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• PhD Princeton

• A scholar in cinema, literary and cultural theory, and women and gender studies, Dr. Kuzniar's research and teaching interests range from German Romanticism to German Cinema.

Books:

2006:

• Melancholia's Dog: Reflections on Our Animal Kinship. University of Chicago Press, October, 2006. Pp. 216.

2000:

• The Queer German Cinema. Stanford: Stanford University Press, Spring 2000. Pp.314.

Articles:

2011:

• "Where is the Animal after Posthumanism? Quivering Life in Sue Coe's Art." Forthcoming in a Special Issue of The New Centennial Review on "The Animal . . . in Theory". 21.2.
• "Precarious Sexualities: Queer Challenges to Psychoanalytic and Social Identity Categorization." Forthcoming in Clinical Encounters: Psychoanalytic Practice and Queer Theory. Ed. Noreen Giffney and Eve Watson. Karnac Press.  

2009:

• "Sublime Shame." Gay and Lesbian Quarterly 15.3 (2009): 501-14.

2008:

• “I Married My Dog": On Queer Canine Literature,” Queering the Non/Human, ed. Noreen Giffney and Myra Hird. Aldershot: Ashgate Press, 2008. 205-226.
• “The Post-Pop Hauntings of Bjørn Melhus.” After the Avant-Garde. Ed. Randall Halle and Reinhild Steingröver. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2008. 181-203.

2007:

• “The New Media Artist and the Matrix: Telemediation and the Virtual World of Bjørn Melhus.” The Cosmopolitan Screen: German Cinema and the Global Imaginary . 1945 to the Present. Ed. Stephan K. Schindler and Lutz Koepnick. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007. 269-85.
• “’It’s not often that I want a man’: Reading for a Queer Marlene.” Dietrich Icon, ed. Gerd Gemünden and Mary Desjardins. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007. 239-58.

Guest Lectures:

2010:

• "Romanticism and Homeopathy." University of Toronto.
• "The Unexamined Life Force of Homeopathy." NC German Studies Seminar and Workshop, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
• "Diasporic Queers: Reading for the Intersections of Alterities in Recent German Cinema." Brandeis University.

2007:

• "Shame, Creatureliness, and the Dogs of Kafka and Mann." University of Waterloo, March 2007, and University of California at Davis, May 2007.
• "Whose Melancholy? On the Muteness of Humans and Animals." Iowa State University, April 2006, University of Waterloo, March 2007, and University of California at Berkeley, May 2007.

• FINE/WM 262: Global Queer Cinema
• GER 359 / FINE 359 / WS 365: Lola, Lotte, and Lulu: The Woman of German Cinema
• GER 431: German Romantic Tales: Grim(m), Occult, Uncanny
• GER 620: Romantic Ecology
• GER 620 / ENG 785: Becoming Animal

2008:

• SPENCER, Thomas: Comparative Literature. "'Was ist Gott?' The Representation of the Divine in Friedrich Hölderlin and his Contemporaries.”

2006:

• MAINLAND, Catherine: German. “Dora and her sisters : control and rebellion in Hermann and Schnitzler.”

2005:

• WALLER WILSON, Ian: Comparative Literature. “Illegible deaths: narrative strategies in the contemporary novel of the undead.”

2004:

• HOFER, Stefanie: German. “Terror im Kino: Generationskonflikte im deutschen Terroristenfilm.”

2009-2010:

Lois Claxton Humanities and Social Sciences Research Fund Award.

1997-1998:

Humboldt Fellowship

Current Activities:

• Reader for multiple journals and presses.
• Tenure and Promotion Reviews for multiple universities.

1996-2000, 2003-present:

• Member, Editorial Board, German Quarterly

2004-08:

• Member and 2008 Chair of the MLA Executive Committee for the Division on Film.