Faculty Profile
Sarah McGaughey
(ask me my pronouns)Professor of German (2007)
Contact Information
on sabbatical 2024-25
Bosler Hall Room 114
717-245-1279
Bio
McGaughey is a scholar of modernist studies, in particular of the region of German-speaking Central Europe and of the interwar period. She focuses on the Viennese author Hermann Broch and the wider cultural and literary context in which he lived and wrote. She is author of "Ornament as Crisis: Architecture, Design, and Modernity in Hermann Broch's 'The Sleepwalkers'" (Northwestern UP, 2016), a co-editor of "A Companion to the Works of Hermann Broch" (Camden House, 2019), and a co-editor of "Massenwahntheorie und Friedenspoetik. Hermann Broch und die bedrohte Demokratie des 20. Jahrhunderts" ("Theory of Mass Hysteria and Poetics of Peace. Hermann Broch and the Threat to Democracy in the 20th Century", De Gruyter, 2023). She is also online editor of the journal for transatlantic German Studies, "Glossen" (blogs.dickinson.edu/glossen). She is Vice President of the International Working Group on Hermann Broch (Internationaler Arbeitskreis Hermann Broch, IAB, iab.dickinson.edu) and works closely with the President, Prof. Dr. Doren Wohlleben (Phillipps-Universität Marburg), to maintain the active global scholarly group. McGaughey teaches at all levels of the German program at Dickinson. She has developed courses on German cultural history of the environment (German Environments), German theater and radio, contemporary German literature, modern architectural history of German-speaking cultures, "Popliteratur", and women's roles in social and political movements. She enjoys teaching German as a second language, reading and teaching contemporary German literature, and listening to and teaching with German-language pop music.
Education
- B.A., Smith College, 1997
- M.A., Washington University-St. Louis, 1999
- Ph.D., 2005