About
David Tingey received his B.A. with Honors in international relations and in German from Brigham Young University. He received the M.A. in German literature from BYU. He received his Ph.D. in German language and literature from Washington University in St. Louis with a dissertation on Thomas Mann’s Joseph tetralogy. Tingey received a one-year research grant from the DAAD to research and study at the Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität in München. He developed and now directs The University of Tulsa’s International Engineering/Science and Language dual degree program and served for six years as director of UTulsa’s School of Language and Literature. He teaches courses on Faust, the hero’s journey, Thomas Mann, Uwe Timm, post-war and post-wall Germany, the German Novelle and the Grimms’ Märchen. He also teaches in the Honors College. He has authored a book on Thomas Mann’s “Joseph and His Brothers,” and has published articles on Gabriele Reuter and foreign language housing.
Education
- Ph.D., Washington University, St. Louis
Research Interests & Areas of Expertise
- Thomas Mann
- Faust
- Hero’s journey
- Gabriele Reuter
- Uwe Timm
- Günter Grass
- Brecht
- Divided Germany
- GDR
- Post-wall Germany
- Novella
- Brothers Grimm
- Fairy tales
- Colonialism
- Foreign language housing (LH)
- International engineering
- Liberal education
- Academic freedom & shared governance at the university
