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Associate Professor of German; Acting Chair (Fall 2009); Director of Graduate Studies
Ph.D. 2001, Johns Hopkins University; B.A. 1991 (Comparative Literature and Religious Studies), Brown University
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Research Interests: Theories of the comic; aesthetic thought from the 18th century to the present; critical theory and hermeneutics; the novel and its theory from 18th century to the present
Fellowships/Honors: 2007-08 Humboldt Research Grant to Germany; April 2005 Guest Scholar at Zentrum für Literaturforschung, Berlin; 2004 Golden Dozen Outstanding Teaching Award, New York University
Selected Works:
Books:
- Exemplarity and Mediocrity: The Art of the Average from Bourgeois Tragedy to Realism (Stanford Press, 2008)
- The Pleasures of Abandonment: Jean Paul and the Life of Humor (Konigshausen & Neumann, 2006)
Selected Articles:
- "How modern art embraces mediocre life without falling prey to it." http://www.rorotoko.com/index.php/article/paul_fleming_exemplarity_mediocrity_art_average_bourgeois_tragedy_realism/
- “The Promises of Childhood: Autobiography in Goethe and Jean Paul.” In Goethe-Yearbook, vol. 14, pp. 27-37.
- “Die üblichen Verdächtigen. Das Bild des Kriminellen bei Quetelet und Galton.” In Intellektuelle Anschauung. Figurationen von Evidenz zwischen Kunst und Wissen, eds. Sibylle Peters and Martin Schäfer. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2006, pp. 225-38.
- “Forgetting – Faust: Adorno and Kommerell.” In Adorno and Literature, eds. David Cunningham and Nigel Mapp. London: Continuum, 2006, pp. 133-44.
- “June 10, 1796: An Alien Fallen from the Moon.” In The New History of German Literature, eds. David Wellbery et al. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004, pp. 465-70.
- “Doppelgänger / Doppeltgänger.” In Cabinet: Doubles, vol. 14 (Summer 2004), pp. 64-66.
- “Paragramm: Grimmelshausens Poetik der Unbeständigkeit.” In Die Endlichkeit der Literatur, eds. Eckart Goebel and Martin von Koppenfels. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2002, pp. 35-49.
- “Das Gesetz: Hölderlin und die Not der Ruhe.” In Hölderlin-Jahrbuch (2000/01), pp. 273-92.
- “The Crisis of Art: Max Kommerell and Jean Paul’s Gestures.” In Modern Language Notes, vol. 115, no. 3 (2000), pp. 519-43.
Guest Co-editor (with Sina Najafi) of Cabinet: The Average, vol. 15(Fall 2004)
Translations:
- Hans Blumenberg, Care Crosses the River (forthcoming, Stanford Press, 2009)
- Peter Szondi, An Essay on the Tragic (Stanford Press, 2002)
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