Joseph W. Moser

Joseph W. Moser
  • Professor of German
  • Department: Languages and Cultures
  • Research Cluster: Languages, Arts, Music & Performance
  • Institution: West Chester University of Pennsylvania
  • Email: JMoser2@wcupa.edu

Education

  • Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
  • M.A., Ohio State University
  • B.A., Hiram College

Research Interests

Austrian StudiesFilm StudiesHolocaust StudiesGerman LanguageLiteratureCultureJewish Cultural HistoryYiddish-speaking CentralEastern EuropeEnlightenment to the PresentHungarian StudiesUkraine

Opportunities

Work Study Positions Available: No

Grant Funded Positions Available: No

Course-Credit Research Opportunities Available: No

Volunteer Research Positions Available: No

Open to Faculty Mentoring: Yes

Biography

I am a German Professor interested in Austrian and German culture, literature, and film, as well as beyond the German language in Hungarian and Ukrainian Studies. I have published on topics in these areas, as well as in Holocaust Studies.

Contact Information

Phone: 610-436-0062

List of Publications

  • 2,001 Most Useful German Words. Dover Language Guides. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2012. Book Review Editor for the Journal of Austrian Studies Guest editor for Colloquia Germanica, Special edition on “Austrian and German Holocaust Memoirs,” edited by Laura Detre and Joseph W. Moser, Vol. 54.1, 2022. Guest editor for the Journal of Austrian Studies, Special Issue on "Czernowitz," edited by Leslie Morris and Joseph W. Moser. Vol. 53.3, Fall 2020. Guest editor for Colloquia Germanica, Special edition on “A Haunting Past in Austrian and German Literature and Film,” edited by Laura Detre and Joseph W. Moser, Vol. 48.3, 2015 [published December 2017]. Guest editor for Colloquia Germanica, Special edition on “German-language Crime Fiction,” edited by Anita McChesney and Joseph W. Moser, Vol. 46.2, 2013. [published February 2016]. Jonny Moser, Nisko: Die ersten Judendeportationen. Vienna: Steinbauer, 2012. “Czernowitz – An Outpost of Austrian Multinational Identity in the East of the Habsburg Monarchy.” In: ASA Tagungsband. U of Vienna Press. Forthcoming early 2023. “Jonny Moser (1925-2011)—An Early Historian of the Holocaust in Austria.” In: Contemporary Austrian Studies. Vol. 31. 2022: 217-227. “Jonny Moser’s Wallenbergs Laufbursche (2006): An Austrian Historian’s Personal Eyewitness Account of Surviving the Holocaust in Exile in Hungary.” In: Colloquia Germanica, Special edition on “Austrian and German Holocaust Memoirs,” Vol. 54.1, 2022: 83-95. "Ruth Beckermann’s Reckoning with Kurt Waldheim: Unzugehörig: Österreicher und Juden nach 1945 (1989) and Waldheims Walzer (2018)." In: Edinburgh German Yearbook. Vol. 14. 2021: 207-21. "The Architectural Memory of an Austrian-Jewish Utopia in Czernowitz." In: Journal of Austrian Studies, Special Issue on "Czernowitz," edited by Leslie Morris and Joseh W. Moser. 53.3. Fall 2020: 45-62. "Erinnerungen an die Vertreibung der Juden aus dem Burgenland und Exil in Ungarn in Jonny Mosers autobiographischen Aufzeichnungen." In: Lebensspuren. Autobiografik von Exil, Widerstand, Verfolgung und Lagererfahrung. Eds. Konstantin Kaiser, Irene Nawrocka, Corina Prochazka und Marianne Windsperger. Vienna: Theodor Kramer Gesellschaft Drava Verlag, 2020: 264-74. "TV-Dokumentationen und Zeitzeugen: Die Czernowitz Filme Volker Koepps." In: Terra Judaica. Eds. Andrei Corbea-Hoisie and Ion Lihaciu. Konstanz, Germany: Hartung-Gorre Verlag, 2020: 407-14. “Blurring Fiction with Reality: Robert Schindel’s comédie humaine of 1980s Vienna in Gebürtig and Der Kalte.” In: New Perspectives on Contemporary Austrian Literature and Culture. Ed. Katya Krylova. Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang Press, 2018: 373-91. “Der Blick von Außen – Czernowitz als westliche Kulturmetropole im Osten der Donaumonarchie.” In: Toposforschung im Lichte der U-topie: Literarische Er-öerterungen in/aus MittelOsteuropa. Eds. Andrei Corbea-Hoisie and Ion Lihaciu. Konstanz, Germany: Hartung-Gorre Verlag, 2017: 253-67. “Hauting Policework in Andreas Pittler's Bronstein Detective Series.” In: Colloquia Germanica, Special edition on “A Haunting Past in Austrian and German Literature and Film” Vol. 48.3, 2015 [published December 2017]: 219-28. “Detectives in a Criminal Regime: Krimis in Nazi Comedy Film.” In: Colloquia Germanica, Special edition on “German-language Crime Fiction,” Vol. 46.2, 2013. [published February 2016]: 154-62. "Österreichischer Gegenwartsroman." In: Text + Kritik. Special Volume "Österreichische Gegenwartsliteratur." September 2015: 129-139. "The Kafkaesque in Robert Schindel's Novel Gebürtig." In: Journal of the Kafka Society of America. vol. 35 and 36, 2011-12: 65-7. [published May 2014] "Vienna Imperial at Home and Abroad: The City as Film Myth in the 1930s and 1940s" and "Scene Reviews of Endstation (1935), Operette (1939), and Der Bockerer (1981)." In: World Film Locations: Vienna. Ed. Robert von Dassanowsky. Intellect Series, 2012: 8-9, 20-1, 34-5, and 80-81. "Picaresque characters in Lilian Faschinger's Vienna Passion." In: Modern Austrian Prose: Interpretations and Insights, vol II.Ed. Paul Dvorak. Ariadne Press, 2012: 249-65. "Franz Antel's Bockerer series: Constructing the Historical Myths of the Second Republic of Austria." In: New Austrian Film. Eds. Robert von Dassanowsky and Oliver Speck. Berghahn Books, 2011: 43-53.

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