Morgan Marcell Koerner, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of German

My research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of German Studies, Performance Studies, Media Studies, Second Language Pedagogy, and Performative Teaching, Learning, and Research. Areas: late 20th/early 21st century German theater and performance art, post-dramatic theater, avant-garde performance, drama and theater pedagogy, anti-racist pedagogies and racial literacy.

Education

Ph.D. in Germanics, University of Washington, 2007

B.A. in German with minors in English and Communications, University of Alabama, 1998

Courses Taught

German 100-300

GRMN 326: German Mediascapes

GRST 270: Trends in Contemporary Cinema

Project-and-peformance-based 400-level German courses that culminate in a final performance by the class

German 468: Beyond Drama: German Theater into the 21st Century

German 468: Avant-Garde! German Expressionism and Dadaism

German 468:Deutschland 1968! Protest and Performance in the 60s in Germany

German 468: Faust 2020: Goethe’s Faust in Performance

German 468: Justice Matters: Gerechtigkeit in German Literature, Theater, and Culture

Selected Publications

“Teaching Resistance to Narrative: Brecht’s Theater Praxis as a Response to Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s Das Leben der Anderen.” Die Unterrichtspraxis / Teaching German 49.2 (2016), 161-171.

"Beyond Drama: Postdramatic theater in upper level, performance-oriented foreign language, literature and culture courses." Scenario 8.2 (2014). 1-16.

“Beyond Media Critique: Performance and Pop-cultural Pleasures in Elfriede Jelinek and Frank Castorf’s Raststätte oder sie machens alle.” A Different Germany: Pop and the Negotiation of German Culture. Ed. Claude Desmarais. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014. 121-38.

“Literatur liberated from Wissenschaft: Writerly Approaches to Literature Across the German Undergraduate German Curriculum.” Traditions and Transitions. Curricula for German Studies. Eds. John L. Plews and Barbara Schmenk. Waterloo, Canada: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2013. 175-190.

"German Literature and Culture under Revue: Learner Autonomy and Creativity through the Theme-Based Theater Practicum." Die Unterrichtspraxis / Teaching German 45.1 (2012). 28-39.

“Subversions of the Medical Gaze: Disability and Media Parody in Christoph Schlingensief’s Freakstars 3000.” Cinema and Social Change in Germany and Austria. Eds. Gabi Mueller and James M. Skidmore. Waterloo, Canada: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2012. 59-75.

“Media Play: Intermedial Satire and Parodic Exploration in Elfriede Jelinek and Christoph Schlingensief’s Bambiland.” Christoph Schlingensief: Art without Borders. Eds. Tara Forrest and Anna Teresa Scheer. Bristol, UK: intellect, 2010. 153-68.

"Comic Metatheater and Language Learning: Performing Ludwig Tieck's Der gestiefelte Kater." German as a Foreign Language. 1 (2004): 73-83.

Honors and Awards

2022 AATG Center of Excellence Designation to the College of Charleston German Studies Program

2010: DAAD Summer Research Grant for the project “Creative Approaches to German Literature and Culture: Theatre Pedagogy and Creative Writing Across the College German Curriculum.”

Press and Media

German Studies Recognized as a Center of Excellence

Ponticuli - Episode 14 - Dr. Morgan Koerner and Virtual MetaTheater

German Theater Students Put on Live Show for Final Project

German-American Business Summit

Interview about 4th German-American Business Summit, College of Charleston