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JOHN B. LYON Department of German 1409 Cathedral of Learning University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA 15260 Phone: (412) 624-5839 ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT University of Pittsburgh Professor, Member of Graduate Faculty – Fall 2014-Present Associate Professor, Member of Graduate Faculty - Fall 2007-Present Assistant Professor, Member of Graduate Faculty - Fall 2000-Spring 2007 Carleton College Benedict Distinguished Visiting Professor – Fall 2015-Spring 2016 Colby College Faculty Fellow - Fall 1998-Spring 2000 Duke University Visiting Assistant Professor - Fall 1997-Spring 1998 Princeton University, Teaching Assistant / Lecturer - Fall 1992-Spring 1996 EDUCATION Princeton University, Germanic Languages and Literatures Ph.D. (1997) Dissertation: “Sie haben mich nach und nach verstümmelt”: The Wounded Body and the Literary Self in Works of Goethe, Hölderlin, and Büchner. Advisor: Professor Stanley Corngold M.A. (1992) Freie Universität Berlin, Institut für allgemeine und vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft Dissertation Research (1993-94) Carleton College, German B.A. magna cum laude (1990) PUBLICATIONS Books: Out of Place. German Realism, Displacement, and Modernity (Bloomsbury, 2013). [Reviewed in: German Quarterly (87.1, 2014), Pacific Coast Philology (49.1, 2014), Monatshefte (106.2, 2014)] Crafting Flesh, Crafting the Self: Violence and Identity in Early 19th Century German Literature (Bucknell University Press, 2006). [Reviewed in: Monatshefte (100.1, 2008), German Studies Review (31.1, 2008), Goethe Yearbook (15, 2008), German Quarterly (81.2, 2008)]
John B. Lyon 2 6/30/15 Published Scholarly Articles: “Mirrors of Urban Life: Realism and Naturalism.” (Article forthcoming in the Cambridge Companion to the Literature of Berlin) “Kleist’s ‘Bombenpost’: The Subject, Place, and Power.” (forthcoming, Colloquia Germanica) “Space and Place in Goethe’s ‘Alexis und Dora.’” Goethe Yearbook 21 (Spring 2013): 23-38. “’Ach!’: Kleist’s Unsettled Endings and Benjaminian Allegory.” in Heinrich von Kleist – Style and Concept: Explorations in Literary Dissonance. De Gruyter, 2013. 113-120. “Tactical Citation in Georg Büchner’s Leonce und Lena.” In Commitment and Compassion. Essays on Georg Büchner. Festschrift for Gerhard P. Knapp. Edited by Patrick Fortmann and Martha B. Helfer. Rodopi (Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik), 2012. 195-210. “German Realism’s Other: The Space of Modernity.” Realism’s Others. Ed. Geoffrey Baker and Eva Aldea. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010. 91-106. “Kleist’s Prinz Friedrich von Homburg and the Crisis of Masculinity.” The Germanic Review 83.2 (Spring 2008): 167-188. Reprinted in Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Vol. 222. Kathy D. Darrow, Project Editor. 285-294. Detroit: Gale Cengage Learning, 2010. “‘The Science of Sciences:’ Replication and Reproduction in Lavater’s Physiognomics.” EighteenthCentury Studies 40, no. 2 (Winter, 2007): 257-277. “Büchner and Theory: Never the Twain Shall Meet?” Georg Büchner: Neue Perspektiven zur internationalen Rezeption. Ed. Dieter Sevin. Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag, 2007. 219-230. “‘You Can Kill, but You Cannot Bring to Life’: Aesthetic Education and the Instrumentalization of Pain in Schiller and Hölderlin.” Literature and Medicine 24, no. 1 (Spring 2005): 31-50. “Mediation and Domination: Paternity, Violence, and Art in Brentano's Godwi,” in Literary Paternity, Literary Friendship. Essays in Honor of Stanley Corngold. Ed. Gerhard Richter. UNC Press, 2002, 123-135. “‘Was nemlich mehr sei, das Ganze oder das Einzelne’: Hölderlin’s Hyperion as an Unresolved Crisis,” German Life and Letters, vol. 51, no. 1 (January 1998), 1-14. “The Inevitability of Rhetorical Violence: Georg Büchner’s Danton’s Death,” Modern Language Studies, vol. 26, nos. 2 and 3 (Spring and Summer 1996), pages 99-110. Reprinted in Drama Criticism, Vol. 35, DC-35, August 2009, Gale Cengage Learning. Book Reviews: Brahim Moussa. Heterotopien im poetischen Realismus. Andere Räume, Andere Texte (Aiesthesis, 2012). (forthcoming, Monatshefte) Mattias Pirholt. Metamimesis. Imitation in Goethe’s Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre and Early German Romanticism (Camden House, 2012). (forthcoming, Goethe Yearbook) Daniela Bravin, Zeit und ihre Nutzung im Werk Georg Büchners (Aisthesis, 2012). Monatshefte. 106.1 (Spring 2014), 125-126. Christian Neuhuber. Georg Büchner. Das literarische Werk. (Erich Schmidt Verlag, 2009). / Roland Borgards and Harald Neumeyer, eds. Büchner-Handbuch. Leben – Werk – Wirkung (Metzler, 2009). Monatshefte 104.1 (Spring 2012), 125-128.
John B. Lyon 3 6/30/15 Works in Progress: “Wilhelm Raabe’s Stopfkuchen and the Globalization of Guilt.” (under review, German Quarterly) Geteilte Literatur. Momentaufnahmen aus dem Sommer 1989. (co-edited volume with Jörg Wesche. Interviews on cultural division conducted in the summer of 1989 by John Lyon with ten emigrated East-German Authors. Under review at MitteldeutscherVerlag). Co-Editor with Nicholas Rennie: Special issue of Goethe Yearbook: “The Aesthetics of Space in the Age of Goethe” Co-Editor with Laura Deiulio: Joint Ventures: Collaboration Across Gender Lines, 1750-1850. Edited Volume on Literary Collaborations between men and women. Camden House has expressed interest. Monograph on the European Adultery Novel and the Nation. Chapters on Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, and Fontane’s Effi Briest Other Articles: “Displacement in Industrial Berlin.” Article in the University of Pittsburgh Center for West European Studies newsletter, September 2005. Co-Author of Committee Report: “Professionalization in Perspective. MLA Ad Hoc Committee on the Professionalization of PhDs.” Profession 2002, pages 187-210. INVITED LECTURES / PRESENTATIONS “Georg Büchner and George Sand – Influence, Resonance, or Convention?” Wanted? Georg Büchner 1813–2013: Conference on the 200th Anniversary of the Author’s Birth. California State University, Long Beach (October 2013). “Bodies and Places,” Invited Presentation, Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures, University of Kansas (January 28, 2013) “Dynamic Places in 19th-Century Berlin: Fontane’s Irrungen Wirrungen” Invited Lecture, Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics (German Division), Florida State University (April 13, 2012) “The Science of Sciences: Replication and Reproduction in Lavater’s Physiognomics,” Invited Lecture from the “Interacting With Print” research group at McGill University, Montreal (March 27, 2008) “Violence and the Tenacity of the Self: 'Ich bin etwas, das ist der Jammer!' (Büchner's Dantons Tod),” Invited Lecture, Department of German, University of Wisconsin, Madison (March, 2003). “Goethe, Hölderlin, and the Crisis of Cultural Identity,” Invited Lecture, Goethe Society Convention, Toronto (November 1999). “Wounded Autonomy in Büchner’s Danton’s Death,” Invited Lecture, Duke University (March 1998). CONFERENCES AND PRESENTATIONS “Adultery and Transnationalism in Fontane’s Effi Briest.” German Studies Association Conference (October 2015). “German Romantic Europeanism: Union or Diversity?” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference (March, 2015). “The Direction of the Subterranean in Novalis’ Heinrich von Ofterdingen.” Goethe Society of North
John B. Lyon 4 6/30/15 America Conference, Pittsburgh (October, 2014). “Joint Ventures: Male and Female Intellectual Interactions (1750-1850).” Panel co-organizer (with Laura Deiulio), 2-panel series associated with the Kinship and Family Network of the German Studies Association (October, 2014). “The Poetics of Space in the Goethezeit.” Panel co-organizer (with Elliott Schreiber), 3-panel series sponsored by the Goethe Society of North America, German Studies Association (October, 2014). Respondent for Panel: “The Poetics of Space in the Goethezeit (1): Political Spaces.” German Studies Association (October, 2014). “Romantic Europeanism: German Romanticism.” European Cultural Dis/Unification Workshop, University of Pittsburgh (February, 2014). “The Antinomy of Female Virtue in Gustav Freytag’s Soll und Haben.” German Studies Association (October, 2013). “Out of Place. Displacement, Modernism, and Prehistory in 19th Century Germany.” Humanities Center Colloquium, University of Pittsburgh (September, 2013). “Value, Surplus, and Realism in Raabe’s ‘Thekla’s Erbschaft.’” German Studies Association (September, 2012). “Kleist’s “Allerneuester Erziehungsplan” and the Unnaturalness of Change.” Atkins Goethe Conference—Goethe Society of North America, Chicago (November 2011). “Raabe’s Stopfkuchen and the Globalization of Guilt.” German Studies Association (September, 2011). Respondent for Panel: “No Rest for the Wicked (1): Guilt in the Long 19th Century.” German Studies Association (September, 2011). “The Violence of Allegory: Formal Ruptures in Kleist.” Constructive and Destructive Functions of Violence in the Work of Heinrich von Kleist.” University of Exeter, UK (July 2011). ““Ach!”: Kleist’s Unsettled Endings and Benjaminian Allegory.” Form — Violence — Meaning. Two Hundred Years Heinrich von Kleist. Vanderbilt University (April, 2011). “Space and Place in Goethe’s ‘Alexis und Dora.’” Modern Language Association (January, 2011). “Urban Reform and Place in Fontane’s Irrungen Wirrungen.” German Studies Association (October, 2010). Panel Co-organizer (with Rob McFarland): “Urban Reform and Literature in the Nineteenth Century.” German Studies Association (October, 2010). ““Doch uns ist gegeben auf keiner Stätte zu ruhn”: Wandering and Ruptured Consciousness in Hölderlin’s Hyperion.” German Studies Association (October, 2009). Respondent for Panel: “On the Move (3): Literary and Philosophical Perspectives on Traveling and Wandering in the Age of Goethe -- Varieties of Striving in Goethe.” German Studies Association (October, 2009). “The Dilemma of Place in German Realism: Raabe’s Akten des Vogelsangs.” Modern Language Association (December, 2008). “Defending Place: Raabe and the Metropolis.” German Studies Association (October, 2008). Panel Co-organizer (with Geoffrey Baker): “Realism, Modernity, and Place.” German Studies Association (October, 2008). “Enforcers of Masculinity: Writing Women and ‘Homotextuality’ in Kleist.” German Studies Association (October, 2007). Respondent for Panel: “Hölderlin as Virtual Traveler” German Studies Association (October, 2007).
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“Reading for Questions, Not Answers: How Do Mormons Read a 19th Century German Radical?” Mormon Scholars in the Humanities (March, 2007). “Realist Texts as Fictional Places: Displacement and Emplacement in German Realism.” German Studies Association (October, 2006). Respondent for Panel: “Goethe and the Nineteenth Century II.” German Studies Association (October, 2006). Panel Co-organizer (with Clark Muenzer): “Goethe and the Nineteenth Century I & II.” German Studies Association (October, 2006) “German Realism’s Other: The Space of Modernity.” American Comparative Literature Association (March, 2006). “Revolutions in High-Speed Communication: Kleist, Fontane, and the Telegraph.” German Studies Association (October, 2005). “Büchner and Theory: Never the Twain Shall Meet?” International Symposium on The Reception of Georg Buechner, Vanderbilt University (April 15-18, 2004). “Wounding and Healing in Hölderlin and Schiller,” NEMLA Conference, Pittsburgh (March 3-7 2004). “Towards a Critique of Violence in Kleist’s Der zerbrochne Krug,” German Studies Association (September, 2003). Respondent for Panel: “Goethe and the Specular.” German Studies Association (September, 2003). “Violence and the Tenacity of the Self: 'Ich bin etwas, das ist der Jammer!' (Buechner's Dantons Tod),” Invited Lecture, Department of German, University of Wisconsin, Madison (March, 2003). “‘Nur in den tiefen Narben meiner Wunden eine Heimath finden’: Eros, Trauma, and the Self in Brentano’s Godwi,” Departmental Lecture Series, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh (January 2003). “Roundtable on the Report of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Professionalization of PhDs.” Panel CoOrganizer and Moderator (Panel arranged by the MLA Ad Hoc Committee on the Professionalization of PhDs. Modern Language Association Convention (December 2002). “Fictional Transgression in a Fictional Metropolis: Fontane’s Irrungen Wirrungen.” German Studies Association (October, 2002). “Sex and the City in the Imperial Period.” Panel Organizer. German Studies Association (October, 2002). Respondent for Panel: “Hölderlin and the Political.” German Studies Association (October, 2002). “‘It’s the Economy, Stupid!’: The Critique of the Enlightenment in Lenz’s ‘Zerbin oder die neuere Philosophie.’” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (April 2002). “From Alchemy to Ecology: Reevaluating the Goethean Idea of Nature.” Panel Organizer and Chair (Panel sponsored by the Goethe Society of North America). American Society for EighteenthCentury Studies (April 2002). “How I Got My Job.” Panel Organizer and Chair (Panel sponsored by the MLA Committee on the Professionalization of Graduate Students). Modern Language Association Convention (December 2001). “Suicide in Goethe’s Werther: Moral Choice, Mimesis, or Aesthetic Self-Fashioning?” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (April 2001). “Deutsch üben im Internet.” Faculty symposium on Teaching and Technology, Bates College (May 2000).
John B. Lyon 6 6/30/15 “Lavater’s Physiognomy: Reproducing Bodies, Reproducing Culture.” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (April 2000). “German Culture on the Web: Internet Based Communicative Exercises for College and High School Students.” Foreign Language Association of Maine, Portland ME (March 2000). “Goethe, Hölderlin, and the Crisis of Cultural Identity,” Invited Lecture, Goethe Society Convention, Toronto (November 1999). “Goethe, Hölderlin, and the Task of German Culture: Effacing or Redeeming a National Character?” German Studies Association (October 1999). “Enlightened or Obedient Soldiers? Kleist’s Prince Frederick of Homburg and Kant’s ‘What is Enlightenment?’” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (April 1999). “‘Töten könnt ihr, aber nicht lebendig machen’: Literalizing the Rhetoric of Dissection in Schiller and Hölderlin,” German Studies Association (October 1998). Respondent for Panel: “Literature, Critique, and 19th Century Cultural Studies,” German Studies Association (October 1998). “From Institutional Violence to Self-Injury: J.M.R. Lenz's Der Hofmeister,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (April 1998). “Wounded Autonomy in Büchner’s Danton’s Death,” Invited Lecture, Duke University (March 1998). “Desiring Mothers: German Romanticism and the Regulation of Female Desire,” Modern Language Association (December 1997). Respondent for Panel: “Another Enlightenment: Dialectics, Culture, and the Body,” German Studies Association (September 1997). “High Speed Communication Breakdown: Kleist’s ‘Entwurf einer Bombenpost,’” Pennsylvania Foreign Languages Conference (September 1997). “The Inevitability of Rhetorical Violence: Georg Büchner’s Danton’s Death,” NEMLA Conference (April 1996). REVIEWS FOR THE PROFESSION Article (on Local-Color Literature) for PMLA – Spring 2015 Article (on art in Keller’s Der grüne Heinrich) for German Studies Review – Fall 2014 Outside Grant reviewer for University of Montana, Scholarship and Creativity Grants for the Advancement of the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences – Spring 2014, 2015 Outside Grant reviewer for Innovational Research Incentives grant from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research – Spring 2014 Article (on Goethe and economics) for Goethe Yearbook – Fall 2012 Article (on Kant and the Novel) for Seminar – Fall 2012 External Department Review, Carleton College, January 2012 Introductory German Textbook review for Cengage/Gale, 2011-present Article (on Goethe, Jean Paul, and Kleist) for Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture – Fall 2009 Article (on Kleist) for PMLA – Spring 2009 Tenure Dossier Review for University of Missouri, Kansas City – Summer 2008 COURSES TAUGHT University of Pittsburgh, Fall 2000-Present
John B. Lyon 7 6/30/15 “Indo-European Folktales,” Introductory Undergraduate Course (Spring, Fall 2001, Fall 2002, Spring, Fall 2003, Fall 2004, Fall 2005, Fall 2006, Fall 2008, Spring 2012, Spring 2014, Fall 2014) “The Body in German Culture,” Senior Capstone Seminar (Fall 2014) “Romanticism,” Graduate Seminar (Spring 2004, Spring 2010, Fall 2013) “19th Century German Realism,” Graduate Seminar (Fall 2004, Spring 2009, Spring 2013) “Intermediate German,” Undergraduate Language Course, Fall 2012 “Kleist and Büchner: Violence, Language, and Society in the Early 19th Century,“ Graduate Seminar (Spring 2007, Fall 2011) “Intellectual History (Aesthetics),” Graduate Seminar (Fall 2002, Spring 2006, Spring 2011) “Literature and Culture 1830-1890,” Junior/Senior Seminar (Spring 2002, Fall 2005, Fall 2010) “Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory,” Graduate Seminar (Fall 2009) “Introduction to Literary Analysis,” Undergraduate Seminar (Fall 2006, Fall 2008) “Structures of the German Language,” Advanced German Grammar (Spring 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007) “Romanticism,” Advanced Undergraduate Seminar (Fall 2003) “Romanticism (Romantic Outsiders),” Graduate Seminar (Fall 2001) “19th Century German Literature,” Graduate Seminar (Fall 2000) “Topics in German Prose,” Junior/Senior Seminar (Fall 2000) University of Augsburg, Summer 2003 “Kleist und Büchner: Gewalt, Sprache und Gesellschaft im frühen 19. Jahrhundert,” Compact Seminar for advanced undergraduates at the University of Augsburg. Colby College, Fall 1998-Spring 2000 “Romanticism: The Absolute in the Fragment,” Senior Seminar (Spring 2000). “Romantic Outsiders: Hölderlin, Kleist, and Büchner,” Independent Study (Fall 1999). “The Crisis of Modernity: The Assault on Identity,” Early 20th Century German Culture in Translation (January 1999). “Intermediate German” (1998-2000). Duke University, Fall 1997-Spring 1998 “Romantic Outsiders: Representations of Violence in Hölderlin, Kleist and Büchner,” Graduate Seminar (Spring 1998). “Post-War German Identity,” Sixth Semester German (Fall 1997). “German Composition and Conversation,” Fifth Semester German (1997-98). Princeton University, Fall 1992-Spring 1996 “European Short Fiction,” Freshman Literature and Writing (Spring 1996). “Intermediate German” (1995-96). “German for Reading Knowledge,” Graduate Summer Language Course (1995, 1996). “Forms of Short Fiction,” Upper-Division Comparative Literature (Fall 1994, Fall 1995). “Introductory German” (1992-93).
John B. Lyon 8 6/30/15 PH.D. STUDENTS SUPERVISED Holly Yanacek, PhD student (Fall 2013-present), Dissertation on Emotion in turn of the century literature. Dissertation Prospectus defended Fall of 2013. Kevin Bilicke, Ph.D. student (Spring 2003-2012), Dissertation on Bildung and Becoming in, Hölderlin, Schlegel, and Novalis. Dissertation Prospectus defended Fall of 2006. Enrollment terminated Fall 2012. M.A. STUDENTS SUPERVISED Laura Caton (Spring 2013), Thesis on Gender and Identity in Heinrich von Kleist’s Amphitryon. Holly Yanacek (Spring 2012), Thesis on Georg Büchner, theories of “Mitleid,” and the emerging field of psychiatry. Tilman Heueis (co-supervised with Lucy Fischer of Film Studies, completed Spring 2010), Thesis on Fritz Lang’s Film, Die Frau im Mond. Kelly Keslar (completed Spring 2009), Thesis on Herder, Language, and the Body. Maureen Minder (completed Spring 2006), Thesis titled “Displacement and Trauma in Jurek Becker’s Bronsteins Kinder” SERVICE ON THESIS COMMITTEES Ljudmila Bilkic (2014-present), dissertation committee member (Primary Advisor: Professor Randall Halle). Dissertation on Migrants and “Texture-Space” in contemporary German visual media. Martina Wells (2011-present), dissertation committee member (Primary Advisor: Professor Sabine von Dirke). “’Schreiben was hier war.’ Beyond The Holocaust-Paradigm: (Re)Positionings Of Jewish Self-Identity In German-Jewish Narratives Past And Present.” Dissertation successfully defended March 31, 2015. Gavin Hicks (2011-2014), dissertation committee member (Primary Advisor: Professor Randall Halle). “Soccer and Social Identity in Contemporary German Film and Media.” Dissertation successfully defended April 11, 2014. Katrin Mascha, (2011-2014), dissertation committee member (Primary Advisor: Professor Randall Halle). “Commemorating Communist East Germany in the Berlin Republic: Modes of Remembrance in Literature, Film, and Memorial Sites.” Dissertation successfully defended April 8, 2014. Normand Raymond (2011-2013), outside dissertation committee member (Primary Advisor: Professor Renate Blumenfeld-Konsinski, French & Italian). Dissertation on the Chanson de Roland. Dissertation successfully defended, September 20, 2013. Yvonne Franke (2009-2013), dissertation committee member (Primary Advisor: Professor Randall Halle). Dissertation titled: “The Genres of Europeanization – Moving Towards the New Heimatfilm.” Dissertation successfully defended, April 10, 2013. Donald Simpson (2011-2013), outside dissertation committee member (Primary Advisor: Kirk Savage, History of Art & Architecture). Dissertation titled: “Civic Center and Cultural Center: The Grouping of Public Buildings in Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and Detroit and the Emergence of the City Monumental in the Modern Metropolis.” Dissertation successfully defended, April 1, 2013. Boryana Dobreva (2007-2011), dissertation committee member (Primary Advisor: Professor Sabine von Dirke). Dissertation titled: “Subjectivity Regained? German-Language Writing from Eastern Europe and the Balkans Through an East-West Gaze.” Dissertation successfully defended, April 18, 2011.
John B. Lyon 9 6/30/15 Zsuzsa Horvath (2003-2009), dissertation committee member (Primary Advisor: Professor Clark Muenzer). Dissertation titled: “A Phenomenology of Reading. The Reader Figure in Goethe’s Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre, Ludwig Tieck’s Franz Sternbalds Wanderungen, and Friedrich von Hardenberg’s Heinrich von Ofterdingen.” Dissertation successfully defended, October 2, 2009. Uwe Schumacher (2003- 2008), dissertation committee member (Primary Advisor: Professor Sabine von Dirke). Dissertation titled: “Die Funktion des deutschen Gegenwartsromans.” Dissertation successfully defended, April 18, 2008. Irina Makoveeva, (2004-2007), outside reader for dissertation (Primary Advisor: Prfessor Helena Goscillo, Slavic Department). Dissertation titled: “Visualizing Anna Karenina.” Dissertation successfully defended April 30, 2007. Julia Houkum (Fall 2002), outside reader for dissertation (Primary Advisor: Professor Helena Goscillo, Slavic Department). Candidacy under Professor Goscillo discontinued in Fall of 2002. ACADEMIC HONORS, GRANTS, AND FELLOWSHIPS Global Studies International Travel Grant (2010-2011) Center for Western European Studies/European Union Center Small Grant (2005) John B. Bowman Faculty Grant (2004-2005) Students’ Choice (Teaching) Award, College of General Studies, University of Pittsburgh (2004) Third Term Research Grant from the University of Pittsburgh (2002) Mellon Grant from Colby/Bates/Bowdoin (CBB) Consortium for development of internet-based cultural activities (1999) DAAD Grant for Research and Study in Berlin (Freie Universität) (1993-94) Max Kade Foundation Travel Grant (1992) Princeton Council on Regional Studies Grant for Summer Latin Study (1991) Phi Beta Kappa (1990) Dana Award for Personal Achievement (1990) Richter Fellowship for Summer Research in Germany (1989) PROFESSIONAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIVITIES German Department Department Chair (May 2009-present) Director of Graduate Studies for the German Department (2008-2009, 2014-2015) Departmental Webmaster, University of Pittsburgh (2000-present) - Website won awards from the CASE foundation and the IABC (2004) Departmental Library Liaison, University of Pittsburgh (2000-2002, 2009-2010) Departmental Liaison to the Center for Instructional Design and Distance Education (CIDDE) (2003present) Director of Undergraduate Studies for the German Department (2005-2007) Departmental Representative for Study-Abroad Programs (2002-present) Faculty Advisor to Undergraduate Minors in German and German Certificate Students (2002-2005) Faculty Advisor to German Club, University of Pittsburgh (2001-2002) Departmental Library Liaison, University of Pittsburgh (2000-2002)
John B. Lyon 10 6/30/15 Departmental Library Liaison, Colby College (1999-2000) Departmental Textbook Reassessment Committee, Colby College (1998-99) Developed and led Writing-in-Progress Workshop for graduate students, Princeton (1994-96) Conducted weekly German table, Princeton (1992-93, 1995-96) Graduate Student Union Representative for German Department, Princeton (1992-93) Summer Internship at Rowohlt Publishing House, Reinbek bei Hamburg (1992) Graduate Student Departmental Representative, Princeton (1991-92) Organized and led graduate Theory Colloquium in German Department, Princeton (1990-91) University of Pittsburgh Member of Dietrich School Postdoctoral Fellow selection committee, Spring 2015 Member of Advisory Board, European Union Center of Excellence/European Studies Center, 20132015 Member of review committee for UCIS Global Studies faculty research and travel grants (Spring 2012, Spring 2014) Member of tenure appeal review committee (Fall 2012, Spring 2013) Member of tenure review committee (Fall 2012) Member of tenure review committee (Fall 2011) Departmental Representative to Arts & Sciences Tenure Council (Fall 2011-Spring 2012) Member of Faculty Assembly (2008-2009, 2011-2014) Member of Faculty Senate (2012-2014) Member of New Chairs Orientation Planning Committee (Fall 2011) Member of internal review committee for NEH Summer Stipends (August 2011) Member of Department Chairs Retreat Planning Committee (2010) Member of the Provost Humanities Fellowship Selection Committee (2010) Co-Chair of University Senate Admissions and Student Aid Committee (2008-2009) Member of University Senate Admissions and Student Aid Committee (2006-2009) Member of Foreign Language & Area Studies Fellowship Committee (2006-2007) Language Advisor to language trailers for History and Political Science Courses, sponsored by the Center for Western European Studies (2004-present) Member of Study Abroad Affairs Committee (2000-2001) Profession Co-Host and Planner, ADE/ADFL Chairs’ Seminar for Pittsburgh (Summer 2013) Chair, German Studies Association DAAD Article Prize Committee (2011) Secretary-Treasurer for the Goethe Society of North America (2005-2009) MLA ad hoc Committee on the Professionalization of Graduate Students, Modern Language Association (2000-2002) PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS American Comparative Literature Association American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
John B. Lyon 11 6/30/15 German Studies Association Goethe Society of North America Modern Language Association Mormon Scholars in the Humanities