Andrew Wisely

Research/Teaching Interests

• Holocaust perpetrators and victims
• Testimony and witness
• Trauma and memory
• Legal and medical discourses and ethics
• Allied and German postwar justice
• Jewish figures in Austrian literature
• Philosophy of trust
• 19^th – 20^th-century German and Austrian literature
• Secular and sacred rites of passage

Education

Ph.D., M.A. in German Literature, Washington University (St. Louis)

B.A., German, Wheaton College

Courses Taught at Baylor

• Beginning German I and II (GER 1301 & 1302)
• Intermediate German I and II (GER 2310 & 2320)
• German Conversation and Composition (GER 3301)
• German for Reading Development (GER 3302)
• The Dresden Experience (Baylor in Germany Summer Program, GER 3343)
• Exploring the German Literary Tradition (GER 3355)
• The German Legacy of the Holocaust (GER 3358)
• Deutsche Dichter und Denker II: Twentieth Century (GER 3V70 [3356])
• Survey of German Literature 19^th Century (GER 4307)
• Survey of German Literature 20^th Century (GER 4309)
• Special Topics: German Novella (GER 4320)
• Special Topics: Secular/Religious Germany after 1945 (GER 4320)
• Special Topics: Austria in the Twentieth Century (GER 4320)
• Special Topics: Jewish Figures in Twentieth-Century Viennese Literature (GER 4320)
• Special Topics: The Legacy of National Socialism (GER 4320)
• Special Topics: Fractured Trust: National Socialism and its Aftereffects (GER 4320)
• Special Topics: Fiction/Non-fiction by and about German Physicians (GER 4320)
• Independent Study (Thomas Mann’s Dr. Faustus) (GER 4V90)
• Autobiography and Confession (GTX 4351)
• German for Reading Knowledge (GER 5370 & 5371)

Selected Publications

Monographs

The Trial of a Nazi Doctor: Franz Lucas as Defendant, Opportunist, and Deceiver. New York/Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2024. Finalist for the 2025 Sybil Halpern Milton Memorial Book Prize, a biennial award of the German Studies Association honoring “the best book dealing with Nazi Germany and the Holocaust in its broadest context, covering every field represented in the German Studies Association, including history, political science and other social sciences, literature, art, and photography.” 

Arthur Schnitzler and Twentieth-Century Criticism. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2004. 

Arthur Schnitzler and the Discourse of Honor and Dueling. New York: Peter Lang, 1996. 

Articles 

“From Humiliation to Humanity: Reconciling Helen Goldmann’s Testimony with the Forensic Strictures of the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial,” S:I.M.O.N. (Shoah: Intervention. Methods. Documentation), Wiener Wiesenthal Institut für Holocaust-Studien (VWI) 8.1 (2021): 1–32 (https://doi.org/10.23777/SN.0121/ART_AWIS01).

“Confession that Isn’t: The Fear Claims of Dr. Franz Lucas Between Accusation and Acquittal in the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial (1964-65),” Holocaust Studies 26.4 (2020): 484–509, DOI: 10.1080/17504902.2020.1718921.

“War Against ‘Internal Enemies’:  Dr. Franz Lucas’s Sterilization of Sinti and Roma in Ravensbrück Men’s Camp in January 1945,” Central European History 52 (2019): 650–71 (DOI: 10.1017/S0008938919000852).

Book Chapters

“Renewed trauma: Abraham de la Penha’s testimony against Dr. Franz Lucas in the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial.” In Recognizing the Past in the Present. New Studies on Medicine Before, During, and After the Holocaust. Sabine Hildebrandt, Miriam Offer and Michael Grodin, eds. (New York: Berghahn, 2020): 241–56. 

“Verschwiegene Christenheit und entmündigte Hoffnung in Christoph Heins Der fremde Freund/Drachenblut.” In Der untote Gott: Religion und Ästhetik in der deutschen und österreichischen Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts. Gregor Thuswaldner and Olaf Berwald, eds. (Cologne: Böhlau, 2007): 191–203. 

Conference Proceedings and Festschrifte

“Desk-Murderers or Dr. Lucas: Superfluity and Culpability in Hannah Arendt’s ‘Auschwitz on Trial.’” In Totalitarianism and Liberty: Hannah Arendt in the 21st Century. Gerhard Besier, Katarzyna Stoklosa, Andrew Wisely, eds. (Kraków: Księgarnia Akademicka, 2008): 363–379.

„Ritual-Ersatz in der DDR-Übergangsgesellschaft der 80er Jahre: Christoph Heins Fremder Freund im Kontext der Entmündigung.“ In Totalitarismus und Literatur. Deutsche Literatur im 20. Jahrhundert – Literarische Öffentlichkeit im Spannungsfeld totalitärer Meinungsbildung, Hans Jörg Schmidt and Petra Tallafuss, eds. (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2007): 173–187.  

“Duty or Destiny: Compulsory Dueling in the Works of Arthur Schnitzler.” In Glaube – Freiheit – Diktatur in Europa und den USA. Festschrift für Gerhard Besier zum 60. Geburtstag. Katarzyna Stokłosa and Andrea Strübind, eds. (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2007): 755–770 (Festschrift).

“Dennoch.” Schwarz auf Weiss. Ein transatlantisches Würdigungsbuch für Egon Schwarz. Jacqueline Vansant and Ursula Seeber, eds. (Vienna: Czernin Verlag, 2007): 38–42 (Festschrift).

Book Reviews

Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia Before, During, and After the Holocaust. Ed. Sheldon Rubenfeld and Daniel Pl Sumasy, with Astrid Ley. Holocaust and Genocide Studies 36/2 (Fall 2022): 287-89.

Zeugen der Vergangenheit. H.G. Adler – Franz Baermann Steiner – Briefwechsel 1936-1952. Ed. Carol Tully. Munich: Iudicium Verlag, 2011. Journal of Austrian Studies 46/1 (2013): 109-11.

Imke Meyer, Männlichkeit und Melodram. Arthur Schnitzlers erzählende Schriften. (Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2010). German Quarterly 85/1 (Winter 2012): 97-98.

Reigen von Arthur Schnitzler. Sexuelle Szene und Verfehlung in Michael Thalheimers Inszenierung am Thalia Theater Hamburg. Ed. Ortrud Gutjahr. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2009). Modern Austrian Literature 44/1 (Spring 2011): 84-85.

Nikolaj Beier, “Vor allem bin ich ich.” Judentum, Akkulturation und Antisemitismus in Arthur Schnitzlers Leben und Werk (Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2008). German Studies Review 32/2 (2009): 151-52.

Gerd K. Schneider, “Ich will jeden Tag einen Haufen Sternschuppen auf mich niederregnen sehen.” Zur künstlerischen Rezeption von Arthur Schnitzlers “Reigen” in Österreich, Deutschland und den USA (Vienna: Praesens Verlag, 2008). German Quarterly 82/2 (Spring 2009): 257-58.

Melissa De Bruyker, Das resonante Schweigen. Die Rhetorik der erzählten Welt in Kafkas Der Verschollene, Schnitzlers Therese und Walsers Räuber-Roman. (Würzburg: Verlag Königshausen & Neumann GmbH, 2008). Modern Austrian Literature 42/2 (2009): 86-88.

Gerhard Besier, Im Namen der Freiheit. Die amerikanische Mission (Göttingen 2006). Comparativ - Leipziger Beiträge zur Universalgeschichte und vergleichenden Gesellschaftsforschung (2007). 

Arthur Schnitzler. Affairen und Affekte. Mit 113 Abbildungen. Ed. Evelyne Polt-Heinzl and Gisela Steinlechner (Wien: Christian Brandstätter, 2006). Modern Austrian Literature 41/1 (2008): 95-97.

A Companion to the Works of Arthur Schnitzler. Ed. Dagmar Lorenz (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2003). German Quarterly 78/1 (Winter 2005): 116-17.

David Pan, Primitive Renaissance: Rethinking German Expressionism (Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 2001). Monatshefte für deutschsprachige Literatur und Kultur (Winter 2003): 680-81.

Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, vol. 2 (1927-1934). Ed. Michael W. Jennings (Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1999). The Historian (Winter 2001) 63/2: 469-70.

Kevin McAleer, Dueling: The Cult of Honor in Germany (Princeton: Princeton UP, 1994). German Quarterly 69/1 (Winter 1996): 76-7.