Peter Fenves is the 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...
Peter Hayes is the 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. ... more ...
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. ... more ...
Franziska B. Lys has published a wide variety of material that concerns the problem of second language acquisition and computer-assisted language instruction. 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. She has won awards for teaching and for her work, among others the ACTFL/Houghton Mifflin award for excellence in the integration and use of technology in the teaching of foreign languages,...more ...
Markus Moseley 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. ... more ...
Helmut Müller-Sievers is the uthor 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. ... more ..
Rainer Rumold is the 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 visualmodernism, 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". ... more ...
Samuel Weber is the 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...
