Brian Todd McInnis
Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures
Senior Lecturer
McMurran Hall 115
(757) 594-7327
brian.mcinnis@cnu.edu
Education
- Ph D in German Literature, Vanderbilt University
- MA in German Literature, Vanderbilt University
- BA in German History, University of Northern Iowa
Teaching
Dr. McInnis has broad interests in all areas of German culture and language. In addition to beginning and intermediate courses, he has taught courses at CNU on German literature since 1945, a conversation course on globalization, business German, German literature to 1800, and composition/GDR.
Research
Dr. McInnis conducts research on literature and culture from the eighteenth century to the present. Current interests include the relationship of mind and body in eighteenth-century literature, philosophy, religion, and medicine and theories of memory in twenty- and twenty-first century literature.
Biography
Dr. McInnis grew up in Iowa and spent a year at the University of Regensburg before completing majors in History, Humanities, and German at the University of Northern Iowa. He received M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in German Literature from Vanderbilt University. He has studied at the Ruhr University in Bochum and conducted research in Wolfenbüttel, Halle, Gotha, Göttingen, Freiburg, Munich, and Berlin.
Selected Accomplishments
- Brian McInnis, Binghamton University German Studies Colloquium, ""Popular Ecopoetics in Franz Hohler's 'Die Rückeroberung'"," Binghamton, NY. (2018)