Catherine McNally

Highly motivated professional with a desire to take on new challenges. Strong work ethic, adaptability, and exceptional interpersonal skills. Adept at working effectively, unsupervised, and quickly mastering new skills.

• American Association of Teachers of German
• Coalition of Women in German
• German Studies Association
• Modern Language Association

• English, native
• German, near-native

• Crafting Witches: At the Intersection of Liberation and Exploitation, Edited Volume, De Gruyter, 03/01/25
• Writing Belonging: Germans and Refugee Narratives from 1945 to 2016, Manuscript, under review, Camden House Press
• Traumatic (Self) Exile: Narrative Marginalization in Recent and Postwar German Fiction., Journal Article, German Studies Review, 46.2, 05/01/23
• Franz-Joseph Wehage, Sammelsurium: A Reader and Workbook for Intermediate German, Book Review, Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 05/01/23

• 2023, (Ver)arbeiten: The Body as a Site of Mourning and Labor in Fatma Aydemir’s Dschinns, German Studies Association Annual Conference, Montreal, Canada
• 2022, Multimedia Medea: Ethnic Difference and Adaptation, German Studies Association Conference, Houston, TX
• 2021, Taking Leave and Taking Refuge: Narratives of Flight and Belonging in Contemporary German Literature, Food for Thought: New Directions in German Studies, German Studies Association Conference, Indianapolis, Indiana
• 2021, Literature as Medium of Positive Emotions, German Studies Association Conference, Indianapolis, Indiana
• 2021, Legacies of Victimhood in German Memory and Literature, Invited Talk, SUNY Albany Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures
• 2020, Haunted Landscapes of German Eastern Europe, Department of European Languages and Cultures, The University of Edinburgh
• 2020, (Re)Framing Migration, German Studies Association Annual Conference, Virtual
• 2018, Writing Global Crises: New Approaches to Reading Elfriede Jelinek, German Studies Association Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• 2017, Conceptions of Memory and Migration in Esther Dischereit’s Mit Eichmann an der Börse and Zafer Şenocak’s Atlas des Tropischen Deutschland, Minorities and Minority Discourses in Germany since 1990: Intersections, Interventions, Interpolations, Amherst, Massachusetts
• 2016, Fictionalizing Memory in Zafer Şenocak’s Gefährliche Verwandtschaft, Fresh Perspectives on the Newest German Literature, NeMLA Hartford, Connecticut
• 2013, Maxim Biller: Self-Irony and the 'Insektenruf', Germany and Exile: Post World War II Migrations of Culture, Art and Thought, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon

• 2024, Mount Holyoke College Inclusive Initiatives Fund Grant awarded for organization of interdisciplinary visit by anti-racism author Tupoka Ogette and artist Stephen Lawson
• 2022-present, Faculty Liaison: Language and Culture Commons, Mount Holyoke College
• 2021-present, Faculty Advisor: Mount Holyoke College German Club
• 2021-2022, Co-Chair: Five College German Studies Faculty Seminar
• 2021-present, Faculty Sponsor: Bachelor’s Degree with Individual Concentration (BDIC), UMass
• 2012-2013, Translator: DEFA Film Library, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
• 2013-2018, Editorial Board: Edge Graduate Journal, University of Massachusetts Amherst
• 2017-2018, Committee Member: Awards, Admissions and Assistantships Committee, University of Massachusetts Amherst
• 2012-2015, Coordinator for German Summer Online Classes, University of Massachusetts Amherst
• 2015, Ellert Brauner Prize for scholarship, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Mount Holyoke College Inclusive Initiatives Fund

Grant awarded for organization of interdisciplinary visit by anti-racism authors

Coalition of Women in German (WiG) Award for Contingent Faculty