Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of German Studies. Professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature. Articles on Adorno, Benn, Börne, Dilthey, Fontane, Habermas, Heine, Lukács, and Stifter; articles on the 18th-century novel, literary criticism, East German literature, and Critical Theory. Books: Das Bild der bürgerlichen Welt im expressionistischen Drama; Gottfried Benn: Wirkung wider Willen; Literaturkritik und Offentlichkeit; Der europäische Roman der Empfindsamkeit; The Institution of Criticism; Literarische Kultur im Zeitalter des Liberalismus, 1830-1870; Building a National Literature: The Case of Germany, 1830-1870; Reappraisals: Shifting Alignments in Postwar Critical Theory; Geschichte, Opposition, Subversion. Studien zur Literatur des 19. Jahrhunderts; Prismatic Thought: Theodor W. Adorno. Areas of research: Critical Theory (especially Adorno, Benjamin and Habermas), European Realism, history of criticism, 19th- a nd 20th-century German literature.

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