Academics
Meet the Faculty
David Dowdey
Professor of German Language and Literature
Division: International Studies and Languages Division
Office: Seaver Academic Complex (SAC) 109
Phone: (310) 506-7446
E-mail: david.dowdey@pepperdine.edu
- Ph.D., German, Vanderbilt University, 1976
- M.A., German, Vanderbilt University, 1970
- B.A., German, David Lipscomb University, 1967, Cum Laude
Courses:
- German Language and Literature
Key Awards/Affiliations:
- Research Grant, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, at Freie Universität Berlin, 1970-1971, 1971
- Seminar Grant, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1981
- Pepperdine Heidelberg Program, 1986, 1993-1994, 1994
- Research sabbatical, fall 1994, 1994
- Institute of International Education, National Screening Committee for Fulbright Awards to Germany, 1995-1998, 1998
- Research sabbatical, fall 2000, 2000
- American Association of Teachers of German AATG
- Lessing Society
Academic Interests:
- Anti-Semitism and Christian views of Jews in 18th-century Germany
- German language, philosophy, and literature
Selected Works:
- Dowdey, David. Rev. of Moses Mendelssohn im Spannungsfeld der Aufklärung, ed. by Michael Albrecht and Eva J. Engel. Monatshefte, 94.4/Winter 2002., 2002
- Dowdey, David. Rev. of Continued Existence, Reincarnation, and the Power of Sympathy in Classical Weimar, by Lieselotte Kurth-Voigt. Monatshefte, 93.2/Summer 2001., 2001
- Dowdey, David. Rev. of Moses Mendelssohn and the Religious Enlightenment, by David Sorkin. Monatshefte, 88.4/Winter 1996., 1996
- Dowdey, David and Robert Wolfgang Rhée, trans. And eds. Leo Baeck: A Radio Play Based on Authentic Texts. Literature and the Sciences of Man 10. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 1995., 1995
- Dowdey, David. "Secularization in Moses Mendelssohn's Thinking: Harmony Between the World of Judaism and Enlightenment?" Abstract. Actes du Sixième Congrès international des Lumières. Oxford : The Voltaire Foundation, 1983., 1983
