Heidi Denzel

|Senior Lecturer

Academic Appointments

Visiting Associate Professor of German Studies
Affiliated Faculty in Comparative Literature
Visiting Faculty in Film and Media Studies

Heidi Denzel joined the faculty at Dartmouth in 2019 as Visiting Associate Professor and has taught classes in Intercultural Communication, German, French and Spanish Studies, Comparative Literature, and Film and Media Studies. Previously, she worked at the Goethe-Institut, at the Universiteit van Amsterdam, the Global Center of Politics of the Freie Universität Berlin, and at the department of World Languages and Cultures at Georgia State University. She is the author of a monography on biographical fiction, the co-editor of the special issue Framing Islam: Faith, Fascination, and Fear in Twenty-First-Century German Culture and has published on topics of global politics, migration and border studies, media monitoring and media activism, literary tourism and interdisciplinary pedagogy.

Building on her research, teaching and volunteering in the field of dialogue, migration and human rights, she co-founded the interdisciplinary initiative FLOW-Foreign Languages Offering Wellbeing. Since 2022, Dr. Denzel has been working on topics of mental health and wellbeing and is interested in developing creative strategies for student-centered learning, Universal Design of Learning and engaged pedagogy. Her current research and teaching interests focus on dialogue, voice, somatic bodies, and meditation (e.g., Conversations in Polarized Societies – The Mo:Lab Dialogue Principle and Music, Vocal Techniques and Mental Health). She co-convenes the University Seminar Personal, Public and Planetary Wellbeing at Dartmouth and is exploring human-tree relationships in cultural practices and poetic and mindful philosophies like Shinrin-yoku (Japanese: Forest Bathing) and Waldeinsamkeit (German: woodland solitude) through interdisciplinary lenses.

More articles about FLOW:

Heidi Denzel and Nicolay Ostrau: "Responding to the Mental Health Crisis Among our Language-learning Community: A Report on the Pilot Project FLOW (fFreign Languages Offering Well-being)." Die Unterrichtspraxis 56.1 (2023): 21-24.

"Verbum Ultimum: Baby Steps Toward Student Wellness: Small Changes in the Classroom Could Have a Big Impact on Student Mental Health and Wellbeing."

- "German Courses Integrate Student Wellness into Curriculum."

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Heidi.D.Denzel@dartmouth.edu

Dartmouth Hall, Room 209A

HB 6084

Selected Publications

Framing Islam: Faith, Fascination, and Fear in Twenty-First-Century German Culture (special issue of Colloquia Germanica, 2017, co-edited with Faye Stewart)
Biographische Fiktionen im interkulturellen Vergleich: Das Paradigma Denis Diderot (1765-2005). Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann, 2008.
"Pantelion's 'Transborderscapes': Borders, Gender and Genre in No se aceptan devoluciones and Pulling Strings." iMex. México Interdisciplinario. Interdisciplinary Mexico 9.17 (2020): 50-67.
"Interracial Romance, Taboo, and Desire in the Eastern Western Blutsbrüder." Gender and Sexuality in East German Film: Intimacy and Alienation. Eds. Kyle Frackman and Faye Stewart. Rochester: Camden House. 2018, 126-145.

"'Islam Light': Girly Muslim Power and Moderate Islamic Men in German Sitcoms." Colloquia Germanica 47.1 (2014/2017): 107-131.
"Media Monitoring and Ethnicity. Representing Latino Families on American Television (2000-2013)." Nuevo Mundo. Mundos Nuevos December 16 (2013).
"La ville comme carte biographique: La 'ha-géographie' et ses pèlerins littéraires." Figurations de la ville-palimpseste. Eds. Ursula Bähler, Peter Fröhlicher, Patrick Labarthe, Christina Vogel. Tübingen: Narr Verlag, 2012, 147-159.
"Mímesis, metanarrativa y la "otra realidad" del teatro en las películas de Carlos Saura." Escenarios compartidos: cine y teatro en España en el umbral del siglo XXI. Eds. Vera Berger et al. Bremen: LIT-Verlag, 2009, 195-206.
"Les biopics des femmes fortes. Réécriture biographiste, idéologique ou générique?" Siècle classique et cinéma contemporain. Eds. Margarete Zimmermann et al. Tübingen: Narr Verlag, 2009, 145-159.
Heidi Denzel and Nicolay Ostrau: "Responding to the mental health crisis among our language-learning community: A report on the pilot project FLOW (foreign languages offering well-being)." Die Unterrichtspraxis 56.1 (2023): 21-24.

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Campus Lecture Series "Wende Now: Farewell to the Eternal Return of Fascism and Xenophobia"

Politics of In/Visiblity: Solidarity and Justice Across Borders
The Fall of the Berlin Wall and Current Global Border Crises
Central American Caravans: Inside LGBTQ Testimonies of Contention, Survival and Resilience
The Rise of Neo-Fascism in Contemporary Europe
Migrations in the Mediterranean

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Heidi Denzel

Visiting Associate Professor of German Studies

Affiliated Faculty in Comparative Literature

Visiting Faculty in Film and Media Studies

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Selected Publications

Campus Lecture Series "Wende Now: Farewell to the Eternal Return of Fascism and Xenophobia"

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