FACULTY
Volker
Dürr Author of Flaubert’s Salammbô:
The Ancient Orient as a Political Allegory of Nineteenth-Century
France, he is the editor and co-editor of numerous volumes,
including Versuche zu Goethe, Imperial Germany, Nietzsche:
Literature and Values, and Coping with the Past.
He has published widely in the fields of poetry, fiction,
the
relation among literature, history, and philosophy
from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, including
studies of Lessing, Goethe, Bettina von Arnim, Mörike,
Keller, Fontane, Nietzsche, Hofmannsthal, Karl Kraus,
George,
and Benn. Among his current projects
is a monograph
on Rilke. ... more ...
Peter
Fenves Joan
and Sarepta Harrison Professor. Author
of A Peculiar Fate: Metaphysics and World-History in
Kant, “Chatter”:
Language and History in Kierkegaard, Arresting Language:
From Leibniz to Benjamin, and Late Kant: Towards
Another Law of the Earth, he is the editor of Raising
the Tone of Philosophy: Late Essays by Kant, Transformative
Critique by Derrida, the co-editor of The Spirit
of Poesy, and translator of Werner Hamacher's Premises.
His current projects include a study of Gemran-Jewish
thought entitled "The Messianic Imperative.". ...more...
Bernadette
Fort Author of Le Langage de l’ambiguité dans
l’oeuvre de Crébillon fils, she is also
the editor of Fictions of the French Revolution and
co-editor of The “Memoires secrets” and
the culture of publicity in eighteenth-century
France and the prize-winning
volume The other Hogarth : aesthetics of difference.
She continues her work as editor of the major interdisciplinary
journal "Eighteenth-Century Studies." Her research and
teaching
interests include the epistolary novel, art theory and
sister art issues, cultural history, and women’s
studies. She is currently working on representations
of gender in the paintings of J.-B. Greuze. ...
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Stefanie
Harris Author
of essays on Sebald, beyer, Rilke, and early German
film theory, her current projects include two book-length
studies: Mediating
Modernity: Literature and the "New" Media (1895-1930) and Exposing
the Past: Photography in Postwar German Fiction.
Her interests include interdisciplinary approaches
to literature and media, postwar German and American
literature,
as well as German silent and postwar film. ...more...
Peter
Hayes Theodore Z. Weiss Professor of
Holocaust Studies. Author and editor of two prize-wining
books: Industry and Ideology:
IG
Farben
in the Nazi Era and Lessons
and Legacies: The Meaning of the Holocaust in a Changing
World. His From Cooperation to Complicity: Degussa
in the Third Reich will appear in English and German
in 2004.
Editor of Lessons and Legacies III: Memory, Memorialization,
and Denial, he is also the co-editor of Imperial
Germany, Arisierung im Nationalsozialisimus and The
Last Expression: Art and Auschwitz. Current research
concerns the role of German big business in the persecution
of European
Jewry.
He is chair of the academic advisory board of the
Holocaust Educational Foundation and a member of the
Academic Committee
of the US Holocaust Memorial Council. ...
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Jörg
Kreienbrock studied German Literature, Comparative
Literature and Philosophy at the University of Bielefeld and
the Freie Universität Berlin. He received his Ph.D. in
2005 from the Department of German at New York University with
a dissertation thesis examining representations of the small
and minute in the prose works of Robert Walser. From 2005 to
2006 he held a position as Visiting Assistant Professor of
German Studies at Emory University. His research and teaching
interests include German literature from the 19th to the 21st
century with an emphasis on contemporary literature, popular
culture and literary theory. ...
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Franziska
B. Lys Author of CD-ROM multi-media software
and on-line interactive software for language teaching,
she is also the co-director and co-producer of secveral
documentaries: Drehort: Neubrandenburg, Azubi:
three apprentices in Berlin, Drehort: Bern and Drehort:
Neubrandenburg 2002. The winner of the ACTFL/Houghton Mifflin award
for excellence in the integration and use of technology
in the teaching of foreign languages, she has published
a wide variety of material that concerns the problem
of second language acquisition and computer-assisted
language instruction. ...more
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Markus
Moseley He was awarded a Koret Foundation
Jewish Studies Publication Program prize for his book,
Being For Myself Alone: Origins of Jewish Autobiography
(Stanford University Press, 2005), which investigates the
development of autobiography among the Jews in Eastern
Europe from the 19th century to the period just around
World War I. He is now working on his next book, From People
of the Book to Literary Nation: On the Emergence of Literature
in Jewish Eastern Europe, which describes the rise of the
new phenomenon of literature in Jewish Eastern Europe of
the 18th and 19th centuries. ...
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Helmut
Müller-Sievers Author of Epigenesis:
Naturphilosophie im Sprachdenken Wilhelm von Humboldts, Self-Generation:
Biology, Philosophy, Literature around 1800, and Desorientierung:
Anatomie und Dichtung bei Georg Büchner, he has
published numerous essays on the history of hermeneutics,
science and literature, philosophy, poetry, and music.
His current research includes a study on classical philology
in Nazi Germany and a monograph on the rhetoric of industrial
engineering. ...
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Rainer
Rumold Author of The Janus Face of
the German Avant-garde: From Expressionism toward Postmodernism and
Gottfried Benn und der Expressionismus: Provokation
des Lesers, absolute Dichtung, he is the co-editor
of
Eugene Jolas, Man from Babel and Ideological
Crisis of Expressionism. He has published numerous
articles on literary and visual modernism, and the
international avant-garde from Dada to Helmut Heissenbuettel.
General
editor of the
Studies the Avant-garde and Modernism series at Northwestern
University Press, his current projects include a
study entitled "Archeologies of Modernity :
Arp, Kafka, Benjamin, Leiris, and Bataille". ...
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Samuel
Weber Avalon Professor of the Humanities.
Author of numerous books, including Return to
Freud: Jacques Lacan’s Dislocation of Psychoanalysis,
The Legend of Freud, Mass mediauras: Form,
Technics, Media, and Institution and Interpretation, he is also
the co-editor of two volumes, Violence, Identity,
and Self-determination and Religion and Media. Among his
current projects include book-length studies of Theatricality
as Medium, Walter Benjamin’s–abilities, Targets
of Opportunity, and The Uncanniness of Media. ...more...
Linda
M. G. Zerilli Author of Signifying
Woman: Culture and Chaos in Rousseau, Burke and Mill and Feminism
and the Abyss of Freedom, she has also published
numerous articles on Arendt, Wittgenstein, Kristeva,
Wittig, and
Beauvoir. Her current research projects include a
book on Wittgenstein and political thought, and a
monograph
on Arendt’s theory of political judgment. ...
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