Professor of German
Fields of Interest
Biography
Ph.D. in German Literature, University of California at Irvine, 1995
Dr.Phil. in German Philology and History, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Austria, 1988
M.A. in German, University of Colorado at Boulder, 1987
Curriculum Vitae
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Research
Selected Research
- Birthe Hoffmann, Brigitte Prutti; Franz Grillparzer, Neue Lektüren und Perspektiven; A. Francke Verlag, 2022
- Prutti, Brigitte: Franz Grillparzer: Porträts des Dichters als alter Mann - AISTHESIS VERLAG Download PDF
- Brigitte Prutti. „#MeToo: Don Cäsar und Lukrezia. Kollateralschäden in Grillparzers Bruderzwist in Habsburg.“ In: Philologie im Netz 90 (2020), pp. 35-86. Download PDF
- Terrasi, S. Kye and Andre Schütze. "EIne Psychogeographie des Verlustes: Wien in Heimito von Doderers Roman Die Strudlhofstiege." Brigitte Prutti. Guest editor/Editorial of literatur für leser 17: 3. Themed volume on Literarisches Wien/Literary Vienna.
- Brigitte Prutti. „Misanthropie und Monotonie. Zur Einsamkeit im Alter bei Stifter und Grillparzer. In: Einsamkeit und Pilgerschaft. Figurationen und Inszenierungen in der Romantik. Eds. Antje Arnold, Walter Pape and Norbert Wichard. Berlin: de Gruyter, 235-256.
- Brigitte Prutti. Autorschaft und Interieur: Garp und wie er Grillparzer sah.“ In: Jahrbuch der Grillparzer-Gesellschaft 27 (2017-2018): 150-181.
- Brigitte Prutti, Guest Editor, literatur für leser:innen, Peter Lang Verlag, JG. 42, H. 2 – Themenheft „Gegenwartsautor:innen“, Mit Beiträgen von Karin Bauer, Simone Pfleger, Julia K. Gruber, Olivia Albiero, Heidi Schlipphack, 2022. Download PDF
- Unglück und Zerstreuung: Autobiographisches Schreiben bei Franz Grillparzer, Aisthesis, Essay, Bd. 44, 2016
- Waldgänge und Waldgänger in Maja Haderlaps Roman Engel des Vergessens. In: Studia theodisca 21 (2014): 85-127.
- Naturtherapie und Subjektreflexion: Der hohe Norden bei Judith Hermann und Anna Kim. In: Arcadia: Internationale Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft / International Journal for Literary Studies 47:2 (2013): 421-446.
- Brigitte Prutti. Grillparzers Welttheater: Modernität und Tradition. Aisthesis Verlag: 2013.
- Brigitte Prutti. AISTHESIS Essay 34. Festzertrümmerungen: Thomas Bernhard und seine Preise. Aisthesis Verlag: 2012.
Research Advised
- Kristina Pilz. "Writing Across Margins: Contemporary Afro-German Literature." Diss.
- Olivia Albiero. "Moments of Rupture: Narratological Readings of Contemporary German Literature." Diss.
- Eric Scheufler. "Documents, Genealogies, Memories: Literary Models of Historiography in 19th Century German Historical Fiction." Diss., in progress.
- Gloria Man. "Writing the Enclave: Topographies of Difference in Contemporary German-language Prose." Diss., in progress.
Courses Taught
Winter 2025
Autumn 2024
Winter 2024
Autumn 2023
Spring 2023
Winter 2023
Autumn 2022
Spring 2022
Winter 2022
Autumn 2021
Spring 2021
Winter 2021
Affiliations
Home Department
Related News
Related News
- Study Abroad: Spring in Vienna and Summer in Berlin (October 25, 2023)
- STUDY ABROAD :: Spring in Vienna 2024 (September 19, 2023)
- Rachel Lundeen wins prestigious Lederman Endowed Scholarship (May 5, 2023)
- Cool Courses in Spring: Voices and Themes in Contemporary German Literature (February 16, 2023)
- Featured Courses - Winter 2023: Travel and Narration (November 1, 2022)
- New Faculty Publication by Brigitte Prutti: Franz Grillparzer, Neue Lektüren und Perspektiven (May 10, 2022)
- Cool Courses for Winter 2022 - Open to All Students (December 13, 2021)
- Cool Courses in English -- Spring 2021 (February 9, 2021)
- News from our Alums: Joshua Glassmyer (BA 2015) (November 4, 2020)
- Vienna on my mind (October 29, 2020)
- Congratulations to the Class of 2019-2020! (May 23, 2020)
- SAGA Internship: Warum kannst Du so gut Deutsch sprechen? (June 14, 2019)
- Departmental Convocation: Congratulations to the Class of 2018 - 2019! (June 14, 2019)
- Newly Minted PhD and 2017-18 Mellon Fellow for Reaching New Publics: Kristina Pilz (June 11, 2019)
- Rethinking Plant-Human Relationships in the Anthropocene: Meet our Alumna Heather Sullivan (PhD 1995) (June 10, 2019)
- Alum News: Ryan C. Maves, MD, Captain, Medical Corps, U.S. Navy, UW Germanics BA 1995 (June 5, 2019)
- Advocacy for German: Meet our Alum Morgan Koerner (PhD 2007) (May 29, 2019)
- German Internship Opportunity at the SAGA School (May 22, 2019)
- Winter 2019: German Studies in English (December 12, 2018)
- Spring 2018 UW Germanics Newsletter (March 14, 2018)
- Celebrating 500 Years of Reformation: Martin Luther as a Man of his Times and Our Contemporary (November 28, 2017)
- My Graduate Exchange Year in Seattle (Nina Doejen, Muenster) (November 21, 2017)
- Daniel Garratt, Double Major in Physics and German: Why it makes sense for STEM students to study German (October 10, 2017)
- Announcement: Hilde Bial-Neurath Endowed Fund in Germanics (July 25, 2017)
- Gothic Revivals: Grillparzer’s Ahnfrau is back … thanks to German 421! (June 19, 2017)
- News from our Graduate Students: PhD candidate Kristina Pilz (March 8, 2017)
- Congratulations to the class of 2015-2016! (June 16, 2016)
- New Faculty Publication by Brigitte Prutti: Unglück und Zerstreuung: Autobiographisches Schreiben bei Franz Grillparzer (March 7, 2016)
- McLean Prize for Excellence in German: Praewpetch (Pattie) Unakul (May 6, 2021)
- Congratulations to Sara Koeck: Germanics Student Ambassador Award (June 11, 2019)
- German Career Day in Seattle (December 13, 2018)
- News from our Graduate Students: PhD Candidate Kristina Pilz (March 12, 2018)
- Dance Lessons for Spring in Vienna 2018 (March 12, 2018)
- Spring 2018 Course Descriptions (January 23, 2018)
- Visiting Scholar Spotlight: Adam Paulsen (University of Southern Denmark) (December 12, 2017)
- Visiting Scholar Spotlight: Birthe Hoffmann (University of Copenhagen) (December 12, 2017)
- New MA in Pedagogy and Culture (December 7, 2017)
- Cross-Disciplinary Lectures in Germanics :: Winter and Spring Quarter 2017 (December 15, 2016)
- Career Coffeehouse at Denny Hall (December 12, 2016)
- Popular Study Abroad Program Enjoys Another Successful Spring Quarter in Vienna (September 4, 2015)
- Undergraduates present projects on "Divided Berlin and the Fall of the Berlin Wall" (November 26, 2014)
- Faculty News - Spring 2012 (June 15, 2012)