M.A. 1991, Free University Berlin; M. St., oxon. 1992, St. Hugh's College, Oxford; Ph.D. 1995 Free University Berlin; Habilitation 2001 Free University Berlin.

Books:

• Konstellation und Existenz. Kritik der Geschichte um 1930: Studien zu Heidegger, Benjamin, Jahnn und Musil. Tübingen 1996.
• Am Ufer der zweiten Welt. Jean Pauls "Poetische Landschaftsmalerei". Tubingen 1999.
• Der engagierte Solitar. Die Gewinnung des Begriffs Einsamkeit aus der Phänomenologie der Liebe im Frühwerk Jean-Paul Sartres. Berlin 2001.
• Charis und Charisma. Grazie und Gewalt von Winckelmann bis Heidegger. Berlin 2006

Editions:

Eckart Goebel/Wolfgang Klein: Literaturforschung heute. Berlin 1999
• Achim Geisenhanslüke/Eckart Goebel: Kritik der Tradition. Hella Tiedemann-Bartels zum 65. Geburtstag. Würzburg 2001.
• Eckart Goebel /Martin v. Koppenfels: Die Endlichkeit der Literatur. Berlin 2002.
• Eckart Goebel/Eberhard Lämmert: "Fur viele stehen, indem man fur sich steht". Formen literarischer Selbstbehauptung. Berlin 2004.
• Eckart Goebel: Schloss Neuhardenberg. Stiftung Schloss Neuhardenberg 2002

  Selected Articles:

• Das Hinzutretende. Zur Negativen Dialektik: Frankfurter Adorno Blätter. Band IV. München 1995, p. 109 - 116.
• Die Verwüstung der Religion durch die Anarchie des Gefühls. T. S. Eliot und das Problem des Solipsismus: DVjs 71/3 (1997), p. 518 - 532.
• "Den lieb' ich, der Unmögliches begehrt. "Wallenstein und Faust. Der Tragödie Zweiter Teil. Gerhard Schuster/Caroline Gille (eds.): Wiederholte Spiegelungen. Weimarer Klassik 1759 - 1832. Standige Ausstellung des Goethe-Nationalmuseums. Katalog. München 1999, p. 731 - 741.
• Stationen der Erzählforschung in der Literaturwissenschaft: Eberhard Lämmert (ed.): Die erzählerische Dimension. Eine Gemeinsamkeit der Künste. Berlin 1999, p. 4 - 33.
• "Die Küh". Zur Kompositionskunst Friedrich Hebbels: Winfried Menninghaus/Klaus R. Scherpe (eds.): Literaturwissenschaft und politische Kultur. Eberhard Lämmert zum 75. Geburtstag. Stuttgart und Weimar 1999, p. 63 - 73.
• Theodor W. Adorno in Sils Maria: Kritik der Tradition. Hella Tiedemann-Bartels zum 65. Geburtstag. Würzburg 2001, p. 103 - 110.
• Die geistigen Folgen der Einsamkeit. La Nausee: Jean-Paul Sartre Carnets 2000. Berlin 2001, p. 11 - 42.
• Vorgespiegelte und wahre Unendlichkeit. "Mise en abyme": Gide, Huxley, Jean Paul: Die Endlichkeit der Literatur. Berlin 2002, p. 85 - 99.
• GRATIA REGIS. "Zur Geschichte von Schloss Neuhardenberg": Schloss Neuhardenberg p. 25 - 66.
• Preuse im Widerstand. Carl-Hans Graf von Hardenberg und seine Familie auf Schloss Neuhardenberg 1921 - 1945, Schloss Neuhardenberg, p. 69 - 80.
• Schwermut / Melancholie: Ästhetische Grundbegriffe. Vol. 5, Stuttgart 2003, p. 446 - 486.
• Philologische Erkenntnis oder Abschied von der "Dysphorie": Kevin Hilliard, Ray Ockenden, Nigel F. Palmer (eds.): Bejahende Erkenntnis. Festschrift fur T. J. Reed. Tübingen 2004, p. 17 - 27.
• Glucksschuh und goldne Waage. Eduard Mörikes artistische Balance: "Für viele stehen, indem man fur sich steht". Formen literarischer Selbstbehauptung in der Moderne. Berlin 2004, p. 63 - 82.
• Herzpause. Rainer Maria Rilke über Puppen: Friederike Pannewick (ed.): Martyrdom in Literature. Wiesbaden 2004, p. 283 - 297.
• Das irre Ganze und der Glücksanspruch des Einzelnen. Adorno und die Psychoanalyse: Wolfram Ette, Gunter Figal, Richard Klein, Gunter Peters (eds.): Adorno im Widerstreit. Zur Präsenz seines Denkens. Freiburg/München 2004, p. 482 - 495.
• Gleichgewichtsstorung. Elias Canettis "Die Blendung": ein Puppenspiel: Text+Kritik 28 (Neuausgabe), München 2005, p. 44 - 53.
• "Traumfeuer: Ludwig Binswangers Analyse Michel Foucaults." Die Abwesenheit des Werkes. Nach Foucault. Michael Bogdal/Achim Geisenhansluke (eds.) Heidelberg, 2006, p 76 - 89.
• "Dream Fire: Ludwig Binswangers Analysis Michael Foucault." In: ArtUs. Issue 19, summer 2007.

Paul North
Faculty Fellow/ Assistant Professor
PhD, Northwestern University

Major Interests: post-Enlightenment literature and philosophy in German, 20th century literary and critical theory, Ancient Greek literature and philosophy, German-Jewish cultural history, theology, Walter Benjamin, Franz Kafka.

Paul is finishing a manuscript, "On the Concept of Distraction," an investigation into the intelligibility and usefulness of a peculiar cognitive, historical, and political phenomenon. He is also co-editing a collection of essays entitled "Too Late: Messianism in Theory." Articles and reviews have appeared or will appear in MLN, German Quarterly, and Culture Machine. Courses he has taught include: "Artificial Paradises: A Genealogy of Artifice," "Small Literature," and "Violence, Language, and Law: Walter Benjamin's Critical Theory." He is also currently curating an exhibit entitled "Publishing in Exile: German-Language Literature in the US in the 1940s," which will open in New York at the Leo Baeck Institute in April 2009.

Avital Ronell


Professor of German, English, & Comparative Literature
Ph.D. 1979 (Germanic languages and literature), Princeton

Research and teaching interests:
Literary and other discourses; feminism; philosophy; technology and media; psychoanalysis; deconstruction; performance art.

Selected Publications:
The Test Drive (2005)
Stupidity(2003)
Stupidity; The Test Drive (2001), French translation forthcoming by Galilee Press, France.
The Telephone Book: Technology, Schizophrenia, Electric Speech (1989)
Crack Wars: Literature, Addiction, Mania (1992)
Dictations: On Haunted Writing (1986/1993)
Finitude's Score: Essays for the End of the Millenium (1994)

Recent graduate courses:
Literature and Philosophy (with Jacques Derrida); Blanchot: The Infinite Conversation; Seminar on Forgiveness.

Selected undergraduate courses:
Law and Literature; Outrageous Texts.

Avital Ronell has taught and lectured in Paris, Switzerland, Tokyo and at the University of California at Berkeley.

Elke Siegel
Assistant Professor of German
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University; M.A. (German Literature, History, and Journalism), University of Hamburg

With research interests that include 20th and 21st Century German literature and culture, feminism, literary theory, psychoanalysis, and literature and politics, Elke Siegel joins the German Department as an Assistant Professor. She received her MA in German Literature, History, and Journalism from the University of Hamburg and her Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. Her dissertation focused on friendship in literature and theoretical discourse, focusing on Nietzsche, Freud, and Kafka. Previously, she taught at Yale University.

Dr. Siegel's first book examines the later work of Robert Walser. She is currently preparing a study on the diary as a literary interface between experience, writing, and everyday life, with an emphasis on contemporary diary projects. Recently, she co-edited a special issue of the Germanic Review on the relationship between the popular and the intellectual in the work of contemporary author Rainald Goetz.

Friedrich Ulfers also serves as a professor of philosophy at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, where he teaches an intensive Summer Seminar on Nietzsche and 20th-Century Thought. He is Senator of, and serves as Secretary of the American Council for, the school.

He has written widely on 20th-century authors for a variety of venues and journals. His publications include the book Das Doppelgängermotiv in der deutschen Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts and numerous articles, the most recent of which are: Books:
Ulfers, Friedrich, Gunter Lenz, and Antje Dallmann, eds. Toward a New Metropolitanism: Reconstituting Public Culture, Urban Citizenship, and the Multicultural Imaginary in New York and Berlin. Heidelberg: Universitatsverlag, Winter 2006.

Currently, Friedrich Ulfers is preparing a book on Nietzsche's ontology and cosmology, and his conception of the Eternal Recurrence of the Same, viewed from a scientific perspective. Affiliations: Member of the selection committee for the College of Arts and Science Golden Dozen Awards nominees; Member of the intradepartmental committee preparing the tenure dossier of Paul Fleming; Resident Director (for 2007) of the NYU Spring in Berlin program

PROFESSOR EMERITI

Bernd Hüppauf
Professor of German. Studied German literature, Philosophy and History at the universities of Würzburg, Göttingen and Tübingen. Dr.phil. Tübingen 1970.

Positions:
Research Assistant and Assistant Professor, Universities of Tübingen and Regensburg; 1977-1993 Lecturer and Professor, University of New South Wales, Sydney (Australia). Since 1993 Professor, Department of German at New York University.

Visiting positions:
University of Colorado, Boulder, University of Aachen, The Free University of Berlin, Humboldt University, Berlin.

Research areas:
Literature and Culture of the Weimar Republic, Representations of War in Literature and Photography, Literature and Philosophical Anthropology, Aesthetics of Skepticism.

Selected publications:
War, Violence and the modern Condition. New York/Berlin 1997.
Emptying the Gaze: Framing violence through the Viewfinder, in: New German Critique 72, 1997.
Unzeitgemäses über den Krieg. Ernst Jüngers Strahlungen. In: Von Boll bis Buchheim. Deutsche Kriegsprosa. Amsterdam 1997.
Fotografie im Ersten Weltkrieg. In: Der Tod als Maschinist. Rasch 1998.
Literartur nach der Skepsis. In: Cultura tedesca 9, Rom 1998.
Walter Benjamins imaginäre Landschaft. In: Global Benjamin Vol. 4, Frankfurt 1999.
Das Weltbild der modernen Physik in Robert Musils Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften, in: Literarische Philosophie, Würzburg 1999.
Das Unzeitgemässe der Avantgarden, in: Der Blick vom Wolkenkratzer, Amsterdam 2000.
Das dunkle Licht, in: Der schone Schein, Bielefeld 2000.
Der moderne Krieg und das Irrationale. In: .Schuld und Sühne? Kriegserlebnis und Kriegsdeutung. Amsterdam 2001.
New York dionysisch. über Urbanität und Irrationalität. In: Städte im Globalisierungsprozess, Würzburg 2001, S.29-53.
Das Schlachtfeld als Raum im Kopf, in: Schlachtfelder, Berlin 2002.
Kriegsfotografie und Geschichtsmetaphysik. Schauweckers Bildbände. In: Der Erste Weltkrieg in der Literatur, Amsterdam 2002.
Ground Zero und Afghanistan, in: Fotogeschichte, 2002.
Signale aus der Bleecker Street. Göttingen 2003.
Die Wiederkehr der Unschärfe, in: Merkur 659, 2004
Skepticism and the Literary Imagination (together with Klaus Vieweg) 2003.
Globalization and the Future of German, Berlin, New York 2004.
Maschine-Mensch-Apparat, in: Paragrana. Zeitschrift für Historische Anthropologie Bd. 15, 2005, Heft 2.
Vernacular Modernism (together with Maiken Umbach), Stanford University Press 2005.

Doris Guilloton

Volkmar Sander

AFFILIATED FACULTY

Richard Sieburth Professor of Comparative Literature; Professor of French
B.A. 1970, Chicago; Ph.D. 1976, Harvard

Office Phone: 212-998-8713
richard.sieburth@nyu.edu

VISITING FACULTY

Hartmut Boehme

Elisabeth Bronfen
Global Distinguished Professor of German

A specialist in 19th and 20th Century literature, Elisabeth Bron­fen is a Professor of English and American Studies at the Uni­versity of Zurich. She received her M.A. at Harvard University (1980) and her Ph.D. at the University of Munich (1986).

Elisabeth Bronfen has written ten books and numerous articles on the topics of literature, gender studies, psychoanalysis, film, cultural theory and art. Her book publications include: Home in Hollywood. The Imaginary Geography of Cinema (Columbia University Press, 2004); Over Her Dead Body. Death, Femininity and the Aesthetic (Manchester University Press, 1992); The Knot­ted Subject. Hysteria and its Discontents (Princeton, 1998) and the monograph Sylvia Plath in the series "Writers and their Work" (Northcote Press 1998). She has also published a collection of essays: Death and Representation, co-edited with Sarah W. Goodwin (Johns Hopkins University Press), and she edited a four-volume German edition of Anne Sexton's poetry and letters. Her dissertation was published as the book Dorothy Richardson's Art of Memory. Space, Identity, Text (Manchester University Press, 1999). In 2004, she published a collection of essays on cross-mapping, entitled Liebestod und Femme Fatale. Der Austausch sozialer Energien zwischen Oper, Literatur und Film (Suhrkamp Verlag). She also co-edited Feminist Consequences. Theory for the New Century, with Misha Kavka (Columbia University Press, 2000).

Elisabeth Bronfen's most recent book is about the importance of the diva in celebrity culture, entitled Die Diva. Geschichte einer Bewunderung (Schirmer und Mosel). Current research projects include a cultural history of the night, an introduction to the writings of Stanley Cavell, a book on War Cinema, and a study of Elizabeth I as an example for the politics of celebrity culture.

Sladja Blazan
Feodor Lynen Fellow, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

Sladja Blazan is a Visiting Scholar and Humboldt Fellow at the German Department at New York University. She received her Ph.D. in English and American Literary and Cultural Studies from Humboldt University Berlin after completing her M.A. studies in Berlin, New York and Dublin. Before coming to New York, next to her position as a lecturer at Humboldt University Berlin she has worked as a theater dramaturge. Her publications include a monograph on post-socialist literature entitled American Fictionary: Postsocialist Migration in American Literature (Heidelberg: Winter, 2006), an edited collection entitled Ghost, Gender, History: Ghost Stories and Alternative Histories (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007), as well as various articles on migration, sexuality, death and race in the Anglo-American and German art and literature discourse. She is currently working on a monograph on ghostly figures in 19. ct. German and American literature.

Werner Hamacher

Vivian Liska
Visiting Fall 2007

Professor of German Literature and Director of the Institute of Jewish Studies at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. Teaches Modern German Literature and Literary Theory. Publications: Die Nacht der Hymnen. Paul Celans Gedichte 1938 1944 (1993), Die Dichterin und das schelmische Erhabene. Else Lasker Schülers Die Nächte Tino von Bagdads (1997); 'Die Moderne Ein Weib', (2000). As editor: (with Astradur Eysteinsson), Modernism (2007); (with Thomas Nolden.) Contemporary Jewish Writing in Europe. A Guide (2007). When Kafka says We. Uncommon Communities in Twentieth Century German-Jewish Literature (Indiana University Press, forthcoming.).