Samuel Weber, Ph.D.,
Cornell University; Habilitation, Free University of Berlin
Samuel Weber works on problems of Critical Theory in relation
to the Interpretation of literary texts. He also explores the relationship
between literature and the newer media. He has published studies of
Freud, Lacan, Derrida and Benjamin and is currently working on a project
entitled "Toward A Politics of Singularity," in which literature,
as an exemplary study of singularities, occupies a central place."
Judd.A and Marjorie Weinberg College of Arts and Scienes • Northwestern University
RESEARCH INTERESTS OF THE FACULTY
Full Professors
Peter Fenves, Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University
Peter Fenves is primarily concerned with the relationship between philosophy and literature with particular emphasis on the late eighteenth and the early twentieth centuries. He has written books and articles on a wide variety of writers and thinkers, including Leibniz, Mendelssohn, Kant, Hölderlin, Schelling, Hebel, Kleist, Kierkegaard, Stifter, Nietzsche, Kafka, Brod, Benjamin, Derrida, Nancy, and Irigaray.Peter Hayes Ph.D., Yale University
Professor Hayes specializes in the history of modern Germany, particularly the political and economic history of the Weimar and Nazi periods, and the history of the Holocaust. His recent work focuses on German corporations and their involvement in Nazi crimes and on the German Foreign Office and Nazism during the Third Reich and in its aftermath.Helmut Müller-Sievers, M.A. Freie Universität Berlin, Ph.D. Stanford University
Helmut Müller-Sievers works on the intersection of literature, philosophy and science, as well as on the history of philology and interpretation. He has published books on the concept of epigenesis in literature and biology around 1800, and on the practice of disorientation in the writings of Georg Büchner. He is currently working on a project linking the kinematics of machinery and the development of 19th century narrative; he is also editing (with John Hamilton and Sean Gurd) a volume entitled “Radical Philology.”Rainer Rumold , Ph.D, Stanford University
Rainer Rumold is the author of numerous books and articles on modernism and the general editor of avant-garde and modernism studies at Northwestern University Press. His more recent research is on the relations of visuality, language and performance in modernist and Primitive culture which is the focus of a forthcoming study on Avant-garde Image Zones 1900-1933 (Eugene Jolas, Oskar Kokoschka, Kurt Schwitters, Jean/Hans Arp; Carl Einstein, Georges Bataille, Franz Kafka, Walter Benjamin).Associate Professors
Franziska Lys, Ph.D., Northwestern University
Marcus Moseley, PhD, University of Oxford
Marcus Moseley is a comparative literary scholar with a specialization in Hebrew and Yiddish literature. He combines his interest in these specific literatures with focus upon the genre of autobiography and its attendant critical discourse. His recent research focuses upon the impact of the notion of "literature" as an autonomous category upon traditionalist cultures--Eastern European Jewry providing the arena for this enquiry.Assistant Professors
Jörg Kreienbrock
Visiting Appointments
Christian Martin, Dr. rer soc University of Konstanz, Germany
Christian Martins research interest include the political economy of trade and finance, diffusion approaches to comparative and international politics, and agent-based computational modeling. He has published, among other journals, in Public Choice, Constitutional Political Economy and Electoral Studies."Brad Prager, Ph.D., Cornell University
Brad Prager’s areas of research include Film History and Contemporary German Cinema, Holocaust Studies, and the art and literature of the German Romantics. He has authored books on the films of Werner Herzog and on Romanticism’s relationship to the visual arts. He is the co-editor of a new volume on visual studies and the Holocaust, and is completing another edited volume on contemporary German cinema entitled ‘The Collapse of the Conventional: German Cinema and its Politics at the Turn of the New Century.’ He is also presently working on a study of the social and psychological function of violence in German cinema.Distinguished Senior Lecturers, Senior Lecturers, and Lecturers
Katrin Völkner, Ph.D., Duke University
Katrin Völkner works on the history of reading and publishing in 20th Century Germany, specifically in relation to the rise of consumer culture. Other interests include popular culture, Businesss German, and language pedagogy with a focus on multi-media.Ingrid Zeller, MA, Columbia University
Ingrid Zeller's interests include music, film, literature, architecture and urban studies in the context of language acquisition. She also focuses on the creation of teaching materials, assessment, grammar, and writing skills and is currently developing the German Department Writing Center.
