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Barbara Stone, Professor of German and Humanities

Barbara Stone, Dean of the College, has been a member of the Shimer faculty since 1985. At Shimer, Stone teaches in the Humanities core and also teaches frequently in the Social Sciences. She 

was a Lecturer in German at the University of Chicago from 1983 to 1985, and at Northwestern University from 1980 to 1981. She received a Joint Germanic Society of America/Fulbright-Hays Travel Grant in 1978 to study at the Universität Konstanz in Constance, Germany.

“At Shimer ‘thinking’ is not primarily a solitary activity; we share our thoughts with one another, and this helps me to contemplate things in new and interesting ways.”—Barbara Stone

EDUCATION

Ph.D., German Language and Literature, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 1985
M.A., German Language and Literature, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 1976
B.A., Psychology, cum laude, Distinction in Psychology, Honors in Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Boston, Mass, 1972

RECENT ELECTIVES AND TUTORIALS TAUGHT

American Literature                   
Child Pyschology and Theories of Education       
The German Novella
German Language: Elementary, Intermediate, Advanced
Latin Language: Elementary, Intermediate, and Advanced
D.H. Lawrence
Freud
Psychopathology
Psychological Anthropology
Women from a Cross-Cultural Perspective

ACADEMIC HONORS AND AWARDS

Joint Germanic Society of America/Fulbright-Hays Travel Grant, Constance, Germany, 1978-1979
BOOKS

Adalbert Stifter and the Idyll: A Study of “Witiko”. American University Studies, Series I, Germanic Languages and Literature, 80. Bern: Peter Lang, 1989

COLLOQUIA

NEH Project Director, NEH Curriculum Development Grant, “Great Books, Great Art: Integrating Art History into the Liberal Arts Core Curriculum,” 2005-2006.
Participant, The Literary Canon and Beyond: German Popular Culture Reconsidered, Sponsored by DAAD and Cornell University, Summer, 1991