The University of Winnipeg

Dr. Isabell Woelfel

Isabell WoelfelTitle:Contract Instructor of German Studies
Email:i.woelfel@uwinnipeg.ca

Biography:

Isabell teaches German language and culture at Memorial University of Newfoundland and at the University of Winnipeg. She holds an MA in German literature from the Heinrich-Heine University of Duesseldorf/Germany and a PhD from the University of Calgary.

Her research situates itself at the intersection of cultural studies, translation theory, and musicology. Herapproach builds on Brigid Cohen’suse of the “transnational” as a new category, which includes international connections, interrelations and collaborations as factors to be considered when investigating art history.The purpose of her interdisciplinary research is to examine what happens when aesthetic objects move from their place of origin to new places in the twentieth century.

Courses:

  • GERM-1001 (Introductory German)

Publications:

(selection):

Woelfel, Isabell. 2021. “Guiseppe Becce’s Film Score for Leni Riefenstahl’s FilmThe Blue Light: Cultural Interactions between Art Music Concepts and the Early Sound Film,” von Merveldt, Nikola and Andrea Speltz (eds.)Jahrbuch für Internationale Germanistik vol 141: From Far and Wide. German Studies in Canada.Frankfurt: Peter Lang.

Woelfel, Isabell, Maria Mayr and Shannon Lewis. 2021. “Mobilizing Knowledge on the East Coast Trail: Community-Engaged Learning for the Language Classrroom,” on Merveldt, Nikola and Andrea Speltz (eds.)Jahrbuch für Internationale Germanistik vol 141: From Far and Wide. German Studies in Canada.Frankfurt: Peter Lang.

Woelfel, Isabell. 2013. “A Review of Arnold Schoenberg's Style and Idea, 60th周年编辑ion,”Critical Voices. The University of Guelph Book Review Project SPECIAL ISSUE: Arnold Schoenberg (3) 1: 22-30.

Editing

“Arnold Schoenberg String Quartet #2, Op. 10. Notes to accompany the score.” Translated by Stacie Dunlop and David Williamson 2012, edited by Isabell Woelfel 2013, Universal Edition

http://www.universaledition.com/tl_files/flip/schoenberg/op-10-notes/files/basic-html/page1.html1-10.

Translation

Sallis, Friedemann. 2016. “Schaffensprozess,” Hiekel, Jörn Peter and Christian Utz (eds).Lexikon neue Music.Stuttgart: Metzler.

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