Rebeccah "Bess" Dawson

Research Interests:
Sport in 20th and 21st century German literature
National Identity
Critical Theory
Pedagogy and Second Language Acquisition
German film
fairy tales
Education

Ph.D. Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

M.A., Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

B.A., German, Davidson College

 

Additional

Program Director, Kentucky Institute for International Studies (KIIS) Summer Program in Munich, Germany

Director, Global Studies Certificate

Co-Editor, Colloquia Germanica

Director of Undergraduate Studies, International Studies

Chair, UK-Heidelberg Exchange Scholarship Committee

Chair, Moran Scholarship Committee

Selected Publications:

“kanon kicken köpfen: Fascism’s Violent Victory in Ludwig Harig’s “Das Fußballspiel,” in Colloquia Germanica, Vol. 56, No. 1 (2023): 7-28.

Football Nation: The Playing Fields of German Politics, Society and History, eds. Rebeccah Dawson, Bastian Heinsohn, Oliver Knabe, and Alan McDougall. New York: Berghahn Books, 2022. (https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/DawsonFootball)

“Commodified, Corrupted and Capitalist: Combatting the Modern Athletic Machine in Melchior Vischer’s Football Players and Indians,” in Football Nation: The Playing Fields of German Politics, Society and History. Eds. Rebeccah Dawson, Bastian Heinsohn, Oliver Knabe and Alan McDougall. New York: Berghahn, 2022: 102-118.

“Soccer, Film, and the Third Reich: Hunters, Cowards, and Glory,” in Sport, Film and National Culture, ed. Seán Crosson. London: Routledge Publishing, 2021: 112-125.

“Das große Spiel,” Directory of World Cinema: Germany. Ed. Michelle Langford. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014: 62-63.

“Sport Film,” with Michelle Langford and Victoria Rizo Lenshyn. Directory of World Cinema: Germany. Ed. Michelle Langford. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014: 40-52.

“Quest for the Aryan Athlete: Riefenstahl and the Olympia-n Influence,” XIII Congress of the International Society for the History of Physical Education and Sport and XII Congress of the Brazilian Society for the History of Physical Education and Sport. Rio de Janeiro: Editora Gama Filho, 2014.

“‘Death is more heroic on the soccer field…’: The Cult of Athletics in Melchior Vischer’s Soccer Players and Indians,” in Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature XXVII:1, Fall 2009/Winter 2010: 1-21.