the “Studies for the International Society for Cultural History” book series (Routledge). She teaches courses on German culture, literature, and film.

Research Interests

Performance, theatre, festival in contemporary German culture

Cultural transfers, hybridity, ethnic representation and mimicry in theatrical performance and cinema

Folklore and literature

Selected Courses Taught

Fairy-Tales and Society

Gender and Violence

German Fantasies of Native America

German Film and Conversation

German Food Culture

Advanced Composition

German Literature in Translation

Germanic Myths in Modern Culture

German Novellas of Realism

Heroes and Tricksters

Performances of Otherness

Selected Publications

Book

• Weber, A. Dana. Blood Brothers and Peace Pipes. Performing the Wild West in German Festivals. University of Wisconsin Press, 2019.

Edited Book

• Weber, A. Dana. FORMER NEIGHBORS, FUTURE ALLIES? German Studies and Ethnography in Dialogue. New York: Berghahn Books, 2023. https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/WeberFormer

• Weber, A. Dana, Wright-Cleveland, Margaret (Eds). Performativity – Life, Stage Screen. Reflections on a Transdisciplinary Concept. Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2018.

Articles

• “Reenacting Propaganda. Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds and the Anti-Nazi War Film.” In: Stephan Ehrig, Benjamin Schaper, and Elizabeth Ward (Eds.). Entertaining German Culture. Contemporary Transnational Television and Film. New York: Berghahn Books, 2023. 66-96.

• “ʻI almost pulled her to my heart, but…’ Conceptions of Masculinity in Karl May’s Wild West Fictions and their Contemporary Theatrical Adaptations.” In: Lahti, Janne. German and United States Colonialism in a Connected World. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave-MacMillan, 2021. 229-152.
• “From Glorious Nibelungs to Inglourious Basterds: Quentin Tarantino’s Refractive Retelling of Fritz Lang’s Epic Film.” German Studies Review 42/3, October 2019. 537-560.
• “East German Gothic: Kurt Maetzig’s The Rabbit Is Me (1965).” In: Jeffers McDonald, Tamar and Frances Kamm. The Gothic Heroine on Screen. New York: Routledge, 2019. 157–170.
• “The Eternal Return of the Author in the Multiplicity of Festival Times. In A. Dana Weber, Margaret E. Wright-Cleveland (Eds.), Performativity - Life, Stage, Screen. Reflections on a Transdisciplinary Concept. Berlin, Germany: LIT Verlag, 2018. 105-127.
• “Im Schacht des Textes. Diskursive Schichten in E.T.A. Hoffmanns ‘Die Bergwerke zu Falun.’” Seminar 54:1, February 2018. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2-22.
• “Vivifying the Uncanny: Ethnographic Mannequins and Exotic Performers in Nineteenth-Century German Exhibition Culture.” In Lehleiter, Christine (Ed.), Fact and Fiction. Literary and Scientific Cultures in Germany and Britain. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016. 298-331.
• “Of Handshakes and Dragons: Django’s German Cousins.” Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Django Unchained.’ The Continuation of Metacinema. Ed. Oliver Speck. New York: Bloomsbury, 2014. 51-73.