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Professor of German, Comparative Literature; Vice Provost for Global Programs and Multiculturalism
Ph.D. 1995 (comparative literature), Yale; B.A. 1991 (literature), Harvard
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Research Interests: 19th- to 21th-century poetry; literary theory; intersections of history and literature; contemporary literature; theories and history of photography; Rilke and Celan.
Affiliations: Modern Language Association; Narrative Society; College Art Association; American Comparative Literature Association; German Studies Association
Fellowships/Honors: John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship 2006 - 2007; Alexander-von-Humboldt Fellowship 2007 - 2008; Golden Dozen Teaching Award 2004; Getty Research Fellowship, 2001 - 2002; Remarque Institute Faculty Fellow, Spring 1999; DAAD Research Fellowship 1998; Golden Dozen Teaching Award 1998
Selected Works:
[Editor, with Emily Sun and Eyal Peretz]: The Claims of Reading: The Shoshana Felman Reader. New York: Fordham University Press, 2007.
Five Editions of Rilke's Letters: on Life, on Letters, on Art, on Loss, on Faith with introductions. Frankfurt: Insel Verlag, 2006.
Das Rilke Alphabet. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp Verlag. Forthcoming 2006.
The Poet's Guide to Life: The Wisdom of Rainer Maria Rilke. Random House/ Modern Library 2005.
Spectral Evidence: The Photography of Trauma. MIT Press. 2002.
110 Stories: New York Writes After September 11. NYU Press; Editor of literary anthology of New York-based writers' and poets' responses to the attacks on the World Trade Center.
Traumadeutung: Erfahrung der Moderne bei Charles Baudelaire und Paul Celan. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp 2002.
Translation of "Remnants of Song." Remnants of Song: Trauma and the Experience of Modernity in Charles Baudelaire and Paul Celan. Stanford University Press. 2000.
Niemand zeugt für den Zeugen: Zeugenschaft und historische Verantwortung nach der Shoah. 1999.
Essays: "End of a World: On Thomas Demand's Photographs," in: L'Esprit d'escalier," IMMA (Irish Museum of Modern Art), Dublin, Ireland and Walter Koenig, C! ologne: 2007) 82- 112.
"The Reluctant Modernism of Thomas Struth," in "Struth," Madre Museum, Naples, 2008, 85-97.
"Bring the Outside In: On Diti Almog," in Studio 173, May-June 2008, Tel Aviv.
"Paul Celan's Stars: Teaching 'Todesfuge' as a Canonical Holocaust Poem," in Marianne Hirsch and Irene Kacandes, eds. Teaching the Representation of the Holocaust, New York: MLA, 2005.
"'Learning to Speak Like a Victim': Media and Authenticity in Marcel Beyer's Flughunde" in Gegenwartsliteratur. Contemporary Holocaust Images. South Atlantic Quarterly. 1997.
Sign and History in Baudelaire. Semiotics. 1995.
Photography and Hysteria: Toward a Poetics of the Flash. The Yale Journal of Criticism. 1994.
Reviews:
Library Journal, German Quarterly, Modern Language Notes, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, and Comparative Literature.
Cultural Criticism: in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, and Tages-Anzeiger (Zurich).
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