Stefanie Harris (Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, Emory University 1999) is Assistant Professor of German and Comparative Literary Studies.

Professor Harris’ research and teaching focuses on the intersections of literature, media, and politics from the late nineteenth- through the twenty-first centuries. Her interests include 20th- and 21st-century German and Anglo-American literature, German film, photography, literary modernism, media theory, and critical theory. Her forthcoming book, Mediating Modernity: Literature and the “New” Media (1895-1930) (Penn State UP), examines the response of German and American literary figures to emerging technologies in optical and acoustic recording. She has published on Rilke, Sebald, Beyer, Henisch, early German film theory and the Kinobuch, and the contemporary American writer, Steve Erickson, as well as translations of selected essays by Friedrich Kittler. She is currently completing work on her second book, Exposing the Past, Developing the Future: Photography in Postwar German Fiction.

Selected publications:

Mediating Modernity: Literature and the “New” Media (1895-1930). University Park: Penn State UP, forthcoming in the series “Refiguring Modernism.”

“Dis-Orienting Photography: Making, Reading, Exhibiting Images in Peter Henisch’s Die kleine Figur meines Vaters (2003).” Modern Austrian Literature 40.3 (2007): 72-94.

“Exposures: Rilke, Photography, and the City.” New German Critique 99 (Fall 2006): 121-49.

“Imag(in)ing the Past: The Family Album in Marcel Beyer’s Spione.” Gegenwartsliteratur 4 (2005): 162-84.

“Translation in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Writing on/and Early German Cinema—Das Kinobuch.” Translation Perspectives XII. Theaters of Translation. Ed. Michael Kohler. Binghamton: SUNY, 2003. 135-54.

|“The Return of the Dead: Memory and Photography in W.G. Sebald’s Die Ausgewanderten.” The German Quarterly 74.4 (Fall 2001): 379-91.