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 Dean Karl Toepfer
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Dean's CornerKarl Toepfer was appointed Dean in November 2004, when President Kassing appointed Dean Carmen Sigler Provost for the University. He had been Associate Dean for the College of Humanities and the Arts since Fall 2001. He served as Graduate Coordinator for several years within the Department of Television, Radio, Film, and Theatre and then was Associate Chair and Director of Productions. He received his doctorate in Theatre Arts from UCLA in 1983, and has been teaching at SJSU since that year. He is the author of Empire of Ecstasy: Nudity and Movement in German Body Culture, 1910-1935 (University of California Press, 1997) and two other scholarly books, as well as articles on theatre, dance, drama, and film in Theater Three, TDR, Performing Arts Journal, The Journal of the History of Sexuality, Comparative Literature, Scandinavian Studies, and other journals. His scholarship has also appeared in the Dictionary of Literary Biography, International Dictionary of Modern Dance, Gender in Performance, Freikoerperkultur und Lebenswelt, among several others. His most recent article deals with "One Hundred Years of Nakedness in German Performance," which appears in the Winter 2004 issue of TDR. His latest scholarly project is a book on The Ecstatic Horizon: Formations of German Erotic Consciousness, 1880-1932. His novel Ursumari was published in 2001, and he expects to complete another book on ancient Roman dance theatre in the future.
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