Name: Melissa Etzler

Rank: Teaching Associate

Education:
BA, in German,University of Maryland, College Park, 1999, in English, 1998.

Contact Information:
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, LONG BEACH
1250 Bellflower Blvd., Long Beach, CA. 90840
Tel. 562-985-4630 Fax 562-985-2406 email: metzler@csulb.edu

Awards:
2004, Goethe-Institut Zentrale Oberstudfenprüfung: Gesamtnote gut? 3.5 GPA
2003-20004 Distinguished German Graduate Student
Awarded Russian Program Scholarship
Awarded Phi Kappa Phi CSULB Chapter Scholarship
Awarded Outstanding Language Student in Second Year Russian

Selected Publications:
"Ghostbuster: Cotton Mather's Invocation of the History of the Specter in the Justification of the Salem Witch Trials" The Journal of Germanic Mythology and Floklore, Issue 1, January 31, 2004.

Conference Presentations:
"Mikhail Kalatozov's The Cranes are Flying: An Analysis of Biology, Mythology, and Folklore to Clarify the Relevance of the Cranes" The 39th Annual Comparative Literature Conference. "Film, Culture and Ideology: Lessons from the 20th Century/Issues for the 21st Century." California State University, Long Beach, CA (March 2004).

"Whip me if it gives you Pleasure" The Trail of Masochism from Leopold von Sacher Masoch's Venus in Furs to Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis", the 11th Annual German Studies Conference, "Death and Seduction". University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (Feb. 2004)

"Encountering Futility: TheExistential Dilemma in the Literature of War," The 28th Annual Colloquium on Literature and Film," The Evolution of War and its Representation in Literature and Film". West Virginia Univeristy, Morgantown, WV (Sept. 2003).