Department of World Languages & Cultures

Bill Carter

Lecturer

Bill Carter joined the faculty of World Languages and Cultures in 2005.  He graduated from The University of Virginia, has studied at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, and earned his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees at the University of California, Santa Barbara.  His dissertation, "The Law of Striving and Demand: Goethe's Faust and the Economic Theories of Steuart, Möser, and Schlosser," reconsiders Goethe's economic knowledge in terms of contemporaneous economic theories and texts. In addition to German literature in the Age of Goethe, his teaching and research interests include:  intersections between economics, literature, and philosophy; the genealogy of media technology, psychoanalysis, film, and Modern Austrian Literature.

Since arriving at Iowa State, he has taught introductory and intermediate German courses, "Crime Scene Investigations" (GER 330: Introduction to German Literature), Composition (GER 302), and "The Holocaust in Text, Image, and Memory" (GER/HIST 371).  This spring he will offer an Honors Seminar titled "Foreign Bodies: Identity and Difference in Vienna since 1900."  It is based on his experience last summer as a participant in the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute held in Vienna on the topic: "Melting Pot Vienna: Then and Now."