| Kevin
Teng is a Ph.D. candidate in the Program in Comparative
Literature hosted by the Department of German. He received
his BA in 1994 from the Johns Hopkins University, where
he was a student in Political Science and German Literature.
He has also been a research assistant at the Seminar
für Deutsche Philologie of the Universtät Mannheim,
where he held a concurrent appointment as Lektor in Anglistik.
His teaching experience at Northwestern has covered both
elementary and intermediate German, classical and modern
European literature, as well as Italian Cinema.
Despite
no evidence of any theatrical talent whatsoever, and
against the best interests of the commonwealth, he continues
to work extensively in theories of drama and performance.
His main project is an investigation of the processes of
citation and recycling in adapted works of art, during the
course of which he has written articles on the concept of
Translation in Walter Benjamin’s writing. In his spare
time he enjoys contemplating very large, very old, square-rigged
sailing vessels. He has a slight aversion to self-aggrandizing
hyperbole.
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