Carol Diethe’s CV
Carol Diethe’s CV
EDUCATION:
Macclesfield Grammar School for Girls; Geneva, Heidelberg and London Universities
Qualifications:
London University External, BA Hons German and French 1965
London University, Institute of Education, Postgraduate Certificate in Education 1970
London University Westfield College, MA German Literature 1971
London University Goldsmiths College, PhD 1987.
PROFESSIONAL POSITION:
Linguist (German and French) at Middlesex University, Hendon Campus 1972-8; subsequently Reader in History of Ideas, All Saints Campus, White Hart Lane, Tottenham, N17 8HR, 1978-1998.
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY
Founding member of UK Friedrich Nietzsche Society, 1989; first executive secretary, 1989-1993; treasurer 1993-1996; UK editor of Journal of Nietzsche Studies, organ of the Friedrich Nietzsche Society, 2004-8.
BOOKS
Willing Workers and Other Stories, Ibadan, OUP, 1970 (School text book (stories): many times reprinted and still in print), ISBN 0 19575171X, pp. 90.
Aspects of Distorted Sexual Attitudes in German Expressionist Drama, New York etc, Peter Lang, 1988 (PhD Thesis), ISBN 0-824-0893-X, pp. 283.
Nietzsche’s Women: Beyond the Whip, Berlin, de Gruyter, 1996, ISBN 3-
11-014819-6 (hardback), 3-11—014820-X (paperback), pp. 178.
Nietzsches Frauen: Vergiß die Peitsche, Hamburg, Europa, 2000, ISBN 3-203-76029-0, pp. 222. (Translation of Nietzsche’s Women, 1996)
Towards Emancipation: German Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century, Oxford, Berghahn, 1998, ISBN 1-57181-932-0 (hardback),1-57181-933-0 (paperback), pp. 214.
Historical Dictionary of Nietzscheanism, Lanham and London, Scarecrow, 1999, ISBN 0-81008-3512-6, pp. 263. Second edition 2007. Revised and enlarged as The A to Z of Nietzscheanism, 2010, pp. 358.
The Life and Work of Germany’s Founding Feminist, Louise Otto-Peters, Edwin Mellen, Lampeter, 2002, ISBN0-7734-7048-4, pp. 212.
Nietzsches Schwester und der Wille zur Macht: Die Biographie von Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche, Hamburg, Europa, 2001, ISBN 3-203-776030-4, pp. 271.
Nietzsche’s Sister and the Will to Power, Illinois, Illinois University Press, 2003, ISBN 0-252-02826-0, pp. 211. Paperback 2006.
Historical Dictionary of Nietzscheanism, Lanham, Boulder, New York, Toronto, Plymouth UK, 2014, ISBN 978-0-8108-8031-3, Third Edition, pp. 431
TRANSLATIONS
On the Genealogy of Morality by Friedrich Nietzsche, ed. Keith Ansell-Pearson, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994, ISBN 0-521 40459-2 ISBN 0-521-40610-2 (paperback), pp. 208; revised student edition 2007.
Mafarka the Futurist by F. T. Marinetti, London, Middlesex University Press, 1996, ISBN 1-898253-10-2, pp. 206.
The late works of Friedrich Nietzsche: The Case of Wagner; Twilight of the Idols; The Anti-Christian; Ecce Homo; Dionysus-Dithyrambs; Nietzsche contra Wagner, Vol 8 of The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche, Stanford University Press, forthcoming 2012-13.
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS/ ARTICLES IN JOURNALS
“Expressionism and Lawrence’s Women in Love” in Gedenkschrift for Victor Poznanski, ed. CAM Noble, Bern etc, Peter Lang, 1981, pp. 147-57.
“Distorted Sexuality in Wedekind’s Theme of ‘Sinnenliebe’” in Expressionism in Focus, ed. Richard Sheppard, Blairgowrie: Lochee, 1987, pp. 47-55.
“Sex and the Superman: An Analysis of the Pornographic Content of Marinetti’s Mafarka the Futurist”, in Perspectives on Pornography, ed. Gary Day and Clive Bloom, Macmillan, Basingstoke, 1988, pp. 159-74.
“Nietzsche and the Woman Question”, History of European Ideas, vol 11, 1989, 865-76.
“The Dance Theme in German Modernism”, German Life and Letters, vol 44, no 4, July 1992, 300-52.
“Nietzsche and Nationalism”, History of European Ideas, vol. 14, no 2, 1992, 227-34.
“Nietzsche and the Contemporary Writer”, History of European Ideas, vol 20, nos 1-3, 1993, 135-39.
“Lou Andreas-Salomé and Female Sexuality” in German Women Writers 1900-1933, ed. Brian Keith-Smith, New York etc, Edwin Mellen, 1993, pp. 23-40.
“Bettina von Arnim and the ‘Ewig-Kindliche’”, Women Writers of the Age of Goethe, VI, ed. Margaret Ives, Lancaster University Occasional Papers of the Modern Languages Dept., 1994, pp. 3-19.
“Beauty and the Beast”: An Investigation into the Role and Function of Women in German Expressionist Film”, in Visions of the Neue Frau, eds. Shearer West and Marsha Meskimmon, Aldershot, Scolar Press, 1995, pp. 8-23.
“Nietzsche and the New Woman” in German Life and Letters: Nietzsche at Egham, ed. Carol Diethe, vol 48, no 4, October 1995, 428-440. ISSN 0016-8777.
“Nietzsche and the early German feminists”, in Journal of Nietzsche Studies: Nietzsche and Women, ed. Carol Diethe, Autumn 1997, 69-77, ISSN 0968-8005.
“Else Lasker-Schüler” in Dictionary of Women Artists, London, Fitzroy Dearborn, 1997, 2 vols, II, pp. 826-28.
“Lou Salomé’s Interpretation of Nietzsche’s Religiosity”, The Journal of Nietzsche Studies, 19, 2000, 80-88. (Published article of the paper read at the FNS conference, “Nietzsche and Religion”, University of Greenwich, 1998.)
“Frauen” in Nietzsche Handbuch: Leben-Werk-Wirkung, ed. Henning Ottmann, Stuttgart, Metzler, 2000, pp. 50-56.
“Übermensch not Übermann: Nietzsche’s Rôle in Women’s Identity Formation in Wilhelmine Literary Life”, in Intellectuals, Identities and Popular Movements, ed Clive Hill, London, Middlesex University Press, 2000, pp. 214-238.
“Anxious Spaces in German Expressionist Films”, in Spaces in European Cinema ed. Myrto Konstantarakos, Trowbridge, Intellect, 2000, pp. 52-63.
“Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche und die Frauen ihrer Zeit”, Widersprüche zur frühen Nietzsche-Rezeption, eds. Andreas Schirmer and Rüdiger Schmidt, Weimar, Böhlau, 2000, pp. 152-165.
“Die Bedeutung der Französischen Revolution für Mary Wollstonecraft in Leben und Werk,” in Menschenrechte sind auch Frauenrechte, ed. Ilse Nagelschmidt and others, Leipzig, Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2002, pp. 79-89. (Published article of paper read at the conference on Olympe de Gouges, Leipzig University, 8 May 2001.)
“Nietzsche Emasculated: Postmodern Readings”, in Ecce Opus – Nietzsche-Revisionen im 20. Jahrhundert, eds. Rüdiger Görner and Duncan Large, Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2003, pp. 51-63. (Published article of paper read at the Nietzsche Colloquium, Institute of Germanic Studies, London, September 2000.)
“Keeping Busy in the Waiting Room: German Writers in London Following the 1848 Revolution”, in Exiles from European Revolutions, eds. Sabine Freitag and Rudolf Muhs, Berghahn, Oxford, 2003, pp. 253-74. (Published article of paper read at the conference on Flotsam of Revolution: European Exiles in England after 1849, which was held at the German Historical Institute in London in July 1999.)
“Nietzsche and the Blue Stockings” in Nietzsche and the Austrian Culture, ed. Jacob Golomb, Vienna, Facultas, 2004, pp. 61-91. (Published article of paper read at the conference on Nietzsche and the Viennese fin de siècle, Vienna University, June 2002.)
“Jenseits des Melodramas: Frauenthemen in Louise Ottos Romanen”, in Louise Otto-Peters Jahrbuch 1, eds. Johanna Ludwig and others, Beucha, Sax Verlag, 2004, p. 147-51. (Published article of paper read at the 7th Louise Otto-Peters congress in Leipzig, 1999.)
“England und Louise Otto-Peters’ Schloß und Fabrik: Ähnlichkeiten und Kontraste”, in Louise Otto-Peters Jahrbuch 1, eds. Johanna Ludwig and others, Beucha, Sax Verlag, 2004, p. 171-78. (Published article of paper read at the 6th Louise Otto-Peters congress in Leipzig, 1998.)
“Lélia und George Sands Haltung zum Feminismus,” in George Sand und Louise Otto-Peters: Wegbereiterinnen der Frauenemanzipation, ed. Johanna Ludwig and others, Leipzig, Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2005, pp. 57-83. (Published article of paper read at the George Sand International Conference, University of Leipzig, April 2004.)
“A New Look at Georg Kaiser’s Women”, in Georg Kaiser and Modernity, ed. Frank Krause, V&R Unipress, Göttingen, 2005, pp. 29-47. (Published article of paper read at the Georg Kaiser workshop, London University [Goldsmith’s College], 5 December 2003.)
“Nietzschean Sexual Ethics”, in Nietzsche and Ethics, ed. Gudrun von Tavenar, Peter Lang, Bern, 2007, pp. 29-27. (Published article of paper read at the FNS conference on Nietzsche and Ethics, University of Sussex, September 2004.)
“Gewalt gegen Frauen im 19 Jahrhundert in der Frauenliteratur Großbritanniens” in Louiseum 26, ed. Johanna Ludwig, Louise Otto-Peters Society, Leipzig, 2007, pp. 40-49. (Published article of paper read at the 14th Louis Otto-Peters congress Leipzig, October 2006.)
The entries “EFN” (alias Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche), p.78f; “Ehe” p. 83; “Förster, Bernhard” p. 99 and “Frauen” p. 100f, in Nietzsche-Lexikon, ed. Christian Niemeyer, WBG, Darmstadt, 2009.
“Frauen” in Nietzsche Handbuch: Leben-Werk-Wirkung, ed. Henning Ottmann, Stuttgart, Metzler, 2011, pp. 50-56, 2nd edition.
“Twilight of the Idols” in A companion to Friedrich Nietzsche, ed. Paul Bishop, Camden House, New York, 2012, pp. 315-338.
TALKS AND GUEST LECTURES
BBC Interview Woman’s Hour “Nietzsche and Women”, 26 November 1996.
“Nietzsche und die Frauen”, paper read at the Hamburg Catholic University, August 2000.
“Nietzsches Frau der Zukunft”, paper read at the International Nietzsche Conference, Naumburg, August 2000.
“Nietzsche and Women’s Education”, paper read at the Annual Conference of the FNS, Durham, September 2000.
“Rebellion im Bauernsohn”, paper read at the Louise Otto-Peters congress, Leipzig, November 2000.
Readings from Nietzsches Frauen: Friends of the Goethe-Gesellschaft, Weimar, 9 November 2000, Helene Stöcker Gesellschaft, Berlin, 12 November 2000; Rosa Luxemburg Gesellschaft, Leipzig, 20 November 2000, Halle Frauengruppe, Halle, 22 November 2000
Readings from Nietzsches Schwester und der Wille zur Macht, Friends of the Goethe-Gesellschaft, Weimar 11 April 2002, Frauenbibliothek Mona Lisa, Leipzig 16 April 2002, Brechthaus Berlin, 23 April 2002.
“Wechselwirkungen im Englischen und Deutschen Feminismus”, paper read at the Verband deutscher Stadtbürgerinnen, Berlin, 3 September 2004.
“Nietzsche’s Sister”, paper read at the German Research seminar at Edinburgh University German Department, 6 October 2006.
“Rhubarb! Rhubarb! Or, Lost in Translation”, paper read at the centenary conference of Nietzsche’s Ecce Homo (pub. 1908), Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 27-28 November 2008.
How the Light Gets In: “Beyond Good and Evil”. Simon May, Anthony O’Hear and Carol Diethe, Panel discussion on Nietzsche’s influence today, chaired by Julien Baggini at the Hay on Wye Festival, 28 May 2011.
“Ein beschränkter Umgang mit Frauen: Nietzsche’s Leipziger Jahre,” Louise Otto-Peters Congress, Leipzig, November 2012.
“Strenge Methodik: Nietzsches Leipziger Philologiestudien,” Rosa Luxemburg Gesellschaft, Leipzig, November 2012.
Review of Frauke Mahrt-Thomsen's Bona Peiser for the journal Society, Information and Justice, forthcoming 2013.
