CURRICULUM VITAE
Nikolai
Endres, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of World Literature
Department of English
Western Kentucky University
Bowling Green, KY 42101
(270) 745 5718
Nikolai.Endres@wku.edu
ACADEMIC
EMPLOYMENT
Associate Professor of World Literature and Adjunct
Faculty in Women’s Studies, Western Kentucky University (2002-)
Assistant Professor of English and French (tenure track), University of the Ozarks (2000-02)
Teaching Fellow, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1994-2002)
EDUCATION
Ph.D. (2000),
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Comparative
Literature
M.A. (1996),
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Title of Thesis: “Eros in the Closet: Platonic and Greek Love in Oscar Wilde’s The Picture
of Dorian Gray”
“Zwischenprüfung” (equivalent to an American B.A.) in English, French, and Classics (1993), Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg, Germany
DISSERTATION
Title: “Failures of Love: Plato and Platonism in E. M. Forster, Thomas Mann, and André Gide”
Director: Cecil W. Wooten, Department of Classics
COURSES
Comparative Literature: “Great Books”
English: Composition, ESL, British Literature, Film, Mythology, Literary Criticism (graduate)
Humanities: Literature of the Western World
Women’s Studies: Gay and Lesbian Literature
Film: International Cinema
Communication Studies: Public Speaking
French: Language, Literature, Culture
German: Language, Conversation, Study Abroad
Latin: Grammar for Graduate Students
Special Topics: London in Literature
TEACHING and RESEARCH INTERESTS
The Classical Tradition
World Literature in Translation
Literature and Film
Gay and Lesbian Studies
Petronius in Modern Literature
The Myth and Music of Richard Wagner
LANGUAGES
Ancient Greek, Latin, German, French
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Senator for the English Department
Various Faculty and Department Head Search Committees (both chair and member)
University General Education Committee
English Department Executive Committee
Sabbatical Committee
Committee for Students with Learning Disabilities
Library Acquisitions Committee
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
Modern Language Association
American Philological Association
Petronian Society
Hemingway Society
Committee on Lesbian and Gay History of the American Historical Association
AWARDS
Traditions Award for Excellence in Teaching the Canon from the English Department for 2004-05 and 2010-11
Junior Faculty Fellowship from WKU for 2003-04
Various grants for academic travel and research from the University of the Ozarks
Grant from the Graduate School at UNC to introduce classroom-technology for French
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst scholarship for the academic year of 1993-94 at UNC-Chapel Hill
Prize for best Abitur at the Rupert-Neß-Gymnasium, Wangen im Allgäu, Germany (1990)