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Henrik S Wilberg is a PhD student in the German Literature and Critical Thought program. His main focus is on German Idealism and its existence in contemporary thought. Other fields of interest include Neo-Kantian speculative grammar, rhetorics and formal logic, „late“ novels, Jean Paul, Marx and – more recently – Heidegger. More information on Henrik ...
Saein Park is a Ph. D. student in German and Comparative Literary Studies. Her theoretical research interests focus on critical theory, German idealism, deconstruction, translation theories, postcolonialism and gender/sexuality studies. More information on Saein ...
Denis Dapo is a third year PhD student in German and Comparative Literature. His present research concerns among others, ambiguities of language and identity, epistemology, paradoxes, genealogy of doubt, and contaminations of traditionally held ideas and beliefs. More information on Denis ...
Ena Jung is a Ph.D. student in Comparative Literary Studies and German. Her interests include: lyric poetry, diacritical marks, detective fiction, early German cinema (especially Fritz Lang), experimental film and theater, and French theory. More information on Ena ...
Gregory Flanders is a Ph.D. student in the German Literature and Critical Thought program. He recently completed his M.A. at the University of Paris VIII St.-Denis, entitled "La naissance de la solitude moderne: etude critique et généalogique". His research interests include the relationship between solitude and early modernist fiction, fin de siècle aesthetics, and various conceptions of the subject at the end of the nineteenth century. More information on Greg ...
Joel Morris is in the Ph.D. program in German and Comparative Literary Studies. Joel received his B.A. in Comparative Literature from Colorado College and an M.A. in Comparative Literature from the University of Colorado. His interests include German literature and critical thought; art history/photography and issues concerning image and narrative; “modernism” in the 20th century novel and film; and 20th century Irish literature. More information on Joel ...
Steven Tester is a Ph.D. student in the German Literature and Critical Thought program. He completed his B.A. in English Literature at the University of Oregon and has since taken courses in Philosophy and Comparative Literature at DePaul University, Charles University in Prague and Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt. His interests include problems of Temporality, Hermeneutics and Illusion in Phenomenology, Critical Theory and Aesthetics. More information on Steve ...
Julia Ng is a Ph.D. candidate in German and Comparative Literary Studies, with an emphasis on Critical Theory. She received her B.A. and M.A. in German and Comparative Literature from UCLA, and studied at the Humboldt and Freie Universities in Berlin before arriving at Northwestern. More information on Julia ...
Daniel Nolan is a Ph.D. student in Germana nd Comparative Literary Studies. His areas of interest include romanticism, German idealism, phenomenology and theory of prose. He is now working on a dissertation on Evgenii Abramovich Baratynskii and Heinrich von Kleist. More information on Dan ...
Markus Hardtmann is a Ph.D. student in German and Comparative Literary Studies. He is currently writing a dissertation on logic, language, and literary form in Robert Musil's writings. His research interests include literary theory, aesthetics, analytical and continental philosophy, as well as German and Comparative Literature. More information on Markus ...
FORMER GRADUATE STUDENTS
RICHARD BLOCK Richard Block is Associate Professor in the Department of Germanics at the University of Washington. He earned his PhD in 1998 with a dissertation entitled "The Spell of Italy: The Goethe Effect and the German Literary Imagination." After spending four years in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Colorado at Bolder with a joint appointment in Comparative LIterature, Richard joined the faculty of the University of Washington in the Department of Germanics in the fall of 2004 where he will also work closely with the Jewish Studies Program
ANNA GLAZOVA Anna Glazova is a Mellon Postdoctoral Associate at Cornell University.
CATHERINE GRIMM Cathie Grimm is Assistant Professor of German in the Department of Modern Languages at Albion College. She completed her dissertation on Novalis (Der Mensch -- Metapher: Temporality, Identity, and the Concept of Language in the Works of Friedrich von Hardenberg) in 1998. She taught at the University of Notre Dame and Wabash College and has been an Assistant Professor of German at Albion College in Albion, Michigan since 2003. At Albion she teaches all levels of German language and culture, a popular first year seminar on European fairy tales (with a name like Grimm…) and an Honors course on European Romanticism and American Transcendentalism. Besides doing research and serving on various committees, she is slowly getting used to the idea of being a Michiganian. Email and webpage.
MARTIN KLEBES Martin Klebes is ASsistant Professor of German at the University of Oregan. He completed his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature (based in German Literature and Critical Thought) in 2003. Part of his dissertation, "Remembering Failure: Philosophy and the Form of the Novel," was the basis for his book Wittgenstein’s Novels (Routledge, 2006) that discusses the impact of Wittgenstein's work on four contemporary German and French writers (Thomas Bernhard, W.G. Sebald, Jacques Roubaud, Ernst-Wilhelm Händler). Martin taught at Kenyon College and at the University of New Mexico before taking his current position at the Unviversity of Oregon. He is also the translator of Händler's literary debut City with Houses and contributing co-editor of parapluie, an electronic journal devoted to cultures, arts, and literatures. Contact him here.
MICHAEL KOCH Michael Koch finished his dissertaion in the Spring of 2009 with a topic addressing the representations of angels in early 20th century literature and art as an expression of the Absolute. His scholarly interests lie primarily in German Expressionism, particularly the issue of Doppelbegabung, although Heinrich von Kleist also holds a special place in his heart.
PAUL NORTH Paul North is Assistant Professor of German at Yale University. He received his PhD in Comparative Literature from Northwestern University in 2007. He is currently In his teaching and writing he addresses diverse points in Western intellectual history, from fifth-century Athens to twentieth-century Prague. His first book, entitled “The Problem of Distraction: Our Unintentional Ground,” now in manuscript, critiques this history for its emphasis on mind, bringing to light the tradition’s intellectualism through an obscure counter-point: not thinking. Through readings of texts by Parmenides, La Bruyère, and Heidegger, among others, the book shows why the ‘unthinking thing’ has been so resistant to theorization. He has published articles and reviews on Johann Nestroy, Franz Kafka, and Hannah Arendt, among others, and is currently co-editing a volume on messianic thought in critical theory. His present project is a book-length study of Kafka’s theological-philosophical treatise, known as the Zürau Aphorisms. In his courses he teaches texts in the history of aesthetics, twentieth-century critical theory, phenomenology, and post-enlightenment German literature, with a focus on German-Jewish culture and history.
ROBERT RYDER Robert Ryder finished his dissertaion in the fall of 2009 focusing on acoustics and the uncanny in early twentieth-century German literature and film. He is currently a visiting assistant professor in CLS and German at Northwestern University.
JOSEPH SUGLIA Joseph Suglia earned a Ph.D. in Comparative Literary (based in German Literature and Critical Thought) in 2002. Since that time, he has published a scholarly book, Hölderlin and Blanchot on Self-Sacrifice, and twenty-one essays in contemporary literature and literary theory. In addition to his scholarly accomplishments, he is also a writer of experimental and narrative fiction. His first novel is slated for release in March 2006.
