 Mark Looney - mark.looney@vanderbilt.edu
With a B.A. in German literature and language (with a minor in studio art) from Middle Tennessee State University I entered graduate studies at Vanderbilt in 2002 where I received my M.A. in 2004. In 2003 I developed an educational MOO (Multiple user Object-Oriented) Environment with Dr. Setje-Eilers as an on-line portion of GER 221 where undergraduates learn by communicating and playing with German language and culture in interactive, virtual space. This work integrates nicely with my duties as departmental webmaster with which I try to communicate the structure and - more importantly - the intellectual, creative and cultural environment that surrounds and permeates our department.
In 2004-5 I studied at the Freie Universität in Berlin and enjoyed the Hauptstadt's thick layers of culture and history, books and boulevards.
I recently passed my Ph. D. qualifying exams and am woking on my dissertation entitled "The Remediation of Terrorism in German Art and Literature." I'm examining critical artistic engagement of terrorism in works by Rainald Goetz, Elfriede Jelinek, and the painter Gerhard Richter.
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